News for EE Teachers (from EE Alberta)

News for EE Teachers (from Alberta) Welcome Back to School! Time for the Solar Oven Challenge! Register today - only the first 40 registrants will be accepted for the 2008-2009 year. This program helps students and teachers learn about renewable energy in a fun and engaging way. Find out how to register below: > http://www.re-energy.ca/whatisnew.shtml Share the Fun... Animal Fun Facts: Bringing kitschy anthropomorphism to a new level, Norwegian knighthood was recently bestowed upon Nils Olav, a penguin at the Edinburgh Zoo. Over 1000 km away, a mountain goat was crowned King of Ireland for three days. Read the stories below: > http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080815/koddities/britain_penguin_knighted > http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKLA69122420080813 New 'Resources for Rethinking' Database! Sustainability resources reviewed by teachers for teachers, this database provides teachers with access to materials that integrate ecological, social and economic spheres through active, relevant, interdisciplinary learning. Learn more below: > http://www.resources4rethinking.ca/ Spotlight on Climate Change Generation Climate Change: Twenty-somethings are being called the climate generation. Born into an era of awakening international consensus about global warming, "Gen. CC" is literally the generation that "woke up to climate change." Zoe Caron, co-author (with Elizabeth May) of Climate Change for Dummies (available this October 31st), talks about her experience as a child of the climate generation. Read her Shift Magazine blog below: > http://www.shiftmag.eu/index.php/?2008/04/19/59-good-morning-climate-change Another take on "Gen. CC" is the "Green Tsunami: Environmental Education's Third Wave". Get your hands on a copy of the spring 2008 issue (83) of Green Teacher to read Mike Weilbacher's stirring call to environmental educators to take full advantage of this third wave, as shepherds of change. Find out more below: > http://www.greenteacher.com/ Telling the story of climate change. According to Mike Weilbacher (in the above Green Teacher article), two of the seven habits of highly effective EE teachers are to "tell bigger, better stories" and to "know one big thing." If your thing is climate change, here are some resources to help you in your storytelling... ...A compelling climate change storytelling angle: rising sea levels and the world's small islands. From the Maldives to Papua New Ginea, small islands are putting an urgent, unprecedented resolution before the UN Security Council to address climate change as a pressing threat to international peace and security. For a draft of the Small Islands States Resolution, please see: > http://islandsfirst.org/draftres.pdf For more information about those presenting the petition, please visit: > http://islandsfirst.org For information about Tuvalu's evacuation plan and climate refugees, please visit: > http://www.wwf.org.au/articles/climate-refugees-in-a-drowning-pacific/ For information about how rising sea levels might affect us all, please visit: > http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/Update2.htm For more information about the ice melt, please see: > http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/for-the-first-time-in-human-history-the-north-pole-can-be-circumnavigated-913924.html For more information about all of the island states, please visit: > http://www.sidsnet.org/aosis/ To watch a one-minute mini-documentary about sea levels rising and the island states, please see: > http://www.avaaz.org/en/sos_small_islands/?cl=123243707&v=2098

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