Tag: Education

  • Resnick Sustainability Institute’s “RESONATE” Awards Focus on Paradigm Shifting Work

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    The Resnick Sustainability Institute at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has announced that it has established an award that will honor cutting-edge work that addresses some of the hardest problems in energy and sustainability. The award winners will be announced in the Spring of 2014. The Resnick Sustainability Institute’s “RESONATE” Awards will focus on…

  • Education and Sustainability

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    The Guardian asks “Is sustainability a key part of education on it’s Environment blog: “The UK has been ahead with the sustainability school agenda, but I’m worried that they’re now stripping back the work that we’ve spent 10 years developing with the schools,” says Anna Birney from Forum for the Future, a non-profit group promoting…

  • Art and Science Unite at Stanford

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    By Angela Hayes, Peninsula Press An excerpt from this article is below. Read the full story on the Peninsula Press. Once emphatically separated from each other, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) and art are connecting in exciting and enlightening ways. Stanford University, known for its strong science and engineering programs, is part of this trend. An increasing number of…

  • New Paradigm: Earth Democracy

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    Vandana Shiva has long advocated that we change our worldview from separation from nature to connectedness with it.  In this excerpt from her essay New Paradigm:  Earth Democracy, she addresses the root of the problem and urges us to again become part of the Earth community: The same technological and economic systems that violate the…