I’ve just had a terrific Saturday, testing on a real class some of the contents in Eco-nomics (a sustainability education program I’ve designed over the summer). Needless to say, there was lots of stuff that just didn’t go as planned. Surprinsingly, not even the ready-made materials I had taken proved class-proof. Quite to the contrary. [...]
Archive for October, 2008
News from the Eastern front
Posted in Uncategorized on October 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Vote on water
Posted in Uncategorized on October 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Economist has fascinating recurring debates and the latest one is really really interesting: should water be priced according to its real market value to give people a sense of what it means to ‘produce’ clean water and discourage waste? Very controversial subject, I agree. There’s a log of reasons why we shouldn’t do it [...]
www.ted.com
Posted in Uncategorized on October 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Re-discovered one of the best websites out there. It’s called TED.com and the idea is as simple as it is brilliat: a collection of brilliant speeches from brilliant people. Of course, you can find speeches on environmental topics too. Here‘s one to start you up .
