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Discover Planting Justice: an Oakland nursery creating impact through employment opportunities, community gardens, permaculture, and social justice education. Empowering change with intention and ethics.https://lnkd.in/dRwH4Jv3

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such a clear message.

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By emphasising education about nature and natural resources in addition to other types of learning, we can nurture a generation who are not only knowledgeable about their surroundings but also driven to safeguard and conserve them

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Its right approach..

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And they can identify which species it is ....

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This guy's got a good idea, but, well, it almost feels too late to try to put the genie back in the bottle.Thanks to years helping Mom with the family vegetable and flower gardens, I knew quite a lot about plants by the time high school biology rolled around.But, that was before the web, before cell phones, before high speed internet.We also ate dinner as a family each night, did not have cable, and us kids did not have our own TVs in our rooms. And, when younger, we were sent to bed before any of the risque shows came on. When was that? 8pm? 9pm?In grade school, we had several field trips to the local nature center.And, I walked through the woods to get to school the last few years as well as through the bog/swamp when it was frozen over.It would be hard to do, but if I had kids:1) no smartphone or tablet until high school, maybe junior high.2) no internet until junior high school; seriously why do 3rd graders need to get on the web? Note: if parent opens site and instructs child to read the story, follow the lesson, play the game, and keeps an eye on the kid as they do it, that's different than carte blanche "internet".3) no after-hours internet; limited bandwidth and sites, or at least, some form of parental review -- I needed this back in those BBS days.4) dinner as family as often as schedules will allow; tech industry has rarely been conducive to having social lives, let alone any concept of "non-work hours", esp. when many corp. jobs view their employees as 24/7.What I would not do is quiz my kids on naming plants or animals; making it too much like a homework assignment, test, chore, or "mandatory" learning project will immediately "switch off" the kids

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Being outdoors is so energizing:)

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Teachers! Outdoor Educators! This project is the perfect fodder for a place-based learning project. Some of the principles of place-based education are:- take on real-world problems over hypothetical ones- let local places be the organising theme of educational experiencesReversing a decline in biodiversity meant, for these volunteers, finding somewhere unnecessarily concreted and turning it back to green. Whatever the scale, this is a step in the right direction. You could ask children to identify a paved area of the school grounds that could be a possibility for planting. Or a part of the grassed areas that could have a greater diversity of plants and animals.

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I'm so excited to share here the Conservation Federation of Missouri (CFM) voted on Saturday to adopt a resolution to increase multistakeholder support for green schools! The Conservation Federation of Missouri is a private organization made up of thousands of Missourians who work together to better our natural resources and represent Missouri’s citizen conservationists. Actively involved in state and national issues that relate to conservation, the Federation has long been a prominent and effective voice before the Missouri general assembly, the Missouri Department of Conservation, and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.A critical activity performed by CFM is the formulation of an organizational stance or position based on the best available information and/or science. CFM resolutions are one of the most powerful expressions of their opinion as a conservation organization.The adoption of this Resolution means that CFM stands in support of it, and they support its distribution to key people in the legislature, government agencies, and other entities. I invite you to check it out. The format is kind of archaic - each idea is preceded with a "Whereas", and it culminates in a "Be it Resolved" statement. But it basically lays out what green schools are and why they are so beneficial, then unpacks how Show-Me Green Schools is poised to catalyze those benefits of green schools and is already serving a small portion of MO schools, then lists some avenues recipients can take to support the growth of SMGS throughout the state. https://lnkd.in/g7873kcvI'd love feedback on how Show-Me Green Schools and the organizations who manage this suite of programs (MEEA and Missouri Gateway Green Building Council) can leverage this newly adopted CFM Resolution!

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