Colorado Teenager Rallies Youth Around The World To Protect The Planet Xiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez is only 16 years old, but he's committed to changing the world. The Colorado teen is the youth director of Earth Guardians, a nonprofit that encourages young people to connect and become involved in environmental activism. Through a variety of demonstrations and projects -- including an eco hip-hop duo that he created with his younger brother -- Xiuhtezcatl works to engage other youth leaders and share important environmental issues. The brothers have produced songs like “What the Frack?” and “Speak for the Trees” to deliver these messages in a way that is fun and accessible for other young adults. There are Earth Guardian teams in 25 different countries around the world, each working on projects specific to their own region but focused on the planet as a whole. “As young people we have the advantage that the world will listen to us more so than adults,” Xiuhtezcatl says.
News: Rain Forest For centuries, humans have relied on rain forests for a variety of products. Foods such as tomatoes, peppers, corn, rice, coconuts, bananas, coffee, cocoa, tapioca, beans, and sweet potatoes all originally came from the rain forest. Many civilizations have exploited the timber in rain forests and cleared the land for farms. Destructive Activities Unfortunately, human activities have taken a toll on the rain forest. Farming. Cattle ranching also poses a danger to rain forests. Logging. Other activities. Destruction Aftermath The effects of rain-forest destruction are far-reaching, and in many cases are impossible for scientists to assess and to predict. Soil and erosion. Flora and fauna. Climate. Copyright © 2002 Grolier Incorporated.
Rise of The Eco-Warriors | Every individual matters. Every action counts. A new documentary by Cathy Henkel. Banda Aceh Premiere! SCREENING + Q&A WITH PRODUCER and HaKa Serambi Mekkah University INDONESIA18 July 2016 9am-1pm Sponsors :: Serambi Mekkah University & Indonesia Green Union, Australia Indonesia Arts Alliance. Bandung Premiere! Sustainable living in Sweden Sweden’s architects, construction firms, energy companies, city planners, enterprises and politicians are working today to create the sustainable cities of tomorrow. Here are just a few examples: Energy supply There are many private initiatives to save energy. Vertical greenhouses Award-winning Swedish company Plantagon works with urban agriculture and specialises in what is known as vertical cultivation. Airport City Stockholm By 2022, a completely new city will have grown up around Stockholm Arlanda Airport. Malmö Malmö has already created two world-leading examples of sustainable building. Hammarby Sjöstad, Stockholm Hammarby Sjöstad is Stockholm’s largest urban construction project. Stockholm Royal Seaport Following the success of Hammarby Sjöstad, Stockholm Royal Seaport is now being launched as the next environmental district in the capital and an environmental role model.
Rain Forest Threats, Rain Forest Species More than half of Earth’s rain forests have already been lost forever to the insatiable human demand for wood and arable land. Rain forests that once grew over 14 percent of the land on Earth now cover only about 6 percent. And if current deforestation rates continue, these critical habitats could disappear from the planet completely within the next hundred years. The reasons for plundering rain forests are mainly economic. Threats Solutions Read this and you may never eat chicken again | Life and style Every year I spend some time in a tiny apartment in Paris, seven stories above the mayor’s offices for the 11th arrondissement. The Place de la Bastille – the spot where the French revolution sparked political change that transformed the world – is a 10-minute walk down a narrow street that threads between student nightclubs and Chinese fabric wholesalers. Twice a week, hundreds of Parisians crowd down it, heading to the marché de la Bastille, stretched out along the center island of the Boulevard Richard Lenoir. Blocks before you reach the market, you can hear it: a low hum of argument and chatter, punctuated by dollies thumping over the curbstones and vendors shouting deals. But even before you hear it, you can smell it: the funk of bruised cabbage leaves underfoot, the sharp sweetness of fruit sliced open for samples, the iodine tang of seaweed propping up rafts of scallops in broad rose-colored shells. Threaded through them is one aroma that I wait for.
Rainforest Coloring Pages and Activities for Kids Color in your favorite rainforest birds, mammals, reptiles and plants in our coloring book, or teach yourself about the rainforest with our fun experiments, crafts, and quizzes. Coloring Pages: Amphibians Birds Insects Mammals Plants Reptiles Hands-On Projects from The Remarkable Rainforest Teach yourself about the rainforest with experiments, crafts, and quizzes. These activities are reprinted from The Remarkable Rainforest by Toni Albert, © 1994 by Toni Albert. If you order this book directly from the publishers at 800-353-2791, mention the Rainforest Alliance.
Global Goals - ett paraplytema - Sara Bruun Höstens stora tema för år 8 har varit att arbeta med FNs globala mål. Vi har arbetat med det som jag brukar kalla “paraplytema”. Med det menar jag att vi lärare bestämmer vad temat ska vara och vad som ska ingå, men varje ämne gör olika saker. Det är den övergripande rubriken och temat som är samma. Teman kan ju genomföras på många olika sätt och vanligast är nog att eleverna gör samma sak på de lektioner man har bestämt ska ingå i temat. Fördelen med “paraplytema” är att varje lärare har lättare att få in det centrala innehåll och de kunskapskrav som krävs i just sitt ämne, vilket blir enklare när eleverna ska bedömas. Detta tema pågick från vecka 42 till vecka 49 och eleverna arbetade med temat på svenskan, SOn och engelskan. I engelska har eleverna arbetat med att läsa, tala, lyssna och skriva utifrån The Worlds’ largest lesson. Av en slump upptäckte jag att mina elever skarpt gillade Michael Jackson. Nedan kan du se boken som våra elever skapade.
This Drone Startup Has An Ambitious (Crazy) Plan To Plant 1 Billion Trees A Year The world burns or cuts down about 26 billion trees a year. It replants about 15 billion. You can see the shortfall. At the moment, we're not planting trees quickly enough to combat deforestation—a problem with big implications for climate change. That's why Lauren Fletcher wants to automate the process with drone technology. "The only way we're going to take on these age-old problems is with techniques that weren't available to us before," Fletcher says. First of all, BioCarbon's drone flies above an area, mapping its level of forestation and reporting back on the potential for restoration. Fletcher doesn't say the method is better than hand planting, just cheaper. BioCarbon, which is based in the U.K., won a Skoll Foundation award last year and was recently featured in a Drones for Good competition in the United Arab Emirates, where it showed off a prototype. An engineer, Fletcher spent 20 years at NASA before setting up the new company. [Top Photo: Oleg Golovnev via Shutterstock]
Endangered Animals List Animal endangerment is a big environmental issue, and the number of endangered animals is constantly on the rise. See the IUCN definitions of different types of animal endangerment here. Below is a list of some of the most popular endangered animals, according to the IUCN classification. Critically Endangered Animals Sumatran Orangutan (Indonesia) Sumatran Tiger (Indonesia) Lear’s Macaw (Brazil) Brown Spider Monkey (Colombia, Venezuela) Rancho Grande Harlequin Frog (Venezuela) Panamanian Golden Frog (Panama) Pygmy Three-toed Sloth (Panama) Yellow-crested Cockatoo (Indonesia) Golden-bellied Capuchin (Brazil) Elegant Frog (Australia) Orinoco Crocodile (Colombia, Venezuela) Mountain Gorilla (Rwanda, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo) Golden Mantella (Madagascar) Eastern Red Colobus (Kenya) Javan Rhinoceros (Indonesia, Vietnam) Endangered Animals Vulnerable Animals Blue Poison Frog (Suriname) Giant Armadillo (South America) Near Threatened Animals
Burger King's animal feed grown on deforested land in Brazil, Bolivia The hamburger chain Burger King has been buying animal feed grown on deforested land, according to a new report. The report states that soybeans grown to feed livestock were produced on land carved out by the burning of tropical forests in South America. Jaguars, giant anteaters and sloths have all been affected by the disappearance of this forest land. Around 1,729,738 acres of forest land is estimated to have been lost between 2011 and 2015. The environmental group Mighty Earth says evidence shows a pattern of forest-burning. The evidence was gathered from satellite imaging, field research and aerial drones. Forest Burned In Favor Of Farmland To Grow Soybeans Local farmers burned the forest to grow soybeans for Burger King's suppliers Cargill and Bunge. "The connections are quite clear," said Glenn Hurowitz, the CEO of Mighty Earth. Burger King competitors McDonald's, Subway and KFC are not perfect, Hurowitz added. Deforestation In Brazil, Bolivia Is Focus Of Report