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We are a new society and have had success with our first attempt to connect K-7 students to where there food comes from. The project was Future Boundary Growers and the society partnerd with local greenhouses and donated medium, pots and plants to our local schools.We had a very hard time getting the local teachers to buy into the project. Once we got into the schools and provided a speaker to talk to the students and show them the procedure the kids loved it, as well the teachers. This year we wanted to put germination stations into the schools to further the learning prosess.

Here at the walkingthetalk headquarters we've been busy working on a new site look and feel. Thanks to our wonderful web designers and gurus we are almost finished. Why change you ask? Because we want our members to become more involved with this amazing website...you can post resources, meet other people and network. Be kind while we work through a few of the new blips and send us feedback if you are having trouble. all for now, Janet

Connecting Teachers - VANOC EDU

I am a recent graduate from the University of Victoria PDPE program - Middle School Option.

During my internship, it became apparent that the structure of the classroom and the limitations forced by a timetable with 45 minute blocks was  preventing students being exposed to sustainability education. The limitations of the schedule made it impossible or very difficult to teach interdisciplinary lessons outside of the classroom. Experiential learning in the field was therefore not part of the way curriculum was delivered.

Headlines Theatre invites you to

2 degrees of fear and desire:
a theatrical inquiry into climate change

Joked by David Diamond

What stops us from making core behavioural change?
At this event there will be no script, no actors and no play – just “us” and our fears and desires concerning global warming.

I was sent this article and thought others would find it interesting too. Unfortunately, you need a subscription to the Chronicle of Higher Education to see the whole thing, but the first paragraph gives you a pretty good idea what it's about...

THE SUSTAINABLE UNIVERSITY
People, Profit, and Planet

Business schools find that it pays to offer programs in sustainable development

By KATHERINE MANGAN

Chapel Hill, N.C.

I found this an interesting thing. It's the question of sustainable transportation for school field trips. If anyone else would like to sign the petition, the link is below.

Mike Nickerson, the Canadian author of Life, Money & Illusion, is seeking assistance from youth educators (teachers and other) who work with kids 12 years and up to assist him in adapting his adult-oriented articles into activities that are more engaging of young people.

I thought this was a great bit of inspiration from Montreal.

A Drive for Change

MICHELLE LALONDE,
The Gazette
Published: Saturday, August 11

Montreal's campuses are going green at an unprecedented pace and scale and it's clear the drive to change is coming mostly from the students themselves.

No longer content to wave placards in protest against society's wasteful ways, local students are rolling up their sleeves.