In this week’s video, the Eco-Trek team is still exploring Australia. The video below features projects such as Melbourne’s Green Roofs and a “green island” in the middle of Adelaide called Christie Walk, an eco-urban complex developed by Urban Ecology Australia. Green Roofs Project MELBOURNE’S Green Roofs Project at the University of Melbourne is helping [...]
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Eleventh Edition of Eco-Trek: Australia, Take Two
April 15th, 2011 
Justin Manger 
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Tags: Eco-Trek, Economics, Environment, Green Roof, Urban Planning, Water 
No Comments »Antioch University: New England’s Educating for Sustainability Masters
March 7th, 2011 Eric Wilson Antioch University in New England offers a Masters in Educating for Sustainability (EfS). The program is open to applicants who are currently educators in public and private school, as well as non-traditional settings. Applicants can come from any subject area, an indication of how sustainability permeates all disciplines in academia. Antioch defines EfS as “a [...]
Posted in Education, Eric Wilson, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Tags: AASHE, Curriculum, Denver, Economics, Environment No Comments »National Association of Independent School’s Five Dimensions of Sustainability
June 27th, 2009 Eric Wilson Over the past week, 2nd Green Revolution has posted several pieces relating to the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) and their Institute for Leadership in Sustainability (ILS). ILS, however, represents only one element of NAIS’s sustainability outreach. On their website NAIS has outlined a five-point sustainability philosophy, shown below: Financial Sustainability: becoming more efficient [...]
Economic Stimulus to the Rescue? What kind?
February 8th, 2009 admin The Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) is a think tank in Washington DC whose “mission arises from the belief that America is ill-served by an obsolete left-right debate that is out of step with the powerful forces re-shaping our society and economy.” PPI releases a Trade Fact of the Week, the most recent of which describes [...]
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