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News, Updates and Food for Thought from Our Global Education Team and Partners in the field
Breaking News: World Savvy Challenge Knowledge-to-Action Grantees
May 1st 2013
World Savvy is thrilled to announce that the following teams have been chosen to receive funding from World Savvy to support the implementation of their Knowledge-to-Action Projects over the next few months: Health Care Heros, Blake Middle School Zachary MarmetRoxy MatlashewskiLauren ... Read More
A Culture of Recycling
Brian Green
November 1st 2012In 2009 I moved to South Korea to live and work as an English teacher. It didn’t take long, in fact just a few short days, for me to realize how seriously the South Koreans take waste treatment and recycling. When I moved into my apartment building a colleague pointed out to me that ...
Read MoreTips Tuesday: Rethinking Ourselves in a World of Waste: Self-Portraits with Recycled Materials
Elizabeth Travelslight
July 17th 2012Adjacent to the San Francisco peninsula’s El Camino Real in Redwood City, Sequoia High School occupies a large, verdant, beautifully cultivated campus. Over fifty students from three classrooms at Sequoia High School collaborated to produce the contents of a uniquely informative art book that ...
Read MoreTips Tuesday: How do you grow food without soil?
Laura Klivans
May 22nd 2012In this picture you see Aury and Sophie, both AYLP-Bangladesh 2011-2012 Youth Leaders, carrying a bag of pebbles that will be used as a base from which their plants will grow.How do you grow food without soil? With aquaponics! Aquaponics is a sustainable food production system, which combines ...
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