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Nature Watch: Join the 2012 Backyard Bird Count
Do you have a couple of bird feeders outside your window? You can turn them into a family science project by joining the 15th annual Great Backyard Bird Count. In the process, your kids might take a new interest in the great variety of birds pecking at all those sunflower ...
A vocational element is vital to a full education | Observer editorial
If we are not to fail future generations of pupils, Mr Gove's changes will have to be refined before they are instituted It is hard to conceive at a time of stalled growth and rising unemployment that within the next 20 years the world economy is predicted to double in size. A billion skilled jobs and thousands of new industries will be created of a kind and nature that we cannot begin to ...
Children's Books Lack Nature References, Study Suggests
Take a minute to think about your favorite book from childhood. Do you envision lots of furry animals? A wise old tree? Kids in the forest?
Studying Nature's Rhythms: Soundscape Ecologists Spawn New Field
Listen to biophony, geophony, anthrophony: the 'music' of Planet Earth Geophony. Biophony. Anthrophony. Unfamiliar words. But they shouldn't be. We're surrounded by them morning, noon and night, say ecologist Bryan Pijanowski of Purdue University and colleagues. The evening "singing" of frogs. Burbling brooks, breaking waves and the whistling wind. Planes, trains and automobiles. Biophony is the ...
Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben is founder climate campaign 350.org. Bill McKibben is the author of a dozen books about the environment, beginning with The End of Nature in 1989, which is regarded as the first book for a general audience on climate change.
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