Geoscience Web Resources
These web resources have been cataloged into the digital library at Teach the Earth.
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Intute: Health and Life Sciences
This clearinghouse, published by the Intute Consortium, provides access to web-based resources for medicine; nursing, midwifery and allied health; agriculture; food and forestry; veterinary medicine; ...
Introduction to Permaculture: Concepts and Resources
This website contains many resources related to permaculture, which is a contraction of "permanent agriculture" or "permanent culture". Permaculture is about designing ecological human habitats and ...
The Sustainable Energy Coalition
The Sustainable Energy Coalition brings together more than 30 national business, environmental, consumer, and energy policy organizations. Founded in 1992, the Coalition promotes increased federal ...
Sustainability and Agriculture
This 48 minute radio broadcast is a discussion of agriculture and sustainability - how can people worldwide ensure that there is plenty of food now, as well as in years to come? Will it take changes ...
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation Homepage
This is the homepage for the American Museum of Natural History's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation. The goals of the center are to "mitigate critical threats to global biological and ...
Transitions and Tipping Points in Complex Environmental Systems
This report, by an NSF advisory committee, details many of the environmental challenges facing our planet and our society, and issues a call to action for NSF, for researchers, and for educators, to ...
Sustainability in Life Science Teaching
A statement by the National Association of Biology Teachers on the importance of teaching sustainability and some guidelines on how to do so.
Year of Science 2009 Resources: Sustainability and the Environment (May)
A collection of teaching resources from The American Biology Teacher with sustainability as a common theme.
How do we teach sustainability in a politically unengaged community?
This blog post contains excerpts of a letter written by John Moore for The American Biology Teacher, addressing the importance of teaching sustainability.
An Analysis of Environmental Issues in 19th Century England Using the Writings of Charles Dickens
This article is about how to use Dickens' writings to get students thinking about various environmental issues such as water and air quality, diseases and waste management.
Psychological Factors Help Explain Slow Reaction to Global Warming
A press release from the American Psychological Association about a task force report that addresses some of the psychological aspects of the public's reaction to global warming.
Society's Grand Challenges - Insights from Psychological Science: Global Climate Change
A booklet about psychology can be applied and integrated with the life sciences to affect environmental change.
The Makings of the National Marine Sanctuaries Act: A Legislative History and Analysis
This article analyzes whether the Sanctuaries Act of 1972 has performed its preservation mission, and how it might be improved to ensure that our marine resources are protected for the future.
The Lifestyle Project
This paper from the Journal of Geoscience Education describes the Lifestyle Project. This project is an innovative way for students to learn about environmental alternatives by modifying their own ...
Students Change Their Lifestyles
This article highlights the Lifestyle Project, which is a three-week challenge in environmentally-savvy living. The origins and uses of the project are described by several faculty members who teach ...
Oil, Water and Climate: An Introduction
Global energy demand is increasing from population and economic development pressures and climate change, resulting in large part from the burning of fossil fuels, is exacerbating the impacts of the ...
A Question of Balance: Economic Modeling of Global Warming
In this book William Nordhaus integrates a spectrum of economic and scientific research to weigh the costs of reducing emissions against the benefits of reducing the long-run damages from global ...
Social Norms and Global Environmental Challenges: The Complex Interaction of Behaviors, Values, and Policy
This article addresses the difficulty that policy makers face when problems are large, complex, and in flux (eg, climate change).
