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GRAWater. Global Goals - ett paraplytema - Sara Bruun. Höstens stora tema för år 8 har varit att arbeta med FNs globala mål.

Global Goals - ett paraplytema - Sara Bruun

Vi har arbetat med det som jag brukar kalla “paraplytema”. Med det menar jag att vi lärare bestämmer vad temat ska vara och vad som ska ingå, men varje ämne gör olika saker. Read this and you may never eat chicken again. Every year I spend some time in a tiny apartment in Paris, seven stories above the mayor’s offices for the 11th arrondissement.

Read this and you may never eat chicken again

The Place de la Bastille – the spot where the French revolution sparked political change that transformed the world – is a 10-minute walk down a narrow street that threads between student nightclubs and Chinese fabric wholesalers. Twice a week, hundreds of Parisians crowd down it, heading to the marché de la Bastille, stretched out along the center island of the Boulevard Richard Lenoir. Blocks before you reach the market, you can hear it: a low hum of argument and chatter, punctuated by dollies thumping over the curbstones and vendors shouting deals.

But even before you hear it, you can smell it: the funk of bruised cabbage leaves underfoot, the sharp sweetness of fruit sliced open for samples, the iodine tang of seaweed propping up rafts of scallops in broad rose-colored shells. Sustainable living in Sweden. Sweden’s architects, construction firms, energy companies, city planners, enterprises and politicians are working today to create the sustainable cities of tomorrow.

Sustainable living in Sweden

Here are just a few examples: Energy supply There are many private initiatives to save energy. About the Earth. National Geographic. In Brazil, which houses 30 percent of the remaining tropical rain forest on Earth, more than 50,000 square miles of rain forest were lost to deforestation between 2000 and 2005.

National Geographic

Biologists worry about the long-term consequences. Drought may be one. Some rain forests, including the Amazon, began experiencing drought in the 1990s, possibly due to deforestation and global warming. Efforts to discourage deforestation, mainly through sustainable-logging initiatives, are underway on a very limited basis but have had a negligible impact so far. The rain forest is nearly self-watering. Plants in the rain forest grow very close together and contend with the constant threat of insect predators. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) estimates that 70 percent of the anti-cancer plants identified so far are rain forest plants. Many trees and plants, like orchids, have been removed from the rain forest and cultivated. Endangered Animals 4-9 – WebEnglish.se. Background Animals are one of the most interesting topics to young learners.

Endangered Animals 4-9 – WebEnglish.se

After studying pets and wild animals in the earlier year, it is time to add an environmental view on the topic and study some endangered species. Warm-up 100 Endangered Animals: 2013 – YouTube (8:50) made this video as a project for my Design II class at the University of Toronto. A film showing a world map, filling it with endangered animals. In Pieces – 30 Endangered Species, 30 Pieces. species, 30 pieces. Songs Kamahl ~ The Elephant Song – ~ The Elephant Song Tell me said the elephant Tell me brothers if you can Why all the world is full of creatures Yet we grow in fear of man Lyrics available below (yr 6-9) Vocabulary Endangered Animal Printouts – EnchantedLearning. animals are those species that are in danger of going extinct. Endangered-species- is a worksheet with exercises to introduce English language learners to commonly used language for the endangered species.

Lesson Plans Reading. Colorado Teenager Rallies Youth Around The World To Protect The Planet. Xiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez is only 16 years old, but he's committed to changing the world.

Colorado Teenager Rallies Youth Around The World To Protect The Planet

The Colorado teen is the youth director of Earth Guardians, a nonprofit that encourages young people to connect and become involved in environmental activism. Through a variety of demonstrations and projects -- including an eco hip-hop duo that he created with his younger brother -- Xiuhtezcatl works to engage other youth leaders and share important environmental issues. The brothers have produced songs like “What the Frack?” And “Speak for the Trees” to deliver these messages in a way that is fun and accessible for other young adults.

16 year old Xiuhtezcatl Martinez addresses Presidential candidates. Nature Is Speaking. Every individual matters. Every action counts. A new documentary by Cathy Henkel. Banda Aceh Premiere!

Every individual matters. Every action counts. A new documentary by Cathy Henkel.

SCREENING + Q&A WITH PRODUCER and HaKa Serambi Mekkah University INDONESIA18 July 2016 9am-1pm Sponsors :: Serambi Mekkah University & Indonesia Green Union, Australia Indonesia Arts Alliance. Bandung Premiere! SCREENING + Q&A WITH PRODUCER and Indonesia Green Union Pasundan University, INDONESIA21 July 2016 9am-1pm Sponsors :: Pasundan University & Indonesia Green Union & Australia Indonesia Arts Alliance. SCREENING + Q&A WITH PRODUCER MARK WHITE BENTARA BUDAYA BALI, INDONESIA27 July 2016 6:30pm SCREENING + Q&A WITH PRODUCER MARK WHITE BAR LUNA BASEMENT, UBUD, BALI, INDONESIA1 August 2016 7:30pm SWITZERLAND PREMIERE: FILMS FOR THE EARTH Our first European Film Festival Official Selection by Filme für die Erde, one of the largest sustainability themed film Initiatives in the world.On 23 September 2016, 3,000 students will attend screenings during “Filme für die Erde Festival”, organized in 10 to 15 different cities at the same day.

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