Links that might be useful for Education for sustainable development
Subject resources
- National Academics / National Research Council: Climate change – lines of evidence video series |
- 45 Sustainability Resources You Need to Know
- A greener future
- PRME – Principles for Responsible Management Education
- Education for sustainable development (UNESCO)
- UN decade of education for sustainable development (UNESCO)
- Learning by experience | Environmental education |
- World Bank on climate change and development
- New Satellite-Based Maps to Aid in Climate Forecasts (NASA)
- Ivypanda
- Storymaps
- Atlas for a changing planet
- Sustainable development solutions network |
- The Water Cycle, Cloud Formation, and Rainbows Explained
- Climate justice dialogue (WRI)
- NASA Climate time machine | NASA climate
- The Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) |
- Global Climate Change and Energy Stock and Flow
- The ultimate climate change FAQ
- Climate change graphics
- Climate change data centre (EEA)
- Weather and climate | The difference between weather and climate (basics) | Climate and weather (NG)
- Mother nature network | Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)
- Introduction to sustainability (Coursera course, univ. of illinois)
- Climate progress
- Story of stuff | Story of change |The story of solutions | How stuff works | Story of cap and trade | Carbon footprint | The carbon cycle (NASA)
- Annie Leonard: We Should Not Buy Artifacts of Indulgence and Disposability: How About Well-Made, and Doesn’t Trash the Planet?
- Wow: Watch The Words Scroll Down And (Kinda) Transform Before Your Eye
- Sustainable living
- Peak Oil and the Future of Energy (video)
- Global carbon atlas
- Global Power Shift
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards in the United States
- Climate change emergency medical response
- Midway (Video on pollution impact) | Cause and effect (video)
- Weather and climate change (Education Scotland)
- UNEP/GRID-Arendal | UNEP | IPCC‘
- GEO 5 UN report on the state of the world’s environment 2012
- State of the world 2012. Video lecture by Kevin Noone
- The Encyclopedia of the Earth
- Global documentary – videos for sustainable development
- Compare maps side by side – Interactive maps
Educational resources in Norwegian:
- Skal du undervise i klimaspørsmål? (Undervisningsforbundet)
- FN-Sambandet: Vann | Bærekraftig utvikling | Internasjonal rett | Miljø og klima | Globalis-Kart | Globalis statistikk | Klima og mennesker | Klimafilm.no | TV2 skole | Bjerknessenteret multimedia | Del og bruk – samarbeid – utdanning – framtid | Miljøstatus i Norge | Sustain.no (Norwegian ESD resources) | Miljølære.no | Storm.no | CICERO | Jevn issmelting i Himalaya | Klima-lenker |
- Forskningsnettet i Danmark | Learning Net – Innovativt lærande innom høgre utbildning
- Copyrights on the web
- David Suzuki foundation – solutions are in our nature – educational guide
- 12 things I wish i learned when I was young
- Short videos on climate: Chasing ice – the melting Arctic
- If you were born after 1985 you have never experienced a month with below average global temperature
- Climate progress
- The global carbon project (carbon budgeting)
- The storms of my grandchildren (James Hansen)
- Facing the climate gap
- Global warming – what you need to know (Discovery channel)
- The world is hottest it has been since the end of the ice age – and the temperature’s still rising (Independence, 2013)
- Daly rules and sustainability metrics
- The world becomes what your teach (TED)
- The Five Stages of Environmental Grief
- Resilience alliance
- Reality drop. Spread truth, destroy denial
- The climate wars (BBC) 1 2 3
- New architecture for sustainable development
- Foundation for deep ecology
- Sustainability learning centre
- How social media can drive the growth of sustainability
- Sustainable living
- Units of temperature converter | Online temp converter
- Milankovich tutorial
- The Electromagnetic spectrum
- The sunspot cycle | Yearly averaged sunspot numbers 1610-2010 | Temperature, CO2 and sunspots
- Albedo
- China confirms their warming is human caused
- The limits of the Earth, Part 1: the problem | The Limits of the Earth, Part 2: Expanding the Limits
- Ethics and climate
- Sustainable Prosperity Requires Balance
Pedagogical resources
- Globalis videos
- Active learning for the college classroom
- The concerned kittens short movies explaining climate change:
Film 1: Concerned Kittens explain the increasing greenhouse effect
Film 2: Concerned Kittens make you conscious of Climate Change
Film 3: Concerned Kittens engage you in cutting CO2 emissions - Shrink that footprint
- Education for sustainable development (Wiki)
- Aurora borealis
- Google timelapse reveals an altered Earth
- Critical thinking
- UNECE strategy for education for sustainable development
- Education for sustainable development blog & resources
- The center for sustainable development – online learning
- Green education online
- Open Educational Resources (OER)
- ESD – United Nations university | ESD Toolkit
- Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship – A Strategy for Action
- ESD educational resources
- Hewlett foundation – Open educational resources
- Wiki educator
- Assessment
- Active learning strategies for large group instruction
- Centers for quality teaching and learning
- Salman Khan academy – teaching with videos
- Threshold concepts and transformative learning in leaps
- The natural step – accelerating change towards sustainability
- Jared Diamond: why societies collapse (TED lecture)
- Treehugger
- What a REAL Paradigm Shift in Education Would Look Like
- How to make the best teams
- Benefits of meditation
- Emotion Is Currency: A Five-Point Plan for Effective Sustainability Communications
- Digital Literacies, Learning Pathways & Open Badges
Specialised “green” sites useful in education
Green business / CSR
- ConsumerAffairs
- The best electric cars – so far
- How some well-known companies are going green
- What is CSR- Corporate Social Responsibility?
- The power of brands to change the world: Part 1, Part 2
- Craftengine – electricity production from renewables
- What is a green product?
- Is there a carbon bubble?
- Green business Norway
- The business of a better world. The new corporation
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The business of sustainability (McKinsey)
- 10 Top Sustainable Companies from the 2013 Global 100 List
- Sustainable architecture
- Climate action – assisting business towards carbon neutrality (UNEP)
- Dow Jones Sustainability Index
- B-Corporations
- ISO 14000 (Environment) | ISO 26000 (Social responsibility)
- Global Compact
- CSR – Norway
- Triple bottom line
- Sustainable insight (KPMG / UNEP)
- Living economies (BALLE)
- Eco economy
- Business and climate (WRI)
- Low Carbon Economy Index (Pricewaterhousecooper)
- Environmental Kuznets curves
- Food Waste In, Renewable Energy Out: Startup Re-Nuble Is Crowdfunding the Local Green Economy
- Keeping Warming Below 4°C Rise Requires 400% Increase in Decarbonization
- Solarcity | Jobs and solar
- Publish what you pay network for transparency in the extractive businesses | Publish what you pay country list
- Første professor i øko-økonomi
- How to be green
- Ecopropagator for green innovation
- Four Things Green Hiring Managers Are Looking for in You
- EAWC Technologies Delivers the Comprehensive Solution for Water and Energy Scarcity
- US Green technology
- Smart green venture
- How to make green sexy
- With help from nature, a town aims to be solar capital
- Why are carbon markets failing?
- Business for innovative climate and energy policy: sign the charter
- XS4green magazine
- Cleantechnica
- Is sustainability losing momentum in the solar industry?
Sustainable development in poor countries
- GravityLight: lighting for developing countries
- Water hyacinth for energy project in Nyanza
- Africa: Farmers Struggle to Adopt Climate-Smart Methods
- Solar Thin Films to Power Ugandan School and Clinic
- ADB Supports Hydro and Wind Power Plants in India with Equity Investment
- Bhutan’s blueprint for self-reliance
- Sustainable energy for all (UN) (February 2012)
- Alternative energy – Africa
- All Africa -aid
- Africa Debate: Will Africa ever benefit from its natural resources? (BBC 2012)
- Africa is rising – at least its 1% is
- Women group turns hyacinth curse into flowering business (Business Daily Oct 2012)
- Africa can feed Africa. New ways – World Bank 2012
- Secure nutrition (World Bank)
- Solar plants in Ghana
- Galileo and the fireflies – replacing kerosene lamps with solar
- Africa Centre for holistic management
- Savory institute for healing the land
- Within our grasp: a world free of poverty (World Bank)
- Financial resources required for Latin America and the Caribbean to achieve climate stabilization
Sustainable development
- Hybrid solar oven can cook on cloudy days or at night
- Build a $300 underground greenhouse for year-round gardening (Video)
- Flash Charging is here – Electric Buses… what’s Next?
- Creating sustainable prosperity in the USA
- Aquaponics farm in the desert
- Greening the desert. Sahara forest project
- Ecological footprint | Carbon footprint
- The Partnership for Education and Research about Responsible Living (PERL)
- Sustainable everyday
- Happy Planet Index
- Worldwatch
- Renewable energy
- Leadership for environment and development (LEAD)
- A barefoot college (TED-lecture)
- Technology with intention (educational blog)
- ICT magic – science
- The great green technological transformation (UN)
- Permaculture | The meatrix | Food myth busters
- Sustainability (video) | Hunger and food security | Connected
- How we can eat our landscapes – building local resilience by growing vegetables everywhere (TED lecture)
- Transition cultures – future without oil (TED lecture)
- No easy fix in food production | The other inconvenient truth – agricultural pressure (TED lecture)
- Global possibilities
- Futerra – sustainability communications
- Guardian – environment
- Big Victory for Little Fish (and the Future of the Oceans)
- Space age rapid transit to debut in Tel Aviv
- World Future Council
- International symposium on a sustainable future (ISSF)
- Rainwater harvesting | Rainy filters | Water possibilities | Rainwater harvesting forum | The water scarcity reality | Rainwater filters
- Field guide to community based adaptation
- New method for making freshwater from saltwater: Graphene filter
- There is an alternative to capitalism | Mondragon
- The moringa tree
- Citizens climate lobby
- Earthships – environmental constructions
GHG sequestration
- Redwood Trees May Help Battle Climate Change
- GEA @275
- Carbon Capture And Storage: Global Warming Panacea, Or Fossil Fuel Pipe Dream?
- New technology said to neutralize carbon fuel pollution emissions
Green energy
- CETO wave energy
- Solar Power or Nuclear, which is best in the fight against climate change?
- World’s first hybrid wind/current generator could generate double the power
- Wind potential
- A down to earth wind turbine
- 100% renewable energy possible
- A Road Built Out Of Solar Panels, To Charge Our Cars (And Everything Else)
- German bank reports solar power cost in India and Italy has reached grid parity
- Solar irrigation solutions in Africa
- Videos on ICT supported education for sustainable development in Kenya (ARO / SEETEP)
- Solar energy on the rise in Africa
- Solar energy (NYT)
- Pentagon finds method for making cheap, clean water
- Carbon unity
- Windows that Generate Electricity from Invisible Light? Is This the Future or What?
- UN special report on renewable energy sources and climate change mitigation
- China beats the US on wind energy (ENN 2012)
- The great energy challenge (National geographic)
- Scientists urge fossil fuel moratorium now
- Steam without boiling water: nanotechnology using sunlight for power
- Wave power
- Years solar
- Fossil fuels will not help the working class. Renewables might
- Clean power startups aims to break monopoly of big utility giants
- World future energy summit
- Alternative energy Africa (blog)
- UK tidal water (BBC) | Isle of Wight – ecoisland?
- Renewable energy is becoming cheaper than fossil fuels
- d-light solar
- Solar LEDs replacing kerosene lamps | 100 thousand solar lanterns project
- The next big thing in energy: decentralisation
- Iceland innovates fuel breakthrough
- Solar floating islands in the Maldives
- Gujarat to cover Narmada canal (India) with solar cells
- Masdar
- US solar energy broke records
- Treehugger: Green energy | Solar energy | Smart grid
- Go Green!
- Build up our green energy supply: electricity
- Greening our transportation system
- Post carbon institute
- The world’s biggest solar power plant in Abu Dhabi
- Solar Panels with World-Record Efficiencies of 21.5 Percent
- The air car
- Energy and the World Bank
- Energy reality
- Go 100% renewable
Climate change and development
- Climate change will be ‘devastating’ to world’s poor, World Bank says
- World Bank: What climate change means for Asia,Africa and the coast poor
- Understanding what’s wrong with energy
- The greenhouse effect, climate change and the road to sustainability (E-book)
- Low carbon development
- Gender and climate change
- Tackling poverty in a changing climate
- Climate smart agriculture
- Climate finance
- Water resources and climate change
- Vital freshwater resources under attack by privatisation capitalists (Alternet June 2012)
- Planning for climate change
- Carbon footprint calculator
- Overcoming the barriers. Food production under climate change in Southern Africa (Oxfam)
- African farmers must do more to beat climate change
- World Green Building Council
- World green roofs
- EU-EEA report on climate change and impacts 2012
- Dramatically warmer world this century, World Bank 2012
- The most climate friendly country on earth?
- The daily climate newsroom
- What happens when the Kyoto protocol expires?
- The Stern report on climate change and impacts on economy
- Five ways to prepare for global climate change
- James Hansen: updating the climate science
- The fouled Chinese air | The poisoning of China
Environmental issues
- Home
- Ocean of truth
- Underkastelsen (Swedish video on chemical hazards)
- Michio Kako – a new society?
- 50 years after “Silent spring”
- Sukhdev: put a value on nature (TED-lecture)
- Hy Brazil is sinking (video)
- Stunning Arctic photos
- Extreme ice (NG)
- Climate change: one more problem for Pakistan
- Connected videos
- The tar sand pipeline from Canada through the USA
- Why climate change is not an environmental issue
Environmental refugees
- Consequences of climate change: a world awash with environmental refugees (Huffington post Aug. 2012)
- 50 million environmental refugees by 2020 (American Association for the Advancement of Science (2011)
- Global warming could create 150 million climate refugees by 2050 (Guardian 2009)
About Disinformers
- The climate change deceit and conspiracy theories
- Desmogblog
- Climate change denials is just hot air
- Five shots against global warming denialism
- Outrageous Lies Monsanto and Friends Are Trying to Pass off to Kids as Science
- Koch Brothers Political Empire Holds Action on Climate Change Hostage
- Chomsky: How the Young Are Indoctrinated to Obey | The corporate assault on public education
- How Corporations Like Monsanto Have Hijacked Higher Education
- How the Conservative Worldview Quashes Critical Thinking — and What That Means For Our Kids’ Future | 11 Most Absurd Lies Conservatives Are Using to Brainwash America’s School Kids
- What’s More Expensive Than College? Not Going to College
- 5 lies about America’s public schools
- The death of critical thinking in Texas public schools
- Stripping the “climate realists” | Kritikk av klimapanelet uten substans | How to argue with “sceptics”
- Bananas* – case study in how big unethical multinational corporations manipulate opinion, and a pathetic “free” US press. Trailer
- Hidden from public view: industrial animal farms
- Why USA and Canada refuse to kick their fossil fuel addiction
- How the religious right fuels climate change denial
- Trans Pacific Partnership – for corpocracy
- Don’t let clean energy naysayers deny us hope
- Secret funding helped build vast network of climate denial thinktanks
- How human stupidity destroys the world
- Greedy, lying bastards
internationalized ICT supported education
- MSc in Development Management, University of Agder
- Developing global leaders (Kinsey, June 2012)
- E-learning for sustainable development – rationale, strategies, choices and actions.
- Daphne Koller: What we are learning from online education (TED lecture)
- Ravi Pendse – our relationship with technology
- Online education race heats up
- Must-have job skills for 2013 | Good networking habits
- MA in online and distance education OU – UK
Tools for ICT supported education
- Blogs for learning and reflection
- wordpress | WordPress for groups and classes | The WordPress classroom | Why and How to build your social resume | How to self-publish and why you should
- The blogosphere – articles
- Google docs | Adobe connect | LaTeX
- Etherpad – type together
- easy online site for shared writing: typewith.me
- Camtasia
- Doodle polls
- easy blog: Trunity
- Rate my professor
- Elmodo
- Word clouds
- Tiny URL
- TeamLab
- Free student survey tool – Survey gizmo
- Readability index calculator | Become a better writer
- Smartskolen
- Mindmapping (what it is) | Mindmapping and how to use your brain more effectively (Buzan) | Buzan’s mindmap | Brainstorming and mindmapping tools | Mindmapping tips for educators
- Poll everywhere – instant audience feedback
- Quandl for academics – online statistics tool
- Trello
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