The World Bank has learning modules to bring sustainable development into the classroom. This site includes graphs and learning modules on population growth, GNP Per Capita and access to safe water. There are activities to interpret charts and excellent links to other sites.
Learning for a Sustainable Future is a Canadian nonprofit organization with a mandate to work with educators from across Canada to integrate the concepts and principles of sustainable development into the curricula at all grade levels.
Re-Energy.ca is a renewable energy project kit that can be downloaded and printed at no charge. The kit explores wind energy, water energy, solar energy, biomass energy and more. Build your own working models from one of five easy-to-follow construction plans, including a wind turbine, biogas generator, solar car and more. Re-Energy.ca provides educators with background information, exciting hands-on learning activities, resources and links on renewable energy and sustainable energy technologies.
Green Teacher is a magazine by and for educators to enhance environmental and global education across the curriculum at all grade levels. Fifty pages of ideas and activities, four times a year. Subscription required.
The JASON Foundation for Education is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts. It was founded to administer the JASON Project, a multi-disciplinary educational program that sparks the imagination of students and enhances the classroom experience. From oceans to rain forests, from polar regions to volcanoes, the JASON Project explores Planet Earth and exposes students to leading scientists who work with them to examine its biological and geological development. Provides curriculums on various topics, for a fee.
Environmental Education on the Internet is a resource designed to support students, teachers and professionals that support K-12 environmental education, such as media specialists, inservice providers, nature center staff and curriculum developers. EE-Link is a project of the North American Association for Environmental Education and a member of the EETAP consortium. The site contains Internet environmental based school projects, classroom activities including many lesson plans, environmental facts and data from many sources, curriculum directory guides, organization and audio visual catalogs, software, conference and workshop announcements, higher education links, facts, grants, literature pointers, regional information, and pointers to other environmental sites.
Sustainable Community Design at the University of Manitoba in Canada provides a wide array of principles and examples for design of homes and communities. Drawing from research into built and planned projects in Europe, the site identifies some 150 features of community organization and built environment, housing architecture, and urban design and servicing systems and land use planning that tend to distinguish the projects as ecological / sustainable design. These features are grouped into nine major categories. Each category links to a page that briefly describes and explains each feature in terms of performance criteria. Other links can take you to examples of the feature found in the Case Studies or to further elaboration.
Believing that a Conservation Economy inherently serves the self-interest of individuals and communities, Ecotrust maintains this site to provide a visual and conceptual framework that can be used to inspire innovation, focus planning efforts, and document emerging best practices. Looks at equity, ecology and economy. The framework provides a structured introduction to a range of topics that encompass the various facets of a sustainable society.
The Global Urban Observatory of UN-Habitat addresses the urgent need to improve the world-wide base of urban knowledge by helping governments, local authorities and organizations of the civil society develop and apply policy-oriented urban indicators, statistics and other urban information.
Broadoak Community School in England has developed this brief, easy-to-understand overview of how alternative energy schemes work. Includes fossil, nuclear, solar, wind, tidal, pumped storage, wave, geothermal and biomass.
