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Independent School Educators Network
An Educational Network For Exploration, Discussion, and Collaboration
The purpose of this group is to share and exchange ideas relating to effective sustainability practices. Conversations to range from curriculum discussions to innovative plant policies/practices and beyond! Join now!
Members: 57
Created By: Matt Montagne
Latest Activity: Apr 1
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Started by Demetri Orlando. Last reply by Matt Montagne Apr 1.
Interesting that the sustainability conversation here has not turned to financial sustainability in independent schools. Although independent schools risk becoming culturally irrelevant and general... Continue
Started by Mike Vachow. Last reply by Matt Montagne Mar 28.
Hello, everybody! My name is Emma and I’m a student in the eighth grade. As part of my environmental science class, I am doing a series of podcasts based on certain environmental issues. My first t... Continue
Started by Emma C. Jan 16
I read a article about green roofs and me and a friend were talking about how that could really help the world we live in today. Say we were able to grow our own produce on our roofs, we could redu... Continue
We had a nice conference call amongst seven schools on December 13th to share issues of sustainability at our schools. More the student scribe notes from the call, visit the wiki that we created fo... Continue
Started by Matt Montagne Dec. 19, 2007
Hunter Lovins, of the Rocky Mountain Institute, calls it weirding instead of warming. Thomas Friedmand writes about The People We Have Been Waiting For in a 12/3 NY Times article. In The Most Terri... Continue
Tagged: warming, catastrophe, global, environment
Started by Demetri Orlando. Last reply by Demetri Orlando Dec. 17, 2007.
Newark Academy is in the final stages of preparing for our paticipation on January 31st, 2008, in the nationwide teach-in called Focus the Nation (www.focusthenation.org). FTN hopes to influence na... Continue
Started by Sam Huber. Last reply by Brianna Barkus Dec. 7, 2007.
Is anyone willing to have a little environmental round table via skype on December 13th at 2:30 CST?? We'll have two teachers and 9 students on our end for the conversation. For those of you who ha... Continue
Started by Matt Montagne. Last reply by Matt Montagne Dec. 7, 2007.
Sobering article here and it begs a little questioning and reflection... I've long been interested in educational technology and I've long been interested in the environment...I love nature and I ... Continue
Started by Matt Montagne. Last reply by Matt Montagne Nov. 27, 2007.
We would like to welcome the many students who recently joined the "Sustainable Schools" group at this Ning community. We look forward to your contributions to this online forum/group. Again, we w... Continue
Started by Matt Montagne Nov. 27, 2007
Over 150 schools were represented at the most recent meeting of the Green Schools Alliance held at Allen-Stevenson on Oct. 11. The site is www.greenschoolsalliance.org and the contact is Harris Ste... Continue
Started by Jim Burger Nov. 19, 2007
Over 150 schools were represented at the most recent meeting of the Green Schools Alliance held at Allen-Stevenson on Oct. 11. The site is www.greenschoolsalliance.org and the contact is Harris Ste... Continue
Started by Jim Burger Nov. 19, 2007
Hopefully this serves as a nice little discussion group centering around some of these ideas. It would be great if we could encourage some plant managers/directors and students to get involved in ... Continue
Tagged: composting, recycling, earthday, schoolgarden
Started by Matt Montagne Nov. 18, 2007
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