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2015 Highlight: Letters to Ban Ki-moon: Fifth-Graders Write to UN About Climate Change
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has been very busy, but not too busy to make time to meet the fifth graders who wrote to him asking him to find solutions to the universal challenge of climate change. Today, Mr. Ban will talk to them about what the UN is doing to tackle this issue, and what they can do themselves to clean up our planet and ensure the well-being of generations to come.
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2015 Highlight: Summer School for Teachers: Learn How to Bring Sustainability Initiatives to Your Classroom
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2012 Highlight: Explore A Rooftop Living Classroom with PBS
Greenworks science barge and greenhouse in Yonkers, NY inspired a group of parents to build a greenhouse on top of their kids public school–PS333–on the upper West side of Manhattan. Watch science teacher Shakira share their vision for rooftop classrooms of the future in this beautiful segment on rooftop greenhouses as living science labs in urban environments.
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2010 Highlight: NYTimes – On a School Rooftop, Hydroponic Greens for Little Gardeners
Shakira Castronovo stood in a classroom at the Manhattan School for Children on West 93rd Street on a recent afternoon and hushed a squirming group of kindergartners perched around a blue carpet. “Where do you think I picked this?” she asked, pinching a leafy-looking thing between her index finger and thumb. “It was picked fresh just few minutes ago.”
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2010 Highlight: NYTimes – Turning Asphalt Into Edible Education
When Celia Kaplinsky, a Brooklyn elementary school principal, visited a schoolyard garden project in Berkeley, Calif., a few years ago to see if it could work back home, something impressed her more than the lush rows of tomatoes and cucumbers.