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Sustainable Development

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:00:23 +0100

This part of the Excellence Gateway is dedicated to sharing tools, resources, information and learning - offered by learning providers, by LSIS and by other partners and stakeholders - which can support individuals and organisations in the learning and skills sector in working, teaching and learning more sustainably.

Visit http://www.excellencegateway.org.uk/sustainability.

How Green Is Your Internet?

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 21:10:21 +0100

When you use the internet have you thought just how much energy you're using?

This story may give you some idea of just how much energy the online world uses.

Written and voiced by Dan Ilic, directed and designed by Patrick Clair

View at http://vimeo.com/25329849 or watch the embedded version below

How Green Is Your Internet? from Patrick Clair on Vimeo.

Greening the Blue

Sat, 26 Mar 2011 22:49:58 +0100

Greening the Blue

is the official United Nations platform for raising awareness about the importance of sustainability within the UN system;

is a reservoir of useful information, including this animation showing how UN staff help create a more sustainable workplace;

is a one-stop shop for UN staff and the general public who have an interest in creating a more sustainable United Nations.

Greening the Blue from Greeningtheblue on Vimeo.

Visit http://www.greeningtheblue.org/ to find out more.

Personal Carbon Emissions

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:42:02 +0100

Are you or your learners interested to know just how much your personal carbon emissions are?

If so check out the BeGreen Carbon Calculator. This simple tools allows you to see your carbon footprint annually based from their comprehensive database of emission quantity which include...

vehicles;
electricity;
flight travel; and
natural gas.

To start using the calculator...

choose one of the options;
fill out the fields with your information - e.g. clicking the vehicle tab will ask users for the...
- year;
- make; and
- model of their car as well as their annual miles (users can add as many cars as they like).

BeGreen automatically shows the carbon emissions in metric tons from the vehicles and shows emissions compared to the national average.

Complete the rest of the options to get the total annual emission.

Visit http://www.begreennow.com/reduce-offset/carbon-calculator/ to try it out.

Reduce printing costs

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:37:17 +0100

If you and/or your learners have ever wanted to print an article from a blog or a website, but wish you could do it without printing all of the advertisements and widgets in the side columns, then take a look at Printliminator; a handy little bookmarklet for...

Firefox;
Chrome; and
Safari.

Printliminator...

allows users to highlight a webpage and select only the elements which they wish to print;
can be installed in seconds by just clicking and dragging it onto your browser's toolbar.

This clip explains more...

Visit http://css-tricks.com/examples/ThePrintliminator/ to try it out.

A Mockumentary

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 08:28:13 +0100

The video embedded below, The Majestic Plastic Bag produced by Heal the Bay. is intended to raise awareness of the impact of plastic shopping bags on the environment.

This clip could be used to...

challenge learners to think of alternatives to plastic bag;
ask learners to develop ideas for reusing and recycling plastic bags; or
introduce learners to further studies on the impact of plastic bags in the environment.

O2 eco-rating

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:00:16 +0100

O₂ is to provide environmental information for its handsets, allowing customers to choose a phone based on its energy saving features.

Eco ratings have been issued for 65 handsets on O₂'s online store since August 25th and in-store from August 27th.

O₂'s Phones will be given a score out of five for energy efficiency and environmental impact.

At the time of writing this, top place is held by Sony Ericsson's Elm handset, achieving a score of 4.3.

Research by O₂ found that 44 per cent of consumers would choose a phone based on its energy efficiency.

Find out more at http://www.o2.co.uk/thinkbig/planet/sustainableproducts/ecorating

The Telepresence Revolution

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 08:20:53 +0100

New technology could help businesses cut down on their carbon footprint by avoiding unnecessary travel.

This is the view of a study commissioned by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), which highlighted the possibilities of Telepresence. The system allows meetings to be held virtually by using video conferencing and other communication technologies.

According to the report, Telepresence could allow UK and US businesses to cut upto 5.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions by 2020.

Download the report and/or find out more at https://www.cdproject.net/telepresence-revolution.

Teach Green

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:28:25 +0100

If you're looking for ideas for teaching lessons about the role of automobiles and fuel sources in the environment, take a look at GM's Teach Green

Teach Green...

is a lesson plan resource for practitioners developed by General Motors and Weekly Reader.
provides practitioners with free lesson plans for teaching about...
- fuel cells;
- energy;
- the environment; and
- vehicle technology.

Practitioners can browse the collection of lesson plans by...

topic;
level; or
standard.

Most lesson plans are available with detailed directions that can be downloaded as PDFs.

In addition to the lesson plans GM education provides some simple online games, loosely based on the lessons in the lesson plan collection.

Visit http://www.gm.com/experience/education/blog/ to find out more.

UNEP Geo Data Posters

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:12:04 +0100

The United Nations Environment Programme has developed a series of free posters based on data from the UNEP's Geo Data Portal.

These posters visually and graphically display information about environmental data. Some of the topics covered in these posters include...

electricity production and consumption;
CO2 emissions;
ecosystems management; and
hazardous materials.

Each poster is available as a PDF, that visitors can download and print, from http://geodata.grid.unep.ch/extras/posters.php#basic_facts_posters.