The Green House as Classroom
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Green show houses are appearing across the country, spreading a message about environmentally conscious building.
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ÂTeam 10: A Utopia of the Present,Â at the Yale School of Architecture, weaves a portrait of European architects who built a sense of community identity into their works.
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Inspiring students to practice regularly may not be an easy assignment for any music teacher, but Sarah Grenier found iPod, her MacBook, and iLife to be excellent motivators. Grenier records student performances on a digital camcorder, edits the footage in iMovie, then burns the finished video using iDVD so that students can enjoyâand critiqueâtheir own performances and share their progress with parents, staff, and other students. Like to hear how she uses iPod in the classroom?
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Science & environment: Prince Charles's plans to build the eco-home of the future run into controversy over new green regulations
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Blog: Architectural company working on tree house design for future living.
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From iTunes U, which lets students take educational podcasts on the road; to the computational tools running on Xserves, which allow students to see and explore the structure, function, and behavior of molecules; to the Digital Academic Television Network, which delivers live TV via a network connection using QuickTime as a client), Macintosh computers, servers, and software help educators articulate the âWisconsin Idea.â Erasing completely the âborders of learning,â they depend on the Mac to let learning go onâfor students and teachers alikeâanywhere and at anytime.
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Students and professors from different disciplines are collaborating in the study of the environmental ramifications of production and consumption.
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Once roof gardens were just a matter of aesthetics; now there's something called a &quot;green roof&quot; that has environmental benefits.
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Steve Schmidt&#39;s social studies classroom No. 259 at Lowell High School has turned into a science lab of sorts. His science department colleagues have been measuring the carbon dioxide levels in his room and
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While the world's top scientists recently warned governments to take urgent action on global warming, a small group of Brooklyn students have designed their own plan for living with climate change.
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A look at computing history, the new Roomba 560 cleaning robot, and a tour of one of the most eco-friendly buildings.
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Going green isn't just for those building new homes. Homeowners can also remodel in ways that conserve energy and natural resources.
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Peek into the 1830 Unitarian Meeting House just off the Mohawk Trail in Charlemont, and you just might see Chris Burke sitting by his wood-burning cast iron stove. Twenty years ago, Burke converted the 5,000-square-foot church into living and studio space, heating much of the old Federal building with a Norwegian-designed woodstove. He used five cords of wood last year, ...
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Some of the previous contributors to the Green Room  respond to readers' questions.
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By John Dodge, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Jun. 3--About 200 people gathered Friday in the Evergreen State College Longhouse to help give birth to a new approach to environmental education in South Sound.
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By LUCY LYNCH, Education Reporter  EVERYONE'S gone green at Burton Green CE Primary School, near Coventry.  They have just achieved a bronze "eco schools" award in a scheme run by Encams, which oversees the Keep Britain Tidy campaign.
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At St. Andrew's School, where chestnut trees tower over the Tudor-style buildings and crisply manicured grounds filmed for "Dead Poets Society," it's a safe bet few of the future Ivy Leaguers plan to become farmers. Yet on the edge of exclusive boarding school's campus, just beyond the tennis courts and soccer fields, sprout rows of green peas, sunflowers, zucchini and squash in a 2-acre organic garden tended by students.