Gas prices are down in the $2 range, and Thomas Friedman says that it leaves him with mixed feelings. In his bi-weekly New York Times column today, he reminded us that when gas prices went beyond $4, Americans changed a lot---drove less, polluted less, exercised...
Some 15 years ago I met Boris Berenfeld, a scientist and researcher working at TERC (he is now a principal researcher at the Concord Consortium) on the Global Lab project, which was developed during the time I was working with colleagues in the US and Russia on the...
Some 15 years ago I met Boris Berenfeld, a scientist and researcher working at TERC (he is now a principal researcher at the Concord Consortium) on the Global Lab project, which was developed during the time I was working with colleagues in the US and Russia on the...
There is new weblog on the New York Times website that I want to mention today, and it is called Green Inc.: Energy, the Environment and the Bottom Line. Developed by three environmental educators and writers, this weblog focuses on the following: How will the...
One of the leading groups of teachers who have designed action projects and lesson plans that focus on social justice is the iEARN (International Education and Resource Network). I met many of the teachers from iEARN when I was involved as the Director of the Global...
People who say "drill-baby-drill" are much like people in the 1980s when personal computers came on the scene saying we need more typewriters and carbon paper (paraphrased from Thomas Friedman--see the video in this post). The "drill-baby-drill" is a mantra of those...
