Welcome to the Hawthorne II (deux) Bilingual Alternative Primary School website, where the students, staff, and parents get to tell it like it is to the whole wide world (WWW :).
Bill Moyers interviews Jane Goodall, founder of our Roots and Shoots program. See the video or read the transcript.
Our Ecoschool!
· 2009-06-24 23:01
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The letter we received from the EcoSchools Central Team of the TDSB, awarding us a Silver medal for our ecoschool.
An inspiring less-than-5-minutes video from Australian schools on a project to “change the world in 5 minutes”. It’s fun, and possibly could cause us to do something like that.
A mind-opening talk about how we can learn from Nature’s ways to evolve sustainable systems. So, instead of trying to invent new technologies with little regard for their long-term impacts, maybe we could copy Nature’s “inventions” so the stuff we build actually lasts longer and doesn’t break our world.
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/earth_day.asp
TED talk by Michael Pollan
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· 2008-02-12 17:11
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He’s the author of several books on our relationship to the environment and food.
Roots and Shoots
· 2008-01-16 09:48
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In fall 2007, Parent Council voted in favour of Hawthorne becoming a member of Roots and Shoots.
Peace Tree
· 2007-10-23 16:07
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The Eco-School Committee planted a tree, which was donated by Fiesta Farms. Yeah!
Plastic Lunches
· 2007-09-24 11:39
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