Hawthorne 2 Bilingual Alternative

Bill Moyers interviews Jane Goodall, founder of our Roots and Shoots program. See the video or read the transcript.

The letter we received from the EcoSchools Central Team of the TDSB, awarding us a Silver medal for our ecoschool.

A global youth program spearheaded by the Jane Goodall Institute will help address poverty in First Nations, Assembly of First Nations’ National Chief Phil Fontaine said Wednesday.

Read the rest at http://www.canada.com/business/fp/Jane+Goodall+First+Nations+team+fight+poverty/1499699/story.html

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

He’s the author of several books on our relationship to the environment and food.

In fall 2007, Parent Council voted in favour of Hawthorne becoming a member of Roots and Shoots.

The Eco-School Committee planted a tree, which was donated by Fiesta Farms. Yeah!

An article about packaging at Your Earth by Suzanne Elston