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

Several hundred enthusiastic folks came out to the front doors of City Hall at 9:00AM this morning, many donning swim wear and holding signs, to show they want their City Councilors to engage in the solution to help rescue the 39 community pools from closure this June.

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.

At the School Improvement Meeting in early October 2008, the parents and teachers attending were asked to jot down on post-it notes their responses to the following questions:

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.

Recipes for the Soiree please add a footnote “French Soirée”

Come discuss our Middle School Project on Oct 16