Topic: Sustainability
Cities ally with nature to solve problems
Related PLT Activities
- PreK-8 Guide
- Exploring Environmental Issues: Places We Live (9-12)
Listen to Jo Pierce talk about his family’s 2,000-acre forest in Maine, and the importance of respecting the land and preserving wildlife habitat.
Related PLT Activities
- PreK-8 Guide
- Activity 21: Adopt a Tree
- Activity 22: Trees as Habitats
- Activity 30: Three Cheers for Trees!
- Activity 31: Plant a Tree
- Activity 32: A Forest of Many Uses
- Activity 34: Who Works in this Forest?
- Activity 50: 400-Acre Wood
- Activity 69: Forest for the Trees
- Activity 80: Nothing Succeeds Like Succession
- Activity 87: Earth Manners
- Activity 91: In the Good Old Days
- Activity 92: A Look at Lifestyles
- The Changing Forest: Forest Ecology (9-12)
- Exploring Environmental Issues: Focus on Forests (9-12)
- Exploring Environmental Issues: Places We Live (9-12)
- Global Connections: Forests of the World
Jo Pierce owns a private forest in rural Maine. When you’re working with trees, he says, you have to think on the timescale of a tree.
Related PLT Activities
- PreK-8 Guide
- Activity 21: Adopt a Tree
- Activity 22: Trees as Habitats
- Activity 30: Three Cheers for Trees!
- Activity 31: Plant a Tree
- Activity 32: A Forest of Many Uses
- Activity 34: Who Works in this Forest?
- Activity 45: Web of Life
- Activity 50: 400-Acre Wood
- Activity 69: Forest for the Trees
- Activity 80: Nothing Succeeds Like Succession
- Activity 87: Earth Manners
- Activity 91: In the Good Old Days
- Activity 92: A Look at Lifestyles
- The Changing Forest: Forest Ecology (9-12)
- Exploring Environmental Issues: Focus on Forests (9-12)
- Exploring Environmental Issues: Places We Live (9-12)
- Global Connections: Forests of the World
Partha Dasgupta told Earth & Sky that, in the developing world, natural resources aren’t just amenities. Instead, they’re economic necessities.
Related PLT Activities
- Global Connections: Forests of the World
Sustainability, one neighborhood at a time
Related PLT Activities
- Global Connections: Forests of the World
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