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Join the School Garden Community on edWeb.net

by leeyonish on March 28, 2012

If you are a teacher, please join the school gardening community on the edWeb. This is a way for educators, gardeners, parents and community volunteers to come together to share information and resources on how to start and maintain a school garden, integrate it into the curriculum and the life of a school, and troubleshoot garden challenges.

http://www.edweb.net/schoolgardens/

 

 

Emissions database

January 12, 2012

Explore greenhouse gas emissions – minus those from agriculture, transportation or forestry, which are not required to report them in detail, at http://ghgdata.epa.gov/ghgp/main.do. The data, which were drawn from 6,157 sources and are current through 2010, covered nearly 80 percent of the country’s greenhouse gases from large industrial sources.

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Money and politics database

January 12, 2012

To understand money’s influence on politics, use the searchable database of Maplight at http://maplight.org/. Search by bills, legislators, interest groups, contributions and companies. It’s interesting to note, for example, that the National Beer Wholesalers Association has contributed $7,108,000 to members of the House and Senate and has taken a position on nine bills before Congress, [...]

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