Education For Good
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Educational Video Games
A Force More Powerful is the first and only [video] game to teach the waging of conflict using nonviolent methods. Destined for use by activists and leaders of nonviolent resistance and opposition movements, the game will also educate the media and general public on the potential of nonviolent action and serve as a simulation tool for academic studies of nonviolent resistance."
Food Force, a free video game that educates kids about hunger, has been downloaded by more than 1 million people from more than 40 different countries. What a great idea!
High Schools With Great Cultures
High Tech High High Tech High began in 2000 as a single charter high school launched by a coalition of San Diego business leaders and educators. It has evolved into a school development organization with a growing portfolio of innovative charter schools spanning grades K-12. HTH combats the twin problems of student disengagement and low academic achievement by creating personalized, project-based learning environments where all students are known well and challenged to meet high expectations. HTH schools attempt to show how education can be redesigned to ensure that all students graduate well prepared for college, work, and citizenship.
Ideas For College Students
The President's Climate Commitment provides a framework and support for America’s colleges and universities to go climate neutral.
Sustainable Endowments Institute helps universities use their investments to encourage the companies they own to become more sustainable. The Institute demystifies the shareholder engagement process by undertaking research and offering on-campus presentations, trainings and mentoring to provide step-by-step support for schools exploring active shareowner options. Services offered include:
Examples of Student Projects That Do Serious Good
- MIT grad students create inexpensive water filter for use in the developing world.
Good Fun Ideas For Colleges
- I heard this on NPR -- compile the best admission essays and have actors (in the theater department or whatever) present them to the class of students who wrote them.
MBAs For Good
Beyondgreypinstripes.org ranks top business schools on their social, environmental, and sustainability elements.
CasePlace.org offers a comprehensive selection of business case studies with social, environmental, and sustainability themes as well as background information.
These sites are run by The Business and Society Program, an independently-funded policy program of the Aspen Institute. BSP is "dedicated to developing leaders for a sustainable global society."
EEC "The EEC has two main objectives: 1) To provide pro-bono business advisory services to environmental and social entrepreneurs in Latin America, and 2) To educate MBA students and the next generation of business leaders, making them aware of the business opportunities available in fast-growth environmental sectors. The EEC is a project of the World Resources Institute's Sustainable Enterprise Program.
Progressive Schools
Examples of Progressive Schools
Sidwell Friends School is the first K-12 school in the United States to have a LEED Platinum rating and the first LEED Platinum building in the District of Columbia. Tours can be arranged and are absolutely fascinating.
