Finding clothes that don’t cause harm to people, animals, or the earth is challenging. Use these resources to help you make clothing choices that do more good and less harm.
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Consumerism
Energy and Renewable Energy Global Issues Guide
Find resources (books, articles, videos, activities and more) to help you learn and/or teach more about issues and impacts related to our energy production and consumption, renewable energy, and more humane and sustainable energy options.
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Apps for a Better World
Smartphone apps focused on making more ethical choices are proliferating. Find suggested apps to help you make choices that do more good and less harm for people, animals, and the earth. Save
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A Solutionary Unit
What Do the Primary Causes of Death in the US Have to Do With the Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico? What are the biggest killers of people in the U.S. today? What is the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico? How can these two seemingly disparate problems possibly be connected? This unit…
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Making Connections, Creating Solutions
This activity helps students think about how we are all connected and how our actions impact others and the environment and inspires students to learn more about issues that interest them and to create solutions to address local and global challenges. Recommended for grades 5 and up. Time: Three to four 45-60 minute class sessions
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Food Waste Global Issues Guide
Find suggested books, websites, articles, videos, lesson plans, activities and other resources on food waste issues to help you learn and/or teach about this global issue.
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Animals in Captivity and Entertainment Global Issues Guide
Find books, articles, videos, lesson plans and more related to issues of animals in captivity in places such as zoos and circuses, and used for entertainment, to help you teach and/or learn more about this global ethical issue.
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Who Made My Clothes?
Students will investigate the “birth place” of their clothes, learn about how those clothes are connected to the oppression and exploitation of children and women, and consider positive solutions. Recommended for grades 6-12. Time: 2-3 60 minute classes, and longer for solutions projects
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Animal Testing, Experimentation and Dissection Global Issues Guide
Find books, articles, videos, lesson plans and other resources related to animal experimentation, vivisection, testing and dissection issues to help you teach and/or learn more about these topics.
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Plastics, Plastic Waste and Plastic Pollution Global Issues Guide
Find books, articles, websites, films, lesson plans and other resources about issues related to plastic, plastic waste and plastic pollution to help you teach and/or learn more about this topic.
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