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Palm Oil

Palm Oil

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Ocean Preservation

Oceans and Ocean Preservation

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Inspiring Changemakers to Find Solutions with the Rethink Challenge

Posted on | by Marsha Rakestraw

by Marsha Rakestraw One of the most powerful aspects of humane education is its focus on positive solutions. Educating students about global challenges is important, but it’s the integration of connection, creativity, critical thinking, and creating solutions that really feeds and enables students’ hunger for becoming changemakers for a better world. In the Summer 2014…

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Building Empathy and Critical Thinking: A Lesson About Animals

Posted on | by Zoe Weil

by Zoe Weil A few years ago at our Summer Residency for educators at the Institute for Humane Education, teacher and IHE grad Betsy Messenger created a lesson on animal issues that was so effective and powerful, I wanted to share it with you. She gathered our group outside and “borrowed” my dogs, whose only…

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