Asbergers is a superpower
At 16, climate activist Greta Thunberg has been called the greatest threat to the world's fossil fuel industry. The teenager first made headlines last year with her solitary strike against climate change outside Sweden's parliament – since then, she's inspired...
A brand new way of looking at the Global Goals
This video shows a great way to group the SDGs to make them more easily understood and used by students and the wider community.
SDG printouts for you to use
We now have a beautiful PDF printout for each of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for your use. These PDFs are provided by the UN and can be freely used in whatever way you wish to raise awareness to help people explore the SDGs. They are available in the...
The power of the UN Sustainable Development Goals to ensure inquiry and problem based learning truly foster global-mindedness in learners
Schools world-wide are utilising inquiry, problem-based, design thinking approaches to learning in order to grow empathetic understanding and international mindedness. Students are taking action through collaborative initiatives locally or globally focused...
Teaching using the Sustainable Development Goals
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, sometimes referred to as the Global Goals, or the SDGs for short, provide many wonderful teaching opportunities. This post is in response to a colleague on the NZ Primary Teachers' Facebook group who asked:...
Comic – The Planet and the 17 Goals
The Planet and the 17 Goals is an amazing comic book for students to use about the 17 goals created by Margreet de Heer. It includes an online interactive website, a downloadable PDF and this slideshow below.Background to this resource:In September 2015,...
Schools Strike 4 Climate Action NZ
Last year, a 15-year-old Swedish girl called Greta Thunberg did a small thing that inspired a big movement. She made the choice to strike from school and spend her days instead protesting climate change outside the Swedish Parliament. Her reasons for doing...
A girl’s view of the 17 sustainable development goals – in pictures
A girl standing where her house used to be, which was washed away due to heavy floods in Chawhara, Bangladesh, illustrating goal 13 - climate action. Photograph: Josh Estey/Care International. If you don’t know where to start with the SDGs, start with...
How NZ decking timber choices compound a human rights crisis in West Papua
A New Zealand ban on kwila would send a signal that we’re serious about protecting our planet, its ancient forests and the people whose lives depend on them, writes Maire Leadbeater of West Papua Action AucklandThis article is cross-posted from The Spinoff......
Take Your Seat on Climate Change
As part of the build up for the United Nation’s critical COP24 Climate Change Conference in Poland on December 3rd, Sir David Attenborough is the voice of a new “People’s Seat”.