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Teaching Environmental Education Using Out-of-School Settings and Mass Media. ERIC/SMEAC Environmental Education Digest No. 1, 1988.

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Howe, Robert W.; Disinger, John F. – 1988

Research related to environmental education has consistently indicated that many students and young adults attribute a large amount of their knowledge of environmental concepts, problems, and issues to out-of-school (non-formal) educational settings and experiences. Data also indicate that students and young adults attribute much of their…

Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Field Studies

Linking Environmental Education with Environmental and Health Hazards in the Home. ERIC/SMEAC Environmental Education Digest No. 3, 1988.

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Howe, Robert W. – 1988

During the past several years, interest, concern, and action related to environmental problems have increased. Among the problems creating the concern have been materials that can cause pollution and biological damage in and near the home and the disposal of materials used in the home. Discussed in this digest are the reduction of problems related…

Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Environmental Influences, Environmental Standards

The Nontoxic Home. Protecting Yourself and Your Family from Everyday Toxics and Health Hazards.

Dadd, Debra Lynn – 1986

The document maintains that the world is filled with health hazards and the best a person can do is to assess the danger of individual products, learn the risks, weigh the risks against the benefits, and decide whether or not to personally take these risks or to subject family members to them. This perspective begins in the home. This book…

Descriptors: Asbestos, Environmental Education, Family Environment, Hazardous Materials

Permaculture: Dreamworld or Breakthrough?

Johns, Maria – New Ground, 1992

Compares present agriculture practices to permaculture farming techniques, presents a historical perspective of permaculture and where these techniques are being successfully practiced around the world. Inserts (vignettes) enumerate the principles of permaculture and the background of Bill Mollison who conceptualized this farming practice. (MCO)

Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Agricultural Trends, Agriculture, Conservation (Environment)

Greenhouse Gas-ette Fall 1988, Spring, Fall 1989, Winter, Spring, Fall 1990.

Greenhouse Gas-ette, 1990

This newsletter is for educators interested in developing lessons related to global climate change. The newsletter contains sample lessons, news items involving global climate change on an international scale, and background information on issues related to global climate change. (CW)

Descriptors: Air Pollution, Climate, Earth Science, Environmental Education

Water Quality Instructional Resources Information System (IRIS). A Compilation of Abstracts to Water Quality and Water Resources Materials. Supplement XVI.

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Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH. Information Reference Center for Science, Mathematics, and Environmental Education. – 1983

Compiled are abstracts and indexes to selected print and non-print materials related to wastewater treatment and water quality education and instruction, as well as materials related to pesticides, hazardous wastes, and public participation. Sources of abstracted/indexed materials include all levels of government, private concerns, and educational…

Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Citizen Participation, Environmental Education, Indexes

Water Quality Instructional Resources Information System (IRIS): A Compilation of Abstracts to Water Quality and Water Resources Materials. Includes May 1979 edition and Supplements 1-15.

Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH. Information Reference Center for Science, Mathematics, and Environmental Education. – 1984

Compiled are abstracts and indexes to selected print and non-print materials related to wastewater treatment and water quality education and instruction, as well as materials related to pesticides, hazardous wastes, and public participation. Sources of abstracts/indexed materials include all levels of government, private concerns, and educational…