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Schoobio: Increasing Biocultural Diversity and Climate Resilience on School Grounds through Student Civic Engagement
(International School Ground Alliance (ISGA) conference, Hasselt, Belgium, 2024-04-23)
We are experiencing an international loss of species, with fragmented habitats and climate change primary causes. Biodiversity loss impacts the cultures of many people, as our culture is how we experience the value of ...
Backcasting: Visioning Our Way to a Sustainable Future
(5th All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference, Department of General, Developmental, and Practical Psychology, Poltava V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University, 2020-04-27)
This paper presents an example of the process called backcasting, a means for stakeholders to envision the future and work backwards to determine the steps needed to reach it. The author conducted this game in Spring 2020 ...
Protecting America’s Environment: Priorities of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for Water and Toxins
(Poltava Oil and Gas College of National University "Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic", 2020-03-24)
In the mid-1900s, the environment in the United States was polluted and unhealthy for humans and other species. By the 1970s, it was clear that environmental laws and regulations were necessary to protect the public and ...
Learning about the Environment through Art
(Art Congress, Poltava V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University, 2020-04)
Art is an invaluable means of expression and can also be a learning tool. This presentation introduces art as a way to include all learning styles, bring art into classrooms that may have experienced reduced art funding, ...
Greening Our Minds: Benefits of Nature for Health and Creativity
(Project Central, 2019-04-16)
This presentation was delivered to psychology classes at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University and V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University in Kyiv and Poltava, Ukraine, in April 2019. The presentation discusses the ...
Forestry Programs in the U.S. and Current Changes in Forestry Management
(Project Central, 2019-04-25)
Forests hold a special place for most Belarusians as sources of food, fuel, material products, and respite from everyday life. This presentation, given in April 2019 to a class in forestry at the Belarusian State Technological ...
Window of Opportunity: Creating a Hopeful Future Following the COVID-19 Disaster
(Synergetic Approach to the Design of Living Space of Personality Conference, Poltava V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University, 2021-04-27)
The COVID-19 disaster has resulted in feelings of isolation and trauma, as well as hope for the future. Two international studies were conducted in 2020 to measure the impacts of gender equity, access to health care, and ...
Citizen Action and Environmental Law in the U.S.
(America House Kyiv, 2021-06-08)
Did you know that rivers in the United States used to catch on fire as a result of pollution? Thanks to the work of passionate eco-activists and researchers across generations, we now know the how’s and why’s of cause, ...
Integrating Biodiversity into Urban School Grounds through Transdisciplinary Curriculum Design
(7th International Conference of the Network URBIO – Urban Biodiversity & Design, Leipzig, Germany, 2022-11-28)
As a teaching ecologist and doctoral candidate in Educational Sustainability, I work with science teachers who want to use place-based learning in their classes. Place-based learning ties ecological concepts to “real world” ...
Schoobio: A Sustainability Curriculum to Increase Biocultural Diversity on School Grounds
(School of Education, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, 2022-12)
I developed a new global curriculum, Schoobio, in which middle and high school students become citizen scientists and change agents as they engage in transdisciplinary activities culminating in their advocacy for biocultural ...