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Siemens, a global leader in green technologies and sustainable infrastructure, has agreed to fund a one-hour broadcast, education, and community outreach project, Growing Greener Schools, to be produced by the Media & Policy Center Foundation and distributed to PBS stations nationwide for broadcast in Earth Day week, 2010. See the full press release here.

Filming has begun for Designing Healthy Cities. Harry Wiland and Dale Bell are traveling across the country documenting stories of people who are making efforts to improve the public's health by focusing on the built environment.

The innovative Going to Green Sustainability Curriculum and Video series was launched on April 22nd, 2009 in honor of Earth Day 2009. This package is available through the online PBS Shop website.

The pilot episode for the America's Family Farmers series is nearing completion. This episode focuses on Chris Cadwell's famous heirloom tomatoes and features recipes from celebrity chef and James Beard award winner Suzanne Goin.

Media & Policy Center: The Going to Green Curriculum

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"Going to Green is unparalleled in its narrative inventiveness, compelling visual imagery, and intellectual rigor. While designed for high school students, it is also perfectly suited to introductory courses for community based organizations."

Jennifer Wolch, Dean
College of Environmental Design
University of California Berkeley

an excerpt from Unit 1 of the Going To Green currculum

The Going to Green Academic Curriculum, a text book on sustainability, provides an innovative new approach to educating people about the environment by giving them the tools they need to not only learn about the environment but also to mobilize themselves to tackle the hard work of creating greener, more prosperous and sustainable worlds.

This unique learning resource combines an integrated, detailed academic curriculum with service based learning activities to inspire and empower learners to build greener, fairer, healthier communities.

Exercises, data and examples, profiles of good practice, discussion points, group activities, and extensions provide educators with a potent set of tools to empower learners to tackle challenges like land use, waste disposal, transportation, green building, loss of diversity, water use, and more.

Tested in high schools, university extension classes, community colleges, and community organizations, this teacher-friendly curriculum is rated a highly successful program for knowledge acquisition across disciplines, and knowledge creation and citizenship through active learning. The program also meets NSTA and NCSS national standards for grades 9-12 and includes a wide variety of cross-curricular activities with a focus on literature, math and art.

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From the Media & Policy Center: Edens Lost & Found DVDs and books
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Edens Lost & Found:

"The ordinary Americans profiled in this PBS series, book, and Web site aren't just improving their own neighborhoods by building parks, cleaning up rivers, and installing public art. Inspiring examples from Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Seattle show how people can rediscover the natural attributes that made their cities desirable to settle in the first place." — Jennifer Hattam, Sierra Magazine

"The inspiring story of ordinary citizens in four great American cities — Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Seattle — who have stepped forward to improve the quality of life in their communities. Filmmakers and authors Harry Wiland and Dave Bell highlight practical solutions and models for urban transformation that go beyond pollution prevention to tackle the challenge of improving the quality of life in cities for ourselves and future generations." — Chelsea Green Publishing

"Ordinary people cooperating to re-green city streets, oversee eco-friendly watershed management, create rooftop and urban gardens, and restore parks. There's hope yet!" — Nathalie Jordi, Plenty Magazine

"They might be small acts of do-goods but together America's citizens are making a difference. Reading the enthusiastic and refreshing stories may inspire you to knock on your neighbours' doors and get them to join you to grow a vegetable garden and cover your building with solar panels." — Treehugger
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