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Using nature's gifts wisely |
Ways to use less: refuse, reduce, reuse, repair, recycle |
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Compose a recycling song or make a music video using the song "There’s no such thing as waste" (from the Formidable Vegetable Sound System) |
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Using nature's gifts wisely |
Finding solutions for sustainable living |
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Harvest and prepare a permaculture product e.g. basket, food, natural dyes. |
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Using nature's gifts wisely |
Finding solutions for sustainable living |
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Making a song, drama or other creative expression to mobilize and inspire people to use sustainable solutions. |
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Preparing food |
Helping to prepare food and eating together |
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Taste different healthy foods. |
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Buildings |
Shelter |
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Experience sleeping in a shelter made by themselves from local natural materials and compare it with living indoors. |
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Buildings |
Shelter |
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Use ropes and strings to tie knots to build something (such as a shelter). |
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Buildings |
Insulation and draught-proofing |
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Go out camping and find out ways of keeping yourself warm. |
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Buildings |
Insulation and draught-proofing |
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Experience sitting in two different buildings in winter - a well insulated building and an uninsulated one. Discuss the differences. |
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Buildings |
Biomimicry |
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Talk about something amazing which an animal does, such as 'How does a bird make a nest with it's beak!?!' and try to copy their shelter (e.g. foxes den, wood mouse nest). |
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Buildings |
Natural building materials |
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Feel different textures and warmth of natural building materials with bare feet or hands (e.g. straw bale). |
