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Units and Courses.
The Cloud Institute has a variety of courses and units available for individual purchase. Grades listed below are suggested grade levels and may vary for your location. A summary of our units can be downloaded here
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From Global Hunger to Sustainable Food Systems: Challenges & Choices (grades 6-8)
This 4-week activities-based unit helps students understand the root causes of hunger and develop informed opinions about their own food choices. (190 pages)
Vew the Table of Contents
$35.00
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Sustainable Food Systems Activity Guide (grades 6-12)
This activity-rich guide was developed for after-school settings to provide teachers, parents, and non-formal educators with fun project ideas for teaching kids how to work toward sustainable food systems. (347 pages)
View the Table of Contents
$50.00
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The Paper Trail: Connecting Natural and Economic Systems (grades 9-12)
This 4-week unit was designed to be embedded in existing economics courses as an introduciton to ecological economics. (219 pages)
Read a review of this unit by Dr. David C.Korten
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$35.00
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Ecological Economics: A Community Exploration ((adult)
This 2-day workshop uses a collection of readings, activities, reflections, and experiences to provide community stakeholders, individually and in groups, with a practical introduction to ecological economics. (200 pages)
Ecological Economics for Life is an admirable pedagogical program of participatory learning that elicits, explains, and integrates the basic principles and issues of ecological economics. - ~Herman E. Daly
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$35.00
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COMING SOON: Changing Consumption Patterns (grades 9-12)
We are updating our Changing Consumption Patterns curriculum, which will include graphics and media from various publications. The 3-week curriculum will help students gain a thorough understanding of sustainability by connecting them with their own consumption patterns and exploring the connection between their consumption and world conditions. Expected publication date: Fall 2008.
$35.00
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Inventing the Future:
Leadership and Participation for the 21st Century. (grades 10-12, but can vary)
This one-semester course fulfills the Participation in Government requirement for secondary schools. The course helps students develop a sense of place as they explore the roles, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship and envision the future through the creation of community projects that contribute to positive change. We highly recommend our 4-day professional development series that supports this curriculum.
View the Introduction
$400 for single Inventing the Future Teacher License (includes 550 page curriculum and CD-Rom)
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Interested in mutiple site licenses? Consider our Inventing the Future professional development series, which includes four days of onsite training and materials for up to 35 teachers.
SPECIAL OFFERS
LIBRARY PACKAGE: Purchase All 6 publications and SAVE!
- From Global Hunger to Sustainable Food Systems
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Sustainable Food Systems Activity Guide
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The Paper Trail: Connecting Economic and Natural Systems
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Ecological Economics: A Community Exploration
- Changing Consumption Patterns (ready in Fall 2008)
- Inventing the Future: Leadership and Participation for the 21st Century
$500.00 for all six publications (SAVE $90.00!)
UNIT PACKAGE : Purchase All 5 UNITS and SAVE!
- From Global Hunger to Sustainable Food Systems
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Sustainable Food Systems Activity Guide
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The Paper Trail: Connecting Economic and Natural Systems
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Ecological Economics: A Community Exploration
- Changing Consumption Patterns (ready in Fall 2008)
$165.00 all five units (SAVE $25.00! )
FOOD PACKAGE : Purchase both food units and SAVE!
- From Global Hunger to Sustainable Food Systems
- Sustainable Food Systems Activity Guide
$75.00 for both units (SAVE $10.00! )
For more information or any questions, please call Marie-Claire Munnelly, Program Coordinator at (212) 645-9930 ext *822 or email
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