www.arvindguptatoys.com Freely download brilliant ideas of doing science from junk by the well known ‘toy-man’ Arvind Gupta. For about 30 years, he has been actively engaged in developing creative and imaginative science teaching aids, or 'toys', using low-cost and junk material. www.panda.org/news_facts/education/fun_ games/index.cfm Are you game for finding out more about key conservation issues such as endangered species, global warming and pollution? If you are, then go right ahead and indulge yourself. A compilation of online games from the WWF offices around the world... www.distributive-justice.com An Internet game in which participants in the project freely distribute material and nonmaterial goods building a "society" that undergoes dynamic changes. Several types of societies emerge as result of the distribution game. A great introduction of high school students to the theory of distributive justice and its idea of fairness in allocating resources. GT invites readers to write about any innovative Environment Education efforts that they are part of or know about.

ENERGY CLUBS
New Delhi Power Ltd

NDPL – New Delhi Power Ltd is helping in the formation of energy clubs in schools. These clubs essentially work on various ways to conserve energy, primarily electricity. NDPL will organise a series of workshops on energy conservation in schools, to be followed by interactive sessions and competitions. So, go ahead, form such a club in your school. The electricity suppliers (NDPL) may help you do the energy audit of GSP in a better way. May be you can catch a few points by getting some tips from them.

BOOK
The Turtle Story
by Karthik Shanker Pratham Books

Bangalore-based, Pratham Books, which reaches underprivileged children through 5,000 libraries across 14 states and nine languages, has just launched a Nature Series. Starting with last month's Turtle Story, Pratham has seven more titles to be sold through catalogues. This story by wildlife biologist and turtle expert Kartik Shankar describes the odyssey of an Olive Ridley turtle who swims freezing oceans, survives sharks and evades trawler nets, to finally nest on Orissa's soft sandy beaches. Beautifully illustrated by wildlife artist Maya Ramaswamy.

CONFERENCE
World Environmental Education Congress 2007
Durban, South Africa July 2-6, 2007

Opportunity to enter into a dialogue on a growing and dynamically evolving field that is currently engaging with the outcomes of the World Summit on Sustainable Development and the implications of the UN Decade on Education for Sustainable Development. For more information visit www.weec2007.com

Tap water harvesting
Various schools in Delhi are harvesting spillage from drinking water points. Buckets are placed to collect the water, which drains from the water point area. The house keeping staff keeps emptying the water for use in mopping or watering plants. Deepalaya, Kalkaji Extension, and Adarsh School, Bali Nagar, are adopting this practice, while there are a few which are planning to concretise the idea by building a tank to collect the water.
 

GT invites readers to write about any innovative environment education efforts that they are part of or know about

Ridge Garden
Sanskriti School stands on a piece of land that was originally a part of the famous Delhi Ridge. In a bid to recreate history, the school has developed a ‘dry garden’ which is actually a replica of the now-vanished ridge.

Students have planted species of grass, shrubs, and trees that were were originally found in this area. So this little patch of green gives us a glimpse of what Delhi looked like as a jungle.. many, many years ago.

By the way, students call it a dry garden because nobody waters the area, it only survives on rain. So, in the winter months, such as now, grass in the ‘ridge’ is dry unlike the plush lawns which surround it.