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Daily News Lesson August 01 2025

How Ben & Jerry’s is recycling food waste into energy

"...it's well over an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from food waste management." - Eric Roy
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Lesson Plan January 31 2025

Lesson plan: Identifying the problem you want to solve using invention

Learn how to identify problems you care about using the invention process
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Daily News Lesson June 28 2024

Meet the ninth grader who’s helping restore Mississippi’s oyster reefs

Learn how a local environmentalist is helping her community
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Daily News Lesson June 26 2024

Depletion of major groundwater source threatens Great Plains farming

Learn how climate change is impacting farmers' livelihoods
Big Oil's new plastic recycling solution littered with failures
Daily News Lesson March 21 2024

The plastic industry knowingly pushed recycling myth for decades, new report finds

The plastic industry knowingly pushed recycling myth for decades, new report finds
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Lesson Plan March 14 2024

What is invention education? Explainer and lesson plans where students are the inventors!

Teach students how to design their own inventions that help their communities
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Lesson Plan July 13 2023

Lesson plan: What does an inventor do?

Learn what strategies inventors use to solve problems they see around them
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Daily News Lesson June 21 2023

Making the fashion industry sustainable
Hear from a woman who started a textile recycling nonprofit
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Daily News Lesson June 30 2022

Climate change forces major lifestyle changes high in the Himalayan mountains
Massive Himalayan glaciers have shrunk 10-times faster over the past four decades than during the previous seven centuries, according to study
Tourists struggle with the heat as temperatures soar in Rome
Lesson Plan December 16 2021

Lesson Plan: Inventing smarter cities to minimize extreme heat

Plan and design a city block adapted for a changing climate using the power of invention
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