Pollution & Waste Books

World Wide Waste
by Gerry McGovern
Review
Toxic Legacy
by Stephanie Seneff
Review
The Probiotic Planet
by Jamie Lorimer
Review
After Cooling
by Eric Dean Wilson
Review
Plastic: An Autobiography
by Allison Cobb
Review
Count Down
by Shanna H. Swan, Stacey Colino
Review
Grand Transitions
by Distinguished Professor Emeritus Vaclav Smil, Vaclav Smil
Review
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
by Bill Gates
Review
Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret
by Catherine Coleman Flowers
Review
Superman’s Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis
by Erin Brockovich
Review
Mill Town
by Kerri Arsenault
Review
Fighting Pollution and Climate Change
by Richard W. Emory, Jr.
Review
The Story of More
by Hope Jahren
Review
Embracing Sufficiency
by Joseph Stadtmiller
Review
Inevitably Toxic
by Brinda Sarathy, Vivien Hamilton and Janet Farrell Brodie
Review
More From Less
by Andrew McAfee
Review
On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal
by Naomi Klein
Review
Inconspicuous Consumption
by Tatiana Schlossberg
Review
Every Breath You Take: A User’s Guide to the Atmosphere
by Mark Broomfield
Review
Choked: The Age of Air Pollution and the Fight for a Cleaner Future
by Beth Gardiner
Review
Clearing the Air: The Beginning and the End of Air Pollution
by Tim Smedley
Review
Manual for Survival
by Kate Brown
Review
The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy
by Anna Clark
Review
Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World
by Andrea Barnet
Review
The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World
by Charles C Mann
Review
Faster, Higher, Farther: The Inside Story of the Volkswagen Scandal
by Jack Ewing
Review
Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies
by Sean Cubitt
Review
Science Calling: Climate, Environment, Energy: (there is hope)
by Vladimir Panjkovic
Review
Lab Girl
by Hope Jahren
Review

Articles

Future engineers need to understand their work’s human impact – here’s how my classes prepare students to tackle problems like climate change
A year on: the highs and lows of a new engineering education system
Why the Science of Teaching Is Often Ignored
This Moment in Education Is Demanding. To Move the Field Forward, We Must Support Educators in Three Key Ways.
The big issues set to dominate education in 2022
Inspiring the Next Generation: How to Encourage Young People into Engineering
8 virtual field trips for STEM education
195 of 5.7m teacher grades changed after exam board reviews
Parents can influence children’s choice and success in STEM major
Wales: 14 schools to add hour a day to help pupils catch up after lockdowns
Fears half of poorer pupils in England could be barred from university
How children at urban schools can benefit from learning in nature
DfE misses secondary teacher recruitment target
Art illuminates the beauty of science – and could inspire the next generation of scientists young and old
COMPETITION: Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge 2022
Stereotypes in STEM start by age six, study suggests
Career-based classes keep students more engaged
Engineering ‘must change’ to include everyone
Government urged to plug STEM skills gap at earliest school age
GCSE and A-level changes give pupils advance warning of exam content
Would a longer school day help children catch up after the pandemic? Here’s what the evidence says
Why student absences aren’t the real problem in America’s ‘attendance crisis’
Covid learning loss: How the second lockdown widening the disadvantage gap
New Report: lack of skills holds back digital learning, affecting both students and teachers
Practical learning: why, and how, you should embed it
Rampant online cheating is the dark side of remote learning
Queen Mary launch storytelling workshops to inspire engineering students
Lewis Hamilton charity aims to help train 150 black STEM teachers
Increased exercise could boost children’s cognitive skills, study suggests
How Fonts Affect Learning and Memory
Boris Johnson wants to pay Stem teachers a £3,000 premium – research shows incentives don’t work
COMPETITION: ASME Environmental Systems Division Competition for Students & Early Career Professionals 2022
Invest in a long-term STEM education strategy say engineers
Polymaths at the London Interdisciplinary School plan to teach universities a thing or two
Children learn science in nature play long before they get to school classrooms and labs
5 characteristics of an effective science teacher – from a researcher who trains them
Creative engineers ‘needed like never before’ in race for net zero
User-centric design ‘has to be in the DNA of engineers’
Why programming is key to engineering communication
Citizen Science is Changing People’s Lives — This Project Explores How It Happens
How to Make the Most of Online Courses to Boost Your Career
Making blended learning work
To Solve the Environmental Crisis, We Must Foster the Power to Imagine
For Some College Students, Remote Learning Is a Game Changer
Major teaching reform in England will erode the intellectual basis of the profession
Home schooling is hundreds of years old – here’s what its history teaches us about learning through play
GCSE and A-level results have seen record grade inflation – here’s why that doesn’t matter
The Delta Variant in Schools: What to Know
Hybrid learning and the future of STEM education
Poor mental health means pupils three times more likely not to pass five GCSEs