Wednesday, July 11, 2012 — The Green Ninja was featured in
Scientific American’s “PsiVid: A Cross Section of Science on the
Cyberscreen” blog today. The blog’s author, Joanne Manaster,
teaches an online Master of Science Teaching program to
certified teachers with the School of Integrative Biology at the
University of Illinois and is helping to run a great new
engineering camp for girls this summer. As I was perusing her
website, Joanne Loves Science (which is packed with great
resources for teachers), I noticed this new online course (or
“MOOC“) for anyone interested in the current situation with our
environment. From her web site: Do you want to learn more about
Environmental Science, in particular, Sustainability? The
University of Illinois is offering a Massively Open Online
Course (MOOC) called Sustainability: a Global Introduction,
starting August 27, running for 8 weeks, that will cover these
topics: Week 1: Introduction & Population pessimism vs.
optimism: Demographics, neo-malthusians and the disappe