What's New at Ecotippingpoints.org
February 2010
- Additional photos added to the following galleries - Thailand Mangrove - Thailand Agroforestry
January 2010
- Mexico - Quintana Roo - The Vigía Chico Fishing Cooperative - A remote fishing village devises community management to protect its lobster fishery and ensure a high quality of life for everyone
- Apo Island - follow up report
- Thai Mangrove - follow up report
- Thai Agroforestry - follow up report
October-December 2009
- New York City Video - Community gardens in New York City reversed a vicious cycle of urban decay, crime-ridden empty lots, neglect, and population flight, while producing food, flowers, and wildlife habitat. These gardens nourished the bodies and souls of 800 neighborhoods, and inspired urban community gardening across the nation. Watch a 12-minute video
- How Success Works - This lesson uses six flagship case studies, dealing with a range of environmental concerns, to identify ingredients for success that they hold in common. How Success Works is an ideal lesson to teach about paradigms of success and the concept of EcoTipping points within science, social studies, or English classes. Students see 5-10 minute videos, read short case studies, identify ingredients for success in each case, and review the ingredients with a teacher-led PowerPoint. Students can also use fill-in diagrams to map out vicious and virtuous cycles in the stories. The cases can be used individually or as a group depending on teaching goals. All stories come with front-loaded vocabulary to help student comprehension and provide one tool for assessment. See Lesson Plan and Instructional Materials
September 2009
- Launched of newly re-designed site (September 18)
- Gerald G. Marten and Catherine E. Matthews, 2009, EcoTipping Points: Sharing environmental success stories with students, What EcoTipping Points are and how they work, including lessons for teaching EcoTipping Points to K-12 students. The Science Teacher, Vol. 76, No. 7, October 2009.
- Check out our 6-minute video on the Apo Island story. A marine sanctuary in the Philippines sets in motion community fisheries management that reversed a vicious cycle of destructive fishing and depletion of fish stocks, restoring the island’s coral reef ecosystem and fishery and rescuing a fishing village’s cherished way of life.
- For Teachers: Curriculum from Debbie Trogdon-Stout
- For Teachers: Feedback Diagrams for Teaching EcoTipping Points
- For Teachers: Ingredients for Success in EcoTipping Point Case Studies
- New Capsule story - Massachusetts (Boston) - Nira Rock - An old quarry is transformed into a sanctuary for wildlife and people alike.