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Shirin Betzler; Regina Kempen – Environmental Education Research, 2025
Designing effective educational measures constitutes a key area of action for achieving global sustainability goals. Therefore, the present study examined a training addressing sustainable consumption practices in plastic reduction, fashion and food. An interactive training was held in a German comprehensive high school with grade 11 students,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Sustainable Development, Plastics
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Zowada, Christian; Siol, Antje; Gulacar, Ozcan; Eilks, Ingo – Journal of Chemical Education, 2019
Phosphates are essential components of any efficient fertilizer. Natural phosphate rock is, however, not available in every part of the world. According to the European Commission, phosphate rock has high economic importance as well as a certain supply risk--at least for Europe. For these reasons, environmental technology research has received a…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, High School Students
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Kerscher, Ulrich – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2019
Plastic, plastic waste and marine litter indisputably is one of the key environmental issues of the 21st century. The already existing amount of accumulated marine litter, the high quantity of plastic waste escaping from waste management streams every year in combination with the low recycling rates for plastic and the missing awareness of the…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Futures (of Society), Plastics, Sanitation
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Bördlein, Christoph – Research on Social Work Practice, 2018
Behavioral social work is the application of behavior analysis to the field of social work. There are behavioral social work interventions for individuals, groups, and communities. Nevertheless, behavioral social work is far from a widely adopted approach among social work practitioners. A reason for the underuse might be seen in the fact that…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, Intervention, Behavior Change
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Nakajima, Nina; Vanderburg, Willem H. – Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 2006
The German packaging ordinance is an example of legislated extended producer responsibility (also known as product take-back). Consumers can leave packaging with retailers, and packagers are required to pay for their recycling and disposal. It can be considered to be successful in reducing waste, spurring the redesign of packaging to be more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Legislation, Marketing, Sustainable Development
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LeBaron, John; Warshawsky, Rebecca – Educational Leadership, 1991
In June 1989, eighth graders in 3 Massachusetts schools participated in a live, 2-way, 90-minute video teleconference with students in Karlsruhe, Germany, as part of a multiorganization partnership called KITES (Kids Interactive Telecommunications Experience by Satellite). Although environmental sciences was the official topic, students also…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Exchange, Environmental Education, Environmental Standards