NEW SOCIETY BLOG — Education

Ideas for At-Home Holiday Fun: Winter Scavenger Hunt for Kids

December 04, 2020

Though it can be tempting to curl up with a book and wait for warmer months to go exploring, The Big Book of Nature Activities: A Year-Round Guide to Outdoor Learning has plenty of ideas to get outside and learn. The Big Book of Nature Activities is a guide to help parents, educators, and caretakers ensure children are able to explore the natural world, like a winter scavenger!

Tags: Activities, Book Excerpt, Education, Education and Parenting, Parenting

Please Touch the Books, The Legacy of New Society Publishers

September 21, 2020

We are celebrating 40 Years of Publishing Books for a World of Change and we are honoured to have today's post from Judith Plant, New Society Publishers cofounder, and Publisher Emeritus, sharing with us her story of how a meeting at a book table changed the trajectory of her and partner Chris (Kip) Plant's lives.

Tags: Activism, Climate Change, Community, Ecological Design & Planning, Education, Energy, Environment & Economy, Events, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Living

Educating for Action through Personal Lifestyle

September 16, 2020

This excerpt from Educating for Action, from Larry Albert Butz, compiled and edited by Jason Del Gandio and Anthony J Nocella II, stresses the benefits of using your everyday life as a means to your politics.

Tags: Book Excerpt, Education, Social Justice

New Society Publishers is proud to be celebrating 40 years of activist, solutions-oriented publishing.

September 12, 2020

From our roots in nonviolent civil disobedience training during the Vietnam war, to the present, we have published over 600 books, some across a dozen languages. We continue to work to bring positive solutions and cutting edge ideas to some of the most troubling challenges of our time.

Tags: Activism, Climate Change, Community, Ecological Design & Planning, Education, Energy, Environment & Economy, Events, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Living

Delayed Earth Overshoot Day points to opportunities to build future in harmony with our finite planet

August 20, 2020

COVID-19 has caused humanity's Ecological Footprint to contract, pushing the date of Earth Overshoot Day back more than three weeks compared to last year. The challenge of relaunching our economies presents countries with a unique chance to act on the future we want.

Tags: Activism, Author Events, Climate Change, Community, Ecological Design & Planning, Education, Energy, Environment & Economy, Events, New Books, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Living

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