The document describes the Arenal School Garden educational project in Spain. It was started in July 2012 through a partnership between the school and a nonprofit foundation. Students in 3rd grade primary were taught to grow vegetables in a school garden to encourage healthy eating. The project involved preparing the land, installing irrigation, planting seeds and seedlings, caring for the crops, and harvesting the produced vegetables. Over time the project expanded and more students became involved. It helped teach the students respect for the land and environment as well as collaboration. The school garden was featured in local newspapers and magazines.
EPClets - A Lightweight and Flexible Textual Language to Augment EPC Process ...Malinda Kapuruge
Event-driven Process Chains (EPC) has been widely adopted as a business process modeling notation. The common practice is to use a software tool to build a directed graph consisting of EPC constructs to model a business process. If a change is required, the constructed graph is partially dismantled and reconstructed. While the graph-based representation is beneficial in providing visualization, we investigate in this paper the advantages of having a textual representation alongside the graph representation. We introduce a textual language, called EPClets, to represent an EPC graph as a set of declarative event-action rules. The EPC graph can be constructed incrementally and automatically from the textual representation, separating the business- process specification and graph (re)construction concerns. The advantages of our approach have been evaluated through a controlled experiment. The experimental results suggest that having a textual representation alongside the graph representation increases the efficiency compared to an entirely graph-based approach.
EPClets - A Lightweight and Flexible Textual Language to Augment EPC Process ...Malinda Kapuruge
Event-driven Process Chains (EPC) has been widely adopted as a business process modeling notation. The common practice is to use a software tool to build a directed graph consisting of EPC constructs to model a business process. If a change is required, the constructed graph is partially dismantled and reconstructed. While the graph-based representation is beneficial in providing visualization, we investigate in this paper the advantages of having a textual representation alongside the graph representation. We introduce a textual language, called EPClets, to represent an EPC graph as a set of declarative event-action rules. The EPC graph can be constructed incrementally and automatically from the textual representation, separating the business- process specification and graph (re)construction concerns. The advantages of our approach have been evaluated through a controlled experiment. The experimental results suggest that having a textual representation alongside the graph representation increases the efficiency compared to an entirely graph-based approach.
Supporting Adaptation Patterns in the Event-driven Business Process Modell...Malinda Kapuruge
The event-driven business process modeling has been emerged as an alternative paradigm to the traditional workflow-based business process-modeling paradigm. One of the influencing factors for using this new paradigm is the flexibility and the agility it provides in supporting business process change. Weber et al. have proposed 14 high-level adaptation patterns that need to be supported by a flexible process-aware information system irrespective of the chosen paradigm. In this presentation we present a paper that investigate whether the event-driven paradigm can satisfactorily support these adaptation patterns; if so, how an event-driven approach should support these adaptation patterns. We also point to the future research directions that this work can lead to.
Paper available at: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-41154-0_22
Introduction to the 6-month Indoor Gardening Program by Eco EvolverEmilio Gagliardi, MSc
This document is the slide deck for a webinar. It contains information about the importance of indoor gardening, the common pitfalls, and how a new 6-month program intends to make indoor gardening accessible to new gardeners.
You can listen to the webinar here: http://ecoevolver.com/webinars/thank-you-6-month-program/
A collaborative project on reducing our ecological footprint, students in Mexico and New Zealand had the opportunity to connect, inspire, discover, and take action!
Green Africa Foundation Newsletter 2016Joe Matimba
Green Africa Foundation is all about empowering and developing women as women are the pillars of society. Empower women, you empower the nation. Join us, what are you waiting for?
Nourish The Planet proudly presents the Tiny Garden Toolkit. A beautifully curated and highly interactive experience for teachers of 5-8 year olds.
By implementing this toolkit and its exercises, young children will learn how small actions can have a big impact on the environment.
It also addresses the controversial and tough problems of food deserts in inner cities by focusing on food discovery and sustainability.
Give this kit a try in your classroom! You'll be glad you did.
What Kids Can Do to Make Mother Nature HappyFirst School
June 5th is World Environment Day. It is a day to promote global awareness about our environment. Here are some simple activities that kids can do to make our Mother Earth Happy!
Supporting Adaptation Patterns in the Event-driven Business Process Modell...Malinda Kapuruge
The event-driven business process modeling has been emerged as an alternative paradigm to the traditional workflow-based business process-modeling paradigm. One of the influencing factors for using this new paradigm is the flexibility and the agility it provides in supporting business process change. Weber et al. have proposed 14 high-level adaptation patterns that need to be supported by a flexible process-aware information system irrespective of the chosen paradigm. In this presentation we present a paper that investigate whether the event-driven paradigm can satisfactorily support these adaptation patterns; if so, how an event-driven approach should support these adaptation patterns. We also point to the future research directions that this work can lead to.
Paper available at: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-41154-0_22
Introduction to the 6-month Indoor Gardening Program by Eco EvolverEmilio Gagliardi, MSc
This document is the slide deck for a webinar. It contains information about the importance of indoor gardening, the common pitfalls, and how a new 6-month program intends to make indoor gardening accessible to new gardeners.
You can listen to the webinar here: http://ecoevolver.com/webinars/thank-you-6-month-program/
A collaborative project on reducing our ecological footprint, students in Mexico and New Zealand had the opportunity to connect, inspire, discover, and take action!
Green Africa Foundation Newsletter 2016Joe Matimba
Green Africa Foundation is all about empowering and developing women as women are the pillars of society. Empower women, you empower the nation. Join us, what are you waiting for?
Nourish The Planet proudly presents the Tiny Garden Toolkit. A beautifully curated and highly interactive experience for teachers of 5-8 year olds.
By implementing this toolkit and its exercises, young children will learn how small actions can have a big impact on the environment.
It also addresses the controversial and tough problems of food deserts in inner cities by focusing on food discovery and sustainability.
Give this kit a try in your classroom! You'll be glad you did.
What Kids Can Do to Make Mother Nature HappyFirst School
June 5th is World Environment Day. It is a day to promote global awareness about our environment. Here are some simple activities that kids can do to make our Mother Earth Happy!
The Mobile Living Lab as a Driver for Sustainable Community Development: Envi...ESD UNU-IAS
Case Study presentation: The Mobile Living Lab as a Driver for Sustainable Community Development: Environmental, Economic, and Human Wellbeing along the Sustainability Corridor in Chihuahua, Mexico
Prof. Carolina López, RCE Borderlands Mexico-United States
11th Global RCE Conference
7-9 December, 2018
Cebu, the Philippines
Container gardening is related to agroforestry. Vegetables and trees can be grown in bottles and pots. It is an inexpensive and simple method to alleviate hunger and poverty, and a contribution to limit global warming through reforestation.
2. Arenal School Garden is an
educational project that consists
of teaching the children to grow
vegetables. While they are
encouraged to take a healthy diet
which includes fruits and
vegetables.
3. Action x Change 2012Action x Change 2012
Arenal School Garden is born in July
2012 thanks to the Foundation of the
United World Colleges.
I take part in ActionxChange 2012 and
I start developing the project. 15 intense
days of training and motivation.
4.
5. Arenal SchoolArenal School
Presentation of the project to the
principal of the College Arenal.
Lending of the area.
We agree a pilot experience with the
children of 3º of primary.
8. Funding: Think BigFunding: Think Big
Presentation of the project to Think Big
competition of Telefónica Foundation.
Achievement of funding: 400€
Training and tutor.