by wasteforlife | Mar 8, 2019
This 8-week program will be held on Saturday mornings from 10AM-12PM in spring and autumn: May 4th – June 22nd & again on Sept 7th – October 26th. Based on the European model of ‘Forest School’, participants will engage in fun outdoor activities, learn craft and...
by wasteforlife | Mar 8, 2019
Outdoor Math to enhance student engagement and improve learning. This is an online event: a webinar presented by Caroline Baillie – Standing People Together – for the Eastern Region Association of Forest and Nature Schools (ERAFANS)....
by wasteforlife | Mar 7, 2019
This 8-week program will be held every Monday from 10AM -1PM beginning May 6, 2019 through June 24th. Intended as a nature immersion program, participants will engage in fun, unstructured and structured activities, while learning science, math, and engineering in the...
by wasteforlife | Nov 19, 2018 | exploratorium, news, spt, standing people together
For most of my adult life I’ve been teaching University students who are great at math. Even if they are slow on the uptake about the potential impact of their work on the environment and on others, they are great at sums. But I’ve become concerned about children who...
by wasteforlife | Oct 31, 2018 | standing people together
“Wind inside of wind inside of wind” was how one participant described the ‘visioning soundscape’ exercise during the Critical Conversations around Trust (https://www.wasteforlife.org/2018/05/10/trust-a-conversation/) event. As ephemeral as...
by wasteforlife | Oct 31, 2018 | design, engineering, sri lanka, technology
Over one year ago we wrote a post, Proof of Concept (https://www.wasteforlife.org/2017/09/28/proof-of-concept/), detailing the replacement of an asbestos toilet block roof with our prototype composite roof made from waste HDPE plastic reinforced with rice husks and...
by wasteforlife | May 10, 2018 | spt
Standing People Together – WFL’s newest program – and Build UP (http://howtobuildup.org/) are hosting a 3-day event June 14th-16th. Working with community: Critical conversations about trust bubbled up as a topic at the January 2018 Engineering,...
by wasteforlife | Sep 28, 2017 | design, engineering, sri lanka
On 23rd August, after months of planning, designing, testing, and coordinating – not to mention years of prior materials research – Paul Burnham joined our team members, Ashok Thayalan and Reddy Pramathanath in Jaffna to help replace an asbestos toilet...
by wasteforlife | Aug 22, 2017 | design, engineering, sri lanka, technology
Paul Burnham (http://www.paulburnham.com.au/) arrived in Colombo yesterday and heads up to Jaffna tomorrow to work with Ashok and Reddy on our asbestos-replacement roof project. Chern NG, our in-house Perth architect, designed the corrugated roof that Ashok and Reddy...
by wasteforlife | Jul 31, 2017 | sri lanka
I’m thinking about dengue fever today. I thought about it last week, and the week before that, but I’m more focused today. Let me explain. For almost three years, we’ve been working on a project whose funding protocols required submission of an extensive...
