Our audience includes preservice and in-service teachers, teacher-educators, and librarians, but we encourage anyone who champions children’s literature to enjoy this resource! We hope that families find titles here to fuel shared read-ing experiences, and we anticipate that researchers will draw many of our sug-gested titles into school-based studies. We want readers to be aware of what a ri…
The term ‘bioeconomy’ is commonly met with a sense of uncertaintyregarding its meaning and purpose. In general, there are three differentfields of public and scientific debate about the bioeconomy. NicholasGeorgescu-Roegen (1971) referred to the bioeconomy as a transforma-tional pathway towards a degrowth society. In contrast, the debate about‘biocapitalism’ focuses on the commodificati…
A collection of wisdom from one of the world’s greatest spiritual leaders.
he supermarket presents us with a cornucopia of fruit, fish, and meat from near and far. Usually we haven’t thought too much about how it all got there and the fact that we can enjoy fruit from the tropics all year round is something that we usually take for granted. But we are constantly reminded of the perish-ability of these refrigerated and frozen foods. Bananas, for example, …