Sustainable Materials

Raising Dragons: Bread Clip Straw Pickup
Raising Dragons

Here’s a fun activity to build oral motor skills, fine motor skills and number recognition!

The University of Arizona Cooper Center for Environmental Learning: Sew True 2020 | Sustainabilit...
The University of Arizona

Cooper Center Outreach Team organized a panel discussion about sustainability in the apparel industry, inspired in part by the documentary The True Cost.

The University of Arizona Cooper Center for Environmental Learning: Sew True 2020 | Consumer Impa...
The University of Arizona

Learn about which brands are truly working toward sustainability, how to consider the environment in your apparel choices and more.

The University of Arizona Cooper Center for Environmental Learning: Sew True 2020 | Apparel Indus...
The University of Arizona

Cooper Center Outreach Team organized a panel discussion about sustainability in the apparel industry, inspired in part by the documentary The True Cost.

The University of Arizona Cooper Center for Environmental Learning: Sew True 2020 | The Role of F...
The University of Arizona

Cooper Center Outreach Team organized a panel discussion about sustainability in the apparel industry, inspired in part by the documentary The True Cost.

But Why?: How Do You Make Paint?
But Why?

In this episode of But Why we’re learning how to make paint from an artist who wild-crafts his own pigments, and we’re visiting the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to learn about the value of art.

Environmental Protection Agency: Sustainable Materials Management
Environmental Protection Agency

Sustainable materials management (SMM) is a systemic approach to using and reusing materials more productively over their entire life cycles.

Environmental Protection Agency: National Strategy for Electronics Stewardship (NSES)
Environmental Protection Agency

The National Strategy for Electronics Stewardship (NSES) provides recommendations on steps the federal government, businesses, and all Americans can take toward achieving the goals identified in Executive Order 13693, “Planning for Federal Sustainability in the Next Decade.”

Environmental Protection Agency: Sustainable Packaging
Environmental Protection Agency

By applying sustainable materials management principles to this sector, the US can reduce environmental impacts while recovering potentially lost economic revenue.

Discover Data: Data Gets Green
Discover Data

When companies “go green,” do they spend more or make more? There’s data for that, and these activities inspire students to think like innovators as they use data to solve environmental challenges.