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DeforestACTION

Aims:
 * To halt deforestation;
 * Restore a full rainforest ecosystem;
 * Provide a sustainable livelihood for the local community;
 * Create global awareness of deforestation;
 * Create a safe and permanent home for endangered orangutans.

In March 2010, 12 schools and 90 students from the Asia Pacific region were invited to Singapore for Microsoft’s Regional Innovative Education Forum. This was the birthplace of DeforestACTION, originally titled “The High Noon Project” after Jean-François Rischard’s book High Noon, 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them.

Students and teachers decided they wanted to tackle one global issue – as a pilot – and they chose deforestation. They agreed on the name DeforestACTION, and launched a global collaborative project with, for and by students around the world. Over the course of 8 weeks, TakingITGlobal moderated online learning activities and project planning webinars, where students and teachers took a collaborative approach to global problem solving. They formed student action groups and designed plans to address deforestation in their local communities. Using an online voting system, the students selected a number of key approaches

In October of that year

Smithsonian Institution

TakingITGlobal

The Rise of the Eco Warriors

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-reese-halter/indonesias-protected-rain_b_2944815.html

ABC interview with Cathy Henkel, documentary maker and adjunct lecturer Queensland University of Technology and Ben Dessen, wildlife defender http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lifematters/eco-warriors/4422250

World Tessellation Day is a celebration of all kinds of tessellations, held on 17 June, the birthday of M. C. Escher. Emily Grosvenor, an enthusiast for tessellation and author of the picture book Tessellation!, was one of the initial instigators for the day, though the hashtag #WorldTessellationDay was rapidly taken up on Twitter, especially in Europe and then North America. Observance of the holiday spread quickly through Internet, social media, and grassroots celebrations. The Escher Museum, Escher in Het Paleis, tweeted its celebration of the day, asking which tessellations were readers' favourites.

Tweets were mostly those with photographs of tessellations found in the environment, and activities with children creating tiling patterns. A number of blogs gave advice on celebrating the occasion, for instance John Golden's math hombre blog listed his top ten favourite kinds of tessellation. Emily Grosvenor, who outlined 23 ways to celebrate the day on her blog ran a library workshop for children on the day. An event organised in Minneapolis involved participants in creating large-scale tiling on pavements, and using pattern blocks to created tiling patterns. The Balearic Mathematical Society invited readers of its website to send in images of tessellations. The Catalonian Federation of Mathematics Teaching of Organisations proposed sharing ideas related to tessellation: found images of tiling patterns, mosaics and classroom activities.