More than a decade after the Paris Agreement was signed, the world continues to pump out greenhouse gases at a record pace. here are things we all can do to live a more climate-friendly life. Today on #WorldEnvironmentDay, see how you can act #NowForClimate. www.un.org/en/observanc...

Have you used PRB's Data Sheet in your classroom? Share how it has helped your students engage with real-world data and global issues in the comments or through the link. buff.ly/fw5Fhoh Your stories help show why this trusted resource remains so important for both educators and students.

📊 For 60+ years, the World Population Data Sheet has helped people understand our changing world through reliable demographic data. We're proud that Population Connection helped ensure this invaluable resource continues. 🌎 buff.ly/8WoS8e1 #dataliteracy

Thank you to our wonderful judges who helped select our 18 winners and supported the contest this year - we couldn't have done this without you all! 👏🌟🌏 From the Netherlands to South Africa, and beyond, let's celebrate this wonderful panel of global educators and experts! 🙌🎉➡️ buff.ly/5Jj2H4j

Last but not least: Caroline Holt, Mia Escalante, and Denise Collins, our second Wetlands honorable mention from The Bush School in Seattle! With beautiful drawings, the trio highlights the value of creating wetland parks to increase biodiversity and nature spaces for all⛲🌲⏯️ buff.ly/WChUDBd

Mary Laborde from Mt Vernon School in Atlanta earned an Honorable Mention for Wetlands! As microplastics continue to accumulate in urbanized areas with wetlands, Mary illustrates the value of bioretention cells, or basins with native plants, to capture these plastics. 🌊🌿▶️ buff.ly/0wglyhu

Kevin Shu and Rohan Ragupathy also received an honorable mention in the Economics category! Hailing from Trumbull High School in Connecticut, the pair focuses on monopsonies, how they have created low wages for certain countries, and what governments can do to combat this issue 💵👷↗️ buff.ly/VJnNVI8

🏠Allie Parker is our Economics honorable mention from Mt Vernon School in Atlanta, Georgia! With more than 771,000 people in the United States facing homelessness, Allie addresses the challenge with strong and actionable solutions. 🌇🔑⏭️ buff.ly/IuEbi7d

Our next Energy honorable mention: Maisarah Aminah Dombrowski from Pennsbury High School in PA! After discovering that energy poverty is common across rural towns in the United States, Maisarah was determined to create a video emphasizing the importance of energy microgrids. 🌞🏡➡️ buff.ly/FxUMc6p

✨ Honorable Mention time! ✨ Anie Udofia, from William Aberhart High School in Calgary, Alberta, shows how AI data centers can be more sustainable with liquid immersion cooling, a solution that's based on a century-old technique. 🧑‍💻❄️⏯️ buff.ly/r1OQjM2

Viaan Bachalakuri, Eric Yan, Arjun Reddy, and Karthik Tummala collaborated to create the winning Wetlands Middle School second-place video! The team from Nelson Middle School in Frisco, TX shed light on paludiculture and the benefits the solution brings including carbon storage🌳▶️ buff.ly/RcQAVN3

Featuring our second place Wetlands winner: Anay Pradhan from The International School of the Hague in the Netherlands: Anay promotes the importance of paludiculture, or rewetting wetlands to farm, to avoid the destruction of peatlands, which cover 3% of the world’s surface. 🌱⏩ buff.ly/Y0bzb60

Ada Ngai and Jonathan Wang are our second place Middle School winners from Juan Cabrillo Middle School for Economics! Using hand-made cardboard cut-outs and stop-motion video, the pair shows how economies thrive when governments invest in children’s education worldwide 🌍🎓 ▶️ buff.ly/PCkClLI

Matthew Park, our 2nd Place Winner, from the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy focused on housing inequities for his Economics video! Matthew highlights the value of community land trusts (CLTs) to tackle homelessness and unstable housing prices in the United States🏘️➡️ buff.ly/nx2U9sy

🔋Sand Batteries: Powering the Way to a Sustainable Future was created by our second place winners, Karis Tseng and Anika Chandak from Juan Cabrillo Middle School in CA! The girls discovered that sand batteries are a new renewable energy source that could help those in energy poverty: buff.ly/xFBZWFK

🌎Kicking off our spotlights for our second place winners featuring Zening Zhao from Saddle River Day School in NJ! Creating detailed animations and filming throughout New York City, Zening inspires viewers to take mass transportation to reduce our energy footprints ⏩ buff.ly/tYcT3tL

We found some powerful documentaries on overconsumption that are a must watch. From fast fashion waste to perfectly good food being thrown away, these films help students see the hidden impacts of what we buy and why it matters. buff.ly/egvn3Px

Sanjit Kodumuri: our first place middle school winner from Pioneer Heritage Middle School in Frisco, TX: 🌿💧 Passionate about wetland organisms, Sanjit created his own clay model of a living shoreline, a growing solution to coastal wetland erosion: buff.ly/qNQKXup

Matty Perkins and Teagan Vanoni from Rancho Campana High School in Camarillo, CA, earned first place for their video, Settling, for a Pond! 🦆💧 After discovering that their county is a pioneer for settling ponds, the pair spent an entire day filming different ponds in their area: buff.ly/ovNpKz7

Woohoo! Our first place middle winner for economics is Katherine Rose Li from Bedford Middle School in Westport, CT. From biodegradable fabrics made out of mushroom🍄‍🟫and pineapple🍍, Katherine created a relatable video showing us why fast fashion needs to be more sustainable: buff.ly/4pbsBqK

Featuring Kaitlyn Zhang, our 1st Place Economics winner who attends Country Day School in Ontario, Canada: After diving into the negative effects fast fashion has on our planet, Kaitlyn brought the issue to the forefront with powerful statistics and eye-catching graphics. 📊👗▶️ buff.ly/oqLKRn5

Our next winner: Kiera Sala from the Canadian International School of Hong Kong in Aberdeen, HK who also received first place! ☀With 660 million+ people lacking access to energy worldwide, Kiera advocates for solar microgrid use due to its easy installation and affordability: buff.ly/wBRHCus

It's time to celebrate each of our #Worldof8Billion winners!🎉 First off: our first place winner Kathy Yang from West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South in West Windsor, NJ! Kathy wrote a rap song to show how geothermal energy can combat energy demands and population growth: buff.ly/H9egubV

🎉We’re so excited to share the winners of the #Worldof8Billion 2026 student video contest! From filming locally to creating their own images, we were impressed with the creativity the winners showed for Energy, Economics, and Wetlands. Celebrate our 18 winners and their videos →

Immigration is shaping headlines. Understanding how we got here matters. Our new blog features a timeline of U.S. immigration policy, from exclusion acts to DACA and today’s debates. A powerful way for students to explore how policy shifts over time. populationeducation.org/u-s-immigrat...

We just shared a blog on fast fashion and overconsumption, and this short CNN video explores what happens to clothes after we throw them away. 👕🌎 “The dark side of fast fashion recycling” is worth the quick watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RANB...

We’re continuing to explore #consumption with a blog on fast fashion, overconsumption, & the forces shaping what we buy. 👕🌎 Student can relate to Clothing, making it a great way to explore sustainability and consumer culture in the classroom. #edusky populationeducation.org/what-our-clo...

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Not every topic fits neatly into a lesson plan—and that’s where our Trainers step in. You help educators tackle real-world issues like population, resource use, and environmental change with confidence. Through your workshops and shared resources, your impact reaches far beyond a single classroom.💚

🌎Earth Day reminds us how important this work is—but our trainers show up for it all year long, helping educators take on real-world challenges with confidence & giving students tools to think critically about the world around them. Thanks for the time, passion, & perspective you bring!💚

Happy Earth Day! 🌎 Shoutout to our amazing educator community—helping students think critically and understand how people, resources, and our planet are connected. Your impact goes far beyond today. 💚 #dusky

Join us on Wednesday for a free, interactive webinar designed to help you go beyond Earth Day with lessons that connect student learning to real-world resource use, consumption, and environmental impact. 📅 April 22, 2026 | ⏰ 4:30–5:45 PM ET 📥 Save your spot: buff.ly/K0BuJYF #edusky

Earth Day is Wednesday. Need a plan? These ready-to-teach lessons make it easy to explore real-world environmental connections—no last-minute stress. 🌎 buff.ly/BkeKoGP

Visiting the Expo Hall at NSTA today? Come say hello at Booth 776! We love connecting with educators...new faces and familiar ones alike. #NSTA

Visiting the Expo Hall at NSTA today? Come say hello at Booth 776! We love connecting with educators...new faces and familiar ones alike. #NSTA #nstaana26 #edusci

🌎 Earth Day is just one week away—are your plans ready? We’ve got you covered with free, K-12 classroom-ready lessons. Help students explore how people, resources, & the planet are connected in ways that actually stick. Designed for real classrooms. Built for meaningful learning. 📥

We’re heading to NSTA Anaheim this week! 🎉 If you’ll be there, come find us at one (or more!) of our sessions. We’ll be sharing hands-on, classroom-ready activities that help students explore real-world connections between people, resources, and the planet. 📍 We'd love to see you! #NSTAANA26 #NSTA

Looking for a simple way to build student awareness around global issues? The W8B Awareness Journal helps students reflect, ask questions, and connect what they’re learning to the world around them. A great starting point for deeper thinking & meaningful action. 📥 Download it here: buff.ly/FO8pYxj

⏳ Earth Day is just 2 weeks away! If you’re still planning, we’ve got you covered. Our free, ready-to-teach lessons make it easy to bring meaningful, real-world learning into your classroom. Help your students understand how people, resources, and the planet are connected! 🔗 buff.ly/zkkRUQ9 #edusky

We’re loving this Earth Month 2026 Calendar from SubjectToClimate! It's packed with daily themes and classroom-ready activities to help you bring sustainability into your lessons all month long. buff.ly/qcfmXOu

Join us on Earth Day for our FREE webinar: Sustainable Consumption for People & the Planet 📅 April 22, 2026 | 4:30–5:45 PM ET 📥 Save your spot:

As part of our focus on consumption, this resource from World Wide Fund for Nature helps students explore the real impact of food waste—and what it says about how and why we consume. It’s a powerful way to connect everyday choices to bigger environmental outcomes.

How does place-based learning fits with other educational approaches? This chart compares six educational approaches, showing how each differs in its focus, setting, and intended outcomes to help you choose the best fit for your students. buff.ly/pbw89U0 #edusky

🌎 Want to go beyond “just an Earth Day activity”? Our free lesson collections help students explore how people, resources, and the planet are connected, in ways that actually stick. Designed for real classrooms. Easy to implement. 📥 Get your free Earth Day lessons: hubs.ly/Q0491kcG0

Did you know a single smartphone produces ~55 kg of emissions—about half a year of laundry? 📱⚡ And we replace them every ~2.5 years. It’s not just phones—many everyday products have hidden emissions. 🏭🚚 Help students connect #consumption to climate impacts: 🔗 buff.ly/mUheqih #Sustainability

What happens when students stop just learning about global issues & start doing something about them? Our updated #Activism Toolkit walks them through every step—defining a challenge to building a campaign. The roadmap does the heavy lifting. 🔗 buff.ly/tU24Slz #CivicEngagement #StudentVoices

🌍 Earth Day is more than a moment—it’s an opportunity to build lasting understanding. Our free lesson collection helps students explore real-world environmental issues through hands-on, inquiry-based learning at every grade level. ✨ Ready to teach. Easy to use. 🔗 populationeducation.org/earth-day

🌳 Tomorrow is #ForestDay—forests support biodiversity, store carbon, and sustain communities. Bring it into your classroom with our Timber! lesson—students model deforestation and explore sustainability. 📚 buff.ly/ovNf5j2