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Chapter Six

Your Turn

Part One

It's time - You've got this!

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Questions & Activities

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Featured Hot Take

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We spoke with Story Warren, an award-winning rising leader and community builder, to find out what it’s like to start a movement as a teenager, and what advice she has for those who want to follow in her footsteps.

We’re featuring this podcast across all five Nature Labs subjects. You might not like art, or science, or English, or social studies, but they are all related and by listening to this podcast, hopefully you’ll better understand why.

Your Project

What's your better idea?

Your Project: Outline

View your final project. You got this!

Project: Part One

Create a rapid prototype

Project: Part Two

Test your prototype

Project: Part Three

Re-adjust your idea and go for it!

How To

Guides to help you figure things out.

Leadership

Leadership is the ability to influence and inspire others towards a common goal or vision. A leader is someone who can guide, motivate and...

Social Media How To

Social media is a great tool to advance your ideas. It allows for quick and clear communication, better connectivity, creates more awareness across a...

Toolkit for Action

Want to see if your idea has succeeded? Measure your outcomes!

How to Make Better Decisions

Why it's important to make better decisions Achieving goals: Good decisions are often the foundation for achieving personal or professional goals. Better decisions can help...

What is Design Thinking

Design thinking is a problem-solving methodology that focuses on needs and experiences to generate creative solutions. It is a human-centred approach to innovation that...

Stories from rising leaders

Young people can change the world. You can make a difference for people and nature today. But the path isn’t always as obvious or as easy as we...

Design Thinking with Michael Kennedy

So, you’ve got a great idea for a class project; to launch a new business; to improve a community service; to change the world...

Selecting Your Topic

Choosing a good topic for a project can be challenging, but here are some steps to make the decision just a bit less overwhelming. Identify...

Further Exploration

Latest News

It’s a Majority

After tonight’s three by-elections, we can now officially say that Mark Carney and the Liberals have formed a majority government. We’ve already updated our...

Canada announces new plan to protect biodiversity. Will it work?

Prime Minister Mark Carney recently released a new $3.8 billion strategy to protect 30% of Canada's lands and waters by 2030, building on Canada’s...

A New Leader for the Federal NDP

Avi Lewis won the NDP leadership race to succeed Jagmeet Singh Sunday, winning on the first ballot with 56% of the vote. The decisive...

Resources From the Curated Library

8 remarkable social innovation prototyping methods and tools

8 remarkable social innovation prototyping methods and tools Bias: Centre Left Sub-Category: Prototyping Source: Social Innovation Academy File Type: Resource Overview: Tools and strategies to apply to prototyping Web Link: http://www.socialinnovationacademy.eu/8-remarkable-social-innovation-prototyping-methods-tools/

How to ask the better question

How to ask the better question Sub-Category: Interviews Source: TED File Type: Video Overview: How to ask the better question

In the perpetual quest for the secret to happiness, scientists butted heads until they...

Bias: Centre Source: The Globe and Mail File Type: Essay/Research Overview: In the perpetual quest for the secret to happiness, scientists butted heads until they found an answer Web Link: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-scientists-pursuit-of-happiness-debate/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Morning%20Update&utm_content=2024-10-11_6&utm_term=Morning%20Update%3A%20Playing%20nice%20this%20Thanksgiving&utm_campaign=newsletter&cu_id=bZnKMoBYEqn1yUkTzfoe4%2BPSvjxFhJPIuOC0qZ57Bs0%3D

Sustainable Development and Social Justice: Conflicting Urgencies and the Search for Common Ground in...

Sustainable Development and Social Justice: Conflicting Urgencies and the Search for Common Ground in Urban and Regional Planning Sub-Category: Culture Divide Source: University of Michigan File Type: Journal Overview: The challenge of...

On the Stubborn Whiteness of Environmentalism

On the Stubborn Whiteness of Environmentalism Bias: Left Sub-Category: Culture Divide Source: Inside Higher Ed File Type: Opinion Overview: American perspective on the need to create more diversity within environmental work Web Link: https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2018/06/22/how-environmentalism-academe-today-excludes-people-color-opinion

Reflections

Michael Kennedy

So, you’ve got a great idea for a class project; to launch a new business; to improve a community service; to change the world...
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Chapters

Chapter One

The System of Things

Chapter Five

Here’s How

Chapter Nine

Own Your Hypocrisy

Chapter Two

The Context of It All

Chapter Six

Your Turn

Chapter Ten

Keep Going

Chapter Three

We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know

Chapter Seven

Dig Deeper

Chapter Eleven

One Last Thing

Chapter Four

Hard Stuff is Hard

Chapter Eight

Be Better

Chapter Twelve

The End (of the Beginning)