Seacoast Waldorf School receives $25K grant from Davis Family Foundation Seacoast Waldorf School announced it was awarded a $25,000 from the Davis Family Foundation of Yarmouth. ... The funds will be used toward the construction of a 7,500-square-foot building on the school�s 5-acre Eliot campus that will house the Seacoast Waldorf School middle school program. (Tuesday March 1st, 2016 — Foster's Daily Democrat - )

What is the Rudolf Steiner system of education? Read more: http://www.nottinghampost.com/Rudolf-Steiner-education/story-2883707 This philosopher and scientist's insights inspired what has become a worldwide movement of schools that promotes universal human values, educational pluralism and meaningful teaching and learning opportunities. (Tuesday March 1st, 2016 — Nottingham Post - UK)

WINE: Think local, pour organic Organic and biodynamic wines are hot topics. No longer �fringe� wines, they�re now commonplace in our shops, restaurants and homes. (Saturday February 27th, 2016 — TheChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada)

New SA milk on shelves to help dairy farms thrive �Dairy farms is not an easy business to be in today. This is an initiative to not just keep farmers on the farm for longer, but also enable them to gradually adapt sustainable, organic and biodynamic changes over the long term,� said Adelaide Hills Dairies managing director Ulli Spranz. (Friday February 26th, 2016 — The Advertiser - South Australia)

Introducing Pasadena Waldorf School's New Preschool Site on Mendocino Street Campus in Altadena A peek into Pasadena Waldorf School�s new ‎Pre-school‬ site on the Mendocino Street campus in ‪‎Altadena‬. Two classrooms, a farm yard with six raised ‪‎garden‬ beds and ‪‎chickencoop‬ plus the new play yard featuring the beautiful and imaginative playhouse (above) built by one of PWS preschool dads. (Thursday February 25th, 2016 — Pasadena Now - Pasadena, California USA)

Hands-on learning At Eugene Waldorf School, Perrott says, �every lesson we start with something already from their understanding and then we grow from there. So whether it�s science or math or reading and writing, everything we start with is something they already know about.� (Thursday February 25th, 2016 — Eugene Weekly - Eugene, Oregon USA)

The Ethical Risks of Engineering Mosquitoes Into Extinction To Stop Zika Brazil has already welcomed British biotech firm Oxitec, the private company leading the development of genetically-edited mosquitoes, into the country. Instead of a gene drive, Oxitec genetically engineers mosquitoes to produce larvae that dies after about four days. Still, many are skeptic of their decision to release these mutant mosquitoes into the wild, and their release has ignited an online conspiracy theory blaming Zika�s existence on the genetically modified mosquito. These theories are exactly what the panel�s scientists want to avoid. Clarity and understanding should precede fear. In the words of MIT�s Esvelt: �If Zika is what it takes to talk seriously about gene drives in advance of experiments, so that the public conversation can demand that those experiments are transparent, that�s a silver lining to Zika. And we�d be fools not to grasp it.� (Wednesday February 24th, 2016 — Think Progress- USA)

Why One Farm Startup Is Filming Their Biodynamic Story For Oprah's OWN A big part of biodynamic farming, even if you�re producing vegetables and fruits, are the animals. The Chesters� farm animals are now famous: their stories have been featured on Oprah�s OWN network. (Wednesday February 24th, 2016 — Forbes - )

Viva la France! Country Bans Supermarkets From Tossing Out Food In December the French government passed a law banning supermarkets from throwing away unsold food. The law requires stores there to donate unwanted food to charities or food banks. (Tuesday February 9th, 2016 — Care2.com)

Michael Genereux of Montreal Sees Winemaking Uniting with Sustainability Grape farmers around the world have also begun to weed out the use of pesticides and chemicals to protect crops. Additionally, grape farmers have begun organic and biodynamic farming, which is much better for the soil that the grapes are grown in, as well as the ecosystem of surrounding areas. (Friday January 22nd, 2016 — Ecopreneurist - )

Researchers Are Pretty Sure They've Found A New Planet In Our Solar System The scientist who stripped Pluto of its planetary status helped discover it. ... The researchers haven't observed Planet X itself, but believe it exists because of the unique configuration of six objects when they come closest to the sun, according to Science. (Friday January 22nd, 2016 — Huffington Post - USA)

The Gift of Winter The consonant L is the only water sound in the esoteric alphabet of the harmonious movement art of eurythmy. Rudolf Steiner's association of L with Capricorn always puzzled me, but felt right on some deeper unconscious level. Then one day, a cord of resonance sounded in my Soul. Through the sound and eurythmy gesture of L, we're cleansed and purified, especially during the four weeks after the Winter Solstice, so that the essence of our Souls can awaken in new Light when we reach Aquarius. As we move the golden orange rays up our spine with the purple flow of contemplation, our silver grey earthly self transforms into the soft pink -- eurythmists like to call it peach blossom -- glow of the winter Capricorn light. (Friday January 22nd, 2016 — Huffington Post - USA)

You Decide: What is the Most Beautiful Equation? BBC Earth asked mathematicians and physicists to tell us which equations they think are the most beautiful. Their choices range from explanations of antimatter to predicting how sub-atomic particles behave. Explore the 12 equations below, and vote for your favourite in our poll below. (Friday January 22nd, 2016 — BBC online - UK)

Making sound visible The art of making sound visible was first conceived in 1912 by Dr Rudolf Steiner, an Austrian litterateur, scientist, artist and philosopher who lived in Europe from 1861 to 1925. �This form of movement is not a dance, nor a mime, but an art of movement, making visible speech and music,� explains Thomas Sutter, who has led the group for the past decade. �Eurythmy uses for its expression the most flexible of all instruments � the human body.� (Wednesday January 20th, 2016 — Free Press Journal - Mumbai, India)

Shepherd Valley Waldorf School Launches New Tuition Model Shepherd Valley Waldorf School (SVWS) is launching a pioneering �Sensible Tuition Model� designed to offer private education for a significantly wider range of Boulder Valley families. The SVWS Board of Directors announced a significant reduction in annual tuition rates for the 2016-2017 academic year and a commitment to hold the new rates steady for at least three years. (Wednesday January 20th, 2016 — Left Hand Valley Courier - Niwot, Colorado USA)

Target Hits the Mark With Transition to 100 Percent Cage-Free Eggs arget Corporation -- one of the country's largest retailers -- has announced it is dismantling cages from its egg supply by 2025. On Monday, ConAgra Foods -- maker of Egg Beaters and other popular food product brands -- announced it too is switching to 100 percent cage-free eggs. Working with such big-name companies on this commitment prompts me to reflect further on the swift and startling progress in our campaign to end the use of the battery cage in American agriculture. (Wednesday January 20th, 2016 — Huffington Post - USA)

MISSOURIAN MINUTE: Local Waldorf-based school uses nature as a classroom City Garden focuses more on the outdoors than mainstream schools typically do. The children go to recess in Peace Park daily. They also spend all of their Fridays outside except in the worst of mid-Missouri weather. ... City Garden School developed from a Waldorf-inspired preschool called Garden Gate School. (Tuesday January 19th, 2016 — Columbia Missourian - Missouri School of Journalism, USA)

Denmark Just Broke The World Record For Wind Energy For the second year in a row, Denmark is the most wind-powered country in world history, Danish officials announced this weekend. The Scandinavian country produced a whopping 42 percent of its electricity from wind power in 2015, the highest proportion ever achieved by a country, according to Denmark�s utility company, Energinet. (Monday January 18th, 2016 — Huffington Post - USA)

Sonoma Valley educator on the value of home visits Home visits consist of the primary class teacher going to meet the family in their own surroundings as a way to better understand who the child is, what their home life is like and to begin a critically important relationship with the family. (Monday January 18th, 2016 — Sonoma Index-Tribune - Sonoma, California USA)

Viroqua school welcomes students from South Korea Eight young students from South Korea are attending classes at Viroqua�s Pleasant Ridge Waldorf School (PRWS) for three weeks from Jan. 3-22. (Wednesday January 13th, 2016 — Swnews4u - Lancaster, Wisconsin USA)