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The greenest, techiest classroom

By kaelsie, June 13, 2012

When I was growing up, we only had computers in the library and technology was only slightly integrated with the classroom curriculum. Most of our learning was done in the traditional way, with all the little desks facing towards a whiteboard on which the teacher wrote out the lessons while we sat there writing in [...]

A very special reward for doing what we do

By kaelsie, January 2, 2011

  This photograph of me was taken by Annie Liebovitz for a photo book celebrating women’s empowerment. I was selected because the team were excited about the work we are doing at Surface Workshop. They had never heard of sustainable furniture and were intrigued to learn more about it. I flew up to New York [...]