Today's students learn differently and understanding Gen Z can help create more engaging classrooms. 📚✨ Our newest blog, written by a member of Gen Z, shares practical, classroom-ready strategies for connecting with today's learners. ⬇️ populationeducation.org/a-quick-prim... #edusky

A Quick Primer for Educators on Gen Z - Population Education

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AI, electric cars, A/C during record heat, and our increasingly connected lives are driving a new era of energy demand.... While renewable energy reached a major milestone in 2025 by generating more electricity globally than coal for the first time. populationeducation.org/energy-consu...

Energy Consumption Trends in 2025: What’s Powering the World? - Population Education

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Summer is flying by! ☀️Slow down with a great book. We've rounded up 11 books that have inspired our team and explore the people, places, and ideas that shape our world. populationeducation.org/summer-book-...

Summer Book List from Population Education, 2026 - Population Education

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Happy World Population Day! 🌍 8 billion people. One shared planet. Today it's an opportunity to better understand our changing world and the connections between people, resources, and the environment. Discover free educational resources to keep learning at PopulationEducation.org.

How many of the essentials on this list did you use before noon? For billions of people, access to basic essentials isn't a given. Understanding population means understanding not just how many people share our planet, but also the different realities in which they live. #PopulationDay

Population growth comes with a lot of myths. We're breaking down what's real and what's not & giving you free resources to explore further with your students. Swipe through, then visit the comments for some free K–12 resources to teach the real story🌍📚 populationeducation.org.

Every number on the population clock represents a person. A life. A story. 🌍 We're kicking off #PopulationWeek by looking beyond the numbers to explore the connections between people, resources, and our shared future. Follow along all week! populationeducation.org/current-popu...

Happy Fourth of July! 🇺🇸 Today we celebrate our shared history and the people whose diverse experiences and contributions continue to shape our country. Wishing everyone a safe, joyful, and meaningful Independence Day.

This Independence Day, we’re reflecting on 250 years of change: from 2.5 million people in 1776 to 342 million today. As growth slows, our choices matter more than ever. How we share resources, expand opportunity, and live sustainably will shape the next 250 years. 🌎

Understanding how much the average person consumes helps reveal why some countries use far more resources than others, regardless of population size. Learn about per capita consumption, why it matters, and how to bring this topic to life in the classroom. 🌎 populationeducation.org/what-is-per-...

What Is Per Capita Consumption: Definition & Examples | PopED

Learn what per capita consumption means, how it’s calculated, and why it matters for sustainability. Explore real-world examples comparing energy use.

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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

We Believe in Data: PopEd Ensures PRB’s World Population Data Sheet is Back for 2026 - Population Education

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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