Everything you need to understand or teach Cradle to Cradle by William A. McDonough.
This is a book by two researchers who set out to find ways to build and manufacture things friendly to the environment. Their approach varies radically from the usual ecological approach, which, as the authors say, is to "be less bad." The typical approach tries to reduce the amount of toxins in a product, or attempts to collect and recycle goods, or to add expensive and bulky fixes to existing systems...
Cradle to Cradle Lesson Plans contain 146 pages of teaching material, including: