Category: Environmental Action
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Happy Earth Day 2020
Earth day 2020 is an Earth Day like no other. So many of us are staying at home, wary of the pandemic flooding around us. One of the main causes of this pandemic is the violence we have subjected our planet to through global warming (or more properly global weirding). As the planet’s climate warms…
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Strike for Climate Change: The Inspiration of Greta Thunberg
~ What are you doing about Climate Change? ~ Friday, September 20th, is the Global Climate Strike. On this day, millions of students will leave their classroom and demand that the adults do something so that they will have a livable world when they are adults. A second strike will happen on Friday, September 27th.…
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7 Books for World Ocean Day
~ Save the Oceans ~ World Ocean Day occurs on June 8th and reminds us of the importance of the ocean in our everyday lives. There is no question the oceans provide us with recreation and beauty. They are also essential for life. Some Important Facts about the Oceans They supply over 50 % of…
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Happy Earth Day – A Focus on Plastic
~ Plastic is not fantastic! ~ What are you doing today? Are you participating in an Earth Day gathering? Are you doing something to make the earth happier? This year the focus is on plastics. Some plastic facts 300,000 tons of plastic are produced every year. Half of that amount are intended for single use…
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Can We Cooperate? 10 Books about Community Gardening
~ Why Is It Hard to Cooperate? ~ Everyone agrees that cooperating with others is a good thing. So why is it so hard to do and so rare to find in school s and business? It Requires Sharing It’s hard, because being cooperative is dependent on being willing to share. When we work with…
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Take a Deep Breath: It’s Earth Day 2017
Step Outside. It’s Earth Day – It might have been renamed Sci Cli Day and the March for Science, but today is Earth Day 2017. Today we honor the earth. Our home. Our only home. There is no Planet B as some like to say. Today let’s forget what we are doing to our Earth. Let’s…
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Book Review: Last Child in the Woods
Are your children playing outside today?- With Earth Day around the corner, it seems appropriate to consider why we need to care about the natural world and to share that love of nature with our children. Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv Algonquin Books 2008 “Leave no child inside” In this book, Richard…