Category: Earth Day
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…