Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Follow The Frog

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Rainforest Alliance draws you in with a tree frog (who doesn't love a tree frog), takes you down the road of paradoxical urban environm...
Sunday, August 17, 2014

How My Sandy-Bottomed Pool Led Me to the Ocean

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Today, in that "last weekend before school starts" sort of way, I spent a large chunk of the day in my backyard pool. ( Discla...
Saturday, August 16, 2014

I'll Have Some Ice With That: #IceBucketChallenge

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Unless you have been living under a rock, you have probably heard about the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.  Videos are careening all over Faceb...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014

What'cha Gonna Do With that Plastic Bottle?

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A little ingenuity goes a long way.  Take a soda bottle, for instance.  You buy it, you drink it, you're done with it in 20 minutes or s...
Sunday, August 10, 2014

Marveling at Mount Trashmore: Part 2

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Because a picture or two didn't seem to do it justice, here's a little movie trailer tribute to Virginia Beach's Mount Trashmor...
Friday, August 8, 2014

Marveling at Mount Trashmore: Part 1

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Ahhh....We've been knee-deep in a beach vacation down in Virginia Beach. A hotel with a great indoor pool, plus an outdoor pool (wit...
Sunday, August 3, 2014

Blast From the Past: Back To School Green Team Gazette Newsletters

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'Tis the season...things (including nerves & lesson planning) are gearing up, getting ready for that whole "back to school busi...
Wednesday, July 23, 2014

ECS Re-Greening 2014

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In the spring (and months leading up to that), my school partner in "green" and I finalized what we had started over Christmas b...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

7 Things About Nature That Kids (of All Ages) Must Know

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Here's a little philosophical journey I put together to get kids of all ages to consider when thinking about Nature. This presentation...
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Monday, July 14, 2014

What Do You Love?

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What do you love?   The United Kingdom's Climate Coalition wants to know, because there is a very strong possibility that many of the t...
Friday, July 11, 2014

Gregg Segal's "7 Days of Garbage"

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Garbage can tend to gross out most people... except maybe garbagologists .  Even the most avid of recyclers or composters can tend to ge...
Wednesday, July 9, 2014

How Eating & Health Go Hand in Hand

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It's no surprise that eating and health go hand in hand.  Or hand in fork.  Or belt around belly. This summer I took a class for my te...
Sunday, July 6, 2014

Breaking Down the Ins and Outs of Compost

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Last week (or so) I wrote about my conundrum on at-home composting , so this seemed like the perfect infographic follow-up.  I have yet t...
Thursday, July 3, 2014

Blast From the Past: Summer Green Team Gazette Newsletters

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Recycling at it's finest....Here's the "Throw back Thursday" from 2009 & 2010, GTG's newsletter days Green ...
Monday, June 23, 2014

Fishing... Or Cutting Bait... in CompostLandia

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I have been making soil for 6 years . It all started back after my first year at Eagle Cove School.  I spent that year training my stude...
Sunday, June 15, 2014

School's Out For Summer!

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Here is my disclaimer: I have been on summer break for 2 weeks.  After a week of packing up my classroom in my now-closed-for-good schoo...
Thursday, June 12, 2014

Eco Schools Infomercial

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I'm still riding the highs of our honor award of the Eco-School award at Eagle Cove School.  (I wrote about this in my June 8th post ...
Sunday, June 8, 2014

A Great School Lives In Its Students Forever

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This week has been a big environmental week--both near and far, and far and wide within my heart: Thursday, June 5th was World Environmen...
Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Goodbyes are Hard

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Today in my 3rd grade class, we watched " Big Miracle "--Drew Barrymore's 2012 flick set in 1988 about 3 whales trapped in ice...
Saturday, May 31, 2014

Be Out There, Get Out There! Nature, That Is!

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The window is closing over at Eagle Cove School ...we are in single digits counting down the school's closing.  Every day closer we get...