Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Rewilding--The Missing Piece of the Personal & Planetary Puzzle

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The books I read often shape the posts I write here. My latest: Marc Bekoff's 2014 book  Rewilding Our Hearts: Building Pathways of Comp...
Saturday, May 25, 2019

Water Walk Experiment

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Water and walking... two things we take for granted. When combined, it amounts to what 14 million women and 3 million children do every day ...
Wednesday, May 22, 2019

The Break Up--It's Not Me, It's You

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When teaching my 5th graders about PSA's and what exactly a Public Service Announcement is, I ran across this (and later the second ...
Saturday, May 18, 2019

John Oliver: For the Climate Awareness Win

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Sometimes you just need to laugh... in order to not cry. Our late night comedians know how to do this well. In a very "not safe for w...
Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Endangered Species Day--May 17, 2019

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The 3rd Friday in May (aka: THIS FRIDAY, May 17th) brings us another annual environmental day: Endangered Species Day. This video gives you ...
Saturday, May 11, 2019

13 Ocean Heroes Fighting to Save Our Seas

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I ran across the article " 13 Ocean Heroes Fighting to Save Our Seas " by Lauren Paige Kennedy on "Coastal Living's...
Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Sesame Street: Device Free Dinner

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In my last post, I discussed my all-day affair early April at Common Sense Media's Truth About Tech: Solutions for Digital Well-Being C...
Saturday, May 4, 2019

Common Sense Media Digital Well-Being Conference

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Anyone who has been around GTG for awhile knows I'm doing a personal quest this past year on the good, the bad, and the ugly of screen t...
Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Bicycling Recyling!

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I love it when innovation is in action. In the Netherlands, where a million bikes are discarded every year. To solve that problem, Roetz-B...
Saturday, April 27, 2019

Nature's Alarm Clock

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The sound of a Canadian goose was my alarm clock this morning (supposing that the honking call is we have this here). The open windows and f...
Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Blue Mind: The Book

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Fitting that on World Water Day (March 22nd) I wrapped up Wallace J. Nichol's Book Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Bein...
Saturday, April 20, 2019

Happy Earth Day

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Jane Goodall always strikes me as the Mother of Earth Day. Perhaps it stems from her having an April birthday, and seeing her years ago righ...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Eco-Mindfulness

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Mindfulness is quite en vogue right now. All the podcasts I listen have both hosts and their guests (many of them leaders in their field o...
Saturday, April 13, 2019

Earth Day is on the Way

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During an Earth Day lesson this week this week with first graders,  I told them that Earth Day was my favorite holiday. I left out the part ...
Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Compost Cab

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For those of you who have been around awhile, you know I'm a fan of composting . Sadly though, I had to bid adieu to composting. Seem...
Saturday, April 6, 2019

What's In Your Kitchen Sink For Clean Up?

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We all have kitchens, and they all need attention & cleaning. Watching this video created by 1 Million Women , (which I found on the U...
Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Waste Not, Want Not

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I love Sir David Attenborough. A wise voice in our world today. His message--one we all need to hear: let's not waste. Here are so...
Saturday, March 30, 2019

Earth Hour Tonight: March 30th 8:30--9:30 pm Your Time Zone

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Tonight is the night to turn off our lights. Only for an hour. Earth Hour 2019. March 30th, 8:30--9:30 in your own time zone. Are yo...
Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Our Planetary Plastic Pollution Problem

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I was recently at the airport, spending copious amounts of time scrolling through Facebook while waiting for my flight. While doing so, I wa...
Saturday, March 23, 2019

The View From Above

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They say that you gain perspective from looking at the big picture... it's akin to your vantage point from an airplane: As a creatur...
Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Happy 1st Day o'Spring

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Ah, the first day o'Spring is upon us: March 20, 2019. Spring Equinox. From this point on, days get longer than the night. Why? Becaus...