Saturday, June 29, 2019

Climate Collaboration

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Refreshing, in this world of "fake news" and major partisanship (not even just politically) to see collaboration in action. Especi...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Hogwarts... Always. For the Win, Environmentally Speaking!

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Last year I got bit by the Harry Potter bug... HARD. And I came out changed. After 25 years of teaching, with a classroom library to riva...
Friday, June 21, 2019

Summer Solstice 2019

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Summer Solstice --June 21, 2019. The longest day of the year.  The first official day of summer (though everyone's already out of s...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019

The Story of Water: Who Controls The Way We Drink?

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I've long been a fan of Annie Leonard and the Story of Stuff . Her "stuff" has been a frequent highlight here at GTG. Annie ...
Sunday, June 16, 2019

Happy Father’s Day

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This seamed like the perfect sentiment for Father’s Day. May yours be a wonderful one, honoring and celebrating all the importance men...
Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Biophilic Design

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What is biophilic design? Architect Amanda Sturgeon tells us here in this TEDMED Talk. Discussing elements of green building and design elem...
Saturday, June 8, 2019

When Vegan Meets NASCAR

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NASCAR & Vegan aren't two words that usually go together. But they do when you look at Leilani Münter & her motto: ...
Wednesday, June 5, 2019

World Environment Day: June 5, 2019 #BeatAirPollution

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As a "knower-of-random-dates" and a sometimes-perceived "knower of useless pieces of knowledge"... June 5 is not only d...
Saturday, June 1, 2019

Make Way For Ducklings

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Mama Duck is a smart cookie. For the 5 years I've been teaching at my current school, a majority of these years she's decided every ...
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...