Saturday, December 28, 2019

Recycling That Thin Plastic

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When the recycling rules continue to change, that's when the buy-in begins to thin out. Even for us die-hard environmentalists. 3+ yea...
Wednesday, December 25, 2019

Seasons Greetings

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Wishing you a wonderful and safe holiday season here at GTG.  May you find peace during your holidays, joy in the twinkling of the lights...
Saturday, December 21, 2019

Wrapping Up What To Do With That Wrapping Paper

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'Tis the season, most certainly indeed! Both Hanukkah & Christmas are next week, and odds are high there are some gifts you are both...
Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Time Magazine's Person of the Year: Greta Thunberg

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It seems rather fitting that 20 years ago Time Magazine changed their annual designation from "Man of the Year" to "Person of...
Saturday, December 14, 2019

Checking in About Computer Education Week

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Here at the tail end of Code Week (or Computer Education Week) 2019, which is officially Dec 9-15 this year, this video falls in the cateogo...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Holiday Shopping in the Resale Market

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'Tis the season... for holiday shopping. Yet trends in shopping are shifting. Black Friday and Cyber Monday have already passed us by......
Saturday, December 7, 2019

Our Climate Our Future

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" Our Climate Our Future " is one of the projects from Alliance for Climate Education [ACE] . After a decade of climate educatio...
Wednesday, December 4, 2019

The Mighty Mississippi River Watershed

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According to National Geographic, the Mississippi River is the 4th largest river, behind the Amazon, Nile, & Yangtze Rivers. Notable i...
Saturday, November 30, 2019

Olympic Sustainability

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As the temperatures start dropping, the thought of Summer Olympics sounds like a long time from now.  July 24--August 9, 2020 the pomp and c...
Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Happy Thanksgiving

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God love the advent of YouTube--it's a way have your own personal "Back to the Future" experience! One of my personal Thanks...
Saturday, November 23, 2019

Tempestry Revisited

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Tempestry's Color Palette The Tempestry Project is not a new concept to me. I wrote about it a little over a year ago  and that po...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Climatarian Diet

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I always love a good infographic. This fun one entitled "The Climatarian Diet" was created by Emiliy Ehlers (also known as "E...
Saturday, November 16, 2019

Wands for Wildlife

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One of the best ways to keep trash out of the landfill is to reuse. Often times, that's where people hit the wall given some items just ...
Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Plastic Is Not Fantastic--Emily De Sousa's TEDxTalk

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"9.1 billion tons of plastic created to date." How heavy is one plastic bag? Hardly anything! Emily De Sousa details what that we...
Saturday, November 9, 2019

Winding Your Way Up Above The Trees

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Trees have been a frequent theme this fall here at GTG. Along with images of Richard Powers' book The Overstory  continuing to filter th...
Tuesday, November 5, 2019

5 Decades of Environmentalism: 1969--2019

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By the time the first earth day circled 'round in April of 1970, I was just about to hit my 6-month birthday. Needless to say, I don’t r...
Saturday, November 2, 2019

The Rising Water

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I've been thinking a lot about climate change lately. It started recently when I ran across the Grist article by Miyo McGinn " W...
Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Steve Trash! To The Rescue!!

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Ahhh... to be known as a "rockin' eco hero," a comedian, and a magician. It might just be the trifecta. Steve Trash holds ...
Saturday, October 26, 2019

#SaveQuiet

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As the recent host of a slumber party with seven 14 year old boys in my house, I know loud. These were perhaps some of the loudest people...
Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Pursuing EcoTourism in the Classroom

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I co-lead an twice-a-week elective for 4th and 5th graders called "Funtography." It's a combination of photography and digit...
Saturday, October 19, 2019

Tree Talk

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Communicating conifers? Chatting chestnuts? Talking teaks? Expressive elms? Broadcasting birch trees? You bet! After writing about Richa...
Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Eco Read: "The Overstory" by Richards Powers

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I recently read Richard Powers' Pulizer Prize winning book " The Overstory ." The title was poignant for multiple reasons--it...
Saturday, October 12, 2019

#DigCitCommit

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Digital Citizenship Week, mid-October, has been an annual "event" for the last several years. This year, it falls October 14-18. ...
Wednesday, October 9, 2019

3 Decades of Time, On Either Side.

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The year now is 2019. The month, October. Meaning we are almost at 2020. 30 years ago, when we do that rounding up, it was nearly 1990...