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The Nature Principle: Experience the Earth Beyond Instagram

April 22, 2013 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

April 22, 2015 Update Recycling my resource roundup of eco-literacy quizzes on greenwashing, nature apps in a wired world, and games for good like TiltWorld that build on green media themes of kids' … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Children and Nature, clicktivism, climate change, Cool the earth, Earth Day, EarthSeeds, eco activism, eco moms, environmental children's books, Environmental Education, Environmental-Kids, EnvironmentaLISTS, family man, get outside, get-outdoors-kids, Green media, greenwashing, hiking apps, hiking etiquette, Last Child in the Woods, Let's GO, marketing mindfulness of nature, media netiquette, media savvy kids, mother Earth, mother nature network, Naturalist, nature and wildlife apps for kids, Nature Rocks, nature study of happiness, Nature-Deficit-Disorder, power of play, reach and teach, reconnecting with nature, Rich Louv, Richard-Louv, school gardens, Screen Free Week, Sharing Nature with Children, stewards of the planet, stewardship, Teens Turning Green, The Nature Principle, this is your brain on nature, unplug to reconnect, videogames

Best Childrens’ TV You’ve Never Seen: Ameba TV

December 2, 2011 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

Dec. 2, 2011 Heard of Ameba TV yet? For world-weary parents of kids aged 2-12 who'd like to allow media in moderation but are sick of monitoring cruddy channels of influence being served up by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: AAP, alternative media, ameba TV, AmebaTV, bilingual, Cat in the hat knows a lot about that, CCFC, commercial free, critical thinking, diversity, DOOF, eco moms, encouraging science, green kids, Internet TV, kids quality TV, Kids TV, Know Better Effect, language learning, LG Smart TV, meaningful media, Media management, media messaging, media-literacy, multiplatform media, New Moon Girls, not all screens equal, parental controls, PBS Kids, Preschool programming, prosocial, Ruby Skye PI, screen time, set top box, Sid the Science Kid, STEM, Subscription model, TV alternatives, tweens

Reach & Teach: Global Goods That Do Good

May 23, 2011 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

May 23, 2011 "Where do you GET these things? How come I never find stuff like this?" Picture a coloring book page with Rapunzel's hair cascading down the castle tower, captioned, “This time, she … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: alternative stores, Amy-Jussel, CIVIO, conscious consumption, consumption, Craig Wiesner, Derrick Kikuchi, Dove and Olive Works, eco moms, Etsy, fair trade, geocaching, girls are not chicks, Green science, green toys, Joseph Cornell, Kids Online, maker faire, meaningful manga, media that matters, one stop shopping, organic, Packaging-Girlhood, peace and social justice, Playing War, reach and teach, Respect Institute, responsible shopping, Rich Louv, Sharing Nature with Children, social justice, The Rebuilding Alliance, The War Play Dilemma, wartorn areas

Shaping Youth: Freecycling Kids Books Throughout December

December 4, 2010 by Amy Jussel 9 Comments

Dec. 4, 2010 Black Friday? Cyber Monday? Bah. Other than maybe beach towel joke gifts (silly kilt wraps, hula skirts for our wakeboarding tribe) they didn’t get much outta me this round, as I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Counter-marketing, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: bargain hunting, Black Friday, book drops, CCFC Book Fairs, children's books, collective IQ, crowdsourcing, Cyber Monday, donate books, eco, eco moms, fiction, free, freebies, freecycle, freecycling, friends of the library, frugal finds, future of books, girls are not chicks, Girls Horse Club, green, horse books, kids books, library, literacy, meaningful gifts, media-literacy, no impact, old school meets new school, paperbacks, peace and social justice, prosocial books, reach and teach, readergirlz, reading, Reading is Fundamental, recycle, riding freedom, RIF, Scholastic, Send Felicity, Story Bird, Storybird, storytelling, Truce Teachers, Truce Toy Action Guide, YA, YALSA, young adult fiction

Socially Responsible Picture Books: Dream Village Part 2

March 23, 2010 by Amy Jussel 5 Comments

Mar. 23, 2010 Today I was honored to be the guest speaker at SFSU Professor Betsy Blosser’s Media & Social Change class, and brought a gazillion examples of cool work being done in the digital … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: 4YG, Africa, Amy-Jussel, AOC3, Ashoka Youth Ventures, Beth-Kanter, books, Build A Bear, business plan, cambodian orphans, children's books, DEMO, Demo 2009 winner, digital learning, Do Something, Dream Village, eco moms, education, edutainment, entrepreneur, Four Years Go, Ideablob, ideation, kidlit, literature, Media and social change, NextNow Collaboratory, philanthropy, picture books, PlayPumps International, Saved by the Well, seeding, social enterprise, socially responsible, solutions, startups, Suneet Bahtt, Suneet Bhatt, Sustainability, The Age of Conversation, thought leaders, Variety the Children's Charity, VC funding, World's Greatest Pillowfight, youth voices

Media Morsels for Lil’ Goblins: Next to New BOOks as Treats!

October 29, 2009 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

Oct. 29, 2009 Every year I try to come up with ‘green Halloween goodies’ or attempt to find ‘healthier’ ideas that are not a snore or a bore... just to balance out the gobs of candy kids receive and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Counter-marketing, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Alternatives to candy, books, candy, community building, costumes, Do Life Right, eco moms, gently used, Go away monster, going green, Green Halloween, Halloween, health, healthy, Kids, kidvid, library, literacy, media-literacy, neighborhood, new to you, next to new, parenting, Plato's Closet, precycled, Project Read, pumpkins, reading, recycle, regifted, Share Literacy, Sustainability, swap-n-shop, treats, trick-or-treating, tricks, turning people green

Shaping Youth Teen Team Reflects On Disneynature EARTH Premiere

April 22, 2009 by Amy Jussel 13 Comments

April 22, 2009 Talk about a ‘circle of life.’ Disneynature, the first film label to be released by Disney in 60 years, truly DOES represent a full rotation of EARTH, by going back to their studio … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Academy Awards, animals, Change is Possible, changebloggers, climate change, ColaLife, Common Sense Media, consumption, Debby Ryan, Discovery, Disney, Disney conservation, Disney goes green, Disneynature Earth, documentary, EARTH, eco, eco moms, ecology, El Capitan, Elephants, Environment, excess, Global Warming, green, greenwashing, Hollywood, icecaps, Inconvenient Truth, make a difference, melting, migration, MySpace Our Planet, nature, planet, Planet Earth, plant a billion trees, plant a tree, polar bears, premiere, recycled, red carpet, save the earth, solar, story arc, Sustainability, teens, tweens, whales, Wyland

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