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 had some power tools, a pair of scissors, a roll of duct tape, a Tina Turner album and a bus pass.” That's from Jacinta Bunnell's Girls Are Not Chicks coloring book one of my … [Read more...]
Reach & Teach: Global Goods That Do Good
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
School Gardens Grow Healthier Kids: Seeding Green w/Richard Louv
Grow your own greens, get kids to eat greens, get OUT in the green, turn people green, live green, teach green, plant trees to game green and even SEED green in virtual worlds, yep, I'd say the healthy kids movement is fully underway... My inbox today has the Healthy Kids Expo in Canada taking exhibitor apps, the Women's Fund hosting the kickoff of Bioneers by the Bay … [Read more...]
Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Bioneers by the bay, compost, dirt, Dizzywood tree planting, Eco-Childs-Play, ecoliteracy, ecological schoolyards, ecosystem, get kids outside, Green for All, green fundraising, green gaming, green kids, green schools, green zebra, Green-Options, Green-Teens, grounds, grow your own greens, Growing Greener School Grounds Conference, health sciences, Healthy-Kids, Joseph Cornell, Kids Gardening, Last Child in the Woods, mother Earth, nature, Nature-Deficit-Disorder, NCLI, one world planet, organics, plants, Richard-Louv, seeding green, SF Green Schoolyard Alliance, SF Schools, SFGSA, shared eco resources, Sharing Nature with Children, Simran Sethi, sustainable living, teach green, trees, turn people green, tweens, Urban Sprouts, youth