Regarding green infrastructure, Angie Kim of Purchase College says,”We want to be the best we can to show other institutions that they can do it as well.” Learn about the college’s processes (and get inspired for your own) in this biography of a bioswale.
10 Ways to Go “Fridays for Future” and Tackle Climate Without Waiting for Leaders
While the growing “Fridays for Future” movement has a central goal of influencing leadership worldwide regarding climate breakdown, there’s no need to wait for leadership to come along, before we start making a big difference.
Announcing “Earth to Poetry”—A Thoughtful Climate Teaching Resource
In an important climate poll earlier this year, nearly two-thirds of teachers (65%) said climate teaching is outside their subject area. So, at Poetic Earth Month, we wanted to help teachers find a way to integrate climate into their subject areas in a seamless fashion. The result? Earth to Poetry.
An Unexpectedly Old Art: Bees Wrap
I’d been enamored of the little wooden bee button for weeks, so I finally decided to try out bees wrap sandwich wraps. Beautiful! I also learned a lot more than I bargained for about the intriguing history of preservation and art.
What Can We Do Today?—Go Plogging (Make Ourselves and Our World Beautiful)
It’s becoming trendy to burn calories and make ourselves and our world more beautiful in the process. All it takes is adding a…
We Need a New Climate Approach—The “Uceful Model” Is Raising Its Hand
Classic climate action messaging has relied on alarm, guilt, accusation, shaming. It rarely works. We propose a highly-successful approach we’ve used in a different arena: the UCEFUL model.
What Can We Do Today?—Get Off a Catalog List
Often, we get catalogs we never signed up to receive. Or, we get catalogs we used to want and don’t want now. It’s simple to get off their lists—and doing so addresses several climate change game changers.
