Education Archives - Poetic Earth Month

The Breath of the Woods

2022-04-14 By Hellen Keller Filed Under: Abundance, Awe, Beauty, Birds, Childhood Memories, Education, Flowers, Gratitude, Homeschooling, Hope, Kindness, Meditative, Nature Stories, Peace, Personal Change, Plants, Seasons, Secret Places, Top 4 Featured, Transcendence, Trees, Water, Wisdom, Wonder, Woods, Young Voices

excerpted from chapter seven of The Story of My Life, by Helen Keller. The book was first written in 1902 in magazine form, while she was in college, at the age of 22 For a long time I had no regular lessons. Even when I studied most earnestly it seemed […]

Beaches in Bottles: The Natural World of Tiffani Rushford

2021-04-23 By Sonia Barkat Filed Under: Articles, Birds, Earth Care, Education, Sea, Wonder, Young Voices

From dreams of Belize to birding on Long Island beaches, from Costa Rica to Sweetbriar Nature Center, Tiffani Rushford inspires!

Environmental Writing

2021-02-01 By Sara Barkat Filed Under: A Legacy to Be Proud Of, Articles, Climate, Education, Home, Hope, Impact, In Our Lives, Top 4 Featured

What is environmental writing? It can be anything—scientific, personal, political. And it’s been around for a lot longer than you might think.

Green Publishers List

2021-01-25 By Sara Barkat Filed Under: Articles, Books, Climate, Earth Care, Ecopoetics, Education, Hope, Impact, In Our Lives, Nature Stories, Technology, What Can We Do

Explore the Green Publishers list! These companies focus on books on our environment & / or pursue sustainable practices in their companies.

Direct Action to Address Climate Breakdown

2021-01-13 By Sara Barkat Filed Under: Articles, Cities, Climate, Earth Care, Earth Day Ideas, Education, Getting Started, Impact, In Our Lives, Personal Change, Simple Ideas, Technology, What Can We Do

If you’re worried, and wondering if you can take any direct action to address climate breakdown, it can help to think of what areas need work and what areas you’re more able to focus on.

How to Talk About Climate Breakdown

2021-01-13 By Sara Barkat Filed Under: Articles, Climate, Earth Care, Education, Hope, Impact, Personal Change, Wisdom

Everyone knows how discussions about climate can frequently degenerate. Here are tips on how to successfully talk about climate breakdown.

What Is Climate Breakdown?

2021-01-12 By Sara Barkat Filed Under: Agriculture, Articles, Climate, Earth Care, Education, Getting Started, Home, Hope, Impact, In Our Lives, Personal Change, What Can We Do

Climate breakdown is the most recent term for global warming (the temperature of the earth rising) and climate change (climate’s unprecedented change).

FLON Silk Floss

2020-12-01 By Sara Barkat Filed Under: Articles, Design, Earth Care, Education, Getting Started, Health, Home, Impact, In Our Lives, Personal Change, Photos by Sara Barkat, Plastic, Product Reviews, Self Care, Simple Ideas, Technology, Waste, What Can We Do

There’s so much plastic in ordinary floss containers. So I decided to try out something a bit different…

art gallery: unforseen beauty – goeldi’s botanical photographs

2020-11-02 By André Goeldi Filed Under: Art Gallery, Beauty, Education, Photography, Plants

Visit the Poetic Earth Month art gallery and enjoy André Goeldi’s sepia botanicals from the past.

Forests of the Sea (A Stop-Motion Ocean Story)

2020-10-26 By Sara Barkat Filed Under: Articles, Climate, Education, Impact, Ocean, Sea, Videos

Scientists: Jorge Ramos; Felipe Briceño Jacques | Artist: Malou Zuidema “The Lynchpin program explores ways to introduce ocean science to the community through the arts. It works in solidarity with reputable science, engages public attention in quirky new ways, and creates narratives that draw people in and prompt them to explore further.” want more videos?

It’s Already Too Late—A Short Story

2020-10-13 By Sara Barkat Filed Under: Articles, Beauty, Being a Poet, Childhood Memories, Climate, Ecological Grief, Ecopoetics, Education, Fairy Tales, Home, Hope, Impact, In Our Lives, Nature Stories, Ocean, Philosophy, Plants, Plastic, Sea, Short Stories, The Shivering Ground, Transcendence, Water, Wisdom

House on a hill. River down below. And the rains speckling the grass, dots of cold, salt-ocean.

Winter Stars

2020-10-12 By Sonia Barkat Filed Under: Articles, Books, Climate, Ecological Grief, Education, Fairy Tales, Impact, Nature Stories, Plays, Wisdom, Wonder, Woods

Winter Stars is a mythic tragedy that draws from Celtic lore, to tenderly explore climate breakdown through the relationship of two tussling brothers who, yet, love one another deeply: the Holly King and the Oak King.