Recent Posts Tagged With 'education'

• Green Your Teen to Change the World

  Posted on Wednesday July 22nd, 2009 at 22:43 in education, children, activism, books & magazines, green teen, jenn savedge, green parent

  How would you describe a teenager to someone not from this Earth?  Disagreeable, know it all, self-centered, and moody? But at the same time, they can be equally passionate about what rocks their world.  I know. I have two teenagers. Because of the...

• You’ve Got Green Mail, June 9, 2009 Round-up

  Posted on Tuesday June 9th, 2009 at 10:10 in education, health, children, electronics, Marketing, stem cells, solar, water management, building materials, school supplies, green roofs, consumer reporting

  Photo by Cavin B. This week’ s roundup is an eclectic mix of green news form the state of green marketing to IBM’s big splash into water management: Financial Incentives Could Spur Green Roof Installations “The Clean Energy Stimulu...

• What You Can Do to Make Sure No Child’s Health is Left Behind?

  Posted on Friday April 24th, 2009 at 01:28 in education, children

  April 27, 2009  is National Healthy Schools Day , which promotes green and healthy schools for our children. It will be celebrated throughout the US and Canada.  Janelle Sorensen, Senior Writer and Health Consultant for Healthy Child Healthy W...

• Walmart’s $20,000 Earth Day, Every Day School Challenge Grant

  Posted on Thursday April 16th, 2009 at 20:37 in education, schools, Earth Day, walmart

  In celebration of Earth Day, Walmart announced its “Earth Day, Every Day” School Challenge, in which the winning school will receive $20,000 to help further green their school. The purpose of the challenge is to recognize those schools t...

• Do Our Schools Kill Creativity? Enhancing Imagination, the Hope?

  Posted on Thursday November 20th, 2008 at 12:17 in education

  Video reproduced by permission of TED.com This is an excellent video by Sir Ken Robinson, an engaging speaker, about how schools kill our creativity featured at a TED conference. This video is not just for parents or grandparents of school age chi...

• Thrifty is the New Green for Back to School Supplies

  Posted on Tuesday September 2nd, 2008 at 09:39 in education, children, thrifty, household products, back to school, school supplies

  Some call me frugal. Others would call me cheap. I prefer the term practical and thrifty. Take for example buying school supplies. I can’t conceive of buying all brand new school supplies when my cabinets could double as my own Staples stores. ...