What a day! Our Earth Scouts group finished up their unit on Economic Justice today earning two badges–one for the unit and a smaller one for the reading fundraiser that they have been working on for the past several months. The reading fundraiser, called Read to Feed, was part of our work to raise money [...]
who knew that $320 can get you a llama, a goat, chicks, and bees
May 24th, 2010
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Tags: animals · earth scouts · service-learning · social responsibility · sustainability · volunteering · world culture
two good reads
April 4th, 2010
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We love books in our house and we tend to read a lot. That’s why I decided to share a bit about some of the books we’ve been reading. While I always seem to be in the middle of some book, my focus today is more on some of the great kids’ books that Aidan [...]
Tags: books · fiction · learning · nature · reading · sustainability
credo: a better world, one phone call at a time
March 7th, 2010
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Some time ago, I became more aware of how my choices as a consumer have a real impact on the world around me, so Chris and I have set out to make some changes. We’ve been making relatively small, painless changes in our daily shopping habits, but yesterday we made a big change. We dumped [...]
Tags: consumerism · social responsibility · sustainability · technology
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