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not your typical water park

May 5th, 2011
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Some kids go to Wisconsin Dells to ride the water slides. Others take an afternoon to consider where things go when you flush them down the toilet, where our drinking water comes from, and how these water systems work together. This past week, our Earth Scouts group looked at water in a different kind of [...]

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hunger in our own backyard

November 17th, 2010
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People are hungry in your community, and they are just like you. These are tenuous times where we are all very close to finding ourselves without. Our family is learning more about this and putting some of our free time to good use lately at a local food pantry. In addition to organizing a food [...]

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a journey to ten thousand villages

October 9th, 2010
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Earth Scouts has started up again and this year we are focusing on the human rights unit. So far we had one meeting in which we tried to provide a little overview of what we’ve done the last two years, and then we moved on to some general information of what human rights is all [...]

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