When I think of the third grade, I think of a classroom. Chairs, desks … a blackboard, of course. A knapsack, pencils, newspaper. John’s in the third grade too, and he’s got all that plus a bunch of classmates, what seems to be a pretty nice teacher, and access to his natural world. All GIFs…
There’s a new flying weapon in the fight against air pollution. Not drones . Or satellites . But pigeons. Pigeons with itty-bittybackpacks . These winged heroes are part of the Pigeon Air Patrol. Pigeon Air Patrol is an alliance between tech company Plume Labs and marketing and technology agencyDigitasLBi. For three days in March, they’re…
Many of us have special places in our hearts for pets. And for most of us, it’s a puppy or a cat that greets us when we come home or wakes us up with slobbery kiss. There aren’t a lot of people, though, who can say that their kindred animal spirit is a penguin. But…
You may have heard of the Dirty Dozen 12 chemicals that activists have identified as potentially harmful that we regularly come in linked with in our home, health, and beauty products. Over the past decade, a lot of science and research has gone into figuring out the long- and short-term health effects of products we…
Hey! You!( yes that’s right, you ) You’re just like me a well-intentioned, well-informed, socially responsible, and ridiculously good-looking person who believes in a better world and is also completely and utterly overwhelmed by anything and everything relating to climate change and the environment. It’s cool. I get it. It’s easy to feel paralyzed when…
