• Environmental Education,  Reuniting Kids w/ Nature

    Reuniting Children w/ Nature – Nature Journals

    Nature Journals are the perfect way to document all of your outdoor adventures! By writing down their observations, children process their experiences and get to utilize a different way of learning! By showing children the importance of keeping a journal (whether they be nature journals or any other kind of journal), we’re showing them that not only do their experiences…

  • Environmental Education

    Ideas & Inspirations!

    Happy New Year, everyone!  I trust you all are relaxing, reflecting and looking forward to all of the possibilities the 2013 has in store for each of us. Speaking of reflections…Since officially finishing school on December 17th, I’ve found myself feeling a bit resistant to being online all the time.  Maybe it was the holidays, wonderful celebrations, catching a nasty…

  • Environmental Education,  Reflections

    A Letter to a Child

      As I have been reviewing my coursework and preparing for graduation I came across an assignment I did for my Ecopsychology course.  For this exercise, I was asked to imagine that it was 30 years into the future, 2042, and we were well on our way to a much healthier planet and way of life…we were living in a…

  • Environmental Education

    Recently

    While I have been a bit quiet in this space recently, it isn’t for lack of happenings, it’s been for lack of actual, physical, time, energy and brain power.  I am right in the throes of my own personal end-of-my-final-semester-crunch.  The 16 hours I chose to take this semester has culminated into many late nights and early mornings as I…

  • Environmental Education

    Environmental Education

    Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, it’s back to school I go…Some of you might remember that, a year ago, I went back to school to complete my long awaited degree.   Yes, I have been taking classes and working towards a BA for over a decade now and the end is finally in sight!  I have to say, there have been months at…

  • Environmental Education,  Everything Else,  Grow

    Freeze Yer Buns Challenge Update

    Well, we have been officially freezing’ our buns for the last month, but the real challenge has popped up over the last several days!  With temps falling below zero a few nights in a row (which seems to be turning into a new norm, here…at least after last February’s record breaking lows and this months lows reaching well below zero)…