National Day of Action

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Green Wishing

Make a green wish! Here ye, here ye, tell all students, educators and school administrators in your community about the chance to win cool prizes and to join the new Eco-Schools USA program! Students in grades 1 through 12 can post their “green wishes” for their school online through September 17, 2009. Just click on [...]

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Recycling fruit pits?

As I was trying to look up problems with peach pits, I ran across an interesting post, How can I reuse or recycle … fruit “stones”? I was expecting an answer to the title, but there are 21 responses by readers. I have to agree with a lot of the other readers, that if it’s [...]

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Greening Our Schools, Part IV

Part IV, the last part of this series, has been posted on Climate Community. I had fun coming up with AEIOU: Advocate, Educate, Initiate, Operate, and Undertake. I think people like having steps or an acronym to be able to live by. I hope this helps people start taking action in their schools. I wish [...]

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We’re finally on FB

Well, I finally did it! I started a group on Facebook to help get more information out globally. I’m embarrased to say that my nonprofit’s website, www.ceraworksfoundation.org, is not even up yet, so, in the meantime, click here to join us on FB!

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Tweeters of Interest (Series)#2

I favor some types of alternative medicine over standard medicine, but I believe in an integrative approach of both. I love having a primary care physician in the standard medical system who shows genuine concern and is supportive of my choice. In fact, she’s the one who sent me over to the Integrative Medicine (IM) [...]

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Greening Our Schools, Part III

Part III is now published on Climate Community’s site. This part is about the green programs that schools have implemented and that have been successful. Farm-to-school programs are fairly new (not new in concept, but new in being accepted for implementing), and as the concern for nutrition in schools has been rising, so has the [...]

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Tweeters of Interest (Series)

140 characters for #FollowFriday is not sufficient to highlight some notable Tweeters. So, I am starting a series on Tweeters of Interest. This is my first one. For future reference, look under my TWITTER catergory for this series. I may not always agree with war but I do support our troops and veterans. In fact, [...]

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Greening Our Schools, Part II

My post, Greening Our Schools, Part II is now on Climate Community’s website. I ended up splitting my post into 4 parts now: Part I was about greening schools via green buildings; Part II addresses greening schools via green programs; Part III will present the green programs schools have been plunging into; and Part IV [...]

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Green School $$$

Cost analysis of Greening Our Schools, Part I, was not including for reasons explained.

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