Earth Day has come and gone but that’s not an excuse to stop taking steps to improve our environment. Respecting our planet and making it a better place to live is something that you can teach your children all year round. Just taking everyday household items like emptied food containers [...]

Many people who care about the environment today only learned to care as adults. Most parents only learned about environmental awareness in the 70s, after all. As more young parents learn the importance of being responsible with the environment, early initiation for children is becoming the norm – and what [...]

There’s a concern that the fashion industry is stuck in a darker age of exploitation and a lax attitude to the environment. While this isn’t necessarily fair, the concerns are understandable. However, it seems that it’s the world of children’s fashion that acting as the guiding light for an industry [...]

Old pots & pans make great drum-kits! Image by:  jeeheon   It can sometimes be hard work to keep your rugrats entertained and too easy is the option to plonk them down in front of the television, Xbox, or whatever the techno fad of the moment is, and let them [...]

This year the students at one Vancouver Island school have ditched the pens and paper to get their hands dirty— participating in an experimental learning curriculum built upon a mission to nourish young peoples’ passion for science. Elizabeth Buckley school in Victoria has reportedly become the first STE(A)M school in [...]

Understanding how the world works is fundamental to green thinking; it is why we care about the cleanliness of energy, the welfare of wildlife and the sustainability of natural resources. Understanding how the world works is also fundamental to good science; so understanding and enjoying science will help us make [...]

The great thing about kids is that they believe anything you tell them. Although my 3-year-old is in constant terror of the Abominable Snow Man (and yes, we do live in Southern California where something like the chupacabra should be a more serious threat), I have been able to convince [...]

When one thinks of air pollution their minds immediately race to the damaging side effects it has on our environment, but rarely does one think of human psychological well being. According to a new study by researchers at Columbia University and published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) created [...]

There are few periods in life that are as exciting, tiring and filled with emotion as raising a baby. On top of being a lot of work, bringing a newborn into the world can be expensive and lead to a huge amount of waste being generated. Let’s take a look [...]

With summer on its way, energy efficiency is about to go down as people turn up their air conditioners and the price of gas begins its steady incline. In many areas of daily living it’s very hard to go green during the summer months, but playgrounds can be an unlikely [...]