Posted: April 27, 2022
One of my favorite authors who emphasizes Earth Day year-round is Diana Beresford-Kroeger. One of her most well-known books is To Speak for the Trees. Not only is she a well-educated scientist, with degrees in botany and biochemistry, but she has spent her life helping people understand the importance of trees for the well-being of
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Posted: April 9, 2022
If you’ve ever had one of those days when nothing goes right, it can be hard to feel good about anything. One thing that might help is to go outside, sit near a tree and try this exercise. If it’s rainy, windy or cold, stay inside and look at a tree through a window. Watch
Posted: March 10, 2022
Lots of you may have played the game Tag, You’re It. Maybe it had a different title when you played it. There was a base that made you free from capture if you could reach it. The person who was “It” stood by that base and counted to whatever number was agreed upon by the
Posted: February 5, 2022
Here’s an activity for a quiet day in your yard. It’s for a day when you don’t feel like being really active. Maybe you don’t feel well, but you don’t want to stay inside. Or maybe you would like to use your imagination. If you have trees in your yard, choose one of
Posted: January 6, 2022
All of us have an important connection to forests. Knowing that connection helps us to understand how essential forests are to sustaining human life. An excellent documentary, “Call of the Forest – the Forgotten Wisdom of Trees,” helps us to understand that connection. The film follows scientist and author Diana Beresford-Kroeger as she explores the
Posted: December 21, 2021
I have been learning about an amazing woman named Diana Beresford-Kroeger. She was born in England in 1944. Her father was British, and her mother was Irish. She eventually wrote a book about her life. Published in 2019 by Random House Canada, the book is called To Speak for the Trees: My Life’s Journey from
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Posted: December 9, 2021
Have you ever thought about entering your school’s science fair? It’s a big question, because it requires that you have an idea for a project. You need a hypothesis. In very simplified terms, it means that you think if you take an action, then it will affect something in a certain way. You have no
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Posted: November 25, 2021
In this season of Thanksgiving, we find joy in getting together with family and friends. We like eating all the delicious food that is part of the Thanksgiving season. What if we also took a few minutes during Thanksgiving to thank a tree for all it does for our community? You don’t have to do
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Tags: family, food, gratitude, list, magic marker, material, thank a tree, Thanksgiving
Posted: November 12, 2021
Jane Goodall is famous for her work with chimpanzees and for her efforts to protect great apes and their habitat. She is a conservationist and primatologist. A conservationist helps to protect and preserve the environment and wildlife. A primatologist scientifically studies primates. Apes, monkeys and human beings are among the primates. Now Jane has launched
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Tags: contribute, ecosystems, Jane Goodall, plant trees, restore lost forests, stop deforestation, Trees for Jane, United Nations
Posted: October 27, 2021
It’s fun to get to know trees. It’s fun to climb in them, to sit near them and enjoy their shade. It’s fun to watch birds flit in and out of their branches and squirrels scamper along their trunks. Just like people, trees eventually get old. Sometimes they get hollow inside. Then they could fall
