February 2011 Blog Posts (30)

IditaNature is just around the corner - it starts Saturday, March 5, just like the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race! Challenge your kids, family, friends, or students to spend as many minutes outside as the Iditarod is long in miles...so 1,150 minutes or 17+ hours over two weeks. If they meet the challenge, the reward can be whatever you dream up. Prizes of outdoor gear or doing something fun together in nature: go out for ice cream,…

I am currently joining forces with Dr. Joe Baust of Murray State University to introduce his former Environmental Education students to the Children & Nature Network.  We are currently in the process of contacting his past EE students and encouraging them to become members of the Children & Nature Network.  We are hoping to expand this online community of people who share a passion for nature. 

I am very excited about the opportunity to be a part of the Children & Nature…

I recently got the chance to represent the Sierra Club Youth Delegation at the 2011 Good Jobs Green Jobs Conference in Washington D.C., February 7-10^th.  In preparation to speak on the panel entitled Sowing the Seeds for a Greener Future: Preparing Youth for a Green Economy, I started to reflect on what has given me the employment opportunities I’ve had so far in environmental-related…

I wanted to share this video titled Logos vs Leaves  from UNC-TV's Exploring North Carolina and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (via iTunes University). Middle school students, a North Carolina governor, a teacher and a camp director (Sandy…

Nevada gets kids outdoors with a Bill of Rights - here's the website: 

http://www.nvoutdoorkids.org/

And here's my take on it:

http://www.desertusa.com/dusablog/?p=2074

Enjoy!

In last week's Cast Your Vote, students chose the topic to focus on for this week.  The vote was overwhelmingly in  favor of learning about how the sled dogs communicate and work as a team.  We decided to consult an expert on this topic. . . so this week's Notes from the Trail is written from the perspective of Fennel the sled dog.

Bark bark.  Oh!  Excuse me.  I forgot that you don't speak dog.  Sorry about that.  Well, I am Fennel.  To find out more about me, check out my…

On May 12th, 2010, we had another wonderful group of volunteers eager to help us get more Nature Circle Cards put together. Thanks to Adobe, we have completed over 2,000 more sets.

We had the pleasure of working with the mail services department at PG&E. Everyone was so friendly and worked really hard, making over 800 sets of cards! Thank you all for your hard work.

Check out more photos below to see how volunteers from the GAP, Advent Software, Barclays, Genetech, HOBA, NetApp and Kaiser helped us put together over 18,000…

Avery Cleary with Alycia Thompson

We just returned from another great volunteer event at Kaiser thanks to Alycia Thompson who was at our last Kaiser volunteer event and was so enthused that she helped us set up another day. It was great to meet some more wonderful people from Kaiser…

Hands On Bay Area (HOBA) has been amazing at helping us connect with companies that are wanting and willing to donate their time putting together Nature Circle Cards to help support our Cards for Kids program. Recently, HOBA staff as well as their board of directors volunteered as well.

We had a lot of fun…