A couple weeks ago I nearly stepped on a Woolly Bear Caterpillar in my garage. This near-miss turned into a quick, Saturday-morning science/zoology lesson for the entire family. The kids had a blast watching this fuzzy thing move across a leaf. GeekMom fired up her laptop to google different websites for information on the Woolly […]
Continue ReadingThe KidWind Project is run out of Michael Arquin’s basement in St. Paul, MN, and is all about educating kids about wind power. One part of this is offering really cool wind turbine kits from their website for home assembly and use in science fair presentations. This low-cost wind turbine was developed for educational use […]
Continue Reading(part of Blog Action Day) Sometimes it’s difficult to get the Geeklet thinking about the environment. He’s a city kid, born and raised near downtown San Diego, a place so artificial it takes an hour drive just to see a dozen trees at once. This (plus Geekdad influence) has produced a child more interested in […]
Continue ReadingThe newest installment of BoingBoing TV features a quick segment with Xeni Jardin with Bahar Shahpar and her participation in the EcoNouveau project, something that perked up my budding environmentalist 9-year-old daughter. To quote: "This is interesting!" She and I have had many discussions about the economics of environmentalism. Much of the better material related […]
Continue ReadingAside from making sure the grey bin with the recycling gets out to the curb each Wednesday morning, there’s not always a lot of positive environmental impacts we get to make in our little suburban nirvana. However, we’ve made two important decisions lately where we feel we’re taking steps in the right direction. The first […]
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