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Today all over the world people are rallying on behalf of Mother Nature. People are holding up signs, waving around banners with the numbers 350! What does 350 mean?
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This post was originally published on Eco-Libris blog on April 27.
I love bears. Polar, Panda, Brown – you name it. Therefore I was immediately was fond of our books this week – a children’s book that takes place in a little bears’ heaven and where the main characters are bears (and very funny ones!).
Our book this week is:
We mentioned it firstly last month when we announced on a collaboration with the author who plant a tree for every book sold on her signing events and provides buyers of the book with our sticker (made of recycled paper), saying: “One tree planted for this book”.
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The Legend of Honey Hollow by Jeanne McNaney is a great children’s book that introduces kids to the problems related to the destruction of animal habitat and global warming. [read the full article...]
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Our sustainable future is only going to come with the full participation of the next generation, our children. Put the tools for learning about alternative energy and sustainable living in their hands with one of these fantastic science kits from Thames & Kosmos.
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Editor’s note: This post is part of the Green Moms Carnival, which is hosted on our very own MC Milker’s blog The Not Quite Crunchy Parent. This month’s topic is global warming.
I recently assisted in a historical slide show of our small mountain community, and when this slide came up of the US Forest Service ranger station in 1931, a senior citizen who had lived in our valley since she was a young girl said, “We used to have winter.” This statement sent butterflies to my stomach, and it made me reflect on what my own grandparents used to tell me about winter. Their stories of trudging to school in several feet of snow always felt like old exaggerated tall tales, but were they? What will we tell our grandchildren about winter?
When talking to children about what is happening to our seasons, I feel it is important to use correct terminology.
We really aren’t experiencing just global warming, but we are experiencing climate change. The term “climate change” includes changes in weather systems as part of its definition, rather than simple “global warming”, which refers to the overall warming of average temperatures.
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It is a commonly held belief amongst green parents that cloth diapers, or nappies as they are called across the pond, are better for the environment than disposable ones. We’ve written about the benefits of cloth diapers multiple times, and I have even shared my eco-guilt over using Seventh Generation disposables. A new UK government report finds exactly the opposite: disposable diapers are better for the environment.
This finding is shocking! Government ministers couldn’t believe it either and actually buried the report, because they were embarrassed by the findings. According to the Times Online:
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has instructed civil servants not to publicise the conclusions of the £50,000 nappy research project and to adopt a “defensive” stance towards its conclusions.
The report found that using washable nappies, hailed by councils throughout Britain as a key way of saving the planet, have a higher carbon footprint than their disposable equivalents unless parents adopt an extreme approach to laundering them.
To reduce the impact of cloth nappies on climate change parents would have to hang wet nappies out to dry all year round, keep them for years for use on younger children, and make sure the water in their washing machines does not exceed 60C.
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Which product:
- Is produced at the rate of 100 billion per year, almost 850 per household, just in the US?
- Goes directly to the trash, unused, 44% of the time?
- Consumes 100 million trees, or 6.5 million tons of paper?
- Produces greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 10 million cars, or 11 coal-burning power plants?
- Trashes the environment and contributes to global warming with 51 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent?
- Has an effectiveness rating of less than 3%?
- Would 90% of people gladly do without?
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