Archives for September 2011

Hank D and the Bee: Noise pollution

Sometimes reducing noise pollution can be tough, even when we really want to... Follow the rest of the Hank D and the Bee series at JoeMohrToons.com. For cartoon updates and other green goings-on, follow Joe on Twitter @GreenCartoons. … [Read more...]

Un-Analytics: How Google Went Solar

Un-Analytics: How Google Went Solar by Dan Auld September 8, 2011 Google loves talking about world before analytics -- when web owners knew almost nothing about their sites. Nothing useful, anyway. That all changed when a new technology came along that allowed web … [Read more...]

Childhood Cancer Awareness Month: Let’s Focus On Prevention

by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff, Executive Director/CEO Healthy Child Healthy World September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and it really strikes an emotional chord with us here at Healthy Child. Our organization began after five-year-old Colette Chuda died of a rare … [Read more...]

Play Deficit Disorder: Bring Back the Dangerous Playgrounds!

Play...it's essential to human development. If you are of my generation, you remember roaming the neighborhood without adult supervision, playing with your peers in empty lots, houses under construction, and playgrounds at parks and schools. Today, I would never think of giving … [Read more...]

Improving School Food: If LA Unified Can Do It, Why Not Your District?

Los Angeles Unified is the second largest school district in the United States and has the greatest number of students in California. In 2009-2010, LAUSD educated 677,538 children, a number I can't comprehend. LA Unified has taken steps to improve school lunches! Fresh food … [Read more...]