Schoolhouse Rock: 30 Years Later Still Singing the Energy Blues

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/o3nvDJe6PU0&hl=en] If you are of my generation, you remember Schoolhouse Rock's Saturday morning cartoons. To this day, I only know what a conjunction is from "Conjunction Junction, what's your function?", and I clearly remember how a bill … [Read more...]

Movie Review Surfwise: Doc Poskowitz, 9 Kids, Big Waves, and a 24 Foot Camper

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/rLrx_QSd44E" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] I've always dreamed of being a surfer. I've tried to ride the waves, but I don't like saltwater in my eyes. I've even tried dating a surfer. When I heard of the movie … [Read more...]

Save Energy and a Whole Lot More By Turning Off the T.V.

© Hallgerd | Dreamstime.com I suppose the average person would think me a bit odd. Or even extreme, as a parent. You see, I don't allow T.V. during the week. On weekends, we might, just might watch a DVD if the weather is lousy, or we've had an exhausting weekend not spent … [Read more...]

Our 15 Minutes of Fame in the New York Times: Blogging Against Barbie

In case you didn't see it, Eco Child's Play was featured in this weekend's New York Times. In a piece called "Blogging Against Barbie", Dan Mitchell wrote: When greenwashing is aimed at adults, environmentalists generally find it annoying and sometimes — if it is sufficiently … [Read more...]

Reclaim Mother's Day

Code Pink would like you to reclaim Mother's day with ways to donate to suffering mothers and their children in Iraq. Code Pink shares the mothers day inventor from 1870~Julia Ward Howe's Mother's Day Proclamation Arise then...women of this day! Arise, all … [Read more...]