tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36119716385805853432024-02-20T18:56:47.855-08:00children:nature:playInvestigating ideas as to how we can connect children and nature through play...... the future of our planet depends on it.Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04559497208647394453noreply@blogger.comBlogger761125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611971638580585343.post-82071438417373584522014-10-24T01:52:00.002-07:002014-10-24T01:52:40.464-07:00Conserving Wonder - Sir David Attenborough Wow!!!!!!<br />
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It's been quiet here lately..... too much time spent looking for decent posts made me think that I should rethink what I do here. Haven't come up with anything concrete but as it started as a form of bookmarking for my own reference, I wanted to add this.<br />
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Over at the<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/ng-interactive/2014/aug/14/-sp-london-green-space-make-londoners-happier-interactive-map"> Guardian</a>, Daniel Raven-Ellison wants to make Greater London a national park and there is an interactive map as to show it could happen. The above map is of the existing open space.<br />
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Love, love, love.....Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04559497208647394453noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611971638580585343.post-27315777786783425312014-04-09T23:20:00.001-07:002014-04-09T23:20:48.930-07:00Meercats<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Photographer <a href="http://blog.burrard-lucas.com/2014/04/photographing-meerkats/">Will Burrard-Lucas</a> gets more than he bargained for when he visits Botswana to shoot some baby meercats. <br />
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Check out his website, there are some lovely photos and a little video of his experience of hanging out with the cute animals.Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04559497208647394453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611971638580585343.post-27249557245558480062014-04-08T01:01:00.002-07:002014-04-08T01:01:36.261-07:00Tim Flach: More Than Human<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The most beautiful photos of animals I've ever seen. Absolutely stunning. It was hard to pick just one.....<br />
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<a href="http://www.timflach.com/">Tim Flach.</a>Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04559497208647394453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611971638580585343.post-35405496710298896592014-04-07T00:18:00.002-07:002014-04-07T00:18:47.494-07:00NYC Event: How to Green Your School<a href="http://inhabitat.com/nyc/join-us-for-a-panel-discussion-on-how-to-green-your-childs-education-at-green-festival-nyc/">Inhabitat</a> is hosting a panel discussion at the upcoming <a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://inhabitat.com/nyc/giveaway-were-giving-away-100-tickets-to-green-festival-nyc/">NYC Green Festival</a> to tackle how to improve our children’s health and well-being while also
teaching them environmental literacy so that they are able to respond to
looming ecological problems, how classrooms can be made less toxic and
more environmentally friendly and how school can food be made healthier.<br />
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Saturday April 26th, if you're in the neighbourhood, I'd say it would be well worth checking out. <br />
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Here's a lovely short film by <a href="http://www.makeshapechange.com/film">Johnny Kelly and Scott Burnett</a> asking what you would change to make the world a better place, if you could, through design.<br />
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Love all the trees. That's what I'd do. Plant trees everywhere. Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04559497208647394453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611971638580585343.post-52010473703691368232014-04-02T23:45:00.002-07:002014-04-02T23:45:59.689-07:00Kacper Kowalski<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Stunning aerial photographs by <a href="http://www.kacperkowalski.pl/">Kacper Kowalski</a>. The one above is from a series called Toxic Beauty, photos of chemical plants, opencast mines, or areas processed by industry.<br />
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He also has a new book out, <a href="http://www.kacperkowalski.pl/book">Side Effects</a>.Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04559497208647394453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611971638580585343.post-45001530733912421262014-04-02T00:39:00.003-07:002014-04-02T00:39:41.920-07:00Treehugger article about play structures<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0" height="270" id="flashObj" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="flashVars" value="videoId=3324410362001&playerID=1054655355001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAABvb_NGE~,DMkZt2E6wO3_sfth6vHgTpNZZSEwcydt&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" /><param name="base" value="http://admin.brightcove.com" /><param name="seamlesstabbing" value="false" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="swLiveConnect" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashVars="videoId=3324410362001&playerID=1054655355001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAABvb_NGE~,DMkZt2E6wO3_sfth6vHgTpNZZSEwcydt&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="480" height="270" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" swLiveConnect="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object><br />
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I'm not a fan of play structures, feeling that they are the lazy persons idea of how to entertain children, just stick one of those in the park/school ground and problem solved. An article over at <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/culture/its-time-tear-swing-sets-and-let-our-kids-play-somewhere.html">Treehugger</a> highlights the dangers of a lack of risk.<br />
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The video above is from a documentary about an adventure playground in North Wales called The Land. <br />
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<br />Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04559497208647394453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611971638580585343.post-43610143325673117112014-04-01T00:00:00.000-07:002014-04-01T00:00:05.905-07:00Slow Life<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/88829079?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <br />
<a href="http://vimeo.com/88829079">Slow Life</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/danielstoupin">Daniel Stoupin</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04559497208647394453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611971638580585343.post-79965389483790040222014-03-31T00:48:00.001-07:002014-03-31T00:48:34.535-07:00UN releases Climate Change assessment study<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A UN panel has released the most comprehensive assessment yet of the effects of climate change on our planet.<br />
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<li>In recent decades, changes in climate have caused impacts on natural and human systems on all continents and across the oceans. </li>
<li>Adaptation is becoming embedded in some planning processes, with more limited implementation of response. </li>
<li>The overall risks of climate change impacts can be reduced by limiting the rate and magnitude of climate change. </li>
<li>Climate change is projected to amplify existing climate-related risks and create new risks for natural and human systems. </li>
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<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26814742">BBC News</a> website's science editor Paul Rincon breaks down the key findings from above at the link.<br />
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Sobering stuff.<br />
<br />Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04559497208647394453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611971638580585343.post-67610800258446324432014-03-28T01:12:00.002-07:002014-03-28T01:12:16.391-07:00Persil Kids Today Project<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/B1y5RyPoBYY" width="560"></iframe><br />
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The washing powder giants, <a href="http://www.persil.co.uk/kidstoday/">Persil</a>, have just released 6 new videos about kids today and how "dirt is good".<br />
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Play face is above but checkout their website to see the others. This was found via <a href="http://rethinkingchildhood.com/2014/03/26/unilever-persil-omo-dirt-is-good-video/#more-4222">Tim Gill</a>, who wrote a very interesting post on the commercials. <br />
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Not a jungle gym in sight. Delightful.Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04559497208647394453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611971638580585343.post-29648904598181804552014-03-26T00:54:00.000-07:002014-03-26T00:54:00.536-07:00George Lucas on The Meaning of Life<br />
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"It is possible that on a spiritual level we are all
connected in a way that continues beyond the comings and goings of
various life forms. My best guess is that we share a collective spirit
or life force or consciousness that encompasses and goes beyond
individual life forms. There’s a part of us that connects to other
humans, connects to other animals, connects to plants, connects to the
planet, connects to the universe. I don’t think we can understand it
through any kind of verbal, written or intellectual means. But I do
believe that we all know this, even if it is on a level beyond our
normal conscious thoughts. </blockquote>
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If we have a meaningful place in this process, it is to try to fit
into a healthy, symbiotic relationship with other life force. Everybody,
ultimately, is trying to reach a harmony with the other parts of the
life force. And in trying to figure out what life is all about, we
ultimately come down to expressions of compassion and love, helping the
rest of the life force, caring about others without any conditions or
expectations, without expecting to get anything in return. This is
expressed in every religion, by every prophet."</blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/03/17/george-lucas-meaning-of-life/">Via Brainpickings. </a>Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04559497208647394453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611971638580585343.post-17325701941875985332014-03-25T00:35:00.004-07:002014-03-25T03:22:44.732-07:00Susan Slyter's resignation letter<blockquote>
February 12, 2014</blockquote>
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I am writing today to let you know that I am resigning my position as
PreK and Kindergarten teacher in the Cambridge Public Schools. It is
with deep sadness that I have reached this decision, as I have loved my
job, my school community, and the families and amazing and dedicated
faculty I have been connected with throughout the district for the past
eighteen years. I have always seen myself as a public school teacher,
and fully intended to work until retirement in the public school
system. Further, I am the product of public schools, and my son
attended Cambridge Public Schools from PreK through Grade 12. I am and
always have been a firm believer in quality public education.</blockquote>
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In this disturbing era of testing and data collection in the public
schools, I have seen my career transformed into a job that no longer
fits my understanding of how children learn and what a teacher ought to
do in the classroom to build a healthy, safe, developmentally
appropriate environment for learning for each of our children. I have
experienced, over the past few years, the same mandates that all
teachers in the district have experienced. I have watched as my job
requirements swung away from a focus on the children, their individual
learning styles, emotional needs, and their individual families,
interests and strengths to a focus on testing, assessing, and scoring
young children, thereby ramping up the academic demands and pressures on
them. Each year, I have been required to spend more time attending
classes and workshops to learn about new academic demands that smack of 1<sup>st</sup> and 2<sup>nd</sup>
grade, instead of Kindergarten and PreK. I have needed to schedule and
attend more and more meetings about increasingly extreme behaviors and
emotional needs of children in my classroom; I recognize many of these
behaviors as children shouting out to the adults in their world, “I
can’t do this! Look at me! Know me! Help me! See me!” I have
changed my practice over the years to allow the necessary time and focus
for all the demands coming down from above. Each year there are more.
Each year I have had less and less time to teach the children I love in
the way I know best—and in the way child development experts
recommend. I reached the place last year where I began to feel I was
part of a broken system that was causing damage to those very children I
was there to serve. </blockquote>
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I was trying to survive in a community of colleagues who were
struggling to do the same: to adapt and survive, to continue to hold
onto what we could, and to affirm what we believe to be quality teaching
for an early childhood classroom. I began to feel a deep sense of loss
of integrity. I felt my spirit, my passion as a teacher, slip away. I
felt anger rise inside me. I felt I needed to survive by looking
elsewhere and leaving the community I love so dearly. I did not feel I
was leaving my job. I felt then and feel now that my job left me. </blockquote>
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It is with deep love and a broken heart that I write this letter.<br />
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Sincerely,<br />
Suzi Sluyter</blockquote>
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This letter was published in <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/03/23/kindergarten-teacher-my-job-is-now-about-tests-and-data-not-children-i-quit/?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost">The Washington Post </a>and it says a lot about our education system today. Sadly....<br />
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<br />Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04559497208647394453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611971638580585343.post-3308441027265033032014-03-24T01:12:00.004-07:002014-03-24T01:12:41.946-07:00Library Farm<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Northern Onondaga Public Library in New York State owned some land and decided to turn it into a
farm and called it<a href="http://www.nopl.org/library-farm/"> The Library Farm</a>.<br />
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"In the spring of 2010, the farm’s first season, a dozen or so
plots—which are offered free of charge to anyone with a library
card—were planted. Today, around 30 gardeners farm roughly 50 plots.
Individuals and families can cultivate plots on one side of the land
with little or no commitment, while the other side is a dedicated
“community garden” where the harvest is donated to local food pantries."</blockquote>
What a great concept. A learning environment outside. Article <a href="http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/03/19/going-library-bring-trowel?cmpid=tp-ptnr-upworthy">here</a>.<br />
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Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04559497208647394453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611971638580585343.post-639264819803240762014-03-21T01:07:00.003-07:002014-03-21T01:30:14.521-07:00Happy Friday<br />
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Not even close :-)Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04559497208647394453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611971638580585343.post-62644892376008825712014-03-21T00:34:00.003-07:002014-03-21T00:35:06.661-07:00Robert Reich and Inequality for All<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/9REdcxfie3M" width="560"></iframe><br />
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I am clearly way behind on this movie, but I heard about it from an article about Robert Reich <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/mar/18/robert-reich-attacks-economic-austerity">here</a>. <br />
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"In his typically affable manner, Reich explains that the wages people
earn matter to economic growth. Sustained recovery is only possible if
the middle and working classes have money to spend and if, rather than
cuts and austerity, investment in "public goods" is made a priority.
"The top tax rates do have to rise and we have to invest much more
substantially in education, infrastructure and human resources – and
make sure our poor children and lower-middle-class children all have
real chances to get ahead." "</blockquote>
<a href="http://inequalityforall.com/">Inequality for All</a> is going straight on my Netflix wishlist.Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04559497208647394453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611971638580585343.post-26597460487974024902014-03-20T05:25:00.001-07:002014-03-20T05:25:26.758-07:00Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'?<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Collapse can be avoided and population can reach equilibrium if the per
capita rate of depletion of nature is reduced to a sustainable level,
and if resources are distributed in a reasonably equitable fashion."</span></blockquote>
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Excellent and depressing article by Nafeez Ahmed over at <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/mar/14/nasa-civilisation-irreversible-collapse-study-scientists">The Guardian</a>. I say depressing because even though it is a NASA-funded study, it doesn't necessarily mean that the greedy monsters will listen.Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04559497208647394453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611971638580585343.post-52408697527171013842014-03-19T00:00:00.000-07:002014-03-19T00:00:02.710-07:00Cheetah mum and cub<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Beautiful photo by <a href="http://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/photos/1542505/">Ken Dyball.</a><br />
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Found over at my new daily dose of all things awesome, <a href="http://awkwardsituationist.tumblr.com/">Awkward Situationist.</a><br />
<br />Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04559497208647394453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611971638580585343.post-75805157454213844512014-03-18T00:43:00.003-07:002014-03-18T00:43:55.935-07:00Can you learn to be creative?<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"Sandra Russ, a psychologist at Case Western Reserve University in
Cleveland, Ohio, has spent 23 years studying the way children in the US
play when they are given two puppets and three building blocks. She has
found that the scenarios the children act out with the toys are more imaginative today than at any time since the 1980s.<strong>"</strong></blockquote>
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From an interesting article at <a href="http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140314-learn-to-be-creative">BBC Future.</a> Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04559497208647394453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611971638580585343.post-21244466462535849842014-03-17T00:56:00.002-07:002014-03-17T00:57:19.781-07:00Community Forest International<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://forestsinternational.org/">Community Forest International</a> in Canada is building a Rural Innovation Campus
on it’s 235 hectare farm & forest property. They invited designers to come up with ideas for their first building on the campus that blurred the lines between humans and nature.<br />
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It was hard to pick one to feature above so please check out the rest of the entries <a href="http://forestsinternational.org/cabin-design/">here.</a>Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04559497208647394453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611971638580585343.post-41016752015973816072014-03-14T00:00:00.000-07:002014-03-14T00:00:05.800-07:00Girl Rising<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/60590970" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <br />
<a href="http://vimeo.com/60590970">Girl Rising - Montage</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/sarofsky">Sarofsky</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
<br />Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04559497208647394453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611971638580585343.post-12122398847871184092014-03-13T00:00:00.000-07:002014-03-13T00:00:04.287-07:00First World War Centenary Woods <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"Today, the <a href="https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/news/press-releases/first-world-war-project-revealed/">Woodland Trust</a> launches its First World War Centenary Woods
project which will see millions of trees planted across the UK and four
flagship woods created – in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern
Ireland – to commemorate the Centenary of the First World War.<br />
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In addition to the 1,000 acres of woodland created at these four
Centenary Woods, there will be over 3 million free trees available to
schools, community groups and youth groups for planting, and we hope
that landowners and communities across the country will get involved to
create hundreds of new woods containing millions of trees.<br />
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These symbolic trees and woods will transform the landscape into
rich, vibrant and flourishing woodland and will stand proud as a lasting
legacy for those who fought, those who lost their lives, and also for
their loved ones on the home front who supported them from afar."</blockquote>
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\0/ Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04559497208647394453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611971638580585343.post-49398428987424729822014-03-12T00:58:00.001-07:002014-03-12T05:21:42.969-07:00Knits for Nature<br /><img src="http://editorial.designtaxi.com/news-penguin1003/1.jpg" />
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<b><a href="http://penguinfoundation.org.au/contact-us/">The Penguin Foundation</a></b> in Australia dresses penguins in jumpers to prevent them from cleaning their feathers and ingesting the toxins on their
bodies after an oil spill. The jumpers also keep them warm.<br />
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Doesn't get much cuter than a penguin in a sweater..... Follow the link below and you can download the pattern to make one yourself and donate it.<br />
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<a href="http://designtaxi.com/news/364294/In-Australia-Penguins-Affected-By-Oil-Spills-Wear-Knitted-Jumpers/">Via Taxi.</a>Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04559497208647394453noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611971638580585343.post-70815420772080724422014-03-11T00:00:00.000-07:002014-03-11T00:00:01.937-07:00Hidden Woods<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/6BhS6uuogkI" width="560"></iframe><br />
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Wonderful poem and film by <a href="http://holliemcnish.com/" target="_blank">Hollie McNish </a>and film maker <a href="http://www.bendowden.com/" target="_blank">Ben Dowden.</a><br />
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<a href="http://rethinkingchildhood.com/2014/03/10/hollie-mcnish-poem-hidden-woods/#more-4045">Via Tim Gill. </a>Kayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04559497208647394453noreply@blogger.com0