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EarthEcho Updates, Everything You Do Makes a Difference, What You Buy
Make a Splash! A Kid’s Guide to Protecting Our Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, & Wetlands
From service learning expert Cathryn Berger Kaye, M.A., and environmental advocate Philippe Cousteau with EarthEcho International, comes an opportunity for kids to shape the future of the planet. In their new book, Make a Splash! A Kid’s Guide to Protecting Our Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, & Wetlands (Free Spirit Publishing, $13.99), Kaye and Cousteau reveal facts about our waters, their inhabitants, and the threats they face, while presenting inspiring stories of kids in action around the globe and practical tips and ideas for making a difference.
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EarthEcho Updates, Events, Water Planet Challenge, Everything You Do Makes a Difference, How You're Powered, What You Eat
EARTHECHO INTERNATIONAL LAUNCHES FOOD-FOCUSED WHAT’S ON YOUR FORK? ACTION GUIDE
Does what you eat really have impact on our planet? Could mealtime choices actually help promote clean drinking water? What’s On Your Fork? is a new free downloadable Action Guide and collection of supplementary educational tools from EarthEcho International designed to help educators and students explore the environmental and community impact of daily food choices. This new resource is part of EarthEcho’s Water Planet Challenge, a web-based interactive program exploring a myriad of topics that engage and empower middle and high school-aged youth to design, create and implement service-learning projects in their communities.
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Win a Copy of Going Blue and other Learning Materials
Edutopia is giving away five FREE copies of Going Blue in their environment focused giveaway the first week of August. To get your hands on a free copy of Going Blue and other great resources, visit http://www.edutopia.org/giveaways
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EarthEcho Updates, Expeditions, Marine Life
The Power of Alaska
PHOTOS BY KEITH ELLENBOGEN
Rarely is the raw power of nature so evident as when one stands staring up at a 300 foot towering mountain of ice. All around us the mountains have been worn smooth by frozen water over millennia with the only jagged peaks being those that were high enough to escape the relentless onslaught of the glaciers. Mother harbor seals concerned for their newborn pups watched us with wary eyes from their frozen perches atop icebergs as we slowly cruised past, careful to keep our distance so as not to disturb them.
This was Dawes Glacier, a tide water glacier, in other words a rare type of glacier that originates in the mountains and makes it all the way down to the ocean, which was recorded by John Muir in 1879. The weather was holding for the time being, and though rain seemed imminent, who could …
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EarthEcho Updates, Youth In Action
Going Blue Receives Foreword Gold Book of the Year Award!
Going Blue now has even more awards under its belt! Nautilus Gold Award ForeWord Book of the Year Award-Gold Learning Magazine Teachers' Choice Award for the Family 100 Best Children's Products-Dr. Toy 10 Best Socially Responsible Products-Dr. Toy Check out the Reviews: "Visually appealing. Step-by-step sections help students navigate the potentially complex and overwhelming task of making a change in their world ... supports integration of [service] projects in classrooms, after-school programs, or any place where the potential for activism exists."-Professionally Speaking, the magazine of the Ontario College of Teachers "One of the Top 10 Books on the Environment for Youth (2011)."-Booklist "Addresses the current threats facing one of our planet's most precious resources and gives teens the tools to put their ideas for saving these natural resources into action."-Gifted Child Today "An exciting challenge to kids [and] a mini treasure trove of information and well documented research …
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EarthEcho’s new website is now live!
Welcome to our brand new home online.
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EarthEcho Updates, Events, Water Planet Challenge, Everything You Do Makes a Difference, What You Eat
Meatless Mondays coming to Water Planet Challenge this Fall
EarthEcho International is excited to announce that we will be working with Meatless Mondays to develop our next Water Planet Challenge Action Guide. This resource will be available in September. In the meantime, check out our other Action Guides. They can all be downloaded for free from the box on the right.
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STREAM now open to youth citizen journalists everywhere
In 2010, EarthEcho International committed to empowering youth in the Gulf Coast region and elsewhere through a new citizen journalism initiative, STREAM (STudents Reporting Environmental Action through Media). Responding to feelings of powerlessness among young people in the wake of the oil spill disaster, EarthEcho founded STREAM to empower youth to act as citizen journalists and amplify their voices. STREAM will elevate youth voices and journalistic narratives about water, solutions to environmental challenges, and youth leadership around these issues in a media landscape currently lacking these perspectives. In December, 2010 the first STREAM Youth News Bureau as launced in New Orleans and the STREAM digital news platform went live. Via this platform, STREAM is now open to participation by new, emerging, and established youth citizen journalists everywhere.
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EarthEcho Updates, Everything You Do Makes a Difference
2011: A Year for Change
2011 has arrived and with the New Year comes resolutions for change. Some resolve to diet or exercise or some start a new hobby…no matter what there is a sense of renewal as the clock strikes midnight, inspiring us to start a new adventure. Over the past year I have had the pleasure of meeting thousands of youth—from elementary school kindergarteners to high school seniors—pledge to make a change that will impact their environment and their communities in a positive way. A school in Gulf Shores, AL, is selling reusable Vapur bottles as a fundraiser and promoting their use over bottled water. Their Citizen Environmental Organization (CEO) goes above and beyond your run-of-the-mill eco-club. Under the guidance of teachers Wil Tuggle and Debbie Kenyon, these students have been given the opportunities to showcase their environmental citizenship. Students have started a variety of additional programs, including …
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EarthEcho Updates, Everything You Do Makes a Difference
Earth Day!
On this 40th anniversary of Earth Day
