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Local Food for Independence Day

Juicy June Kansas Peaches

This year I have pledged to prepare and eat local food for Independence Day. When the glorious 4th gets here I’ll be visiting a local Kansas City farmers market, slaving over a hot bread machine to make bread buns from scratch, and out cooking up delicious, delectable, locally sourced hot dogs [...]

5 Features of Sustainable Communities

When you think about sustainable communities what do you think of? Here are some things which come to mind for me. Some of these may seem like small, or even practically irrelevant, things when it comes to sustainability. You’d be surprised. Does your community have these 5 features of sustainability?

#1 – Outdoor Laundry Drying Facilities
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Weekly Earth News 05/26/09

It’s time for the weekly Earth news and there’s lots of good stuff to report today. Here are my top choices from this week’s Earth news around the web.

#1 – Connecting Children and Nature
President Obama has proposed $50 million of funding for connecting children and nature. Wow! Personally I think a lot can be done [...]

Rocket Stove – cooking with just a few sticks

Here’s a great project for doing with your outdoor kids. Teens, pre-teens, and kids (with adult help) can enjoy building and cooking on a rocket stove. All you need is a few simple materials, basic tools and a few sticks.

Photos are courtesy of George at SpeedReading4Kids – visit his site for detailed instructions on how [...]