In late fall 2019, I met with an author of a book on the climate crisis to get his advice on marketing, outreach and the like. He was kind and helpful. One of my strongest memories and takeaways from that
Inspired by this Christmas Eve 1968 photograph of our home taken from the Apollo 8 space mission, we celebrated the first Earth Day, two years later in 1970. Almost 50 years later, our planet is healthier in some respects than
Climate denial has taken on a whole new level of prominence, as powerful and influential politicians cast doubt on the reality of climate science; including the new President of the United States, down the line to the Secretary of State,
Calling all Climate Mamas and Papas who are bloggers and social media professionals or those who are thinking about working in this area. Some of our favorite Climate Mamas and Papas will be getting together in Manhattan Beach, California in
Women’s voices are too often muted or silenced on issue of policy and action. Even in the United States of America, women are still not heard nor represented proportionately to their percentage of the population at large. I believe my
The first 24 hours of a child’s life are the most dangerous, with more than one million babies dying each year on their first and only day of life, according to new research released by Save the Children. The report
Tweet Share How much do you really know when it comes to the unacceptable toll of newborn deaths, around the world? According to USAID, in some parts of the world, a mother is more likely to die in childbirth than
Tweet Share I am THRILLED to be part of the Global Team of 200, a highly specialized group of members of Mom Bloggers for Social Good that concentrates on issues involving women and girls, children, world hunger and maternal health.
Tweet Share September 22nd is Global Frackdown day. A Day of solidarity with the worldwide movement to raise attention to the inherent dangers posed by fracking. Fracking as a drilling technique that involves the fracturing of rock through the use
Tweet Share I took the Rodale Plastic Free Challenge in 2011 and my family and I tried to live “plastic free” for one week…realization for our family – impossible. Yet Beth Terry, author of Plastic-Free: How I Kicked the Plastic
Tweet Share At ClimateMama we regularly have the honor and the pleasure of meeting wonderful people and organizations that give us hope and inspiration by providing the tools that empower us in our daily battle against climate change and by
Tweet Share What can I do, what difference can I make? I hear that a lot from busy parents, who want to help fight against climate change, but aren’t sure where to begin. As the saying goes, “there is no
Tweet Share As parents, we all try our best to give our kids healthy foods (with only the occasional “fall from the wagon” for junk food and candy!!) We also do whatever we can to keep our kids in healthy
Tweet Share Best of Mother Earth blogger extraordinaire, Karen (often called the “keeper of the burger”) suggested this month’s Green Moms Carnival theme: Favorite “Green Books” and Authors. Do we judge a book by it’s “green” cover? In fact, all
Tweet Share What do you think? Does it sound like it has the makings of an action hero adventure? In fact, The Non-Toxic Avenger: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You by Deanna Duke is a personal, down to earth,
Tweet Share When Amber of Strocel.com proposed: Resolutions to Fight Climate Change as the topic for our January Green Moms Carnival, my brain seemed to go on temporary “freeze mode.” How was I going to put into one post, something
Tweet Share T’is that time of year again, but quite honestly I am not sure how it snuck up so quickly! I feel like I am beginning to sound like my grandmother, who used to love to tell me how
Tweet Share Growing up in Canada, “Black Friday” didn’t exist, so I can’t say I ever gave it much thought. The Canadian equivalent is “Boxing Day” the day after Christmas, where stores offer, as they do on the day following
Tweet Back to school, naked and climate activism – commonality, connection….let’s see. With a pending “arrest” for climate activism in my near future, going back to school and all it usually entails for busy parents somehow seems lower on the
Tweet At the beginning of every year I think about setting “New Year Resolutions.” Sometimes I write them down. More often than not, while the New Year and new beginnings do always inspire me to think “big,” pressures of day
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