Both my son, Alexander, and I reviewed a new fiction novel about climate change, Iglu by Jacob Sackin. The review is online at MNN now: Book Review: Iglu by Jacob Sackin. I often have the opportunity to review books but rarely do I receive a book that not only piques my interest but also draws [...]
If you ask my son, climatologists are the new Santa. What’s that supposed to mean? Basically, my son was way more excited to meet a climatologist than he is to meet Santa (who stops by our house every Christmas Eve – literally). This past Sunday the local search and rescue team was practicing helicopter rappelling. [...]
On Monday, Mike Lee with the Star-Telegram reported about a new study that shows a link between high air pollution and an increase in school absences at 39 school districts in Texas. As the mother of a child with asthma, and one that lives in Phoenix, which has some nasty air pollution in the winter [...]
There are two main types of MRSA – hospital acquired (HA-MRSA) and community acquired (CA-MRSA). Community acquired MRSA cases are on the rise across the nation. Just a few years ago, entire schools would be put on alert if a student had a confirmed MRSA infection but now they are somewhat commonplace. On the other [...]
After a long day walking the expo hall, meeting with green building product manufacturers, and sitting in on some fantastic sessions I headed over to Chase Field to prepare for the Greenbuild 2009 Opening Celebration. After a great speech by U.S. Green Building Council CEO Rick Fedrizzi and representatives from green building councils across the [...]
Today is Blog Action Day 2009 and I’m joining more than 5,000 bloggers from 126 different countries to discuss climate change. Since this is a family and child-oriented blog, I decided to provide parents with 3 ways they can get their kids involved in addressing the important issue of climate change. The beauty of learning [...]
A few weeks ago, we received the new CD from They Might Be Giants – Here Comes Science. After listening to it for several weeks, I have to say that it is honestly our favorite kids-themed CD. Alexander is working on a review of the DVD but I wanted to post a Raising Them Green [...]
