Green Your School Has a Bright Future: Still Time to Register!
The Green Your School Challenge is taking entries until April 1, but 188 schools have already submitted plans, and 1,200 have signed up as mobile subscribers, and the pool of ideas is already filled...
View ArticleObama Drops In on Kids' Science Fair at the American Museum of Natural History
President Obama took another step in encouraging kids concentrating in science subjects earlier this week, only this time it was a surprise. At the New York City Science and Engineering Fair at the...
View ArticleHow a Young Activist Revived a Stagnant Legislature
When Alex Lin was just eleven years old, he heard in the news about the growing e-waste crisis. E-waste refers to
View ArticleHow a Young Girl United a Community Against Natural Gas Exploitation
Erica Fernandez moved to the California coast from Mexico when she was just ten years old. A few years later, she
View ArticleJoin MTV and Nickelodean on Earth Day for "The Big Help" (Video)
This year, Nickelodeon and MTV are celebrating Earth Day all day with "The Big Help." For 24 hours on April 22, Nick and Nick Jr. will feature a back-to-back lineup of eco-themed programming. In...
View ArticleBridge the Gap Between Earth Day and World Environment Day With Philippe...
For 41 years, Earth Day has been a moment to pause and reflect on the state of the environment and humanity's place within it. This leads some to action—be it personal or political—and many to wonder...
View Article5 Simple Earth Day Service Ideas for Families
Friday marks the 41st anniversary of Earth Day and communities across the globe are ramping up festivities that celebrate,
View Article10-Year-Old Pressures KFC to Stop Destroying U.S. Forests (Video)
Take a small group of determined schoolchildren who care about the environment and you get a story to inspire the rest of us: first, Cole had a school project that ended up getting McDonald's to...
View ArticleNew York School Kids Build Their Own Greenhouse, Grow Their Own Veggies
You know it's dedication when a teacher decides to teach his kids aquaponics in environmental science class, have them bring the vegetables they grow to the school cafeteria, and then spend time...
View Article6 Child Environmentalists That Have Already Changed the World
Sometimes it takes the simple clarity of a child to change the world as we know it.
View ArticleBirds Get Helping Hand In Tough Siberian Winter
Winters are tough, to say the least, in Eastern Siberia, where temperatures can regularly plunge below minus-40 degrees
View ArticleGreen Gift Guide For Back to School Tots and Teens
Bright new ideas for eco-friendly supplies have made back-to-school shopping much more fun. The nine items here will send the K-12 set back to school in sustainable style, with the likes of...
View ArticleGreen Gift Guide For Back to School Tots and Teens (Slideshow)
Bright new ideas for eco-friendly supplies have made back-to-school shopping much more fun.
View ArticleFrom Schools to Hospitals, Fresh Healthy Vending Makes Healthy Snacking Easier
It seems like a good sign when an eighth-grade girl says this about a vending machine stocked with things like fruit slices, (healthy) granola bars and dairy-free snacks: "All the vending machines I...
View ArticleGreen Gift Guide for Back to School College Students
Whether you're sending your oldest child off to his first day as a freshman or helping your youngest prepare for the beginning of her senior year, making sure your kids have the green gear they need...
View ArticleGreen Gift Guide for Back to School College Students (Slideshow)
Whether you're sending your oldest child off to his first day as a freshman or helping your youngest prepare for the beginning of her senior year, making sure your kids have the green gear they need...
View Article5 Easy Ways to Raise a Green Eater
Getting your kids on board with your green menu is one of the easiest (and earliest) ways to teach them about a variety of environmental initiatives, from organic farming to their carbon footprint.
View ArticleFrom Nothing Into Something, Sprout City Farms Grows a Thriving Urban School...
School gardens are becoming more and more popular around the country, but they're harder to establish in some places than in others—in the middle of a city, for example, where the soil is deficient...
View ArticleFrom Nothing Into Something, Sprout City Farms Grows a Thriving Urban School...
School gardens are becoming more and more popular around the country, but they're harder to establish in some places than in others—in the middle of a city, for example, where the soil is deficient...
View ArticleYoung Turkish Artists Grapple With Extinction of Species, Alienation from...
This summer, the well-regarded Pera Museum in Istanbul turned three of its floors over to art students from Anadolu University, giving them free reign to craft works representing the theme of
View ArticleStudents, Join the Green Your School Challenge!
DoSomething.org launches their annual Green Your School Challenge
View ArticleMichelle Obama's White House Kitchen Garden Book is Not For Gardeners
Michelle Obama's first-ever book, "American Grown," offers a behind-the-scenes look at the White House kitchen garden -- but leaves the how-to details out.
View ArticleKids Twice as Active in Natural Playgrounds Than Traditional
When you introduce more natural elements into the traditional mix of slides and bars and climbing thingamajigs in playgrounds, kids really like it. And now there's a study to prove it.
View ArticleArkansas, You're the 'Natural State', So Why You Slacking? Teens Turning...
Teens Turning Green have 49 states involved in their Project Green Challenge. Arkansas, you slacking?!
View ArticleGreen Gift Guide: The Outdoors Enthusiast
From a chance to raise baby lions to a tiny waterproof camera or durable hemp hiking shoes, find the perfect gift for your outdoors enthusiast here.
View ArticleSick Greenpeace Anime Video Pushes For Fashion Biz 'Detox' (Video)
Greenpeace is using a viral campaign to push for toxic-free fashion.
View ArticleWhy do first-born children do better in school than their siblings?
Parenting styles evolve, and so do the results.
View ArticleThe untapped potential of young women in natural sciences
The lack of women in science doesn't just put women at a disadvantage, but scietific progress as a whole.
View ArticleHow to bring green into the classroom
Teachers, are you looking for ways to teach green values to your students? We've got ideas lined up for you!
View ArticleStudents spend their summer protecting New York City from the devastating...
Four college students are dedicating their summer to looking for signs of the Asian longhorned beetle in Prospect Park.
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