Category Archives: Kids & Earth
Low-income Students Still Without Insurance
The Obama health care changes ensure that adult students continue to be insured on their parents’ health insurance policies until age 26. This is great for students with parents who have private health insurance through their jobs or can afford … Continue reading
Colored Troop Reenactors Escort Occupy Through Trenton
At 5:00pm today Revolutionary War Reenactors will meet Occupy Wall Street Protestors who are marching from NYC to Washington DC and escort them through Trenton, New Jersey’s capital. The Occupiers will follow Route 206 out of Princeton.
Report on Adolescent Girls and Climate Change
Plan International’s new report, Weathering the Storm: Adolescent Girls and Climate Change, calls for better integration of the needs of adolescent girls in climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes.
EPA needs to monitor pesticides better
Apparently, the US has been asleep at the helm for years when we should have been much more closely monitoring the alarming and increasing use of herbicides and pesticides in our crops, fields and yards. Atrazine, a chemical widely banned … Continue reading
Environmental vigilance pays – money
In the race to compete in a global economic recovery, the U.S. may have a secret weapon against rivals like China and even economies closer to ours, such as Canada. China may be graduating more engineers and scientists; Canada may … Continue reading
Swing and more at CMDE studio in Hackensack
My favorite Bergen County dance studio offers all kinds of fantastic dance classes for teens and adults (my own family’s make up) and is now offering a swing workshop. Looks fun! Swing is a one-time workshop but my boys and … Continue reading
The new white flight: Facebook
The new way to prove social superiority is in the social media/Web 2.0 environment. Heaven help us. Dana Boyd is a social media researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet … Continue reading
The Philly 60
When 60 Black kids from The Creative Steps Day Camp in North Philly got in the pool at The Valley Swim Club in Philadelphia
DREAM Act Graduation Event in Hackensack
A National DREAM Graduation solidarity event will take place