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The NBA’s Shrinking Carbon Footprint!

Monday, April 9th, 2012


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Any basketball fans in your house? You might want to share these interesting facts about “foot size” with them. While it is generally true that many NBA players do have “large feet” (according to the website ChaCha.com, the average shoe size in the NBA is between 14-17), the League is working really hard to reduce it’s very own “carbon footprint!” As part of the NBA’s “year round” focus on “green,” and in recognition of Earth Day on Aprill 22nd, the NBA has declared April 4-11 “Green Week at the NBA!” Do your basketball fans have any ideas on how the NBA might be able to shrink it’s footprint size? Find out more about what the NBA is actually doing to help it’s teams, fans and arenas become more sustainable. What are some of the things you are doing at home to make your own “carbon footprint” smaller?

Check out the video below with the kids in your life, and find out what the NBA, with the help of the National Resources Defense Council, is already doing at basketball arenas around the nation to reduce, reuse and recycle!

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Climate Change: The acidification and DEATH of our Oceans

Monday, March 26th, 2012


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“It wasn’t on our radar 5 years ago.”….. “The Ocean’s POWER to create life is now rivaled by our power to destroy it!”…… “We know how to solve the ocean’s problems, will we?”

Excerpts from the NRDC Movie: Acid Test: The Global Challenge of Acidification

Our friend, Desiree, environmentalist, professor and GreenMomster extraordinaire, recently brought to our attention a new video release from the Natural Resources Defense Council, Acid Test: The Global Challenge of Acidification. This video is about 20 minutes long, so make some time, grab the kids in your life, and listen as Sigourney Weaver and friends tell us why we need to WAKE UP and take action now, before it is too late….

Until a few years ago, scientists counted the oceans as a big positive in our fight against climate change and rising CO2 levels. The oceans, like our rainforests, are know as “carbon sinks;” they absorb carbon, taking it out of the air, and help to keep our planet in balance. But what this movie shows us, is that our oceans are becoming saturated and that the excess carbon is causing a “chemical change to occur.” Our oceans are becoming more acidic, with the potential ramifications from this, devastating.

Scientists are telling us and nature is showing them, that within 100 years (or less) we could turn our oceans into a “world of weeds.” The rising acidity in the oceans in depleting the “building blocks” that many animals need to form shells. The most vulnerable animals are some of the smallest, plankton and corals, which many fish and animals in our ocean rely on to survive, threatening the food chain and the existence of many, many of the species alive today in the oceans.

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The good news, we know what we need to do to stop this from happening and allow the oceans to recover – we need to STOP BURNING FOSSIL FUELS and creating CO2…The bad news, do we have the will to make this happen? Watch this video with the kids in your life, and ask them what they think and what they think we should do…! “Out of the mouths of babes”..the answers and solutions are often not really complicated…

Yours,

Climate Mama

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Talking to Your Kids About Climate Change: Without Freaking them Out!

Friday, February 24th, 2012


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How to talk to and teach your kids about Climate Change.

Check out our Climate Mama’s response to some great questions asked by James at The Climate Desk: “How to talk to your kids about climate change (without freaking them out!)”

We think you will find this to be good advice. Three simple truths you can share with the kids in your life, regardless of their age:

1. Tell the Truth
2. Actions Speak Louder then Words
3. Don’t be Afraid

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Speaking for the Trees: The Power of Children

Saturday, January 28th, 2012


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From the mouths of babes, and Dr. Seuss: “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” A 4th Grade Class from Massachusetts convinced Universal Studios in less then one month to change a promotional video for a movie on Dr. Suess’s book The Lorax. These 10 year olds, with caring and guidance from their teachers, learned a big lesson about how “powerful” they really are, and the importance of speaking out for what you believe in!

So, grab the kids in your life, watch the video these kids made, and let your kids know that they too are powerful.

The original cut of the Universal promotional video on the new movie The Lorax, didn’t really talk much about trees, or focus on taking care of our planet, the whole premise of the book The Lorax! This Massachusetts 4th Grade class thought this was an injustice, and spoke out. Now the movie site has “Green Tips” and “Go Green Links” right on the home page (something that wasn’t there before the petition they set up on Change.org!)

All of us need to remember that we are powerful too. And at this moment in the history of our planet, if we don’t start speaking out and showing the “Once-ler” that we care about our planet’s future, “nothing is going to get better, It’s not!”

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Climate Change Monitoring: How the Scientists Know our Climate is Changing!

Friday, January 13th, 2012


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Hey Climate Mamas and Papas, did you catch our “home slide show” of our visit to the top of the Mauna Loa volcano where we found out about C02 monitoring and climate science? We learned so much on this trip and we hope you did too.

Furthering our “education” (and yours) on climate change, grab the kids in your life and take 2 minutes to watch a Discovery Channel interview with a climate scientist from The Scripps Institute in San Diego. Dr. Keeling gives James Williams from the Discovery Channel a tour of his “lab” and helps all of us understand more about how some of the equipment he uses actually works! This equipment provides Dr. Keeling with data that shows him (and us) that WE humans are causing certain greenhouse gases in our atmosphere to increase. These “greenhouse gases” trap heat, causing our planet to “warm up” at an unnatural pace..something that is not healthy for us, our kids, or our planet!

By the way, this climate scientist, Ralph Keeling, is the son of another climate scientist Charles Keeling, who first set up the CO2 measuring data on the top of the Mauna Loa volcano. Interesting how parents can teach their kids ‘a thing or two…’

Best,

Climate Mama

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You are a mother, a father, a grandparent, an uncle, an aunt, a teacher or a child at heart. When you hear the Native American saying, “We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children”, it makes you stop for a moment and think. You love nature, travel, adventure and believing in a world that is special and unique. Climate change and global warming are words that alarm you, that often seem too big to get your arms around. You care about what’s happening to the world and notice small changes in your own life that seem to point in the direction of a threatened environment. But you wonder if these changes are real, and if they are you can’t imagine what you can do to help change what is happening.

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