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Toxic-Free Children's Products: Dec. 3rd
Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility presents:Children's Health: Making Products Safe for Kids!December 3, 7:30 PM. Doors Open at 7 PM.Phinney Neighborhood Center, Room 2Featuring: Children's health and toxic exposures experts Richard Grady, MD, Steven Gilbert, PhD, DABT, and Sheela Sathyanarayana, MD.Please join us for a presentation and discussion on children's health, child vulnerability to toxic chemical exposures, and ways we can reform how chemicals are placed into the marketplace and protect children's health and their futures. Learn how lead and phthalates impact children's health and development. Learn what we and legislators can do about it. Safety regulation for today's toys inadequately addresses the presence of chemicals linked to harmful health and developmental impacts for children. We have an ethical duty and responsibility to ensure that children develop in an environment in which they can reach and maintain their full potential.Light refreshments will be served.Phinney Neighborhood Center, Room 26532 Phinney Ave. N, Seattle WA 98103More info: nancyd@wpsr.org, 206-547-2630; www.wpsr.org.This event is free and open to the public, and is a WPSR Quarterly Community Production. WPSR is a steering committee member of The Toxic-Free Legacy Coalition.Donations welcome!
An Abundance Box Workshop
Intentional Desires: An Abundance Box WorkshopFacilitated by Courtney Putnam, MFA, LMP, CRPDate: Winter Solstice 2007 (Saturday, December 22)Time: 3:00 to 6:00pmLocation: Rising Bird Healing Arts (6316 9th Avenue NE, Seattle, WA 98115) To Register: Email Courtney Putnam at cputnam@rising-bird.com Cost:$30 (checks and cash accepted); space is limited to eight peopleSee attachment for all the juicy details! Abundance%20Workshop.pdf________________________ Courtney E. Putnam, MFA, LMP, CRPRising Bird Healing Arts - Massage & Reikicputnam@rising-bird.comRising Bird website:http://www.rising-bird.com"The Healing Nest" blog:http://www.healingnest.blogspot.comMy art blog:http://www.oriart.blogspot.com
The Hugawugs--friends for young children
Have you heard of the Hugawugs? The eight Hugawugs characters are full of silly fun! These friends are perfect for toddlers and preschoolers. In addition to my work with Laughing Crow Curriculum LLC, I am also Vice President of Seattle-based Wugaboo LLC. Last week, Wugaboo launched its first product line, the Hugawugs. Two board books and four plush toys are currently available. Please check out our products online ( www.thehugawugs.com) and at select Seattle-area retailers. Also, you can learn more about Wugaboo at www.wugaboo.com.
Life Sciences Research Weekend at Pacific Science Center
Explore how virtual snow can help burn patients, discover how a "simulated man" is helping doctors cure disease, and take a trip into a human brain during Life Sciences Research Weekend. Four days of demonstrations, interactive exhibits and talks for school children, families and citizen scientists interested in learning more about the crucial role of life science research and its benefits. Join Pacific Science Center this Thursday through Sunday, Nov. 8-11. Get a free $3 off coupon! (From PSC's website)
Frog Remembers
Encaustic collage by Kristen Clapper Bergsman.
Nature Art at Epiphany School
   Last Friday, I was invited to teach a workshop at Seattle's Epiphany School as part of their Celebration of Science Day. A group of 3-5th graders and I explored the topic of Sticks, Stones, and Animal Bones: Creating Nature Art. We practiced field sketching techniques like gesture drawings, contour sketches, and zoom sketches. We went on a color hunt around the school grounds. Then, we flipped through several Andy Goldsworthy books for inspiration for our own nature art sculptures. The kids headed back outside to design and build their own sculptures out of found natural objects, which we photographed, and then left as a gift to autumn, to the school campus, and to anyone who might happen upon them. Please click for more information on my nature journaling and nature art workshops.
Glossopedia--A Website for Kids & Nature
I featured the great website Glossopedia when it was brand new. Now, Glossopedia has been getting some great press and has greatly expanded the resources on its website. If you haven't checked it out yet, do it today!
A recent article from The Oregonian:
Helping kids explore nature
Friday, October 05, 2007
Web site of the week
Glossopedia promises to become a nature lover's destination site, especially for kids 7 to 12 years old. The Web site (www.globio.org/glossopedia) is stocked with photos, videos and descriptions of phenomena as diverse as hurricanes, chocolate and monarch butterflies. The site even offers jokes.
So far, Glossopedia has 30 articles, from American beaver to China's Wolong Nature Reserve, which is one of the last protected homes of the giant panda, red panda, takin and golden snub-nose monkey. The site is adding more information each week.
Glossopedia is a project of Portland-based Globio, a nonprofit organization founded in 2001 to develop an interactive Web site for kids worldwide. Globio's founder and president, photographer Gerry Ellis, has spent more than two decades documenting environmental crises worldwide.
Globio calls Glossopedia a "place where kids discover the world, share what they learn, and are inspired to become involved."
Kids can watch penguins diving off ice floes into the water, see a photo of a black-browed albatross and its chick, or read about how bears don't really hibernate, as widely believed.
They can even get a chuckle from the jokes. (What kind of shorts do clouds wear? Thunderwear.)
OK, Glossopedia may not win the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. But the site should draw at least a smile from any bipedal placental mammal in elementary or middle school.
by Steve Woodward
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