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Saving the planet is child's play! Empower youth about climate change

September 26, 2024

“Save the Planet” was the repeated Earth Day slogan heard in every school for decades. We thought it made sense, yes, we should save the planet. But looking at it now as we contemplate where we are in our own created history of rising oceans, the depletion of massive water reservoirs, flooding, and...

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Kids walking on log over shallow creek in local park

Project Profile: Kids and Nature

October 8, 2020

Will County Master Naturalist Amy Gibson points to deep, heart-shaped tracks in the soft mud of a leaf-covered ravine in Pilcher Park. She asks the fourth graders clustered around her, "what do we have here?" Two boys zig-zag through...

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Saving the planet is child's play! Empower youth about climate change

Project Profile: Kids and Nature