In 121 years, no woman has ever chaired a meeting of the Corning City Council. That changed Monday night when Gaia Girls author, Lee Welles took gavel in hand and ran the meeting. She’s happy to make history, but sad that more women don’t run for office. “It amazes me that more women don’t consider [...]
I really admire people who dedicate their lives to understanding and protecting threatened and endangered species. Tigers have been under tremendous assault due to habitat loss and poaching. Worldwide, there may only be as few as 3200 tigers left in the wild! So, you can see why BBC team member, Gordon Buchanan gets emotional when [...]
[ May 13, 2010; 1:00 pm; May 19, 2010; 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Lee Welles will be at the Camden Public Library May 19th from 3-5pm. She will be talking about reading, writing, and creating “eco-heroes!”
If you within driving distance of Camden, ME…check it out!
Today I spoke to the 5th and 6th graders at Horseheads Intermediate School . The sixth grade kids heard about life as a writer. The fifth grade kids, however, heard about being “Gaia Heroes!”
One of the qualities of a Gaia Hero is being able to imagine new ways of doing things. I used The [...]
I am soooo excited to share this 2-month Gaia Mission with you! I cannot give you the details yet, but you are going to LOVE it. This is an “earth” mission (Mission #2 will be a “water” mission!) It will take 2 Full Moons to complete.
If you choose to take on this mission, you’ll [...]
The George Lucas Education Foundation’s fantastic resource, Edutopia, had a recent post from a retired 5th/6th grade teacher recommending Gaia Girls Book Series for an ELA/Science unit. Yeah!
It’s a Full Moon Friday and time for the Back-to-School episode of Radio Gaia! I have some great guests coming on:
Ryan Finley-Go Green Initiative’s Green Teacher of the Year
Jen Schaus-Project Leader for Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology’s Birdsleuthing program
Whitney Cohen-Educational Director of Life Lab at University of California at Santa Cruz
We start at 5:30pm Eastern [...]
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I’ve been getting a LOT of questions about Book Three, Gaia Girls Air Apparent. I will be filling everyone in on the news on Tomorrow’s episode of Radio Gaia! Don’t forget, you can call in to ask me or any of my quests questions. I’d love to [...]
PLEASE ASK YOUR PARENTS TO GO SEE THIS MOVIE! Our health, the health of animals, and the health of our planet revolve around food.
I couldn’t embed the “official trailer” for Food Inc. But, since I think it’s great, I encourage you to go watch it here .
If they can’t make it to the [...]
Yesterday on Radio Gaia, Bill Mott from The Ocean Project told us the oceans provide us with most of our oxygen!
Today is World Ocean Day. Even if you live in a landlocked place, like I do, you need to think about the oceans. This is a blue planet. Really, we should’ve named it “Water,” instead [...]
