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I need new Lobster Mitts for winter biking. The Nike mitts I bought, um, 3 years ago(?) have worn off whatever coating was on the fingers, and now cold aid gets through. I suppose I could just paint them with a flexible paint (acrylic?) to make them last another 2 seasons.
Also for winter biking, I […]

On Friday, November 7, at the Green Charter Schools Conference, I was invited to present on my research on place-based games in the “Outta-The-Box” Schools & Anywhere, Anytime Learning section.
Technological innovations are changing the ways young people learn. In innovative new environment-focused schools, students can attain knowledge and skills through mobile and wireless technology no matter where they […]

The folks at PARC have got it right, as evidenced in this CNET article, From PARC, the mobile phone as tour guide
Palo Alto Research Center, or PARC–the Xerox subsidiary that was the birthplace of the computer mouse, the graphical user interface and Ethernet–has developed a mobile application that offers up information that would be useful […]

64.067. Empowering Young People Through Environmental Adventures, Motivators, Narratives, and Classrooms.
SIG Ecological and Environmental Education. Sheraton, Sheraton Ballroom, Section V, Level 4. 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm.
Chair: Marcia Diane McKenzie, University of British Columbia
Participants: Motivations to Environmental Action Participation by Exemplar Youth: UNEP International Children’s Conference on the Environment. Annelise Carleton-Hug, Montana State University; […]

47.064. Going Beyond Traditional Boundaries: Applying Novel Methods and Perspectives to Environmental Education. SIG Ecological and Environmental Education. Sheraton, Huron, Level 2. 8:15 am to 9:45 am.
Chair: Bob Jickling, Lakehead University
Participants: Students’ Perspectives on Environmental Education: “I’m Not Looking at It From a Tree’s Point of View.” Nicholas A. C. Hopwood; Oxford University; Deconstructing Early […]

16.065. Managing, Locating, and Theorizing Human-Nature/ Ecological Relationships. SIG-Ecological and Environmental Education Sheraton, Ohio, Level 2 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Chair: Justin S. Dillon, King’s College - London
Participants:
Management of Human-Nature Relationships in Environmental Education Resources. Joan M Chambers, University of Alberta; Patricia M. Rowell, University of Alberta
Farming and Land Management as Resources for Environmental Education. […]

Some lights in a house stay on quite a bit. Some only need to be on occasionally. In my apartment the outside porch light is on all night (roommates get home late), entry hallway is dark, and the steps up to the main floor are dark. The main hallway gets enough sunlight that it doesn’t […]

On Monday nights I attend an EnAct small group meeting. Last week we talked about energy, and we happen to have an energy worker as a group member whose insight into these things is really valuable. Tuesday nights I’m part of a Sustain Dane study group that is looking at The Natural Step framework […]

It happened last Tuesday, February 6th, 2007. It took about 75 minutes. I brought bottled water, Trader Joe’s dark chocolate-covered ginger, fresh pineapple and strawberries, and a 10-minute Apple Keynote presentation (on YouTube here, or at a better resolution on my site here, but with me explaining things instead of music by Moby). My committee […]

I live on the shore of Lake Monona in Madison, and if I’m lucky it’s frozen in the winter. When it snows, and people walk on it paths occurs. Because I take Rufus out for a walk on the lake in the morning, I’m often the first person on it after a night snow, so […]

Let me recruit you to help me find this T-shirt. I love it. My mother bought it for me about 10 years ago. Just before it wore out, I found another one in a thrift shop. Now it’s getting worn out, and I can’t find another. Help me find another one!

More Info: It’s signed “N. […]

As I’ve been waiting to defend my dissertation proposal, I’ve been reading more place-based education books, like Richard Louv’s Last Child in the Woods. There’s a lot in it that I agree with, but a few things that I find somewhat disturbing. Perhaps they’re written with a light dose of sarcasm, or with tongue-in-cheek.For example, […]

Here’s what I see happening:

Global Positioning System devices are flooding the “buzz” of the tech world. MacWorld San Francisco is taking place in the next few days and just about every Apple rumor site mentions the possibility of Apple adding GPS to its computers. It’s not really important that they do, but the fact that […]

Wal-Mart may go with solar power. As the Arctic melts and hell freezes…
one person who saw the proposal said that if completed, it could amount to a significantly large installation–on the order of 100 megawatts of power over the next five years. “To put that into perspective, the solar system currently being installed […]