How THOMAS & FRIENDS crept into one boy’s life, and how his father came to terms with it.
Making Gleaned-Fruit Jam with Ayhan
Here’s an easy and delicious recipe to make a small batch of jam from fresh fruit–one even your child can help with.
Raising a Future Ecowarrior
An essay for Adbusters on the need to raise children radically as we spiral toward civilizational collapse.
Escaping Fido’s Cave
How do we break the cycle of consumer socialization and perhaps even survive the coming climate crisis?
Learning from Icarus
A reflection on how making society more resilient may be worse than doing nothing at all.
Taking a Ride in the Time Machine
Your choice: Do you take a ride in the time machine 300 years into the future or 300 years back?
LEGOs, LEGOs, Everywhere, and a Partnership with Shell
Is LEGO’s partnership with Shell “polluting our kids’ imaginations”?
My Son is a Treehugger. Literally.
Recently, my son started hugging trees. And no I didn’t prompt it.
Prophesying Collapse
Lessons for today’s prophets of doom and gloom.
The Controversial Question of Vaccines?
Which vaccines should a young ecowarrior get? And when?
The Noisy Future of Farming
Imagine the day when households become small-scale bug farmers—no insecticide needed.
Bob and Brunhilde’s Boat of Biodiversity
Introducing the newest Little People playset: Bob, Brunhilde and their Boat of Biodiversity