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Blueberry Honor!

I am delighted to have Animal Climate Heroes selected as a Blueberry Honor book! Created by Evanston Public Library to recognize children’s books that foster a love of nature and the environment, the Blueberry (a blue-planet play on the Newbery

Alison March 24, 2025March 24, 2025 Books, Environment, Nature, News Read more

Books for a Better Earth

I’m super excited to be one of the authors contributing to Holiday House’s Books for a Better Earth collection! There’s lots of information out there about how bad things are, environmentally speaking. But there isn’t much about what people can

Alison March 28, 2023February 15, 2024 Environment, News Read more

Surfing electrons create the northern lights

The flickering glow of the northern and southern lights is known around the world. They occur when electrons from the sun’s solar wind run into Earth’s magnetic field. But in order to build up enough energy to release light, those

Alison June 14, 2021February 15, 2024 Environment, Nature, Space, Uncategorized Read more

Listen to millions of monarchs

What sound does a butterfly make? With it’s delicate wings, not a whole lot–until you get millions of them together in one place. Most monarchs migrate to Mexico for the winter. There, they huddle in trees at night and flit

Alison May 9, 2019February 15, 2024 Awesome Animals, Environment, Nature Read more

New outdoor classroom–now in!

Here it is, the culmination of something I have poured my heart and soul into for the past two years: the outdoor classroom is in! I applied for the main grant for this space two years ago. That school year,

Alison August 25, 2015February 15, 2024 Alison's Adventures, education, Environment, Nature Read more

Big project underway!

It’s been a long, crazy few months, but I am very excited about a project I’ve been heading up: my kids’ school is getting a spectacular sustainable outdoor classroom. The schools is one of 30 in Nebraska that is part

Alison August 24, 2015February 15, 2024 Alison's Adventures, education, Environment, Nature Read more

Poo-powered bus!

Turning waste into clean transportation. Check it out: The world’s first poo-powered bus! Engineers believe the GENeco Bio-Bus offers a sustainable alternative to public transportation. That’s because it runs on biomethane captured from the breakdown of human sewage and food

Alison March 30, 2015February 15, 2024 Environment, Inspired inventions Read more

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