Eco-friendly school talks the talk and walks the walk, kids take it all home (Live)
TUCSON, Ariz. — With its vegetable garden, rainwater cisterns and dedication to teaching kids how to cuddle with Mother Earth, Civano Community School in southeast Tucson fits right into a neighborhood designed to be more at ease than at odds with the planet.
The Civano neighborhood was created with goals to reduce water and energy usage and the amount of waste going into landfills. The school, a charter school sponsored by the Vail School District, just seemed to be a natural extension of these goals.
Produced by nature, organic coffee benefits all (Archive)
Organic coffee branches out, recycles and brings families together.
Café Justo: Fair, fresh and pesticide-free (Live)
AGUA PRIETA, Mexico — A quiet revolution was born in the town of Salvador Urbina in Chiapas, Mexico, when several small farming families joined together to form the first of a number of organic coffee growing co-operatives more than five years ago.
Café Justo is a coffee growers’ co-operative in a small town called Salvador Urbina, located in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. About 40 families with small coffee farms grow organic coffee as a part of the co-op.
Café Justo: It's all in the family (Archive)
Cafe Justo is a fair trade coffee-growing co-operative that's helping bring together Mexican farming families and provide solid jobs.
Books invite young minds to open to environmental possibilities (Live)
Six reviews of books that teach kids the benefits of caring for Mother Earth.
Earth Day holiday book delights and enlightens (Live)
Books invite young minds to open to environmental possibilities
Earth-Friendly series helps outdoor fun and holiday crafts go green (Live)
Books invite young minds to open to environmental possibilities
Linda Lowery's "Earth Day" educates children on the importance of Earth Day (Live)
Books invite young minds to open to environmental possibilities
Children's craft ideas keep plastics, general junk out of landfills (Live)
Books invite young minds to open to environmental possibilities
Sing a song to save the soil (Live)
Books invite young minds to open to environmental possibilities
Students give their 'All' in greenest school contest (Live) TUCSON, Ariz. — Lauded for saving rainwater in cisterns to irrigate its vegetable garden, for composting leftover scraps from meals, for using solar panels and for much more, Civano Community School gets named "greenest elementary school in America."
Pam Bateman: The driving force behind Civano Community School (Live) TUCSON, Ariz. — Recently named the “Greenest Grade School in America,” Civano Community School gets a green thumbs up.
Planet Kindness a hit with children of all ages (Live) TUCSON, Ariz. – International entertainers visit Tucson to teach children about resource conservation through magic, puppets and songs.
Camp Cooper: A place of learning, a place of uncertain future (Live) TUCSON, Ariz. – While the Cooper Environmental Science Campus provides a place for youngsters to learn about the desert environment, budget troubles in TUSD may change all that.
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