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Blog Action Day: Pingu teaches about Climate Change!

Planet Earth is getting hotter!

How does this affect you and your friends?

How does this affect penguins?

Pingu, the 5 year old penguin, shows you how.

Click to watch the videos

Save Pingu from joetom on Vimeo.

In the episode we see Pingu’s environment deteriorate and Pingu is washed out to sea.

”Save Pingu” is a campaign aimed at children (5-9 y/0). It educates children about the issues of climate change in an entertaining, interactive and engaging way, and encourages them to help. With the children’s help, Pingu will be saved!

Unfortunately the link http://www.savepingu.com is not working.

The children would have had to complete 7 tasks, each with an environmentally friendly twist, to save Pingu. Each task completed improved Pingu’s environment. When all tasks had been completed they would have saved Pingu and unlocked a special episode where he was back to his normal, mischievous self.

Saving Pingu would have been a wonderful thing but you can still go to his official site and have loooots of fun:

www.pingu.net/

www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/pingu/

www.sonymusic.co.jp/MoreInfo/Chekila/Pingu/

Pingu Shop

More about Climate Change for kids

 

 

LINKS

http://tiki.oneworld.net/global_warming/climate_home.html

www.progressivekid.com/shop/HotPlanet.aspx

http://www.greengoatbooks.com/KCCC.html

http://www.coolkidsforacoolclimate.com/

http://globalwarmingkids.net/

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Fada Moranga loves treehouses!

Choosing a Tree for a Tree House

The first step to having your own tree house is choosing a tree or trees (some tree houses span two or three trees).

Take a walk around your garden and consider wether you prefer your tree house hidden or visible. How close are your neighbours? Think about who will use the tree house -- adults or kids.

Tree houses for kids should be kept close to the ground. The perfect tree for a tree house is not too young, not too old and must be healthy. Apple, oak, ash, fir and beech are some good choices.

More information here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BOOKS

MORE LINKS
www.la-cabane-perchee.com
www.pointclickhome.com/image/tid/4051
www.treehugger.com/files/2009/07/book-review-treedom-takashi-kobayashi.php

www.danielswoodland.com/tree_houses/index.php

www.poshliving.com/catalog/Coles-Tree-House/2136/23459/product_detail.asp

www.sweetretreatkids.com/lwd-turbo-timbers-tree-house-deluxe.html

www.samsclub.com/eclub/main_std_template.jsp?CntId=QA_treehouses

 

http://store.americangirl.com/agshop/html/ProductPage.jsf/itemId/142500/itemType/TOY/webTemplateId/3/uniqueId/649/saleGroupId/1212

Fada Moranga loves Tree-Nation!

Tree-Nation is an ecological project with a focused objective: To plant 8 million trees in Niger, Africa to fight desertification! Large-scale plantation of trees will increase the land's productivity and re-generate the soil. By planting your tree, you are not only investing in your own future, but also the future of others.

Supported by the United Nations Environment Programme, Tree-nation is an online community in which you can buy your own tree and become the guardian of a real and happy tree that will be planted in their park in Niger.

Each tree that is planted in Niger is also planted on Nation-Tree virtual map, which you can access directly through the site. Come watch how your happy tree grows big and strong! Tree-Nation wants to show that fighting desertification is not only a good initiative that will reduce the effects of climate change, not to mention improve the lives of thousands of people, but that it can also be rewarding and fun!

http://www.unep.org/
http://www.tree-nation.com/docs/press_rls/billion_tree_lowres.pdf
http://www.unep.org/Billiontreecampaign/images/unep-forest-map-update.jpg