Welcome
Thanks for visiting my web site. Let's keep the earth healthy together. As I always say, "No matter what your age, you can make a difference!"
My mom and I designed ecosavvykid.com for kids. But, we would love for you to share the information with the big kids in your life too! We will focus on: recycling, reusing, reducing our waste, rethinking how we care for our environment, the natural world around us, how you can make a difference in your community and how we can educate our parents and our friends about making a difference too!
We provide links to cool web sites you should check out that offer great information or a product we really like.
Thanks, The Ecosavvykid, Jamie & Mom
Listen to this month's music clip!
Jack Johnson, Let It Be Sung
Monthly Notes Show your green moves at school Habitat Hero On Cape Cod our two favorite chapters are in Wellfleet and Long Pasture. They offer great programs for kids and adults, beautiful trails and are staffed with some pretty cool people. For those of you that live local, Long Pasture has come out with their newest program schedule. We got the okay from Jodi Montoya, Education Coordinator for Ashumet, Long Pasture, and Skunknett River Wildlife Sanctuaries, to post their programs: Do you know about John Audubon? The kids took this book out at our local library. Quick story and great illustrations.
It's Fall....So The Acorns Tell Me!
My front yard is covered in acorns--all courtesy of one very large, Red Oak. The squirrels have been busy knocking them all down, and what they don't scoop themselves the little chipmunk in our neighbor's stonewall, scurries to grab. So what am I going to do with ALL THOSE ACORNS! Ahh...thank you Kaboose. Kaboose.com is a great website with all kinds of fun crafts. Our acorns will be turned into a beautiful wreath for our side door. Doing crafts like this reconnects your littleones with the wonders of our woods, encourages creativity and exercise (gotta find the stuff!). Here are some other sites with nature based crafts for you to visit too!
Q: What's stinky, slimy and weighs 18,000 pounds?
A: The annual lunch waste from one "average" school in the US! (source ecobags.com) YIKES!!!!
As you get ready for school make sure you green your back to school gear. Here are some suggestions:
1. Proudly wear your ecosavvykid shirt and announce you care! 50% of the proceeds go to Audubon and/or The Nature Conservancy.
2. Use a wrap-n-mat for your sandwich and steel water bottles for your drinks--cuts down on waste.
3. Ride your bike to school if you can or get your parents to car pool
4. Try out Ecobags.com cloth sandwich and snack bags or the To-Go Ware® 2-Tier Stainless Steel Tiffin Set/Food Carrier.
5. Mimi the Sardine Modern Cloth Lunch Bag, Jamie's favorite lunch bag!
6. Cloth napkins!
7. Before you buy school supplies make sure you don't already have 20 handheld pencil sharpeners and rulers you can use again this year
8. Instead of the same old backpack take a look at all cotton messenger bags. Add some cool iron-0ns and you are good to go.
9. Recycled filler paper and recycled pencils
10. We bought Redi-tag's 100% Recycled Notes, 3 x 3 sticky notes and Envirotech Subject Notebooks 100% post-consumer.
Video Suggestion
Gotta see this!!! Great music, photography and some
reality slaps about our water situation!
http://www.grandcanyonadventurefilm.com/
Meet Peter the Owl
Hi, my name is Peter the Owl and I am your "eco" guide for 
this website! I will give you facts about the world around us and how we can be green. You will see me pop-up in different places, so look for me!
The Ecosavvykid website is proud to be recognized as a Habitat Hero by the Australian website, www.habitatheroes.com
We encourage you to check out the great information they have to share!
Rediscover Your Local Audubon Chapter
Children’s Wild Arts Program
Ecology Summer Children’s Program
Dr. Seuss: How Smart You Were!
"I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees." ......
Parents, if you haven't shared The Lorax, written by Dr. Seuss, with your children...you need to. The story chronicles the plight of the environment and the Lorax (a mossy, bossy man-like creature), who speaks for the trees against the greedy Once-ler. Take your kids to the library, sit down and read this story together.
Kids, if your parents give you the okay, watch The Lorax video we posted on our Kids Corner . Finally, check out The Lorax Project website:
http://lorax.conservation.org/
World Ocean Day
June 8th is World Ocean Day, but we plan to celebrate it on June 7th here on Cape Cod. If you want to join us in a beach clean up, go to our Pics & Events Page for more information.
