Parents Learn to Play Too: A Parent's Guide to the Early Years by Susie Beghin
As screen time seeps into the lives of younger and younger kids, parents struggle to set limits, handle meltdowns and safeguard sleep. See Delaney Ruston, MD's Screenagers: Elementary School Edition. Social Studies, Lauren Greenfield's documentary series chronicles the lives of teenagers whose childhoods were shaped by social media.
A Danish school has returned to using books and pens.
Some NYC teens have rejected cellphones and social media.
Check out The Human Nature School in northern Michigan.
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In The Regeneration Handbook: System-changing strategies, Don Hall reports on regional food hubs, local currencies (to keep wealth circulating locally, rather than going to corporate headquarters), local investment networks and community land trusts.
While Harvard professor of psychiatry Judith G. Edersheim says the effect of giving children a smartphone is like putting them in a 24/7 casino and serving them chocolate-flavored booze, Ted Gioia names 8 Ways of Connecting Your WiFi Can't Deliver: with nature; with family, friends, neighbors and colleagues; with history and tradition; civil engagement; acting charitably and giving support; connecting spiritually, beyond the materialist realm; making art; and via love, forgiveness, fidelity, trust, empathy and kindness-- the things computers can't provide.
To learn about the waste and destruction of one industrial wind turbine project in upstate New York, watch Green Madness. One turbine starts with 900 tons of steel, 1000 pounds of copper, 2500 pounds of plastic and 2500 tons of cement. Not exactly "clean" or "renewable."
Elisabeth Robson's two-part video, What is Offshore Wind Energy? Part 1 explains how turbines are manufactured and how they work. Part 2 reports on their impacts on wildlife.
How to reduce radio wave exposure in a Toyota.
Sarah Aminoff reports that Apple watches do not belong in water: their forever chemicals (PFAs) pollute. In salt water (i.e., ocean water or a mineral springs hottub), electronics can fry. Then, lithium batteries expand when they fail-- which can shatter the watch's screen.
Dr. Joel Moskowitz (UC/Berkeley School of Public Health) presented "Health Hazards of Wireless Technologies: What do we know now?" at the Collaborative for Health & Environment, September 25, 2024. Dr. Moskowitz reported on recent studies and addressed the World Health Organization's efforts to assure the public that wireless radiation is safe"based on flawed WHO-commissioned research. The preponderance of scientific evidence shows adverse biological and health effects from the radiofrequency (RF) radiation generated by wireless technology. Major studies document that RF exposure increases lab animals' incidence of certain tumors; and epidemiological studies find increased risk of certain tumors associated with long-term mobile phone use.
Data collection in modern cars can lead to dramatic rises in insurance premiums since automakers share drivers' behavior (i.e., hard braking) with insurance companies. Before buying a car, learn how to opt out of data collection. MSN
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