Showing posts with label climate change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label climate change. Show all posts
Monday, April 22, 2024

EARTH DAY -- what are ways to preserve our planet?

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Save our Mother Earth -- conserve  our resources, shift  to non-polluting substances. As many of you readers know, the poem above is an exam...
Friday, July 22, 2022

Worried about Climate Change

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     When working with students in poetry workshops I often ask them to write to satisfy a constraint -- perhaps a Fib or a square poem -- i...
Thursday, May 6, 2021

Climate Concerns

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      Ideas become internalized when we WRITE about them -- and I encourage students AND all of us to write about climate change and efforts...
Monday, April 22, 2019

Poems in support of Earth Day

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     These words come from an editorial by Eugene Robinson in the Washington Post in September of 2018.           Public awareness      ...
Thursday, February 11, 2016

Visit JHM for Mathy Poems

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     Today I'd like to direct you to the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics , an online open-access journal that features poetry in each ...
Saturday, July 25, 2015

Math and Poetry and Climate

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Canadian poet Madhur Anand is also an Environmental Scientist; her love of nature and concerns for preserving a habitable climate pervade h...
Sunday, June 21, 2015

Seeing the NEWS in square stanzas

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Reading today's Washington Post, a surprising statistic:                Sharks don't kill                as   many               ...
Saturday, October 4, 2014

Can poetry change the climate for frogs?

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      Poems affect our spirits as well as our minds. And Split This Rock is looking for poems that protest and witness, world-changing poem...
Sunday, April 14, 2013

Neglecting important numbers

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Not Getting It     by JoAnne Growney We want to be cool. We want cool rooms, drinks. With cool mindsets  we “forget” t...
Friday, February 1, 2013

Tomorrow is (or is not) Groundhog Day

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     Last year my February 1 post anticipated Groundhog Day with a poem that mentioned the crop damage that groundhogs do by tunneling unde...
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Friday, November 2, 2012

Storm Sandy -- and climate change

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     That      storm      Sandy      has caused more      people to believe      climate change is real and awful      than the piles of sta...