The pack includes information on how animals suffer for meat, dairy, eggs, and seafood, how meat eating affects the environment, the myth of “free-range,” what’s wrong with leather and wool, vegan recipes, and even some free stickers. You may also request a free copy of Meet Your Meat.

From Action for Animals

EcoBrain is a new site for digital downloads offers a freebie (and paper free!) book of the week.

EcoBrain focuses on educating people of all ages about the environment. EcoBrain offers titles about cooking, green architecture, composting, farming, gardening, environmental science and kids books too. Visit EcoBrain.com this week and download “The Monkey Thief,” by Aileen Kilgore Henderson, a Costa Rican rain forest adventure story for kids, completely free.
The site does look familiar, it’s run by the same people who run CurrClick!

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Personal safety materials from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children are available.

Sign up for Wireless AMBER Alerts.

Age-appropriate, 3-D activities to teach children ages 5 to 17 how to stay safer on the Internet with the NetSmartz Workshop.

For more on safety, see the website at: http://www.homeschoolingonashoestring.com/safety.html

In honor of Earth Day (and every other day), a homeschooling mom decided to start a group for all interested in going “green”. Whether you are new to “green living”, or have been living it your whole life, there are a lot of simple things we can do for a healthier life and a healthier planet.

If each and every one of us made even one small change in the way we do things, it could make a big difference, for our planet and ourselves.

This group is a place to share ideas, resources, and just general information on green living, including (but not limited to) recycling, reducing, reusing, and use natural, organic, chemical free (in other words “Earth friendly” products

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