Discover environmental films with a new page called Nature Movies! Find movie ideas and resources in different genres from documentaries to dystopian. There are a 100 unique movie titles here with links to more. Explore the options for films with information and inspiration, and help grow the list by sharing your favourite nature movies! 🎥

Read more here: Earth-Friendly Fashion Guide: 14 Ways to Green Your Style - Earth Day 1. Shop locally 2. Go organic 3. Go natural 4. Support sustainable brands 5. Donate, don’t throw out 6. Swap with friends and neighbours 7. Sell wanted clothing 8. Save water when washing 9. Use earth-friendly detergents 10. Think twice about dry-cleaning 11. Drip dry  12. Reuse and re-purpose worn or unwanted clothing  13. Upcycle clothing 14. Shop secondhand first

It looks like there is a small window of opportunity for any volunteers to sign up to be a Butterfly Ranger! 𓂃 ࣪˖ ཐིཋྀ The Butterflyway Project is a volunteer-led movement that works to grow highways of habitat for bees and butterflies across Canada. The goal of establishing habitat for local bees and butterflies in communities is done through volunteer Butterfly Rangers. Each ranger is tasked with organizing a small team to help plant at least a dozen pollinator patches. Signing up to be a ranger means you have access to webinars, online resources, and different connections. This is a great way to do meaningful work and get involved with a national network of pollinator advocates! Ranger recruitment is only open until Feb 19th. Learn more about this fun way to learn, connect, and help pollinators! • Butterflyway Ranger program - David Suzuki Foundation(https://davidsuzuki.org/take-action/act-locally/butterflyway/national/) • The Butterflyway Project - David Suzuki Foundation(https://davidsuzuki.org/take-action/act-locally/butterflyway/) #pollinators #butterflyproject #volunteers #buildhabitat #makeconnections #butterflies #bees #promotepollinators #ourworld

The Punnet Society has an additional home on Facebook! The Punnet Society | Facebook(https://www.facebook.com/groups/thepunnetsociety) Your puns deserve to be seen; so plant, share, and watch them grow as we collect the good, bad, and utterly terrible word plays, puns, and double entrentres entrentres!

I came across this organization today called Environment Tasmania. They work with wildlife, forests, and oceans. Some of what they offer seems to be marine surveys, a petition to sign, options to write letters to politicians, articles, reports, newsletters, and information, a video series, a take action section, and other ways to help this incredibly unique area by volunteering, donating, or using the provided resources.   Check it out here: Environment Tasmania (e(https://www.et.org.au/)t.org.au)(http://et.org.au)(https://www.et.org.au/)

Echinacea purpurea, sometimes known as a purple coneflower, is in the Asteraceae (daisy) family. Echinacea plants contain several bioactive compounds, including: • Alkamides • Glycoproteins • Polysaccharides • Antioxidants These compounds are thought to provide various health benefits: • Anti-inflammatory • Immunomodulatory (immune system modifying) • Anxiolytic (anxiety-reducing) • Antimicrobial • Antiviral Traditionally, echinacea has been used as a remedy for many conditions such as: • Toothaches • Stomach pain • Snake bites • Skin disorders • Chronic arthritis • Cancer • The common cold Research is ongoing and echinacea may not be for all, but this amazing plant is beautiful and loved by pollinators! Below is a fun short video story and overview of this purple wonder: 🌸 #natural #remedy #echinacea #naturerules #nature #provides

Soar, flutter, spin, or crawl into the perfect activity for all occations. Create a simple, strange, and smile-inducing craft from a pine cone! What you'll need: • A pine cone • Googly eyes • Scissors • Low heat glue gun • Four pipe cleaners and mixed pom poms for spiders • Stiffened black felt and white paper for bats Pine Cone Spider For Kids - Pine Cone Crafts For Kids and more(https://pineconecraftsforkids.com/pine-cone-spider-for-kids/) Pine Cone Bat For Kids - Pine Cone Crafts For Kids and more(https://pineconecraftsforkids.com/pine-cone-bat/) Which will you choose, spiders or bats? #naturecrafts #crafty #nature #spiders #bats #craftfun

Take a listen to some beautiful music from the Amazon rainforest and learn about the people and a recent film from this area.    🎶 The song is a chant from Yube, the son of Ninawa Pai da Mata. Ninawa Pai da Mata is a well-known Chief of the Novo Futuro Village, of the Huni Kuin people in Acre, Brazil. He is a respected knowledge keeper, talented musician, and recognized in many countries for his healing work through medicine.  🎬 The film is called Eskawata Kayawai - The Spirit of Transformation. It’s about the Huni Kuin people experiencing cultural and spiritual renaissance after decades of slavery during the rubber plantation era. They were forbidden to speak their language, marked with numbers, and couldn't live their culture. "It took more than 20 years of hard work, prayers, and cultural strengthening undertaken by the spiritual leader Ninawá Pai da Mata so that his people could return to their ancestral way of life." • You can find the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c7mmUUwghk(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c7mmUUwghk)   🎤 Below is a quote from Ninawá Pai da Mata: • "This biodiversity, we Huni Kuin and indigenous peoples in general, as human beings, are also in the middle of this as people who can help to speak up and represent all of us who live here because all our knowledge comes from here, from the jungle, from nature."

Take a journey to the land of the Mapuche People and the language of Mapudungun! Gonzalo Luanko, known as "Luanko", is an urban artist who started in the hip-hop culture as a teenager. He is a practising history teacher who has released at least 5 albums. “His discography contains an attractive lyrical work in verses that alternate from Spanish to Mapudungun, rescuing the native language and delivering the message to new generations for the reconstruction of the Mapuche culture.” This song is called Trapi and comes with a great beat and an artistic, traditional video. Trapi is a chili pepper used “to protect the house from evil forces, to clean spaces with its smoke, to warm the body in the face of the cold, to give flavor to meals. The chili pepper has a deep meaning for our culture, instead of gold metal chains, in our music we use Trapi necklaces, to strengthen our identity, revitalize and protect our language. We have many elements in common as native peoples and mestizo people, and one is the Trapi, each people has different types of chili peppers, different ways of preparing them and living with them.” What did you like best about the song? 🌶️

Try something different with a short video that breaks down some amazing language attributes coming from Eastern South Africa! It’s 2 minutes and 48 seconds long. I got to the 2-minute mark before my mind was blown and I couldn’t repeat it. How far do you get? 🤔 Read more here: Man Demonstrates How Clicks Work in the Zulu Language (https://mymodernmet.com/man-demonstrates-zulu-click/)

Share a thought for the Elderberry! What thought comes to mind? Can you come up with a poetic word, phrase, description, or unusual sentence that fits the elderberry in some way? Start the plant-based poetry chain in the comments by adding your imagination! If you need inspiration, check out these facts to get the creative elderberry juices going: • Elderberry, or sambucus, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Adoxaceae • They are more widespread in the Northern Hemisphere • Elderberry grows in swampy habitats and other areas that provide enough water • Elderberry plants can produce 12 to 15 pounds of berries per year • Elderberry has traditionally been used for pain relief, swelling, inflammation, influenza, colds, herpes, healing burns, and even improving one's complection • Uncooked berries, leaves, bark, and roots of the elderberry plant contain the chemicals lectin and cyanide • In some myths, the elderberry tree is thought to ward off evil and give protection from witches, other beliefs say witches congregate under the plant when it’s full of fruit • In ancient Greece, the elderberry was seen as a sacred plant • Elderberry are perennial plants that can survive from 80 to 100 years in the wild

It's easy! Anyone can create a post with a name or a photo of a type of plant or flower. You can add comments that provide descriptions, phrases, memories, or ideas that match the plant. You can also react and vote on the best intrepretations. Together, we can create something new and unique; Plant-Based Poetry! Below is an example made with a friend. Now it's your turn to give it a try!

• 1.5 billion cotton swabs are produced every day. • All of these swabs require resources to produce, ship, and package - all to be thrown out after one use. • They can also end up in waterways as microplastics. • The average person throws away approximately 415 each year. • About 8 million metric tons of plastic enters our oceans each year and dispossible cotton swabs make up between 1-6% of this. • Land and water use, along with fossil fuel demand, are other impacts associated with them. • A reusable Q-tip can replace approximately 1000 of the regular throw-away swabs. What do you think about this option and information? Is it that simple to personally eliminate 415 sticks of plastic each year? If it is, why is this green alternative not more well-known or tried? #green #alternatives #ourworld #ouroceans #leavenotrace #reusable #dreamgreen