Posts Tagged ‘Nancy Bo Flood’
A Hall of Fame for Cowboy Up! Ride the Navajo Rodeo riders?
Since the rodeo season wound down in September, young riders will have a winter to dream of 2016 competitions. Or, they could imagine themselves as future members of the Pro…
Read MoreNo-Name Baby features big-name song
When is a song something more? Sometimes, music can unlock memories. Main character Sophie discovers Alexander’s Ragtime Band is a link to the past for Aunt Rae. Writer Irving Berlin…
Read MoreRain’s surprise role in water pollution
When rain falls on concrete, asphalt, tilled fields or barren soil, it is immediately recycled as surface water; there is no time for cleaning. Currently, the biggest contributor to pollution…
Read MoreGoing out costs a lot (of water)
A lot of water is necessary to manufacture “things,” such as the shirt you are wearing. That shirt? About 700 gallons. How much water does it take to make a…
Read MoreTalking about why water matters
Sharing water. Sharing ideas. Read Water Runs Through This Book, then check out these questions. When you’re discussing this book, you’re discussing our future.
Read MoreWater on your head? An umbrella won’t help here
One gallon of water weighs 8.3 pounds (3.76 kg). Hold that on top of your head and walk around for a few hours. Not fun! How much water would you…
Read MoreWater of all temperatures chills us out
New studies show that our brain neurons are “hardwired” to respond to the sounds, smells, and feel of water. Relax in a hot bath, splash through a puddle, sit by…
Read MoreTurning fog into much-needed water
People who live in the driest desert on earth use huge nets to catch fog and “harvest” water. The Atacama in Chile is an “absolute desert,” but over one million…
Read MoreHow much water do you use daily?
Most people in the United States use about 100 gallons of water each day. People who do not have “running water” use less than five gallons of water a day.…
Read MoreCounting your blessings, drop by drop
What if you turned on the faucet—and nothing came out? Flush the toilet. No water there either. Hmmm. . . Try all the faucets in the house and school. Nothing!…
Read MoreTaking the too-long walk for water
Add up all the miles women and children in South Africa walk. For water. Every day. Sixteen trips to the moon and back, Every day, For water. from page 41,…
Read MoreWatersheds: the neighborhoods built around moisture
Rain falls, washes into streams or soaks into the earth, and joins with water from many places to support an environmental community, a watershed. A watershed includes all the plants,…
Read MoreBlood in our veins, water in our world: life’s two connectors
Imagining our bodies as a biological watershed helps us understand the importance of each part of an environmental watershed. Water, not blood, is the main “connector.” (from page 32, Water…
Read MoreNature’s trickle-down remedy to water pollution
Water that falls on forests, parks, or live vegetation, soaks slowly into the earth. It often takes years before this water becomes part of the surface water again. During those…
Read MoreEvery water journey begins with one step
How are glaciers made? I tell how in my poem that begins: Capture one Snowflake. —from Chapter Five (page 27), Water Runs Through This Book, by Nancy Bo Flood
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