Imagining Climate Superheroes
The second in our series about how climate change affects school children features the creative writing and strong voices of 826 MSP students.
Category: Children
Young Authors Speak Out on Climate Justice
The creators of 826 MSP center BIPOC youth voices. They believe what young people write matters, and they amplify youth voices to effect change.
Play Streets and Block Parties: Reimagining Residential Streets
This National Night Out, see how to transform neighborhoods and strengthen communities by turning regular residential streets into “Play Streets!”
Little Free Library in Linden Hills Builds Community for Readers and Dog Lovers
Operating a Little Free Library is more work — and more rewarding — than it may initially appear. The chance to attract book lovers, preschoolers, neighbors, strangers and, especially, dogs, however, makes it all worthwhile.
National Links: Designing Pedestrian Dignity
Why green space doesn’t make suburbs more environmentally friendly than cities, how Japanese toddlers are more helpful to their parents and more on global urban trends.
Urbanist Grades for Books for Babies
As a new dad, our author is reading lots of baby and toddler books. But most promote a lifestyle that relies on large motor vehicles.
Three Days of Parent Drop-Off for Back-to-School
When is it unsafe to drop off a child at school? When other drivers get impatient and forget how quickly kids can move.
Kids on Bikes
Living in a nationally ranked city for bicycling does not necessarily mean that you feel safe letting your children ride on urban streets.
Sustainable Child Play
I spent half of a recent Saturday outside helping some friends do yard work in what most would call a working class to low-income neighborhood of Saint Paul. It’s a pretty diverse place, too, with U.S.-born black, indigenous, and white people living side-by-side with immigrant families from many countries. My friends’ duplex apartment is on […]
Transpo Convo: What’s Important on the Way to School
What does a walk to and from school look like through a child’s eyes? In a word (or three): Fascinating. Fanciful. Appreciative.