Earth Day: How You Can Make a Difference Today & Every Day!
Earth Day is finally here! Every year on April 22nd, we celebrate our shared planetary home, the birth of the modern environmental movement, and take action to protect natural resources and species. Earth Day is so much more than that, and there are so many ways to get involved! Watch Dr. Goodall’s Google Doodle: Matthew […]
Cookbook by Portland Teens Raises Over $10,000 for Orphaned Chimps
When she was in the 6th grade, Brooke Abbruzzese decided that she wanted to make a difference for animals and the environment. Always an animal-lover, Brooke had recently become captivated by primates after reading Jim Ottaviani and Maris Wicks’ graphic novel, “Primates,” which tells the stories of Jane Goodall, Birute Galdikas, and Dian Fossey. Around […]
And then there were two…In the Wake of the Death of Sudan, What’s Next for the Northern White Rhinoceros?
On March 19, 2018, the last male northern white rhinoceros passed away. At age 45, Sudan had lived a full life. At the time of his passing, he was one of the only three living northern white rhinos. The other two females, his daughter and granddaughter, are all that remain of this subspecies. What does […]
A Run in with Jane Goodall in Parking Lot Gave Me Hope
College is rough. Most of my time May of 2017 was spent inside the library at all hours of the day studying for finals. Earlier in the semester I had decided that I was getting bored of my Public Relations major and that I would add a Business Administration major to my degree, just to […]
Artist Marla Friedman Sculpts Moment of Connection Between Jane + Chimp David Greybeard
Dr. Jane Goodall’s study of the lives of wild chimpanzees proved that there is no sharp division between humans and the other species with whom we share this Earth. As a 26 year-old, Dr. Goodall went into the forests of Tanzania with a notebook, used binoculars and a passion for learning about animals. After months […]
Strong Woman, Strong Scientist: Khalifa Stafford, Roots & Shoots Alumna
Khalifa Stafford dreams of one-day using stem cells to treat psychiatric and developmental disorders. Her passion for science has been a constant for most of her life and much of her drive to create change in the world stems from finding a role model in Jane Goodall. According to Khalifa, “Roots & Shoots placed within […]
Nebraskan Youth Leading the Charge in Compassionate Crane Conservation
Central Nebraska Roots & Shoots’ project, “Common Ground Program,” is our March 2018 Roots & Shoots Project of the Month! See more projects we love here. When you live right next to the Platte River and its adjacent prairie ecosystem, you know a thing or two about cranes. For students of Grand Island Public Schools, […]
Jane’s Animal Friends
Animals help me survive my days of travel. As I go place to place around the world, I take note and remember well those animals I’ve gotten to meet along the way. Here are a few. A highlight of my visit to Kelowna in Canada was my meeting with Tundra, an 11 year old wolf […]
IT’S OFFICIAL, RENEWABLE ENERGY WORKS
On January 15th, 2018, Robert and Barney Swan became the first people to reach the South Pole on an expedition powered entirely by clean energy technologies. The father-son duo traveled on foot for 600 nautical miles across Antarctica on a mission they called the South Pole Energy Challenge. These modern-day explorers set out on their […]
Stephen Hawking Was an Indomitable Human Spirit
One of my five reasons for hope is “the indomitable human spirit”. No one exemplifies this more than Stephen Hawking. He was diagnosed with the slow-progressing form of motor neurone disease, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, when he was 21 years old, and told he had only two years to live. At first he […]
