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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="4" color="#333333" style="font: 13.0px Verdana; color: #333333">Here's a gem from Sandra Steingraber in the last issue of Orion magazine, "<a href="http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/3229/"><font color="#356699" style="color: #356699"><u>The Big Talk</u></font></a>," </font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/3229/">http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/3229/</a></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; ">on how to talk to kids about climate change (or "how to tell a six-year-old where all the birds and bees have gone").</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="4" color="#333333" style="font: 13.0px Verdana; color: #333333">She discusses this tricky topic in greater depth with <i>Orion</i> magazine executive editor Hal Clifford in <a href="http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/audio-video/item/3579/"><font color="#356699" style="color: #356699"><u>this audio interview:</u></font></a> </font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/audio-video/item/3579/">http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/audio-video/item/3579/</a></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 18.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; ">This is essential listening for any parent with youngsters because most kids know by now what's going on and need to hear from their parents about it. It's arguably tougher than the "birds and the bees" talk because there's no tidy reason for why the adults are fooling with the global climate. But you'll find company in this conversation.</span></p>Erik<br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>--</div><div>Erik Hoffner</div><div>Orion Grassroots Network</div><div>888-909-6568</div><div><a href="http://www.oriongrassroots.org">http://www.oriongrassroots.org</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>The Orion Grassroots Network provides services and support to grassroots organizations engaged in ecological, social, and cultural change. </div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span></span></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span> </div><br></body></html>