Living It Green™

Living it Green™ is about living life abundantly green. From the homes we live in, the transportation we choose, to the places where we work, shop, and visit.

Founded in 2006, Living It Green™ is an educational and green products company, including a series of free to the public regional and international educational events and forums.

Living It Green™ Expos are free, family-friendly events held every spring and fall at community locations across the U.S. and Canada. The Living It Green Expos feature children’s activities, entertainment and educational attractions, and typically over 75 local, regional and national exhibitors and presenters displaying and offering green, outdoor living, and sustainable and energy efficient products and services.

Always remember, you can Live Abundantly Green™.

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Supreme Court ruled students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate”

Curtis Rhodes, Needville Independent School District’s Superintendent, wrote in a now-deleted Facebook post:

Please be advised that the Needville [Independent School District] will not allow a student demonstration during school hours for any type of protest or awareness!! Should students choose to do so, they will be suspended from school for 3 days and face all the consequences that come along with an out of school suspension. Life is all about choices and every choice has a consequence whether it be positive or negative. We will discipline no matter if it is one, fifty, or five hundred students involved…A disruption of the school will not be tolerated…we are here for an education and not a political protest.”

The question of whether students can protest during school hours was in fact addressed by the U.S. Supreme Court nearly half a century ago. And, in light of that case, legal experts tell TIME that, because it’s so broad, the Needville policy as expressed in the Facebook message is likely unconstitutional.

In 1969, the court ruled that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate,” as Justice Abe Fortas put it in the majority opinion for Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District.

David Harbour on His “Dancing With Penguins Trip” Is an Emotional Journey

It’s already been a banner year for David Harbour, whose Stranger Things fame has helped him fulfill his dream of dancing with penguins in Antarctica.

via Going Behind the Scenes With David Harbour on His Dancing With Penguins Trip Is an Emotional Journey — TIME

Here’s What to Know About the Partial Solar Eclipse Coming this Week.

The second solar eclipse in six months is coming later this week. The partial solar eclipse will be visible in Antarctica and a sliver of southern South America, experts say.

via Another Eclipse Is Coming This Week. Here’s What to Know About the Partial Solar Eclipse — TIME

Lost Mayan City Discovered Under Guatemala Jungle

(GUATEMALA CITY) — Researchers using a high-tech aerial mapping technique have found tens of thousands of previously undetected Mayan houses, buildings, defense works and pyramids in the dense jungle of Guatemala’s Peten region, suggesting that millions more people lived there than previously thought.

via Lost Mayan City Discovered Under Guatemala Jungle — TIME

Billions of Plastic Pieces Infecting Coral Reefs with Disease

Coral reefs are under threat from billions of pieces of plastic. Reefs that are clogged with plastic are 20-times more likely to be diseased than plastic-free corals, according to new research published in the peer-reviewed journal Science Friday. For the groundbreaking study, scientists tested 124,000 corals from 159 reefs across the Asia Pacific region between…

more via Billions of Plastic Pieces are Infecting Coral Reefs with Diseases, Study Shows — TIME

The Flu Is Hitting Baby Boomers Even Harder Than Children.

This year’s severe flu season brought at least seven more pediatric deaths in the past week – bringing the total to 37 so far this season. Baby Boomers, however, are among the hardest hit, with an unusually high rate of hospitalizations this year, according to CDC officials. “Baby Boomers have higher rates [of hospitalization”…

more via The Flu Killed 7 Children Last Week – but It’s Hitting Baby Boomers Even Harder — TIME

‘We Weren’t Prepared for This.’ Inside the Accidental Liberation of a Concentration Camp.

In early 1945, World War II was approaching its end in Europe, a conclusion that would officially arrive when the Germans surrendered to the Allies on May 7, 1945. In practice, that final period of the war was also the beginning of a new phase of the conflict, as troops and the general public alike…

via ‘We Weren’t Prepared for This.’ Inside the Accidental Liberation of a Concentration Camp — TIME