IslandWood is a very different kind of camp. Located inside a 255-acre nature preserve in Bainbridge Island, Washington, this environmental learning center was Washington state’s first LEED Gold project.
What’s so special about it? Visitors can explore a bog, marsh, pond, stream, large ravine with suspension bridge, and a harbor — all among a beautiful second-growth forest with lots of plant and animal life.
The buildings at the six-acre, 18-building campus are designed to be extremely earth-friendly and to blend with the environment as much as possible. Features include composting toilets (they don’t stink!) and photovoltaic roof panels (a solar technology).
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I won’t use the word “puke” here often. I do promise. However, this product intrigues me so much I had to post about it for kid’s day.
Available from kidsgardening.org, Owl Puke is a book that comes with a real, vomited, but heat-sterilized owl pellet. This sanitary pellet contains the skeleton of one owl meal, such as a small bird or mouse. The book, intended to help teach kids about the food web, also includes a bone-sorting tray and chart to aid in identifying the contents of the owl pellet. Additional pellets may also be purchased.
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