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Life Under Logs at #MountBlue State Park
Division / Program: Parks and Lands
Date: August 1, 2025
Time: 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: 187 Webb Beach Road, #WeldME 04285
State Park: Mt Blue
Event Type: #NatureExploration"Come join us for this short nature walk, where we will learn about the creatures that make their homes in the dirt and under logs.
"Meet at the nature center. Bring sturdy shoes and bug spray. Children must be accompanied by an adult. This program may be canceled in the case of rain."
Contact Name: The Park
Contact Phone: 207-585-2347
Cost: Programs are free with park admission. Day use: $1.00 ages 5-11, $5.00 Maine residents age 12-64, $7.00 non residents age 12-64, $2.00 non residents 65+; persons under 5 & Maine residents 65+ free#MaineEvents #MaineForests
#Nature #MoreGreenTime #SolarPunkSunday
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TOMORROW! #ForestWalk #Meditation at #RangePond State Park
Date: July 30, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: 26 State Park Rd, #PolandME 04274
State Park: Range Pond
Event Type: #NatureExploration"Yes, we know it's a funny name, but here generations of Mainers have called it 'Going up to Camp'. In Japan they say '#ShinrinYoku,' which literally means 'forest bath.' Make time for yourself, life is hectic. Come over to slow down and connect with Range Pond's forest and wildlife. Enjoy an hour of quiet. Do's: Prepare to be outside, which means black fly & tick precautions. Bring a folding chair if you want to sit. Don'ts: Leave those bars of soap at home and please leave your phone in your car. Ranger Lori, a retired educator and lifelong outdoor enthusiast will facilitate this program.
"Meet at 10:00 AM at the parking lot across from the Range Pond State Park gate. Children attending programs must be accompanied by an adult. Program may be canceled due to continuous precipitation, or lightning in the area."
Contact Name: The Park
Contact Phone: 207-998-4104
Cost: Programs are free with park admission. Day use: $1.00 ages 5-11, $6.00 Maine residents age 12-64, $8.00 non residents age 12-64, $2.00 non residents 65+; persons under 5 & Maine residents 65+ free#MaineEvents #ForestBathing #MaineForests #NatureExploration #Nature #MoreGreenTime #SolarPunkSunday #MoreGreenTimeLessScreenTime
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"It’s really important for a kid to be left alone"- When #TaikaWaititi made his feelings clear about the role of tech in children's lives
By Sourav Chakraborty
Modified May 03, 2025 04:54 GMT" 'Exactly, now they’ve all got iPads and it’s done for them! I think it’s really important for a kid to be left alone and left to figure it out for themselves how to pass the time. As a kid, I spent so much time bored and coming up with ideas of how to do things, so I’d write stories or I’d draw pictures or invent worlds through drawing or just in my head, just thinking about things. I think that a lot of my creativity has really come from being bored.' " [SO TRUE!!!]
#SmartphoneAddiction #TechIsDumbingUsDown #NoAI #Imagination #LudditeClub #NeoLuddites #Luddites #LessScreenTime #MoreBoardGames #MoreGreenTime #MoreOutdoorTime #FlipPhones #MoreBooks #Smartphones #TechAddiction #TurnOffYourPhone #BePresent #ThinkForYourself #ResistTheMachine #NoSmartphonesForKids #MoreGreenTimeLessScreenTime
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Now in College, #LudditeTeens Still Don’t Want Your Likes
Three years after starting a club meant to fight #SocialMedia’s grip on young people, many original members are holding firm and gaining new converts.
By Alex Vadukul
Jan. 30, 2025"Biruk Watling, a college sophomore wearing a baggy coat and purple fingerless gloves, walked the chilly campus of Temple University in #Philadelphia on a recent afternoon to recruit new members to her club.
She taped a flier to a pole: '#JoinTheLudditeClub For #MeaningfulConnections.' Down the block, she posted another one: 'Do You Desire a Healthier Relationship With Technology, Especially Social Media? The Luddite Club Welcomes You and Your Ideas.'"When a student approached, Ms. Watling dove into her pitch.
"'Our club promotes #ConsciousConsumption of #technology,' she said. 'We’re for #HumanConnection. I’m one of the first members of the original Luddite Club in #Brooklyn. Now I’m trying to start it in #Philly.
"She pulled out a #FlipPhone, mystifying her recruit.
"'We use these,' she said. 'This has been the most freeing experience of my life.'
If Ms. Watling had a missionary’s zeal, it was because she wasn’t just promoting a student club, but an approach to modern life that profoundly changed her two years ago, when she helped form the Luddite Club as a high school student in New York."But that was then, back when things were simpler, before she had embarked on the more independent life of a college student and found herself having to navigate QR codes, two-factor-identification logins, dating apps and other digital staples of campus life.
"The #LudditeClub was the subject of an article I wrote in 2022 — a story that, ironically, went viral. It told of how a group of teenage tech skeptics from Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn and a few other schools in the city gathered on weekends in Prospect Park to enjoy some time together away from the machine."They #sketched and #painted side by side. They read quietly, favoring works by #Dostoyevsky, #Kerouac and #Vonnegut. They sat on logs and groused about how #TikTok was dumbing down their generation. Their flip phones were decorated with stickers and nail polish.
"Readers inspired by their message responded in hundreds of emails and comments. Reporters from Germany, Brazil, Japan and elsewhere flooded my inbox, asking me how to reach these students who were so hard to track down online. Snarky Reddit threads and think pieces sprouted. #RalphNader endorsed the club in an opinion essay, writing: 'This is a rebellion that needs support and diffusion.'"
Read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/style/luddite-teens-reunion.htmlArchived version:
https://archive.ph/
#SolarPunkSunday #Nature #NeoLuddite #Luddites #LessScreenTime #MoreBoardGames #MoreGreenTime #MoreOutdoorTime #FlipPhones #MoreBooks #ResistTheMachine