Taking care with people, and with our common spaces, is the expression of a sense of belonging and living together. This is quality which is not only resources or wealth. Because care generates care, carefulness generates carefulness, responsibility generates responsibility. Awareness of and responsibility towards the shared destinies of the planet and humanity require attitudes…

In our classroom, studying the weather is a practice that enables us to learn more about the patterns that comprise the natural world.  Using Almanac.com, the Mercury group found an article on edible weeds that caught their interest. They began offering tentative definitions of the word edible, and trying to define weeds with respect to…