Goodness Me I'm Plastic Free

22/03/2020

Come join me

Have you ever looked at the night sky and wondered who else is looking up at that same moon or constellation? Galileo, Newton, the Magi - they all looked and pondered as we can do.

Social distancing is not an issue when you consider we all live in the same larger 'home' called Earth. Apart from the stars, sun and moon what else can you think of that we share in common? What have we shared since the beginning of time?

Its been on my heart for a while now to explore with your family and mine, our home and our role in it. Our collective home that is EARTH.

I put together a course, with a focus on gardening, on how to become a CREATION KAITIAKI. The plan was to meet as a Kids Club weekly face-to-face exploring the elements with science, math, engineering, horticulture, and language arts, from a Creation viewpoint. Now we can do the face-to-face part online and share our family's findings.

I will do a live video each week and a written post with the home 'work'. I'll share the journey from my garden. You can post on here, discuss and share your findings.

Here's the step-by-step plan...

PREPARATION - week 1
1. Put on your new SHADES and take a look through a new viewfinder at your world (what is a worldview and what kind are there?)
2. Let's build a HOUSE with a strong foundation and a protective roof (course content outline)
3. In the beginning... (there will be storytelling on this course and you will get creative - you are one of the main characters)
4. In the garden - applying the topic to life in the garden
4. Kaitiaki training: Applying what we know to care for the elements we study.

COURSE OUTLINE
4. Each week we will introduce a
> New topic - eg light and darkness affecting life, colour) *
> Exploration science projects
> Some family discussion questions
> Some words to play with and ponder
> Some family activities or games
> Some further research for social studies buffs
> What would a Kaitiaki do to protect this element/topic?

* topics will follow the 7 days as told in Genesis 1 of The Bible.
Light, Sky, Water, Land/Soil, Plants, Light holders and Seasons, Flying Creatures, Sea Creatures, Land Creatures, Humans, Day of Rest. but told in an engaging hands-on manner I hope will open up a curiosity to know more.

Background to Me:
I, Pania Edwards, have been influenced by a few things to arrive at this point. I've been a keen gardener since I was 8. I've actually been practicing permaculture before I knew it was a thing. I've had a calling to protect nature and give honor to the Creator - I was an activist from a young age when the swamp I played in as a kid along with the wildlife was drained for road improvements. Fast forward 35yrs as a mother and Christian I heard from a Creation ministries speaker that there was such thing as a worldview. I discovered for the first time a love of science and math and began homeschooling my children while learning myself. Among the many amazing texts and resources I found a workbook called Creation from MasterBooks that fitted with my teaching style and gardening theme. I am just itching to share these discoveries with families because I believe they hold the key to hope in this world - to know our Creator, the world created perfectly for us before we messed up, and the role given to us concerning it. It gives us a sense of purpose. I hope you will seek out what this means for yourself and your family.

This proto-type course is hopefully just the beginning. May there be a movement of CREATION KAITIAKI who reconnect with their Creator.

Sometimes all it takes is to look up.

02/01/2020

Come follow my next venture at CREATION KAITIAKI fb
Family Club starts Term 1

23/12/2019

Sickening to imagine what this creature and her mum went through. Please share to remind those fishing to clean up their act not let plastic get loose and consider who they share the ocean with.

18/12/2019

There you go...the solutions are there. Its the media that needs to share the right news.

04/12/2019

Some cool 'reuse' sustainable ideas I'll have to get the kids making this Christmas

28/11/2019

Great idea for fundraising for schools etc to sell these gift vouchers

🎁🌳 96 % percent of people we surveyed said they'd rather a was planted on their behalf than a $10 gift from their workplace - awesome right?! If you reckon less waste this Chrissie is a good idea, let your bosses know you'd love to grow our land, not our landfill these holidays. 🌱😍 https://www.treesthatcount.co.nz/gifting/

01/11/2019

Hello friends and supporters. I have decided to close up this page now. My goals are met and I'm moving on to new challenges broader than just the plastic pollution and saving our wildlife from it's harm. If you want to follow 'Creation Kaitiaki' it will focus on our role of stewardship of the environment, animals and humans from a creation perspective - the design, the biomimicry we take from it and the lessons we can learn for our future home called 'Earth'. PM me if you want to join - it will be a closed group.

28/10/2019

After our Chemistry of Plastics workshop a few of us went to Papamoa Beach to see what we could collect after all the stormy windy weather. Today it was mainly around the places people access the beach not the beach itself (carparks, lookout).
One thing we wondered is the wisdom of plastic toys in the beach toy library. Often not put away and drift out to sea, and often broken or unhygienic for use. Should we ban plastic from beaches and require people to bring alternatives like wooden trucks, metal spades/buckets. When we went plastic free we did this. Imagine the impact and message to send to retailers - don't sell plastic beach things that break in 2 minutes.

And seeing that we have alcohol and fire bans on beaches why not plastic packaging ban too? We are halfway there on the streets with our fabric bags, keep cups, cardboard takeaway containers, bamboo cutlery. It just makes sense to me. What are your thoughts?

28/10/2019

A few homeschool families have been studying the Chemistry of Plastics, and the pollution situation. We started two years ago with a beach clean up and still we go out regularly. One thing we find a lot of is fishing line and hooks. I can see it in this picture. So cruel to discard without thinking where it will end up.
The other point I want to make is I didn't know we had two colonies here at The Mt. How many families know they breed and nest here? So they are fundraising to create an education conservation programme that will hopefully raise awareness that these little guys face so much trouble dodging the impacts of humans, and predators.
I wonder if there is a good way to go rubbish collecting around the Mt without disturbing the wildlife or endangering ourselves?

Western Bay Wildlife Trust needs your help to safeguard the future of little blue penguins & petrels in the Western Bay of Plenty - Givealittle is the place to donate and fundraise for causes and charities online.

20/10/2019

Goodness Me! This fungi and bacteria were discovered at least 6yrs ago! Why aren't we seeing these discoveries being developed globally?

In my study of horticulture I've come up with many questions. It irritates me how secular science is taught. I believe all life has been designed to work in symbiosis or relationship with each other like us humans do. I'm particularly for the little guy - the algae, bacteria, moss and such that are dismissed as less important by evolutionists. So when I read this article I got quite hopeful that the future isn't as gloomy as the media portray. There are solutions out there we have yet to discover, understand and apply to help repair some of the damage we humans have made to our home. I've said it before - we need to think differently if we are to expect a different future.

On Monday I go with my son to a homeschool science workshop on The Chemistry of Plastics. We were shown the graphics of the history of production of plastic. Going from about 2 billion tonnes in 1970 to over 380 billion tonnes ANNUALLY in 2016. The only thing that made the line dip down was global oil crisis and price of crude oil in 1973 i think and 2008. Then it shot back up. We were asked to predict the future! Despite our awareness of the polluting effects of plastic since 1970 the graph has gone up exponentially so one prediction would say it's hopeless as we have been trying to reduce production for years now but yet it increases! I took the optimistic approach and said some bright teen is going to find a way to reuse all the existing plastic so we need not produce anymore and we are going to use biodegradable plastics and make stuff that lasts. Haha! Will it happen? If we promote discoveries like this and speak out to companies, government and scientists to bring to market ideas shown here for example.

What are your thoughts?

Did the Creator foresee the biological resources we would need to help correct our mistakes, as we fulfill His command to “subdue the earth”?