Andrea Koehle Jones: Children's environmental education advocate, climate journalist, writer/producer & author
Children can already see the impacts of climate change right here on the coast and they are worried. BOWEN ISLAND, B.C. — When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau launched an expanded oceans protection plan from Bowen Island last week, kids were watching. “There’s no time to wait. Let’s do all we … Read more
Adventures with Teens: Tips to get teens offline and outdoors. Article by Andrea Koehle Jones. (Fall 2022 edition)
“It is so hopeful, especially for children and youth to learn about meaningful efforts to protect ocean biodiversity for future generations.” BOWEN ISLAND, B.C. — It was just last summer when the heat dome decimated starfish and shellfish populations up and down the BC coast. Today Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced … Read more
By perceiving trees as possessing qualities we normally ascribe to intelligence and generosity, are we more willing to protect them? “When children can relate a forest to their own friendships and family relationships, then they will better understand that forests are connected and we are connected to nature as well.”— … Read more
I am excited about my latest children’s picture book about trees. I am writing and illustrating this sweet and hopeful picture book for young children and will be looking for an outstanding agent and publisher for this project. Updates coming soon.
My Persephone Poem turned into lyrics by Canadian lyricist Andrea Koehle Jones (SOCAN) You say you’re here to stay you say this time you’ll fight it. But I know leaves fall and you’ll fall down beside them. Falling down, underground, into the deepest blue I know – you don’t want … Read more
Excerpt from un-published poem by Andrea Koehle Jones “…and hugged the windswept alpine coast with awry roots, a lifeline…” “…years since I stood there in her rust red glow, I hear she stands there still. But who will save the trees? Then the breeze blows west and I feel her … Read more
March 28, 2022. “Climate change is already a humanitarian crisis and kids are worried. Let’s grow inclusive and transformative environmental education opportunities, especially for children and youth in regions hardest hit by the climate emergency,” said Andrea Koehle Jones, Founder, Executive Director and Children’s Climate Education Advocate, The ChariTree Foundation.“Stockholm+50 … Read more
All over the world, authors, illustrators, teachers and librarians will read books to school students through the magic of the internet! In honour of #WRAD, Canadian children’s author + environmental education activist Andrea Koehle Jones will read her book, The Wish Trees: How Planting Trees Can Help Make the World … Read more
“Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face.” — Nelson Mandela GLASGOW — We must give children the climate education tools required to face the climate crisis. In these last hours of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, there is still hope that negotiators will … Read more