Other Free Local Activities
- Mercer County Library System
- Hamilton Township Free Public Library
- Pennington Public Library
- Princeton Public Library
- Trenton Public Library
- Princeton University Library (children's programs)
- Mercer County Park [Howell Living History Farm (free educational events)]
- New Jersey State Museum
- Lawrence Nature Center (free programs)
- Literacy Volunteers in Mercer County
- Computer Learning Center at Ewing (occasional free programs)
- Mercer County Family Support Organization (free family support including classes)
- Unitarian Universalist Church at Washington Crossing (some free adult programs)
- Barns & Noble at Market Fair (free events)
- Terhune Orchards (free events)
- For free local meditation activities and sponsoring organizations, see the list at the end of this page
Local Businesses/Organizations/Information
- AH2 & Beyond
- Anchor House
- Big Bear Natural Foods (multiple locations)
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mercer County
- Biz4NJ
- Boys & Girls Club of Trenton [Bike Exchange]
- centraljersey.com (Packet Publications)
- Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Mercer County
- craigslist (Central New Jersey)
- DeLiteful Food
- GoKidsNJ
- Goodwill Industries International (Trenton & Ewing locations)
- Greenwood House
- HomeFront [Lawrence Community Center (on Facebook )]
- Interfaith Caregivers Trenton
- Knapp's Cyclery
- Macaroni Kid Princeton-Hamilton
- Mercer Bucks Holistics/The Learning Center (on Facebook)
- Mercer County Improvement Authority (e.g., electronics recycling)
- MercerSpace.com
- Mercer Street Friends
- Mobile Meals of Trenton/Ewing
- Neighborhood University (New Brunswick area)
- NJ.com
- The New Jersey Writers Society [Hopewell Chapter, Calendar including West Windsor Group]
- One Simple Wish
- PEAC Health & Fitness
- Pennington Quality Market
- PrincetonKids
- Princeton Learning Cooperative
- Princeton Online
- Princeton Regional Convention and Visitors Bureau
- PrincetonScoop
- Terracycle
- Trenton Area Soup Kitchen
- Trenton Farmers Market
- Tumbleweed and Eddie's (Natural Pet Treat Co.)
- US1 PrincetonInfo.com
- Whole Earth Center of Princeton
- Whole Foods Market
- Zero Tuition College
Free Schools/Skools
Please refer to this list compiled by the Freeschool Community or this Wikipedia article.
Miscellaneous Links (relevant/interesting articles, etc.)
- Making Life More Meaningful, Resurgence (Jan./Feb. 2012)
- U.S. Press Freedom Fell 27 Places Last Year to 47th in the World, Atlantic (2/2/12)
- Why Equality is Better for Everyone, Yes! (12/27/11)
- New Petition Asks Obama to See Children as More Than Test Scores, GOOD, (2/2/12)
- 'Go Halfsies' Fights Hunger, Waste, and Crazy Restaurant Portions, GOOD (1/26/12)
- Exerpt of Program Two: So Human, So Chimp [kindness], PBS (1/13/12)
- From PBS' new program "The Human Spark"
- Audit: N.J. daycare program could be wasting millions of dollars, NJ.com (1/26/12)
- A Student Proposal Could Make a University of California Education Affordable Once Again, GOOD (1/23/12)
- The Uses and Abuses of Optimism and Pessimism, Psychology Today (Nov. 2011)
- Can Money Buy Self-Esteem?, Scientific American (1/17/12)
- Compost Cuisine: Amazing Ways to Make Delicious Food Out of Garbage, Alternet (1/11/12)
- Money and Morality, Resurgence (January/February 2012)
- What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success, Atlantic (12/29/11)
- Living Large in a Tiny House, Yes! (10/31/08)
- Physicists Seek To Lose The Lecture As Teaching Tool, NPR (1/1/12)
- A Library Without the Building, Altantic (12/27/11)
- MIT launches online learning initiative, MIT News (12/19/11)
- In Pursuit of the Perfect Gift? It's a Lot Closer Than You Think, New York Times (12/12/11)
- Lead From Old U.S. Batteries Sent to Mexico Raises Risks, New York Times (12/8/11)
- On "achievement gap"
- A Silicon Valley School That Doesn't Compute, New York Times (10/22/11)
- Reading, Writing, Empathy: The Rise of 'Social Emotional Learning', GOOD (10/16/11)
- Fracking along the Delaware River
- Occupy Wall Street and More
- Rallies Across the Globe Protest Economic Policies, New York Times (10/15/11)
- Occupy Wall Street Inspires Worldwide Protests, NPR (10/15/11)
- Turning Occupation into Lasting Change, Yes! (10/14/11)
- The Revolution Begins at Home: An Open Letter to Join the Wall Street Occupation, The Indypendent (9/28/11)
- Sick of Corporations? Co-Op Evangelists Want You on Their Side, GOOD (10/13/11)
- Less Work, More Living, Yes! (Fall 2011)
- More Than Child's Play: Ability to Think Scientifically Declines as Kids Grow Up, Scientific American (October 2011)
- Farming and other experience exchange:
- Transparency International
- U.S. Military Spending Versus Foreign Aid, GOOD (4/21/11)
- Students Need to Learn Effective Failure, Scientific American (4/12/11)
- Large-Scale Problem: Our Broken Global Food System, Scientific American (3/30/11)
- Degrees and Dollars by Paul Krugman, New York Times (3/6/11)
- Preventing Heat From Sneaking Out of the House, New York Times (1/13/11)
- Athletics at Cooper Union? Precisely, New York Times (12/16/00)
- College Unbound, GOOD (12/14/10)
- Upper-Class People Have Trouble Recognizing Others' Emotions, Science Daily (11/23/10)
- Think More to Eat Less, Scientific American 60-Second Science (12/10/10)
- Contrast in education [brief comment on our blog]
- Math Isn't Just Computation. So Why Is That All We Teach?, GOOD (12/1/10)
- Everything can be recycled, MercerSpace (11/11/10)
- Daydreaming Diminishes Happiness, Scientific American podcast (11/11/10)
- The Self-Repair Manifesto, GOOD (11/9/10)
- Superman Can Wait, Parents Hold the Power, GOOD (10/19/10)
- Triplets on Charity
[brief comment on our blog]
- World’s Richest Man: ‘Charity Doesn’t Solve Anything’, The Wall Street Journal Blog (10/15/10)
- Dambisa Moyo, GOOD (10/13/10)
- "No more charity, please!", Ode, (December 2007) [interesting point of suggesting taking less]
- Opinion: Customers want relationships, not low prices, Retail Customer Experience.com (10/11/10) [great article; hopefully, one understands that the ponit of the article is not really about setting price, but about "doing the right thing," in this case, within the context of competitive market place; we don't compete, though]
- Two myths that keep the world poor, Ode (November 2005)
- 4,100 Students Prove ‘Small Is Better’ Rule Wrong, The New York Times (9/27/10)
- A Conference Makes Learning Free (and Sexy), The New York Times (9/24/10)
- Online Kindness Class
- At First She Didn’t Succeed, but She Tried and Tried Again (960 Times), The New York Times (9/3/10)
- The real meaning of security, Ode (October 2005)
- Don't take it personally, Psychology Today blog (7/3/10)
- The Money Delusion, Resurgence (May/June 2008) [brief comment on our blog]
- Declining empathy [brief comment on our blog]
- Spokes | Hauling Cargo, No Car Necessary (including a video), The New York Times City Room Blog (7/18/10)
- The Creativity Crisis, Newsweek (7/10/10) [brief comment on our blog]
- The Wrong Focus, The New York Times (7/13/10)
- Competitive Environments and Cheating, GOOD (6/12/10) [also see No Contest, Cheating Culture]
- Are We Starting to Care Less About Money?, GOOD (4/2/10)
- In the Future, the Cost of Education Will Be Zero, Mashable (7/24/09)