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Lynne Cherry

These Short Movies Feature Young People Who Have Reduced Their Climate Footprint! You can, too!

Some of the young people featured in the Young Voices for the Planet films were on the panel "Kids These Days..Taking Control of Their own Future" at the Society of Environmental Journalists Conference in Miami. People said it was the best panel of the conference conveying HOPE rather than hopelessness.
Read about how what you drive and how you live can make a difference and reduce global warming gases.
CLICK HERE to read about Young Voices on Climate Change --a series of short movies produced by Lynne Cherry that feature young people who are reducing the carbon footprint of their homes, schools, communities and states.
CLICK HERE TO WATCH TEAM MARINE. These movies present inspiring, uplifting and empowering international stories of young people, age 11-17, taking action and finding solutions to the global warming crisis. In the course of carrying out some of these pro
For Teachers: The SEER report showed the impact of Environmental Education on Performance--When subjects were taught in an integrating context, test scores went up. Click to read more.

Children convinced MacDonalds to use recycled cardboard containers instead of styrofoam. Kids were responsible for getting the tunafish companies to stop fishing for tuna in places where dolphins would get caught in their nets. Children helped to save Belt Woods in Maryland. Children saved an old growth forest in Michigan and the oldest cypress swamp in Coral Springs, Florida. Kids, you can make a difference in the world!

If you would like to start a garden at your school, click here for information compiled by the US Botanic Garden and the Chicago Botanical Garden.
To see how you can transform your backyard or schoolyard to habitat for other living things, click here.
Learn what you can do to help the planet. Click here to see the Turn The Tide page from The Center for a New American Dream's website.

What You Can Do to Make A Difference
Many of these ideas are from A New American Dream
*Buy less, use less
* Recycle
*Turn off your TV and use that time to learn about your community, organize and write letters.
* Replace grass in your yard at home with native plants that create food and habitat for wildlife.
*keep a Nature Journal. Observe insects, plants and animals. Draw them and write about them.
* Save open space in your community (write the Center for Environmental Education for a copy of the Save the Land You Love issue of Nature's Course)
* Compost cafeteria waste--create rich black earth. Use it to...
* Plant a butterfly and bird garden at your school
* Grow vegetables and fruit trees at home and at school--grow some of your own food.
* If you have a wet area in your schoolyard, plant wetland plants

Help migrating birds and butterflies by clicking here:
href="http://learner.org/jnorth" TARGET=NEW>Journey North

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