MiniMonos Friday Featured Friend -- Cool The Earth

We love hearing about other keen environmental advocates, who find fun ways to inspire school kids to take action!

A few weeks ago we described how Lynn Hasselberger created I Count For myEARTH, a great environmental awareness campaign teaching kids about trash -- in particular, the damage caused by disposable plastic water bottles.

Another incredible organization encouraging school kids to combat climate change, is Cool the Earth. Carleen and Jeff Cullen from Marin County, California, watched The Inconvenient Truth and took action to create their grass-roots, school-to-home program in 2007.

Cool the Earths' mission is to "engage kids and their families in climate change by motivating them to take simple, measurable actions to conserve energy."  The non-profit organization wants to demonstrate that every action counts and that, collectively, communities can make a big impact on global warming.

There are 5 main components to the Cool the Earth program:

This spirit-filled event is where it all begins.

Take an action, turn in a coupon, get a reward.

These monthly activities highlight a particular action.

 

A team approach makes it easy and fun to run.

See how all those actions add up to make a big difference.

At MiniMonos we're so impressed with the immediate impact the Cool the Earth community has made! Here are their stats so far:

And imagine how this positive impact will keep growing, as a result of these kids and their families changing their environmental habits over years to come.  Way to go, Carleen, Jeff and the Cool The Earth team!

You can find out more about Cool The Earth here.

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