TeachingGreen Programs
We offer two educational programs: one for adults and one for kids.
Adults
Our program for adults has two main goals: to convey a basic understanding of our most serious environmental programs, and to help consumers live the Green Life. Participants learn how to make smart consumer choices and adopt day-to-day behaviors that can significantly reduce their ecological footprint. We move people from CONCERN about the environment to ACTION.
If you're an individual looking to green your life, see our schedule of workshops. Everyone is welcomed and encouraged to join us at these public workshops. We recommend that you attend all of the workshops in the series, but you're welcome to join us for any topic(s) that you are interested in.
If you represent a group of folks (ie, a company, church group, fraternity, etc.) interested in learning more about living sustainably, click here to schedule a presentation. We'll come to you!
For more information about our Green Life Program for Adults click here.
Kids
Grades K - 8: Coming Soon!
Our program for children focuses on natural resources. Key points of the presentation include:
- Humans depend on natural systems for our survival, comfort, medicine and all aspects of our material lives
- Humans do many things that alter these natural systems, often to their (and our) detriment
- Natural systems are all connected and when human activity affects one natural system, others are affected as well (for example deforestation leads to increased runoff, choking streams with sediment; it also removes a carbon sink, trees, which accelerates global warming)
Building on their new-found understanding of our dependence on and influence over natural systems, we help kids see ways that they and their families can help to protect these systems and the life-supporting resources they provide.
Grades 9 - 12 
With the high school audience, we focus on the environmental impacts of consumer behavior. Specifically, we look at just how the choices we make in the areas of transportation, food, home & garden, solid waste and household toxics affect the environment.
As budding consumers, teenagers represent the perfect audience 
for these presentations because they are just beginning to make consumer decisions on their own. The goal is to plant the seeds of knowledge now so that down the road, when it's time to buy a car or a home, the enviromental impacts of these major purchases will be considered. In the meantime, students will be encouraged to reduce the impacts of their day-to-day activities and purchases, with the overall goal being that they will adopt a more sustainable lifestyle that will be passed on to their children and grandchildren.
