Girl Scout Gold Award

[lizzie_marie_23]

Greetings, Ladies, Gentlemen, Androids, and People of Undetermined Gender,

My name is Elizabeth, but you can call me Lizzie: everyone else does. For my Gold Award Project, the four Ambassadors are creating a program called R4: Go Green. On Earth Day of next year, we will train Girl Scout troops to go to homeowners and distribute various items (trees

Comments

[alder_knight]

This project sounds SO FUCKING AWESOME SO FUCKING AWESOME SO FUCKING AWESOME.

I'm an unemployed environmental educator, and this is exactly the sort of project I'd love to be working on. Dang.

More specifically, what sorts of resources do you need? I'll see what I can dig up.

[lizzie_marie_23]

I love you so much for commenting on this. I think it will make a real difference. Because even if there's no lasting value of what we do on that one day, we will have spread awareness and in the end that's all you can do.

I'm specifically looking for stuff about how to reduce energy consumption and the kinds of companies that are good/bad for the environment. Really anything along those lines would be awesome.

[alder_knight]

Hmmm. Most companies that aren't good for the environment give out $1000-ish grants to nonprofits so they look like they ARE good for the environment. I'm on kind of a grr-argh kick recently, reading The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Nonprofit Industrial Complex, so I'm all jaded and shit. BLEH. NOT HELPFUL.

At any rate, here are a couple hopefully helpful links:

• The Nature Conservancy's carbon footprint calculator - really cool widget for figuring out how much energy you use, where it's being wasted, and what you can do to cut down.
• Treehugger - my favorite "green" blog! They have lots of good articles and resources. I get their weekly newsletter, and I highly recommend it.

[alder_knight]

...how about I put a URL in that first link tag?

http://www.southendpress.org/2006/items/87662