To save the planet for your kids, help your kids save the planet.
As today is Earth Day, we wanted to take a look back at one of the first TED Prize winners. Famous for his large-format color photographs of industrial and man-made landscapes, Edward Burtynsky’s TED talk focused on the stark beauty but troubling nature of humankind’s impact on the earth. Reminding us both visually and verbally of the need to build sustainable world, his wish emphasized the need to develop a bottom-up strategy for protecting the environment.
Burtynsky wished to develop a program that would motivate kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living. Four years later, the result of his wish, a kids website called The GREENS, is going strong.
From the site:
With The GREENS, we get kids thinking about the world and their place in it. The GREENS project is upbeat and optimistic. We encourage kids to make informed choices and meaningful changes. Through the animated episodic adventures, a blog, kids’ mail, and regular updates, we explore green living, sustainability, ecology, environmental care, and social equity. We nudge kids to research, to challenge, to discover, and to take action whereever and whenever they can.
Share the site with a child today. Arm them with the tools to build themselves a better future.
Ted.com members and speakers, past and present, need to appeal to educators and academic institutions everywhere to alter the shape of our educational programs. We must saving our planet
the first priority in all schools.