Climate Change is Elementary

09/15/2024

I was privileged to serve as the chauffeur driving my friend, Spencer Jourdain, to St. Pete where he got to reminisce with Jane Goodall about their mutual time in Africa when she was discovering her love for chimpanzees and he was helping Harvard test out a concept that became the Peace Corps. Also in the photo is Carole Colvin, who works with Spencer to develop and market Cafe Solar, solar-dried sustainable coffee that helps reduce deforestation.

08/21/2024

Why we need the Green Actioneers program in schools everywhere ASAP. We can create a clean and green future without scaring kids and parents, but it is good to know the truth about what is coming.

Intensifying extreme weather events and an insurance crisis are likely to cause significant economic and political disruption in the U.S. sometime in the next 15 years.

07/05/2024

I need to build a "launch team" locally for my important book. Do any readers have some energy to contribute to the Green Actioneers school program that is designed to help elementary or K-8 students everywhere (including Florida) to "Go Green" without broaching the controversial climate change issue? I need to find our first school anywhere in the USA brave enough to adopt the full program.

I've spoken and exhibited about our program at PTA conventions around the country and have a list of about 1,000 prospects, but need help to approach them and get buy-in. I'll travel anywhere in the US to help a school that wants to be known as "The school where it started." Wouldn't it be great if it were nearby. See my interview with Jack Canfield for some details.

Jack Canfield interviewed me about Green Actioneers Family Action Guide and our plans to create "Scouting for the 21st Century."

06/04/2024

I returned home to Celebration, FL from the 2024 California PTA convention where I got another 50+ schools interested in our Green Actioneers Movement designed for families in K-6, K-8 or K-12 schools Then I went to the Green Schools conference in Maryland and got interest from 21 schools.

It is too bad that here in Florida I have been unable to start a pilot program, but I'm willing to go anywhere to get our first schools that agree to implement the entire program and will be proud to be known as "One of the schools where it started." The program is free to the school and every family in the school gets a free digital copy of the 246-page bilingual (English/Spanish) Green Actioneers Family Action Guide at Green Actioneers Family Night. (pdf is here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Jr235NxNVTN1y1CqOosM252wogD9rhkQ/view)

Although we got video permission slips signed by every family in both of the Florida schools where we presented last year, at the last minute we were stopped from making a video of the program, and neither school put up the chart on the wall where families could post "sticky notes" telling others what actions they have taken.

Below is how our artist, Jim Haynes, depicts what the chart on the wall would look like either in an individual classroom or in the hallway. The idea is to use it like a "merit badge sash" to motivate kids to urge their parents to take additional actions.

If anyone would like more information please let me know here or txt or call me at 770-329-1152 or e-mail [email protected].

05/28/2024

https://youtu.be/9riq-e7PEmw. No matter where you are I'll come to your school for free in early Fall 2024 to introduce the Green Actioneers program and we'll give a free digital copy of the 246-page Green Actioneers Family Action Guide to every family at Family Night. The only requirements are that you'll implement the program as it is designed, that you'll let me video the entire program, and that your school will be proud to let everyone know that you are among the very first schools.

Your school is invited to be among the first to introduce the Green Actioneers program, "Scouting for the 21st Century." There is no cost for this program. ...

04/12/2024

Here is the YouTube version of the plan to spread the Green Actioneers program to every elementary or K-8 school in the US and elsewhere as well. If you know anyone who would be interested in helping either to fund or to implement the program, please let me know.

Green Schools can help create Green Families. It is time to expand the "Green Schools" movement to the community so that families everywhere can work toward...

10/06/2022

Green Actioneers is our new name and our new program for schools. Our school programs introduce the "Green Actioneers Family Action Guide," a 246 page step-by-step guide to help families save money and energy and have a clean and green future. Please join us there.

Green Actioneers
http://greenactioneers.com

03/13/2022

Here's the poem from our book and program http://GreenActioneers.com which has taken the place of "Climate Change is Elementary" -

Let’s All Go Green After Quarantine

© Dave Finnigan, 2020

Let’s all go green after quarantine! We know for sure it’s time.
Let’s do our best to heal the Earth, create a world sublime.
Covid was good training for the crisis that’s a-comin’
like a loaded train at breakneck speed, with all its wheels a-hummin’.

So let’s begin right here and now to create a greener place.
Start with simple things, go step by step and go at your own pace.
Our book should help, it has a hundred actions to review.
They’re for city kids, suburban folk and country cousins, too.

So get the book, go down the list and choose some simple chores
like sealing drafty cracks around your windows or your doors.
And there’s all that power that you waste by leaving cords plugged in!
Just think about your household as if all that waste’s a sin.

How you choose what to do first may be the easiest part.
I bet there’s at least one action here that hits you in the heart.
Like plant an indoor garden or switch to LEDs,
eat less red meat, more blueberries, yellow squash, and green peas.

Or take shorter showers, compost every table scrap.
Make drinking water right at home with a filter on the tap.
And you can look for an open space to plant a bush or tree
or a backyard vegetable garden, and then you eat for free!

Look through the book and make your plan with savin’ dough in mind
or shoot the moon and spend some cash on actions that you find,
like solar panels on your house or that spiffy electric car,
a reflective roof, new windows too, you’re a clean green superstar!

Let’s all go green after quarantine, we have no time for slack.
Once you do go green, I think you’ll find you never can turn back.
And when we all have taken steps to create a clean green scene,
We’ll all be glad we took the plunge and went green after quarantine!

The book in question is Green Actioneers Family Action Guide available in a preview edition now at www.greenactioneers.com

The Green Actioneers Activity Book is a vital resource for families that want to save money and “go green.” With over 108 actions to choose from, everyone can have fun while saving the planet.