Green Homes and Preschools

Visit Your Library
Borrowing from libraries instead of buying personal books and movies saves money and printing resources.

Pick Up Litter
Choose a park or a neighborhood in your community that needs cleaning and get together with your children to pick up the trash.

You can teach children about various subjects like the extinction of polar bears in the Artic region, because glaciers are melting as a consequence of warmer temperatures. Two wonderful DVDs that teach everyone about our planet are the films Planet Earth and March of the Penguins. Both films will help bring awareness to how beautiful and fragile our planet is, and how we can make the effort to preserve it. Yes, global warming is real, but parents incorporating an eco-friendly lifestyle at home can be examples for their children, and in some cases it’s the children that end up teaching their parents about the environment.

Making Your School and Home Eco-Friendly: Tips from Christina Houri, Founder of New York City’s First Green Preschool Le Petit Paradis. Christina was inspired to make her preschool eco-friendly after viewing the film An Inconvient Truth.