KRB’s newest Earth BEAT Eco-Station Shrink Your Carbon Footprint: Small Steps for Big Impact! empowers and inspires kids to take action to make a difference in reducing air pollution affecting our health and the greenhouse gas emissions contributing to climate change and its devastating effects.

In this high-energy activity, students work in small groups to learn how they can shrink their carbon footprint by taking steps to reduce their consumption of electricity and single-use products, and consider alternatives to fossil fuel burning methods of transportation. A short skit created by each group demonstrates their chosen actions.  Their peers call out the message and then watch the giant footprint shrink.

Through their participation in this fun, hands-on activity, kids become aware of how their own behavior and choices can contribute to solutions, and how the power of their voice now and into the future can drive systemic change that addresses waste at its source.

We are proud and honored to have co-written our newest Eco-Station with Kottie-Christie Blick. Kottie is a skilled education consultant, university course instructor, award-winning classroom teacher (recently retired from Cottage Lane Elementary School), member of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Planet Stewards Program, and webmaster of the popular website, KidsAgainstClimateChange.com.  Check out this great resource!

Many thanks to Maria Vega-Cabrera and her 5th grade class, as well as Jacob Tanenbaum, Abby Rudin, and the administration at Cottage Lane Elementary School, for helping us pilot Shrink Your Carbon Footprint.