What Can I Do?

This section gives students hands-on opportunities to get inspired, take action, and make a difference.

• Paradise Lost includes samples of art inspired by concerns over climate change. See where the art exhibit will travel next.
  
  

• Department of Natural Resources - Green & Healthy Schools program can give you ideas on how to make your school greener and healthier than it already is.
• Do A Little? Save A Lot! - Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources hints on reducing energy use.
• Learn all about green living, measure your carbon footprint, and get tips on how to reduce your footprint.
• Paradise Lost - Get ideas for your artsy activism project from the creators of Paradise Lost.
• Change a Light, Change the World, is a national call-to-action to change the world one light at a time.
• Stop school buses idling and polluting the air around your school!
• Waste Free Lunches and Environmental Protection Agency Visit either of these waste-free lunch sites to learn how to launch a program in your school.

Notable Books McKenzie-Mohr, Doug, and William Smith, 1999. Fostering Sustainable Behavior: An Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing. Babriola Island B.C., Canada: New Society Publishers. Jacobson, Susan K., Mallory D. McDuff, and Martha C. Monroe. 2006. Conservation Education and Outreach Techniques. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc.

Tree of Pledges (Activity, 2 pages, PDF, 251KB)

• Learn more about Paradise Lost, the project that inspired this activity.

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