The growing focus on environmental issues and the gravity of the problems related to global warming and associated environmental matters behooves us as parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, and others who play a significant role in the lives of young people, to do all we can to educate children about the environment and, more important, what they and we can do to make positive changes for now and the future. At the same time, I believe the process of promoting positive changes should be as fun and engaging as possible while remaining educational and productive. Activities we can do with our children, which allow us to learn along with them and perhaps even recapture some of the wonder of the natural world in the process, seems to me to be a good approach. While searching the Internet for some ideas in this area, I found a few sites that I would like to share in the hope that parents will seriously consider educating their children and themselves about the environment and then take action. I know there are many more sites, but here is a place to start.

Promote Environmental Education for Children
Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education

Environmental Education Foundation