The world is ours to take care of, with all of its wonderful diversity. At Barefoot, we strive to conserve the earth's precious resources and help slow global warming and you can too. Why not share the message with everyone you know! Send this playful animated Ecard that brings the Whole World to life.

Below are resources and activities that you can use to educate our children about protecting the environment.

Content has been developed in association with our partners The Green Parent, Kiwi Magazine, and Roots & Shoots.

Roots & Shoots
Friends of the Earth
Natural Resources Defense Council
Stop Climate Chaos
Stop Global Warming
Young People's Trust for the Environment

Barefoot Goes Green
Find out ways that Barefoot Books has gone green and let us know ways we can continue to improve!

Do You Know Someone Making a Difference?
Since 1971, EPA has sponsored the President’s Environmental Youth Awards (PEYA). The program recognizes young people across America for projects which demonstrate their commitment to the environment. Young people in all 50 states and the U.S. territories are invited to participate in the program.

Kiwi Crusaders Award
Enter your classroom in the Kiwi Crusaders Award for promoting healthy eating at schools. They're celebrating the schools and school systems that have made a commitment to serving students healthy foods. If this sounds like your school, they invite you to nominate it for their prestigious annual award.

Barefoot Books About the Planet
Share these Barefoot Books with your child to teach them about the natural world and protecting the environment in a playful and engaging way!

Natural Solutions for a Healthy Home
One of the most powerful ways to protect your child’s health, detoxing your home can also do good for the planet. Here’s how to go green, one room at a time.

Help Kids Do the Right Thing
Inspire your children to eat well, stay active and go green! Ian’s Natural Foods has created the “I’m a SuperFit Kid” program to help kids develop and maintain healthy habits. Point-producing activities include swimming lessons, playing an instrument, visiting the dentist, reading books and planting a tree.

An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming
An Inconvenient Truth explains what global warming is and what causes it – and will help you learn how to take action and stop this crisis.

The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook
This is the official companion volume to the Live Earth concerts, 24 hours of nonstop concerts broadcast from around the world on July 7, 2007. The book presents 77 essential skills for stopping climate change — and for living through it.

Ecological & Environmental Learning Services
(EELS) provides K-12 education consulting for teacher professional development, curriculum development and education programs and assemblies. EELS has the expertise and experience to provide solutions for enhancing the academic excellence of students in scientific inquiry, ecology education, environmental science and environmental education.

North American Association for Environmental Education
NAAEE is the home for people from more than 55 countries who believe in teaching people how to think about the environment, not what to think. Their members uniquely use high-quality teaching methods and sound, environmentally sustainable concepts through a cooperative, nonconfrontational, scientifically-balanced approach to promoting education about environmental issues.

Journey North
Journey North engages students in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. K-12 students share their own field observations with classmates across North America. They track the coming of spring through the migration patterns of monarch butterflies, robins, hummingbirds, whooping cranes, gray whales, bald eagles— and other birds and mammals; the budding of plants; changing sunlight; and other natural events.

Global, Environmental and Outdoor Education Council
Receive news items in the Global, Environmental and Outdoor Education Council's quarterly newsletter Connections, as well as information about their workshop series. On their Web site, they've posted numerous free lesson plans, links to useful related sites, and information about their exciting Global Education Initiative.