Green Options » empowerment http://greenoptions.com/tag/empowerment Posts tagged 'empowerment' Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:57:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Gorilla In The Greenhouse: Schoolhouse Rock For The Green Age? http://ecochildsplay.com/2008/04/22/gorilla-in-the-greenhouse-schoolhouse-rock-for-the-green-age/ http://ecochildsplay.com/2008/04/22/gorilla-in-the-greenhouse-schoolhouse-rock-for-the-green-age/#comments Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:57:12 +0000 Paul Smith http://ecochildsplay.com/2008/04/22/gorilla-in-the-greenhouse-schoolhouse-rock-for-the-green-age/ How do you get your kids to care more about and take action on improving the environment, when the world they’re focused on is on their iPod, their Wii, their phone, and online? If you’re SustainLane, you meet them where they are, and create a web based animation series and also show it on TV, on Earth Day Television.

Gorilla  in the Greenhouse, an episodic show premiering today, doesn’t preach at kids, but instead engages them on their terms and empowers them to take action. Gorilla in the GreenhouseAnimated by the people behind such web classics as The Meatrix, it features four smart kids and a wise green gorilla, facing the big green challenges of our day, with inventiveness, action, and most importantly, a rockin’ song.

Not many people could pull off making a catchy tune about a garbage island in the Pacific Ocean, but in the first episode, “The Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” they show otherwise. With people such as Ralph Guggenheim, one of Pixar’s founders producing, this moves beyond merely being entertainment to being a bridge to further conversation with your children about things happening in the real world, and what can be done about them.

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