Climate Quilt Project – Saving the Planet One Patch At A Time
Get your old t-shirts and scraps of fabric ready for a fun and worthwhile project! Kids across the world are now making pledges to save the planet with their participation in the recently launched Climate Quilt Campaign—check-out www.climatequilt.org. This is a perfect art project for homeschoolers to get together for a quick, fun, educational hour! [Yes, I'm going to organize a local one, details below].
The Climate Quilt Campaign, a project co-founded by HabitatHeroes.com and the Green Schools Alliance, is an effort to tangibly connect children worldwide around the issues of Climate Change and what they can do about it. The Campaign is designed to empower youth, raise awareness, build global community, and be the voice of children around the world who are pledging to do their part to help save their planet.
Children in every country and city throughout the world can get involved through their schools or individually to have their pledge patch included. The goal is to have the finished quilt on display in Copenhagen during the UN conference on climate change. Leading up to Copenhagen, the quilt will be celebrated in countries on all six continents including the United Kingdom, the Phillipines, China and Australia on the same day in a grand gesture of solidarity as together, children promise to help protect the Earth they will one day inherit.
The Climate Quilt Campaign officially launched on September 23rd. The Climate Quilt was officially debuted on September 22nd on NBC-TV “Today Show”:
There are many ways for you and your kids to get involved with the project!
- Make Pledge Patches with your kids today, instructions available here,
- Click here for a Sample Lesson Plan (which we’ll be using for a local homeschool art class we’re organizing),
- Assisting with your sewing expertise by becoming a Quilt Volunteer, or
- Help spread the word to family and friends, by sending a ready-made email directly from their site here.
- If you live in CT and want to join us, please comment below & contact me directly for details. If we get at least 14 kids to make patches we can quilt up a “group section”…But, we need our quilters’ help [Hint, hint: ValleyCentralHomeschool moms!
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This is an on-going process, but if you get your patches sent in soon, the Quilt is going to the Climate Summit in Copenhagen December 7, 2009.
Please share how you’re going to get your family and community involved! Check out this image for more examples (Click here to zoom an enlarge the image):
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