Here are some recent news stories featuring GreenMyParents:

Announcment Partnership with American Library Association to rebuild library in Haiti

“Our student participants loved the GreenMyParents workshop hosted at our library and streamed live over the Internet. The program was hosted by students and proved to be valuable, practical, entertaining and relevant to teens, tweens and parents alike. It’s wonderful to watch our youth bring families together and lead a new green movement. I hope every school and public library will host similar programs at their facilities,” said Ms. Cynthia Baran, librarian, Environmental Charter High School (ECHS), Lawndale, Calif., 2010.

GMP Families will be encouraged to direct a small portion of realized financial savings to help rebuild the Petit Goave Public Library.

Feature in NWF’s Ranger Rick Magazine

NWF’s Ranger Rick Magazine’s September 2010 issue featured 3 GMP Champions who together saved over $300 for their families through electricity, water, waste and food. Ranger Rick is one of the largest youth magazines going out to over 1 million homes, schools, libraries and Dr’s offices. Read the complete 6-page spread in Ranger Rick.

GreenBiz.com, Highlights from Sustainable Brands 2010, Karen Barnes

High school junior Jordan Howard presented a new idea — create your own green job at home. Teenagers need a way to earn money. What if teenagers undertook green initiatives and shared in the savings as a way to earn money and help the environment? Check out the website, www.greenmyparents.com, and buy the book on Amazon.

NY Times: How to Green Your Parents, By Allison Arieff,  April 21, 2010

I have to welcome, too, GMP’s unabashed fusion of capitalism and carbon footprints: they believe that carrots work better than sticks…. It’s been difficult enough to get people to carry reusable bags to the grocery store; incentives help, and saving $100 month is a big incentive. Tiny as many of the green steps are, they cumulatively result in households geared toward collective action. Kids are urged not just to find ways to save money and energy but to negotiate with their parents for a percentage of the realized savings in return for their initiative. Environmental, familial and financial responsibility are linked, so the effort isn’t so much about being an environmentalist as it is about being a responsible, engaged and caring member of the family.

For the entire article, visit the NY Times.

Mashable “5 More Ways to Go Green for Earth Day” by Geoff Livingston

Green My Parents focuses on kids that want their families to reduce environmental impact at home by saving $100 per household via green initiatives. The collective goal is to save $100 million, and the program will launch on Earth Day with a youth-led webinar via the National Wildlife Federation’s EcoSchools USA Channel on SchoolTube videos.

To view the webinar archive, visit EcoSchools USA Channel on SchoolTube.com.
For the entire article, visit Mashable.

Yahoo Shine, Kids Launch “Green My Parents” to Save the World

Can kids save the world? The kids who founded GreenMyParents sure think so!
This youth-led movement is officially launching on Earth Day with a plan to inspire peers, parents and millions of American families to go green. In the process, they aim to save $100 Million by this time next year. How? It will start with 100 “youth champions.” Each of them plans to recruit 100 more kids, then train them to promote easy, everyday steps that protect the environment and save money, too, at least $100 per family. It’s hoped each of those kids will recruit another 100, and another 100, and another 100, until tens of thousands or even millions are involved.

Though GreenMyParents begins on Earth Day, it doesn’t end there. The group’s organizers plan to run the program for at least a year with the hopes of creating chapters in every school in America.

For the complete article, visit Yahoo Shine.

Y-Pulse, Earth Day Youth Initiatives Roundup

By now we’ve all seen the studies on “green teens,” trend pieces on eco-friendly campuses and stats revealing tweens who volunteer more than Mom and Dad. It’s official: this generation of youth has helped raised our collective environmental consciousness by leaps and bounds and made going green mainstream for brands.

On the 40th anniversary of Earth Day (an event bred out of environmental teach-ins on campus!) we thought we’d highlight some recent initiatives from youth media and orgs that inform, empower and (most importantly) mobilize these sustainability natives down the road to hopefully greener pastures. Feel free to leave more great campaigns and initiatives we may have overlooked in the comments….

GreenMyParents is a nationwide effort to inspire and organize kids to lead their families in measuring and reducing environmental impact at home. Not just on Earth Day, but every day. GMP’s initial goal is to have its first 100 youth advocates train and educate 100 peers (who will then turn to 100 of their respective peers and so on), with the aim of saving families $100 million between now and April 2011.

For the complete article, visit Y-Pulse.