It's a Family Affair

If you’re planning on attending UK Aware this weekend and leaving the kids at home, maybe you should reconsider and bring them along.

By bringing together some of the country’s most influential environmental organisations and companies, UK Aware will provide the perfect opportunity to inspire your little ones and teach them about global warming and the importance of green living. It will help you talk to your kids about how they can live a greener lifestyle by doing such things as riding a bike, using renewable energy and eating organic produce. Climate change is going to present younger generations with immeasurable challenges. Creating awareness in children is the first step toward getting them to take action. Knowledge, after all, is power.

So make sure you bring your whole family, and stop by the Footprint Friends booth, where kids can paint eco-art on the soles of their feet! (All painted feet will be photographed and placed in the Footprint Friends art gallery.)

Footprint Friends is a web-based social networking site for 11-18 year olds. It was launched in 2007 to encourage young people to participate in the climate change conversation and to raise greater environmental awareness and inspire positive action among youth around the world. Make sure to check it out. Hope to see you—and your family—there!

For more info about Footprint Friends, click here.