What do Thin Mints have to do with Team Earth? More than you might think.
As you know, Team Earth is anyone and everyone who wants to do the right thing to protect our planet. And the Girl Scouts of the nation’s capitol (Washington, D.C.) are all-stars when it comes to doing something for our planet.
Their Council has challenged each of its 63,000 members to replace at least one incandescent light bulb with a CFL—one of Team Earth’s core climate challenges.
The group has calculated that if every local Girl Scout did this, almost $300,000 in energy costs would be saved.
Through our own emission reduction calculations, we’ve found that changing that many light bulbs would also result in enough energy savings to power more than 2,000 homes for a year!
These savvy Girl Scouts know how powerful collective action can be. (Who hasn’t bought a package of cookies from a determined Girl Scout?) I am thrilled to to see their energy and enthusiasm behind an action that Team Earth is also undertaking.
How many Girl Scouts does it take? There are 3.4 million Girl Scouts. If every Girl Scout replaced one incandescent light bulb with a CFL the Girls Scouts could prevent 1,258,000 tons of CO2 from entering the atmosphere. Now that would be collective action.
Article courtesy of Julie Blackwell, Team Earth (teamearth@conservation.org)
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