Earthkeepers: Four Keys for Helping Young People Live in Harmony With the Earth

This book will give you a good picture of what a complete earth education program involves. Even if you can't set up the program yourself, you will likely be inspired by it and find it helpful in building an earth education program for your own setting and situation.

Earthkeepers programs are underway at both resident and non-resident sites in several countries. A mysterious, unseen character known only as "E.M." permeates the Earthkeepers program. As the "keeper of the keys" E.M. is everyone's dream of the wizard of the woods, a secretive recluse who lives alone but loves to share the marvels and mysteries of the natural world with others in special ways.

Becoming an Earthkeeper like E.M. is an important task, and each learner is rewarded after each step with a special key. These keys open real locks on boxes that contain secret meanings about the true nature of E.M. As the learners earn four keys for their keyrigs, they not only discover how life functions ecologically on the earth, they find out how they are both a part of our environmental problems and their solutions.

Earthkeepers is a program for 10-11 year olds who would spend 2 1/2 to 3 days in a natural setting and then complete the other half of the program back at home and school.