Climate Quilt Campaign
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Quilt patches made by kids around the world from recycled t-shirts, pants, pillow cases, and sheets will make their way into the Senate today for Earth Day. Part of the Climate Quilt Project, each patch represents a child's pledge to the environment—saving energy, helping animals, reminding others to do their part, and thousands of others.
The project has generated more than 7,500 patches from children in more than 10 countries, with more than 3,000 patches made in the U.S. alone. It is a collaborative initiative between Habitat Heroes and the Green Schools Alliance, which showed off quilt panels at an Earth Day celebration in New York this week.
Not that the quilts were new to the public then... Climate Quilt panels were sent to Copenhagen to be seen by world leaders, and organizers have been showing quilt panels at all kinds of events around the world, from nature park picnics in Sydney to activities in schools to urban Earth Day celebrations, like the one in New York.
Photo credit: Climate Quilt Campaign
And today, Climate Quilt Project volunteers will visit Congress with panels as they continue their mission to give children a voice and to unite children in their pledges to help save the planet.
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