Tiki the Penguin reminds us to make the holiday season - and every day -  a little kinder, a little less just "about me" and a little more thoughtful! This goes not only for how we treat each other, but equally and perhaps more importantly how we treat our planet as well. Introduce the kids in your life (even the big ones) to Tiki the Penguin. Tiki uses games, jokes, stories, videos and pictures to bring the facts about climate change, energy, pollution and protecting our planet into our kid's lexicon. Tiki invites our kids and engages us all in conversations about how to solve some of our planet's biggest problems.

Check out Tiki's Time Machine, Guide to Living with Care, Eating the Future Guide, Shopping with a Difference Tips, Fun Stuff like jokes and games, and Tiki's picture gallery to name a few. Make sure to take one of Tiki's Life in Danger Quizzes with the kids in your life. Let Tiki help your kids learn more about our planet, the role we are playing in putting it in peril and the ways that we can work together to help save it. Climate Mama Loves Tiki the Penguin and we bet you and the kids in your life will too!

MOTHERHOOD AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Joyous, overwhelming, indescribable….holding my children for the first time. Feelings of responsibility wash over me, the realization that it is my “job” to make the world as safe and as secure as I can. Motherhood - not only providing a safe “womb,” - but also providing a “safe” world for my children to grow and flourish in. I live where access to clean water, food, and shelter are all easily within my reach. It is the unseen that we need to fear, our forgettable but unforgivable actions that are making our world unsafe for our children - the fumes escaping from my car; the energy that is burned and escapes into the sky when I heat and cool my house; and the needless waste, as I buy products wrapped in beautiful packages, packages that end up in the garbage within minutes of reaching my home. Pollution, carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, all poisoning our water, our earth, our children.

As a Climate Reality Project presenter and through our work at ClimateMama I get to reach out, talk to and educate people at the grassroots level about the dangers we are facing with climate change - My job, my calling, my profession, my passion, and my RESPONSIBILITY as a mother - It all makes sense. Transformational; my eyes are now wide open. I know what we face. I know what we are up against. You need to know too.

Join me and demand a better future for our children and our grandchildren. We need to stop burning fossil fuels. We need to demand a clean energy future for our children. When they asked you what you did, you can tell them you didn’t stand by and do nothing. Be a mother; protect your children. Join me as we stand up for our mother, Mother Earth. She is hurt, she is crying and she is showing us that we need to do something now.

Join us, and sign on to some of the campaigns we support!

CLIMATE MAMA CAMPAIGNS

1. THE MILLION LETTER MARCH CAMPAIGN AND CITIZENS CLIMATE LOBBY

Join the Million Letter March Campaign and tell the US government, in your own words, that the American People and our international supporters want effective action on climate change! Continuing to build on the momentum of thousands of events demanding political action on climate change, The Million Letter March will show our political leaders that WE have the will to move forward on climate change legislation and we expect and demand that THEY show us they have the political will to move forward on climate change legislation as well!

Go to the Million Letter March website for more specific instructions on how to "craft" your letter and where to send it! While you are at it, check out Citizen's Climate Lobby, which demands action from the US Government through a "fee and dividend" approach, what Climate Mama believes is THE ultimate and necessary step if we hope to solve the climate crisis!

2. 350.org AND TARSANDS ACTION ONGOING CAMPAIGNS

Join the grassroots movement 350.org that has erupted in 188 countries, spawned it's own movements, including the Tar Sands Action, and energized a new generation of climate activists. Find out what is so special about "350" and why it has ignited a movement! Join an ongoing campaign.

Check out the 350.org or the Tar Sands Action website today! Be careful though, Climate Mama got so excited about what was happening, she decided to  "wind it up a notch," became a much more "active" climate activist and, even got herself arrested....(something she is very proud of - ask her about it - she is happy to share all the details with you!)

3. CAMPAIGNS TO STOP "FRACKING" AND LEAVE GAS IN THE GROUND

Educate yourself about the 21st Century "Clean (use this word lightly) Energy Gold Rush," better known as "fracked natural gas," and find out that this is in fact anything but Clean, Natural or a Gold mine for anyone but the multinational gas companies involved!

Fracking is a dangerous, loosely regulated method of natural gas extraction that involves pumping a toxic sludge made up of hundreds of chemicals, many of which are "proprietary" and not disclosed, thousands of feet underground to break up rock that is trapping natural gas. This gas is then released and these dangerous chemicals come back to the surface for disposal. This process contaminates our drinking water, our land and the air that we breath. Find out more!