No, we don’t mean deck the halls with boughs of holly, but try some stuff which is good for the environment.

Take the wonderful and inventive eco calendar (a kind of secular advent calendar) that the smart moms at MiniMonos have devised.

Save a panda or a tree

Log on every day in December to have a MiniMonos Dose of Daily Eco Happiness  … and teach your kid to do something good for the environment such as sorting trash into the proper recycling bins.

The calendar is the brainchild of Andrea Deely and Melissa Clarke Reynolds, the green moms behind MiniMonos, a virtual world for good green kids.

As Andrea wrote:

“I got carried away about how cool it would be to have an advent-calendar type of activity (except not holiday-related) where the child does something green in the house to help busy Mom and gets rewarded with a cute/lovely picture.”

An example is  “I turned out the light in my bedroom when I left.”

Andrea is community manager for MiniMonos, which was created by Melissa Clarke Reynolds, a mother of two, after watching Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth.

Melissa was so moved by the movie that she tracked down Al Gore and was personally trained by The Climate Project to become one of their ambassadors.

MiniMonos is being developed hand in hand with a wonderful community of kids and parents.

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