Earth Scouts is a coed youth organization for 3+ year olds, that is, you can be an Earth Scout no matter your age. The mission of the Earth Scouts is to empower youth to learn about the Earth Charter, spread it's message, and participate in fun activities that will benefit themselves and the earth community. They will "Change the world one fun badge at a time."

The Earth Scouts were started in the US by Earth Charter US, a grassroots community building organization formed to introduce the US to the Earth Charter and its principles of respect for nature, human rights, economic justice, participatory democracy and peace.

At Earth Scouts Home, we hope to provide information, support and links to existing Earth Scouts Groups and/or Earth Scouts Families. We have bEarth Scouts Badges, the Earth Scouts Logos Patch, and plan to have equipment such as hats and knapsacks and more available. We hope to consolidate information from various groups for use by all. We are upgrading our website to help people locate other interested 'Earth Scouters' and more.

Jan Roberts, founder and president of Earth Charter US, obtained funding from the Children's Board of Hillsborough County, Florida to develop the Earth Scouts Facilitator Guide, available for download from http://www.earthscouts.org or at this group site (go to Links).

Genie Skypek at skypek@mindspring.com is currently coordinating our efforts to further develop the Earth Scouts both nationally and internationally.