Your Resources

Project Guides & Toolkits

Learn how to take action

Driven by one of our guiding principles, knowledge, we are eager & honored to share our resources & knowledge to further the environmental movement.

By listening to & working directly with youth leaders across the globe, we offer these tools and tips to help you make a massive difference in your community.

All of our guides are made to be easily downloaded, so please share them with your community & Crew!

(remember to think about the trees before printing)

Choose Action Now Project Guides

It all begins with an idea.

Our Choose Action Now project guides, crafted by youth leaders at Earth Guardians, put the power of change in your hands.

These guides offer a comprehensive roadmap for impactful community projects by providing how-to insights, time estimates, & additional resources to inspire action at any level, from beginner to advanced. With projects containing a rating of difficulty from level 1 (easiest) to level 3 (most time-consuming), there is something for everyone.

Use them to inspire your Crew into action and become the leaders you need.

Other Lesson Plans & Shareable Toolkits

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Earth Guardians Lesson Plans
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Home Environmental Audit
School Environmental Audit

Lawsuits & Civic Engagement

For US-based Crews, explore these guides to utilize your civil rights & take action in your community.

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Stories of Inspiration!

Check out the incredible published stories written by our youth leaders.

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Little Black Book: A Young Activist's Love Story

by Marlow Baines

Spontaneous and genuine, Little Black Book: A Young Activist's Love Story presents the imaginings and self-reflection of a young activist grappling with her work and her growing up at the same time. Written in the moment and without hesitation, Little Black Book captures the raw emotion of youth who are rising up, across the globe, to make their voices heard and advance new ideas to change the world, for the benefit of humanity finding balance with nature in the 21st century.

Marlow Baines, a young activist and Youth Director of Earth Guardians, offers her poetry, as she lives into and riffs on love, life, eternal beauty, Faust, self-identity, society, history, relationships, doubt, resilience, and ultimately: why she does what she does every waking minute of every day - and in the dream states between.

We Rise

by Xiuhtezcatl Martinez

Climate change will impact the livability of our planet for future generations. It is our youth – those whose commitment to the causes of sustainability, conservation and preservation, that will drive the change we so desperately need. Xiuhtezcatl, through his art, is informing and galvanizing a new movement of leaders who are ready to emerge as our best hope for a brighter future. -LEONARDO DICAPRIO

It’s young people like Xiuhtezcatl who give me hope that we can overcome the massive problems we face, like money in politics, access to clean water and climate change. Throughout time it’s been the people that have changed the course of history. This book offers practical solutions for how every day people can be a part of the most important movement in the history of humanity. -MARK RUFFALO

Imaginary Borders

by Xiuhtezcatl Martinez

"It won't take you long to read this book, but it will linger in your heart and head for quite a while, and perhaps inspire you to join in the creative, blossoming movement to make this world work." —Bill McKibben, environmentalist, New York Times bestselling author of The End of Nature, journalist, and founder of 350.org

"An inspiring story that will change the way all of us think about the climate crisis - and how we can solve it." —Van Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Green Collar Economy and Rebuild the Dream, and co-founder of Dream Corps

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