Girls Learning Environment and Energy (GLEE): Dissemination and Sustainability

Girls Learning Environment and Energy (GLEE), a joint effort between Stanford University and the Girl Scouts of Northern California, teaches Girl Scouts and their families about the environment and energy conservation. This represents a continuation of an earlier effort, initiated with support from ARPA-E. The first phase culminated with publication of the initial findings in Nature Energy, emphasizing findings that GLEE participants had significant home energy savings immediately following the program and also at the delayed post measure. Their parents also demonstrated energy savings, suggesting the importance of family learning as well as of building a program and curriculum with a strong theoretically embedded structure. We are currently transforming the program into online modules to reach more scout troops, leaders, and service units; we also are working to develop a train-the-trainers structure. To learn more about this project, see here. To read some of the resulting research, visit here.