Twenty-four program staff received training in waste reduction and created lesson plans to use in their early childhood parenting classes. 255 parents completed a waste questionnaire about current waste practices and then learned about reducing packaging, toxicity reduction, recycling and composting over the course of the year. The Green Guardian participated in the Unscary Halloween Party (attended by 500 families) where parents and children could make Green Guardian buttons. Additional events and fieldtrips were held in the spring and summer. The Center’s evaluation efforts show the majority of the families in the program changed multiple behaviors due to the project, including starting to recycle, compost, or read product labels for the first time. For more information on the details of this project, contact Tammy Dunrud at tsdunrud@frontiernet.net.