Ollie Saves the Planet
CD Rom and Website Program
The Recycling Association of Minnesota (RAM) is working with Ollie USA, Inc. to help distribute Ollie Saves the Planet in the U.S.!

The Ollie Saves the Planet CD ROM and Website Program is an industry-led interactive environmental education initiative that encourages children, their parents, teachers, and community groups to appreciate their connection to the natural world and to understand their "ecological footprint."

The Ollie Saves the Planet Program introduces the concept of sustainability and asks users to reduce, reuse, recycle and rethink their actions in the areas of waste, water, energy, air and biodiversity. It does this within the context of local conditions and local educational guidelines. (Ollie fits with several dozen science standards for grades one through eight in the State of Minnesota.)

Educators, industry representatives and experts in multimedia in Australia and America developed the Ollie Program, utilizing the latest in interactive technology to create a learning tool for children between the ages of 5 - 13 years that is exciting, challenging and up-to-date with environmental information. RAM assisted in the content development for the U.S. version.

You can sample some of the content from Ollie Saves the Planet. Ollie takes you through introductory information about sustainability, recycling, and other issues, then use interactive activities to reinforce the information. At the advanced level, Ollie allows children to carry out their own community projects, such as performing a recycling or biodiversity audit, or publishing their own web site to illustrate their activities.

Ollie even has his own rap song to help get you started!

RAM can provide training for schools on how to use Ollie in the classroom. In Australia, students and teachers used Ollie as a basis for creating a sustainable school! Check out information about successful educator training.

The made for USA Ollie Saves the Planet CD ROM is ready for distribution in the USA and can be purchased from our secure online shop.