Put on Your Green Shoes – Various artists including Indigo Girls, Cyndi Lauper, Willie Nelson, Kenny Loggins, Tom Chapin, Dr John, and Martin Sheen

The kinds of music on this CD are as diverse as the variety of artists who perform the songs. There is really something for everyone here! This music is so much fun you might want to Put on Your Green Shoes and dance while you learn songs like

The Light Of The Sun, Wild Wild Party In The Loquat Tree, Plant More Than You Harvest, Where The World Is Wetter, Someone's Gonna Use It, and The Flower That Shattered The Stone.

Singing in Our Garden – Banana Slug String Band

The Slugs are science teachers, naturalists and ecological musicians. Their unique blend of rock, folk, and world beat music is zany, fun, and eco-educational. Combining vocals, guitars, mandolin, bass, harmonica, banjo and percussion they create music that fosters positive attitudes about the environment and provides accurate information about natural history and science.

One look at these titles and you know this music will be full of crazy fun and lots of learning ~ Give Plants a Chance, Sun Soil Water & Air, Water Cycle Boogie, Air Cycle, Roots Stems & Leaves, Ecology,I'm a Tree, and Take Time To Wonder.

Dirt Made My Lunch – Banana Slug String Band

Everything you eat is made of Sun, Soil, Water and Air! The interdependence of all life is the theme of another instructive, fun and zany Slugs CD. Meet characters like Professor Banana Slug, Big Red the Talking Tree, and Mr. Dirt as you sing along to songs like Dirt Made My Lunch, Solar Energy Shout, Bats Eat Bugs, Nocturnal Animals, River Song, Decomposition, and With People I Like.

Mother Earth – Tom Chapin

Tom Chapin’s songs for children are lively and full of action. His lyrics are witty andpositive and his music covers a range of styles including folk, jazz, and classical. Sing along with songs about our relationships with the environment and with each other.

This Pretty Planet – Tom Chapin

On this CD singer and songwriter Tom Chapin blends pop and folk music to create songs about the animal kingdom, biodiversity, and recycling.

Songs include Happy Earth Day, Clean Machine, Good Garbage, Song of the Earth, R-E-C-Y-C-L-E, and The Year 3000 (a blues style question/answer song about why we should keep Mother Earth healthy).

Recognized with an American Library Association Notable Children's Recording Award, a Parents' Choice Award and the New York Music Award for Best Children's Album.

Earth Songs – John Denver

The fourteen songs on this Eco CD are full of folk rhythm and fun. Learn about the animals on our planet and how we can all learn to appreciate the beauty of the Earth.

Sing along to Windsong, The Eagle and The Hawk, Islands, Raven’s Child, and Children of the Universe.

As the lyrics in Every Day Is Earth Day say ~ “Celebrate land and seaCelebrate you and meCelebrate Earth Day, every day.”

Environmental Songs for Kids – Coco Kallis

Musician and teacher, Coco Kallis believes learning about the environment and how to care for it can be fun when you do it through singing. She features guitar, mandolin, banjo, and other instruments on songs about the importance of protecting the environment, conserving natural resources and recycling.

This CD comes with a lyrics booklet, bibliography, and activities to educate children about the Earth and environmental concerns.

Learn many great ways to care for our planet in songs such as If We Don't Fix It (Calypso version), Recycle, Water Water, Pretty Paper, and Don't Dump Trash.

Of The Thirteen Moons – Chris Kubie

If you like the environmental themes of books written by Jean Craighead George (several of which are on the list of Environmental Books for Children on this site), you enjoy this CD because it is inspired by those writings. This is a musical interpretation of the author’s renowned series of books titled The Thirteen Moons, based on the Native American calendar. Chris Kubie has created thirteen instrumental pieces, one for each of the animals in the series. The rhythm, tempo, and instrument chosen for each piece uniquely represent each animal and its ecosystem.

As Jean Craighead George comments: “Chris has fairly harnessed the wind, stars, and rain: all nature for his instruments."

Some of the animals you will musically meet are The Moon Of The Owls, The Moon Of The Bears, and The Moon Of The Salamanders.

Come Dance by the Ocean – Ella Jenkins

The music legacy of Ella Jenkins spans more than 40 years. She has been at the forefront of children’s music since her first recording in 1957 and has released 28 albums or CDs.

On this CD, Ella’s songs are dedicated to caring for the environment and appreciating other cultures.

They include A Solution To Pollution, Clean Up Week, Bye Bye Sea Birds, A Hump Back Whale, Clean Pond Crossing, and Environmental Game.

Recipient of a Parents' Choice Award.

Ella Jenkins was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2004 Grammys.

World Peace: The Children's Dream – Cheryl Melody

The goal of this CD is to promote positive and inspiring messages for children and families with songs to foster self-esteem, imagination and appreciation of others. The CD presents a story/play based on the children’s book

“One Day in Peace” by Steve Diamond & Robert Alan Silverstein.

Songs such as Kids Care, Let's Do It, Kids Take Action, World Peace Anthem, One Planet, The Children's Dream, and Mother Earth, Father Sky teach conflict-resolution, teamwork, citizenship, love, respect, tolerance, humor, joy, and earth consciousness.

Evergreen Everblue – Raffi

Though most of Raffi’s music is for children, this folk-rock style music will appeal to adults as well. Here he presents a wonderful message of respect for all life. Raffi’s planet-loving lyrics are not focused on what we get from the Earth, but on what we can do "to honor you, to know you and to show our love."

Enjoy songs such as Big Beautiful Planet, What's The Matter With Us, Just Like The Sun, Clean Rain, and One Light, One Sun.

Birds, Beasts, Bugs & Fishes Little & Big: Animal Folk Songs – Pete Seeger

Pete Seeger has always used his amazing voice and talent to promote and preserve folk music while using it as a platform for sharing his own passion for politics, humanity, and the environment.

This is a compilation CD of two of Seeger’s 1955 recordings and contains a c ollection of 28 American and European folk songs about the animal kingdom

The songs are devoted to all living things on the planet and Pete Seeger makes them even more fun and memorable by adding his own animal noises.

Try some of your own animal noises on some of these fun animal tunes: Alligator, Hedgehog, Raccoon's Got A Bushy Tail, Ground Hog, Leatherwing Bat, The Keeper and The Doe, and Mole In The Ground

Hug The Earth: A Celebration of Life – Tickle Tune Typhoon

This up-tempo CD is full of songs that celebrate the Earth and inspire care for the environment. The songs are presented in a wide range of musical styles and arrangements, inspiring a variety of movement and dance.

Learn how you can be one of Earth’s caregivers with songs like Garbage Blues, Sea Song, Super Kids, Oh Cedar Tree, and Hug The Earth.

Recipient of the Parents' Choice Gold Award and named a Notable Children's Recording from the American Library Association.

I’m An Animal: Songs of Earth as Animals See It – Sarah Weeks

 The songs on this CD are an invitation to move! They are catchy and fun with kid-friendly lyrics and an earth awareness theme. Learn to appreciate a variety of animals and their place beside us on Earth.

Try to figure out the animal in the song I'm An Animal and sing along to Piece of Jungle, Pretty Tree, Crocodile Smile, Follow the Moon, Let It Spin, and Being Extinct.