Gorilla in the Greenhouse

SustainLane, Free Range Studios, and Alligator Planet have teamed up to create a new web series designed for children. Gorilla in the Greenhouse is set in a magical greenhouse in San Francisco, features a green gorilla and four kids, and inspires children to take action on environmental issues. Each episode will feature the gang addressing different issues, such as plastic bags, mountaintop removal, sustainable food consumption, global warming, deforestation, and alternative energy. The pilot episode, "Great Pacific Garbage Patch," is now available.

The website also features teachers' curriculum, facts behind each environmental issue, action ideas for kids, and video clips of real kids taking action on the issue.

Free Range Studios - Sustainable & Responsible Business of the Week

Free Range Studios is a full-service creative agency delivering progressive socially-minded messages for clients. Their website states, "We enable our clients to communicate key messages and empower individuals to transform society through the innovative use of digital media, storytelling, graphic design and strategy."

You may be familiar with some of their flash movies, Sam Suds, The Meatrix, Friends With Low Wages, Grocery Store Wars, Say No to Blood Diamonds, or their reports for Amnesty International, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, or the ACLU or any of their work with socially-conscious individuals, nonprofits, and businesses.

In addition to their socially-conscious creative work, they also seek to reduce their own environmental impact and give back to their communities through the use of triple bottom line accounting, 100% wind power, eco-printing, and other initiatives.