Girls Learning Environment and Energy
For Parents and Participants
Girls Learning Environment and Energy (GLEE) is a joint effort between Stanford University and the Girl Scouts of Northern California to teach Girl Scouts and their families about the environment and energy conservation. The program has been shown to increase energy-conserving behavior among both Girl Scout participants and their parents.
So far, hundreds of troop leaders have registered the GLEE training course online, and thousands of Girl Scouts across the country are estimated to have participated in the program.
Program Goals
The GLEE program was supported from a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. It embraces the leadership themes of Girl Scouts while at the same time building girls’ skills to make energy reduction behavior changes in home electricity and food sustainability.

Initially, we conducted a randomized controlled trial with 30 junior Girl Scout troops in Northern California to assess two behavior change interventions focused on: (1) residential energy use and (2) energy-related food and transportation behaviors of Girl Scouts and their families.
Each intervention served as an active control for the other. Troops randomly assigned to the residential behavior intervention significantly improved their self-reported Girl Scout and parent residential energy conservation behaviors immediately following the intervention and at follow-up, compared to controls. Girl Scouts in troops randomly assigned to the food and transportation behavior intervention group significantly improved their self-reported food and transportation energy conservation behaviors immediately following the intervention, compared to controls but not at follow-up or among parents.
The results demonstrate that a behavioral intervention targeting Girl Scouts can improve their energy conservation behaviors and provides evidence of diffusion of behavior changes from children to their parents/families.
Results from the research are published in Nature Energy.
For More Information
Please contact Dr. June Flora and our team at: kyen-project@stanford.edu.

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