Very early in her life, Savannah Walters developed a passion for the environment and wildlife. In second grade, her class did an in-depth study of the Arctic and she fell in love with that wild place. That same year, she and her family visited the Grand Canyon where she and her little brother, Garrett, took the Junior Rangers course, which finished with an oath to protect the environment and teach others to do the same. She took that oath very seriously and when she learned of proposals to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge she became concerned about the harmful effects of oil drilling there.

Savannah learned from her friend, Lenny Kohm, that Americans waste 4 million gallons of gas each day by driving on under-inflated tires and that was more than was expected to come out of the Arctic Refuge. She asked, "Why would we keep on wasting gas and looking for more when we could easily just Pump 'em Up?" Lenny encouraged her to keep asking that question. When she found out car emissions are the number two contributing factor to global warming she really got motivated. "Even if you don't care about the Arctic, you've got to care about breathing cleaner air! We can help reduce global warming and save our wild places too." Mobilized by her passion and with the support of her parents, she recruited family and friends across the country to join her awareness campaign to promote cleaner air in all our communities by simply getting people to check their tire pressure.

In an effort to make checking tires simple, Savannah and her volunteers give out free tire gauges, generously donated by Sears, Firestone, Goodyear and the Rubber Manufacturers Association, to people across the country. Her idea caught on so fast that she needed a way to reach more kids. Now volunteers can download the information they need to start Pump 'em Up chapters in their own communities. More and more people across the nation are joining Savannah and trying to teach their parents how to be good stewards of the land their kids will inherit. "It's easy to get kids to understand how smart conservation is - it's our parents and the people in Washington, DC we have to convince."

A fun Pump 'em Up activity checking "Miles Per Gallon" is available by Clicking Here! To host an event in your school or community, download "Pump 'em Up! Flyers" to put on cars in the parking lots of participating schools and community groups across the nation. It is two pages to be printed front and back of the same page then folded in half.

Thank you for visiting and if you need help or more information to participate, please call 813-732-6611 or email Savannahrose@pumpemup.org.