EARTH DAY ACTION GUIDE.NEED MORE IDEAS? HERE ARE 8 MORE THINGS YOU CAN DO TO HELP SAVE EARTH 1 Plant a tree Tree Musketeers, a teen environmental group, has a "treemendous" goal: to get 1 million kids to volunteer 1 million hours to plant 1 million trees by the end of 2000. For a free brochure, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to: Tree Musketeers 136 Main St. El Segundo, CA 90245 Check out their Web site at: www.treemusketeers.org 2 Clean up a local river, beach, or park Students at McCarthy Middle School in Chelmsford, Massachusetts Chelmsford is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts in the Greater Boston area. It is located 24 miles from Boston and, bordering on the City of Lowell, it is part of the Greater Lowell metropolitan area. , are cleaning up polluted pol·lute tr.v. pol·lut·ed, pol·lut·ing, pol·lutes 1. To make unfit for or harmful to living things, especially by the addition of waste matter. See Synonyms at contaminate. 2. Black Brook Black Brook may refer to: Towns
Center for Marine Conservation 1725 DeSales St. NW Suite 600 Washington, DC 20036 1-800-CMC-BEACH Visit their Web site at: www.cmc-ocean.org 3 Start a school-wide recycling program Three years ago, Cascia Hall High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 45th-largest in the United States. With an estimated population of 382,872 in 2006,[1] it is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Statistical Area, a region of 897,752 residents projected to , had no recycling program. Then freshman Nicole Cosmann launched "Take Action," an environmental club for students to recycle cans, bottles, paper, and more. Now "Take Action" is a community award-winning hit. To find out how to start your own schoolwide recycling program, e-mail Nicole at ciaran@ionet.net 4 Save energy By shutting off lights and computers at the end of the day, the "Walnut Creek Walnut Creek, residential city (1990 pop. 60,569), Contra Costa co., W Calif., in the San Francisco Bay area; inc. 1914. It is the trade and shipping center of an extensive agricultural area where walnuts are among the major product. Wattchers"--students at Walnut Creek Middle School in Erie, Pennsylvania--have shaved shave v. shaved, shaved or shav·en , shav·ing, shaves v.tr. 1. a. To remove the beard or other body hair from, with a razor or shaver: $3,000 off their school's electric bill in just three months! Zap wasteful electricity at your home and school. 5 Spread the word Increase awareness for Earth Day--April 22, 1999--by joining the "Billion Bags Reuse reuse - Using code developed for one application program in another application. Traditionally achieved using program libraries. Object-oriented programming offers reusability of code via its techniques of inheritance and genericity. & Recycle Campaign." Contact a local grocer and "borrow" enough paper bags so that each student in your school can decorate one with an Earth Day message. Return the bags to the store a few days before Earth Day and watch shoppers react when grocers use them to bag food! For more information, go to: www.earthdaybags.org 6 Join a club for teens (or start your own) Dozens of student-run environmental groups make a difference around the country. Here are just a few: Sierra Student Coalition P.O. Box 2402 Providence, RI 02906 1-888-JOIN-SSC e-mall: ssc-info@ssc.org Kids for Saving Earth P.O. Box 421118 Minneapolis, MN 55442 e-mall: kseww@aol.com 7 Make a video Teens from Milwaukee's John Marshall High School There are several high schools in the United States named after the early United States politician and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall, including:
tr.v. re·used, re·us·ing, re·us·es To use again, especially after salvaging or special treatment or processing. re·us or recyclable products. Why not film an enviro-video of your own? Show it to your school or a town meeting. To receive a copy of "Get a Grip," send a check for $9.95 to: Keep America Beautiful "Get A Grip!" Orders Dept. Washington Square 1010 Washington Blvd. Stamford, CT 06901 e-mail: keepamerbe@aol.com 8 Get political Research an environmental problem that means a lot to you. Then send your opinions to Congress. Every letter counts! Write your U.S. Senator at: U.S. Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 or your Representative at: U.S. House of Representatives House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 |
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