My 2nd graders made paper mache earths and placed them around the school for parent night (Thursday) with some pretty persuasive posters. They are also all bringing in cans to recycle for the rest of the year. We are going on a walk cleaning up the path from the school to the court house this week. We also recycle paper and make sure not to throw it in the trash, but in the recycle box. Did you know that an aluminum cans can be recycled and made into a new can in just 60 days but it takes 500 years (as far as we know) for it to decompose in a landfill? Plastic also takes 500 years. If we recycled just the Sunday edition of the paper we would save 75,000 trees. /end
I try to live as if EVERY day were Earth Day. Today, I'm going to enjoy seeing those around me live that way as well! I LOVE IT!
I second that!
But I did go camping with my girl guides this weekend. I watched "An Inconvenient Truth" on Sunday night & this week at girl guides we are going to do a garbage pick up in the park & do some planting around the bench dedicated to a girl who was killed in a car accident a few years ago.
My 2nd graders made paper mache earths and placed them around the school for parent night (Thursday) with some pretty persuasive posters. They are also all bringing in cans to recycle for the rest of the year. We are going on a walk cleaning up the path from the school to the court house this week. We also recycle paper and make sure not to throw it in the trash, but in the recycle box. Did you know that an aluminum cans can be recycled and made into a new can in just 60 days but it takes 500 years (as far as we know) for it to decompose in a landfill? Plastic also takes 500 years. If we recycled just the Sunday edition of the paper we would save 75,000 trees. /end
Have A SUPER EARTH DAY!
people throw newspapers in the garbage! :O Shame shame
I am a recycle ****! I take the plasic out of my kleenex boxes and fold those suckers down.
About 20 years ago I read in the Toronto Star (I was living in Canada back then) an story about a woman having zero garbage days -EVERY day! I thought the least I could do is cut mine in half. That story I think about almost daily still!
Doing so has inspired my inner nature to want to do other things to help the earth. This year, I started saving cans (we don't have a ton, so they haven't gone to recycle yet).
I'm trying to use more cloth and less paper in every day cleaning things. I'm considering eliminating paper towels, lysol wipes etc in favor of cloth. I'm also thinking about hankerchefs instead of kleenex and cloth napkins instead of paper napkins.
We went out and replaced all our light bulbs with CFCs. What they don't tell you is that they buzz, but I can live with it as long as I don't read on the toilet for too long.
I use cloth bags for grocery shopping, and we upgraded our insulation in the past month and bought new energy-efficient windows (well, the three on the north side so far).
Happy Earth Day!
Did you know that an aluminum cans can be recycled and made into a new can in just 60 days but it takes 500 years (as far as we know) for it to decompose in a landfill? Plastic also takes 500 years. If we recycled just the Sunday edition of the paper we would save 75,000 trees. /end 
