Last updated by amandag327 on Mon, 12/17/2007 - 13:31.
Because of the large influence of oil production, large-scale factories and coal burning corporations that have settled in the southern states, most specifically those bordering the coast, the environmental destruction is greater than any other region in the United States.
Last updated by kachance on Wed, 12/05/2007 - 00:04.
In my city, the recycling programs are very poor. Hardly anybody recycles. I felt lead to make an impact in my school and community by providing my school with a recycling program. The challenge was very difficult; however, I managed to find a company (Curbside Recycling) that agreed to service my school and establish a recycling project. The bad news is that Curbside Recycling is asking over $120 just for the recycling bins!! plus an additional $10 every month to cover their gas and service expenses. I've gone to my prinicipal seeking advice on how to recieve finacial help.
Last updated by amez82190 on Mon, 12/03/2007 - 17:30.
What is this club? Is it a service club? Is it an educational club? Is it a social club? Truth is it’s all 3! We enjoy hanging out and making a difference!
Last updated by mg1418 on Fri, 11/30/2007 - 16:03.
The right message, delivered at the right time, can meaningfully reduce consumer waste paper consumption.
The blog has the whole story: http://thesecomefromtrees.blogspot.com
Apply "These Come from Trees" stickers to paper towel dispensers in public bathrooms (coffee shops, dorms, restaurants, gas stations), amd reduce paper towel consumption by 15%.
What this means is that in a typical coffee shop, a "These Come From Trees" sticker on the paper towel dispenser will save 100 lbs. of paper towels a year...roughly one "tree's" worth of paper.
Last updated by xoxtori_lorixox on Wed, 11/28/2007 - 19:41.
My friends and I have put together an Environmental Group at our school. Some of our projects are making our school district an idle-free zone, creating a school garden, recycling, and raising advocacy about environmental issues in our school and community. Our main focus is currently the Fair Trade Cafe. We are in partnership with a local fair trade coffee company that supports small scale farmers in Tanzania, and Bolivia. We are also selling fair trade chocolate bars, hot chocolate, and using fair trade cane sugar at our cafe, as well as buttons and bumpers stickers.
Last updated by katierad on Wed, 11/28/2007 - 16:11.
Hingham High School participated in the KeySpan-Do Something Environmental Sustainability Competition during the month of October and won second place!
Last updated by katierad on Wed, 11/28/2007 - 15:58.
Franklin D. Roosevelt High School competed in the KeySpan-Do Something Environmental Sustainability Competition in the month of October. They won second place! Here are the details about what FDR High did to better their environmental impact:ENERGY:Made stickers to put over light switches to remind teachers to turn off the lights in their classrooms when they leave (Total of 120 classrooms). Made flyers on recycled paper about how to further make positive impacts on the environment.
Last updated by matt.mollet on Fri, 11/23/2007 - 11:24.
Forest Lake Senior High School would like to begin a student run recylcing program to recycle plastic bottles. Currently our school sells around 2100 each week! Imagine the impact of recycling these bottles over the course of the school year. If we recycled just HALF of these bottles, over 35,000 bottles would be recycled annually.
This program would also have a secondary purpose of promoting conservation and environmental awareness to students. Through recycling, students can be taught the value of protecting the outdoors and the impact a simple choice can have on the world.
Last updated by shannon510 on Tue, 11/20/2007 - 21:18.
At the beginning of my freshmen year, I decided that my high school needed to jump onboard the movement to institute recycling programs at schools. Through a lot of hard work and determination to get the program going, it was finally adopted in March 2007. The biggest challenges of starting recycling were monetary matters, disfavor, and communication. There were some people who didn't believe recycling would make a big impact on the environment. When those people found out how much paper we saved from entering our dumpster, they were definitely surprised how much recycling was goin
Last updated by WARR on Fri, 11/16/2007 - 18:27.
The club at our school, W.A.R.R, (Wantagh Animal Rights & Recycling) is a wonderful club to join at our school, and its very helpful to the community. Every meeting we do something helpful to our enviornment. So far in this year, we have supplied every classroom with recycling bins, and have started a recycling program. We have also done trail cleanups to clean the litter scattered by our school and its surrounding area. Another thing our club has done was sell T-shirts to help save the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica. For every 10 shirts we sold, we saved an acre.
