Nelson Goose
(AND WHAT YOU CAN DO TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE)
"Ignore the environment... it will go away..." Bumper Sticker
"Take care of the land and the land will take care of you." H. Bennett
"He who plants a tree plants a hope." Lucy Larcom
Did you know that trees...
- manufacture 5 pounds of pure oxygen every day
- consume CO2 to fight the "Greenhouse Effect" that threatens our survival
- proved the cooling equivalent of 10 room-sized air conditioning units
- reduce fossil fuels used for heating & cooling
- collect pollutants from the air
- reduce noise pollution
- produce homes for birds and small animals
- enrich surrounding soil
- prevent soil erosion
and that...
- recycled paper is used to make millions of other new things
like - notebooks, paper lunch bags, stationary, calendars...
- every tin can you recycle saves enough energy to power a TV for up to 3 hours
- some recycled plastics are made into school supplies and toys
- planting and saving trees gives us healthy oxygen to breathe
- for every ton of paper that is recycled - more than 10 trees are saved from being cut down
- glass that is recyclable can be recycled forever and used over and over again
- most paper can be recycled up to 8 times
-recycling helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions
- it takes plastic water bottles thousands of years to decompose
- soda and water bottles that are recycled can sometimes be used to make baseball hats, rulers and the soft stuff in your pillows
What YOU can do...
BE A PART OF SOMETHING BIG!
- Recycle your cell phone
- Plant a tree (a free blue spruce comes with my book The Bike Ride)
- Build a bird house, hang it outside and keep it filled with bird food
- grow a garden
- learn about a compost pile and start one
REDUCE, REUSE, AND RECYCLE
- Buy veggies (and meat, too!) from your local farmers
- at the store: "paper or plastic?" "neither, I have my own
re-usable bags"
- conserve water as if always in draught
- ride your bike
- carpool with friends
- turn off the A/C... open windows!
- turn off lights and unplug unnecessary items or appliances (e.g. computers, cell phone chargers, TVs, etc.) conserve energy...
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