What are you doing to help our environment? Are you recycling because it positively impacts the environment, or are you recycling because it is trendy? According to Alex Williams essay, “Buying into the Green Movement,” companies are turning an environmental movement into a fashion statement. Many people are only buying eco-friendly products because television and magazines advertise the movement as a new trend. The eco-friendly fashion statement is actually making consumers buy more, which defeats the purpose of conserving our planet. Although it is important to buy and pay attention to economically efficient products, sometimes less is actually more. The essay argues that many people are not cutting back on their usage of day-to-day items. William’s essay strongly shows his passion about the subject. Williams is able to persuade his audience to consume less through his use of logos by stating facts, using ethos to…
The school is very environmentally friendly and they strive to do everything possible to ensure that they are making the most of all resources. This comes in the form of recycling, water saving and energy efficiency.…
Students have heard of the national holiday, Earth Day. Students have grown up in classroom that have recycling bins therefore all students have prior knowledge on recycling. This lesson is aimed towards learning more about helping the earth and their communities. They will learn ways to help their communities through the importance of recycling. Students are interested in learning more about ways to help their community, and knowing they can help the environment no matter what age they are.…
Yesterday, students at Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute won the contest. They were participating in a clean-up contest held by Live Green Toronto™ on Earth Day. The school that collected the most garbage would receive a $5000 grant for their school and runner up grants. The students, who were eager to win, went to Downtown Waterfront to clean up garbage along the Lakeshore.…
I bought a refillable water bottle so I don’t have to use the plastic ones that are from Stracks. One way my family and I have helped as a unit is buying a water jug. Each jug (we have 3) hold up to 5 gallons, and only costs $1.75 to refill each jug. Not only is it cheap, we’re not throwing away hundreds and hundreds of plastic bottles every month. Another way we as a family do this, is we grown our own food. Such as tomatoes, carrots, cucumbers, green peppers, jalapeño peppers, and watermelons. Ever since we started growing our own food we don’t have to worry about buying produced vegetables, we know where they came from and what they were grown in. We don’t thrown old food away as much because we all like the taste of the home grown food. One other way I personally try to help is try to carpool with my friends. If we’re going to the same place we try to all get a ride together. I know it’s a small difference, but it will eventually help change global warming.…
So by implementing a composting program on campus, we would significantly reduce waste, make valuable soil product and make a contribution to a greener planet by reducing the amount of methane that’s produced in a…
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National Wildlife Federation is the U.S. host for this international program which fosters sustainable school operations and curricula. There are currently 125,000 students and 4,000 teachers nationwide participating in the program which involves the entire school community. The program helps schools implement improvements to their school along eight pathways: energy, water, transportation, school grounds, consumption and waste, climate change, global dimensions and outside playtime for students (a Green Hour). The schools enrolled are achieving some especially impressive results with respect to saving energy and water, schoolyard greening and controlling waste on…
For the service learning component, I did activities like ivy pulling (April 11 1-4 pm, April 30 10-2 pm), going door to door in my dorm with information about energy conservation (April 21 7-9 pm), and attending the March for Science (April 22 10-1 pm). These activities give me about 12 hours of volunteer service. I brought what we were learning in class to other aspects of my life, as well. For instance, I talk to my friends, in person and online, about the environment and the impact they have on it as often as possible. In fact, I talk about it so often that one of my friends stopped taking napkins at dinner just so I would stop commenting on how many they wasted. This might not be the best way to get someone to behave sustainably, but it…
During this experiment, our group of volunteers was supposed to keep track of people throwing away recyclables. We had to make sure no one threw away recyclables and no one put trash in the recycling. We also had to give anyone who actually recycled anything a raffle ticket, and he/she has the possibilities to win something cool. This was a fun experiment because it was a relaxing thing to do during lunch, we just sat there eating and staring at the recycling bags we set up around the main are where people eat lunch. But very surprisingly there were almost no people who recycled. It was not because they were throwing things in the trash it was just that no one was disposing of their lunch around us, or maybe it was that people would eat lunch off campus. Only one or two people actually threw a bottle into the bins we set up. At one point a friend came over to me to chat with a glass bottle, and I enthusiastically was encouraging him to recycle it. He just looked at me funny and said he did not want to but I could, so I recycled it and gave a raffle ticket to myself. But while I was sitting there I was chatting with a junior or sophomore whose name I think was Michael, and he is one of the people who started this whole project. I thought it was very inspiring how much work he had put into these projects. He had been to many lunch recycle duty projects and is very invested in his work. He is even working on brining compost to Berkeley High School. The Green Academy at BHS is into creating an ecologically sound community and campus. When we were all gathered up in the beginning we talked about a competition between schools going on at the time and the most eco friendly would receive some sort of prize but I don’t know where we placed in that contest. Over all it this was a great experience to see how much people care for the health of our campus and community.…
If we put up signs around the school to remind people to save paper, water, and other things, it will have a huge impact on the school. It is super easy because once the signs are put up they don’t need anything but to stay there. The students at our wonderful school want to help the environment but just simply forget. With the signs all around the school they will always be reminded. When the students save resources it helps the environment while saving the school money. It’s a win – win! By putting up some signs around the school we will be reminding over 2,000 students as well as teachers to save resources. When 2,000 people try to be resourceful if can have a big impact. Let’s put in a little effort and put up signs to save the environment as well and saving our schools…
Lakehead University, is the first university to become environmentally sustainable, and the first university in North America to be “green” from top to bottom. While many buildings in Ontario have aimed to be environmentally qualified, Lakehead has made it their goal for the entire campus to be sustainable and built to environmental standards that will make the campus the greenest in the country. The university has strived to make every aspect of the building environmentally safe, from the roof the parking lot, as well as the interior of the building. As a student I have experienced how Lakehead Orillia has been environmentally conscious, and whether or not they have been true to their word of being safe for the environment. Lakehead has made a dramatic name in society being the first all “green” building and has attracted many people because of the environmental standards they have set. However, being a university this is a difficult promise to keep, especially with the expansion they are expecting. Through my time I have spent at the new campus, I have observed the sustainability of the school, and how conscious they really are at maintaining the school “green”.…
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In order to prevent pollution we have to motivate others and ourselves to love the environment, be moderate in using fertilizer and pesticides, do not throw litter in the river lake or oceans, do lots of activities regarding to cleaning our environment, and save energy around the house. The program that we are going to launch is Going Green. Where there will be lots of activities and talk regarding the environment. The objective of our program is to increase awareness among community.…
If you would have asked me if we should help the environment in the past I probably would have said yes and continuing with the question how, I would have just said something lame like everyone should change their light bulbs for energy saving light bulbs like everyone else. Now however things have changed. Nearly all electric machines, household appliances and even cars got environmentally friendly equivalents. But to be honest I know that it probably is too much asked to expect everyone would utilize these and although a lot has to be changed we can just start from the bottom by changing some things in our ordinary daily life’s like turning of the water while brushing our teeth, unplug appliances you’re not using and setting the thermostat a few degrees lower etc.…