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Increase awareness
Create a Things I Love About Nature bulletin
board. Keep changing the theme to reflect the
weather or special designated days, like Earth
Day, World Water Day etc. Invite students to put
their thoughts, poems and drawings on the
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Awareness is crucial in fostering not only love
towards the environment but also motivating
action in its’ protection. |
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Avoid crayons made from paraffin wax
Use crayons made of soybean oil. These are
earth-friendly and non-toxic. Paraffin is a
petroleum product. |
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Use of soybean crayons simply means the
production of over one trillion crayons without
tapping into oil supplies. |
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Ask
parents/students/teachers to turn off
their cars while they wait.
Idling vehicles emit large amounts of carbon
dioxide, contributing directly to global
warming. |
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Idling 10 minutes less per day can keep 550
pounds of carbon dioxide out of the air every
year. |
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Register your school with eco-school
initiatives
Eco-schools are growing in numbers globally.
Eco-schools largely implement simple,
comprehensive programs designed to create a
culture of environmental responsibility on
school campuses.
For more visit
www.gogreeninitiative.org /
www.eco-schools.org |
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Encourage students to bring
meals/snacks in metal boxes instead of
paper sacks
Paper sacks are for one-time use only (and take
1-5 months to bio-degrade), while metal boxes
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Every two seconds, somewhere in the world a
forest area the size of a foot-ball field is cut
down for paper products. During its’ lifetime a
single tree can absorb the CO2 released by an
average car that has been driven for 4,000miles.
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Encourage students to think of the
origin of a product before buying/using
it.
Encourage students to question the origin of a
product before they buy it. |
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Mineral water bottles are made from oil. They
are shipped on trucks spewing fumes and are
thrown away onto piles of rubbish after the
first use. |
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Encourage recycling and re-using in
school premises
Urge students to re-cycle glass bottles, jars,
newspapers and magazines and tin cans, by
providing bins. Save them and take them to local
re-cycling centres. Encourage students to re-use
plastic shopping bags, envelopes, etc. or in the
alternative to find a re-purpose -- for example
make bags out of old jeans. |
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Become an online eco-activist
Sign up/register with eco-activists around the
world and play your part from your desktop. It
will help you stay informed and make yourself
heard – the options are infinite – sign up with
WWF Passport or logon to
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/getinvolved. |
