Team Yellow, Ashley F. Mitchell K. Taylor R. and Anna P.
For the past forty days our eighth grade class has been blogging about simple ways to go green and help save our environment. We hope to have impacted your lives as we have each other’s and to have impacted the eco-system. The comments we recieved on our posts made us realize people are actually reading and do care about what we have to say. It isn’t hard to make a big difference, and we hope that you will all continue trying to go green.
Team Red would like to thank you for reading all of our posts, and all of the comments you have left. I hope you continue to take some of our advice on how to preserve natural resources. Here are some of the things that we taught you:
-How to Reuse wrappers
-How to wash and dry clothing while saving energy.
During this blogging experience, our team learned a lot about saving the environment. We learned about how to insulate your house, why one should take public transportation or biking, and why you should take shorter showers. We hope that everyone enjoyed our blog posts and that they learned lots about how to save the planet. Even though the blog is coming to a close, don’t stop helping to save energy, resouces, and our planet earth. We hope we enlightned you and made a difference.
Throughout these days, we have been putting up posts of how we could help save our environment. There are clever ways to save our world like eating less meat, turning off the faucet while brushing teeth, using reusable water bottles, and walking less than driving. In order to keep our planet in good shape, we must do everything possible to preserve it.
John:
Blogging and posting is a good way to help save the earth. Posting paragraphs that encourages people to save water or electricity was great. My group thought that this was a great! By posting we are reminding people of what we are doing and what we could do to help. Since a lot of people like posting or blogging they would read ours, considering we have so many blogs. While posting or blogging we have fun doing it. We are able to learn new ways to help save water and electricity, while others are learning too.
Lavanya
Through our posts, we hope you learned about some ways to save the environment! Although our posts gave helpful ideas on how to contribute, there are many more out there which could help even further! To read some ideas, a few sites we recommend visiting are:
We hope you will take a look to see the other resourceful, fun ideas on these sites! Even the smallest action of change makes a difference.
Katharine:
Thanks for supporting us on our adventure into the blogging world. We appreciate all those who came to our blog posts, supported us, and commented. We hope that you took into concideration all of our ideas on how to save the earth. If we all work together we could save earth. So let’s get to it! Thanks again!
By Pink Team, Rachel, Annika, Makenzee, and Jacob;
We thank all of you people for commenting on our wonderful blogs. We hope that you take into consideration what we have posted about going green with the 40-Day Challenge.
Rachel talked about how turning the water off when you brush your teeth can save lots of water.
Annika talked about how wearing a sweater can lower electricity bills.
Makenzee talked about recycling shoes.
Jacob talked about how riding a bike can save gas and prevent pollution.
Thanks again,
The Pink Team, Rachel, Annika, Makenzee and Jacob.
All of Team Green would like to thank all of you for commenting on our blogs. We think it is very important to keep caring for the environment even after this 40 day challenge is done. Jarrett and Megan informed you about taking shorter showers. By taking shorter showers, its saves tons of water each day. Kelli wrote about eating less fast food, since it takes a lot of energy to make one burger. Lily talked about preserving resources by using stainless steel bottles. This can help reduce the size of landfills on Earth. Try out our suggestions, because every little change makes a big difference in the environment. Thank you again for viewing our blogs and offering your thoughts. Go green with the Green Team!
From your friends, Kelli, Lily, Jarrett, and Megan
Throughout these past 40 days we have gathered various information on how to be much more “green”. These are the summary of things we have learned.
Taking a shower costs 10 cents per minute
Washing your hair daily will dry out your scalp
260 gallons a day
If world cuts out showering every other day then we could save you up to 45 gallons of water a day
Plastic is a serious earth problem because of humans contributing plastic to huge landfills, and since plastic does not degrade as well as other materials, it fills our landfills quite quickly.
And that:
Keeping your lights turned on for a short amount of time is better than flicking them on and off rapidly, whenever entering or leaving a room just for a small amount of time.
We learned that we can help save the earth through recycling more often. It’s the simple things that we can do to make a difference. Doing so is essential in the present and for future generations. We also learned that we should try to come up with other ways to help the earth from changing lightbulbs to visiting websites that can save energy to help the earth, everyone can make a difference. Thanks for looking at our posts. We hope you will take our ideas and go use them.
Did you know that one million tons of paper is used every day? Paper comes out as the highest percentage of garbage in landfills. Using this much paper is bad for the environment and is destroying the forest. So here are some tips for you to save paper. When you print something, ask yourself if you really need to. If you really do need to print something, use both sides of the paper. Do not print something out if your only printing one line. In the office, try to make your workplace as paperless as possible. Do not throw away paper, recycle it.
Thank you digital citizens of the world wide web for commenting on our blog posts! We encourage you to do things that help the environment. Dont forget that carpooling can save gas and the environment! Also, recycling cell phones can decrease the need for metal mining, and turning down the heat can save the amount of carbon dioxide that is released into our environment. Lastly, unplugging devices when they are not in use can save energy! Thank you all! Happy Holidays!
Thank you for taking the time to look at our blog posts. We hope you learned a lot about making the world a better place, just like we did. Please take these facts into consideration. If all of us take these steps, then we can help our earth for the better.
Have you wondered how you can save energy while you are using a laptop? You can $ave energy by using Blackle.com instead of using Google. When your screen is white, it wastes more energy than a dark screen. Blue screens also help, but black screens save more energy. When you’re in Microsoft Word, change the background color to black while you’re typing. Then, when it’s time to print it out, change the background back to white. I always keep a Blackle tab open, since I’m usually searching something, and if I leave the computer it’s not wasting as much energy. You can also turn down your computer screen. With laptops, the battery will last longer, which is good for traveling when at the airport or at a café or coffee shop. This works with other electronics like the GameBoy, NintendoDS, etc. They will last longer so you can use them longer
Also, if you unplug the USB port it can save a little energy. Most electricity is wasted when it is plugged into the power outlet, but not in use. For example, a toaster.
When the cold months are over, many people will undoubtedly turn their thermostats down to cool down. Unfortunately, the air conditioner can add an extra 10% to the amount of energy used in a house, and 80% of energy is used by homes! To help keep these numbers down, there are many simple and easy things anybody can do.
The first step is turning up the thermostat just two degrees. If a house is usually 72°Fahrenheit, turn up the temperature to 74°. This will lower the amount of energy being used. If this seems too warm, there are other things that can help this problem. Since dark clothing absorbs more heat than lighter colored clothing, it is a good idea to wear white or pastels. If you close your blinds on windows that let in a lot of sunlight, the difference is amazing! It can change a sweltering room into a very comfortable one. The final step is to drink a lot of cool water. Ice cold water can make our body do more work and actually get warmer. Try drinking cool water without ice cubes to stay hydrated.
It takes plastic bottles a very long time to decompose, if not at all. My family and I now use reusable bottles, that way we do not have to buy the plastic bottles which can get very expensive. Reusable water bottles can be used over and over and over again, plus they don’t hurt the earth. Most of the nonreusable bottles people use go into landfills, they are not put into recycling bins so they can be melted down and used again. Americans use 2.5 million plastic bottles in one hour. 80 percent of what Americans own are recyclable. Yet we only recycle 28 percent of that. The people in America have bought 50 million water bottles and 38 million of those empty bottles were thrown into the land fill not put in the proper recycling bin.
Plastic bottles not only do not decompose, but the bottles use 1.5 million barrels of oil to make the bottles only for America. That is enough oil to fuel 100,000 cars for a year. When we get this fuel we have to drill in the ocean, and ocean spills can occur killing thousands of sea creatures and polluting hundreds of miles of ocean water. Using a reusable water bottle will cause less people to buy plastic bottle, thus oil will be drilled less. Buy reusable water bottles and save the earth one step at a time.
This video shows a pretty good idea of what it looks like when all these water bottles are thrown away in the landfills.
When you use disposable water bottles once you are wasting natural resources. Manufacturing disposable plastic water bottles uses more water than is actually in the in the water bottle. When you use disposable water bottles everyday for when you at the gym, in the car, at lunch, and during work you are actually spending more money than you would if you bought one reusable water bottle and fill it up everyday at home for when you are out and about. When you use a reusable water bottle you are reducing toxic gases and the greenhouse gasses that result in manufacturing non-reusable plastic water bottles. If you do use non-reusable water bottles, most end up in the land fill. About 10 billion water bottles end up as garbage in the land fill. There are chemicals that leach from the plastics have been proven to cause birth defects, low sperm counts, and an increase in testicular cancer. If you use your own reusable water bottle you will save money, water, and keep people healthy.
As we enter the winter months, many turned to their house’s heaters to keep them warm at home. The Department of Energy estimates that about 50% to 70% of the average American’s energy bills is used on heating the house. Why would anyone want to use that much money on heating, especially because of the bad economy? There is another, simpler way to keep yourself and your family warm, WITHOUT paying a lot of money. Wear a sweater!
Studies show that wearing a sweater for every degree that the thermometer is turned down, about 1-3% of the energy bill is saved. Wearing even the thinnest sweater, around 2 dergrees of heat is saved at home, which means 2-6% of energy bills! Wearing a thick sweater will conserve around 4 degrees of heat, will save about 4-12% of your heating bill! And for every degree of energy you save, you save 400kg of C02! So while you can save your energy bill, you reduce pollution and save the environment!
Everyone takes showers to keep clean and smell good, but there is a simple, easy way to go green while still enjoying your showers. Just by changing your shower heads to ones that oxygenate, you can become very energy efficient.
People in the United States use an average of three billion gallons of water per-day when taking a shower. Half of that water used is unnecessary. If you change to an oxygenating shower head you will start taking steps toward saving the wasted water and the rest of our earth.
Plants look good while filtering air. So what is there to lose by putting a few in your home?
Indoor allergies aren’t fun, but there’s no need to suffer any longer. Plants naturally filter air, so by putting a few in a room, mold, dust, and airborne allergens will be reduced. They also have a pleasant appearance.
Most air fresheners release chemicals and fragrances that can aggravate allergies; plants don’t. So, rather than spending money and using a spray or plug-in air freshener, get a plant and make the room look nice while reducing airborne allergens.
d for future generations. We also learned that we should try to come up with other ways to help the earth from changing lightbulbs to visiting websites that can save energy to help the earth, everyone can make a difference. Thanks for looking at our posts. We hope you will take our ideas and go use them.
as the highest percentage of garbage in landfills. Using this much paper is bad for the environment and is destroying the forest. So here are some tips for you to save paper. When you print something, ask yourself if you really need to. If you really do need to print something, use both sides of the paper. Do not print something out if your only printing one line. In the office, try to make your workplace as paperless as possible. Do not throw away paper, recycle it.
