Posted on :23/02/11
Kids, you can help too!
Ways to help at home:
Recycle, Recycle, Recycle! If you aren't recycling at home, tell your parents how important it is for your family to recycle and reuse the earth's resources. Keep a basket next to your kitchen trash barrel to put just recycling items in, and you'll begin to see how much of what you normally throw in the trash which can be recycled. Most recycling centers take glass, aluminum, tin, newspaper, cardboard, plastic, and mixed paper (such as cereal boxes and magazines). The more your recycle, the more you'll reduce the carbon dioxide in the atmoshpere, and that will result in a reduction of global warming.
Plant a tree. Tree's actually absord CO2!
Try to ride your bike, scooter or roller blade to a friends house, instead of getting a ride. Of course, make sure it's OK with your parents.
Turn off the lights when you aren't using them.
Take shorter showers to save heating fuel.
If you are cold in the winter, put on a sweatshirt or sweater, instead of asking Mom or Dad to turn up the heat.
Turn off the TV or computer when you are done using them. Leaving them to idle uses natural resources that increase global warming.
Ask your parents to buy in bulk. Buying small individually wrapped snacks and cereals, instead of taking one serving from a large box, wastes earth's resources. Bring your own reusable mesh or canvas bags to the grocery store. In five years, you will have kept an average of 1,000 bags out of the landfill!
Posted on :23/02/11
Projects you can do at school: If your school doesn't recycle, ask the principal if he/she will work with you to start a program. Raising money for specially marked trash barrels for recycling may be all you need to do. Some schools use a yellow barrell, to stand out from the other trash barrels, and they bore a hole in the middle of the lid and mark on the lid: glass and plastic bottles only! If the school doesn't have recycling pick-up, ask a committee of parents to take turns bringing them to the recycling center. Depending in where you live, you may even be able to turn the bottles in at local fund raising collection centers or trade them in for a refund!
Remind your teachers to turn off lights when their rooms are not in use.Remind teachers to turn of computers and other equipment when not in use. Make signs to help them remember.
Study global warming topics any time you are doing reports for school. Pass the word around about how important it is. Send us your reports too, we want to read them:)Use the internet to learn about melting glaciers and changes in animal migrations, and tell your friends about it.
Learn about earth's animals and plants that are going extinct due to global warming, and think of ways we can work together to save them. Send us your ideas so we can add them to our website.
Write to your congressmen/women and senators. Tell them you want them to concentrate their efforts on reducing global warming. See our "How to contact your leaders" page.
Posted on :12/02/11
An 8th grader from Windward, CA, Calli has written a very nice article on "GLOBAL WARMING".
It'sa letter to Future President telling about the EFFECTS of "GLOBAL WARMING".
I like to share it with you.....
Dear Future President,
Congratulations on becoming president!!! What a major accomplishment! In this letter you will be reading about global warming. I think that global warming is an important issue in our world, and should be dealt with immediate action. Global warming is not only an issue in America, but all over the world. It is very dangerous for all humans, plants, and animals. Because of global warming, many bad things are happening to our world, and if we do not do something soon global warming will become a very hazardous thing.
Global warming is a fairly new discovery. Global warming is also a very important and urgent issue that needs attention right away. Scientists did not know that global warming was occurring, until the 1980's. Scientists also believed that global warming was occurring because certain gasses were polluting the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide is a certain gas which lets sunlight and heat into the earth, but also keeps these two things balanced. This is just like a greenhouse. The glass of a greenhouse lets sunlight and heat come through. This allows the plants inside to grow. Now, there is an excessive amount of carbon dioxide. This is making the earth overheated. Global warming was not a problem at first because people were not relaying on fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are used to power many things such as cars factories and much more. When these fossil fuels are used they burn up and form carbon dioxide. Trees use carbon dioxide as food, but as people cut forests down, all the carbon dioxide is left in our atmosphere.
Global warming is important because many bad things are happening to the Earth. Some of these things are the ice caps melting, animals becoming endangered, and the air polluting by carbon dioxide and other gasses. Because the Earth is overheated, the icecaps are melting. This is a major hazard, because if all of the icecaps melt, the sea level will rise, causing all of our major coastlines to be lost forever. When the icecaps melt, not only will they wipe out the coastlines, they will also harm many species of animals. Animals will become endangered, because many animals will not be able to adapt to the new climate that global warming will bring. Many new diseases will be introduced to our planet. New diseases might be introduced to Earth because of the heat. The heat will bring out many more bacteria and viruses which might harm many people because no one has ever experienced those diseases before. Some people and scientists are starting to believe that because of global warming there will be an ice age. Scientists have this prediction because "destabilization of ocean currents may cause changes in the flow of jet stream, and create the threat of an ice age."
Global warming could become a major hazard to all living things very soon. Many people know about global warming, but are not doing anything about it. This is not okay because if people do not try to make a change, global warming will become a lot more dangerous. There are many things people can do to help reduce global warming. Some of the more simple things people can do is to reduce, reuse, and recycle. You can reduce the amount of carbon dioxide you use by turning off any lights when you are done using them, use public transportation or carpool, use green appliances in your home, use alternate energy sources, like solar and wind power, make sure that your dishwasher is full, so you do not have to run extra cycles, and get a car with good gas mileage, not just a hybrid. Hybrids are not good for the environment because many parts of the car are not reusable or recyclable. All of these things can save many pounds of carbon dioxide from being polluted into our environment. If every city or town, had one of these simple things, we could slowly make a difference to stop global warming.
Global warming is a major hazard to the earth, as you can see. Humans can do whatever they want to the earth. Pollute it, endanger the animals, plants and even humans. In the long run all that they are really doing is destroying themselves. The Earth will always renew itself no matter what happens. Thank you so much for reading this letter. I hope you take this into consideration.
Sincerely,
Calli
Nirali Shah
(Director Of Aaryam Art Academy)
aaryamacademy@gmail.com
Posted on :23/02/11
Projects you can do at school:
If your school doesn't recycle, ask the principal if he/she will work with you to start a program. Raising money for specially marked trash barrels for recycling may be all you need to do. Some schools use a yellow barrell, to stand out from the other trash barrels, and they bore a hole in the middle of the lid and mark on the lid: glass and plastic bottles only! If the school doesn't have recycling pick-up, ask a committee of parents to take turns bringing them to the recycling center. Depending in where you live, you may even be able to turn the bottles in at local fund raising collection centers or trade them in for a refund!
Remind your teachers to turn off lights when their rooms are not in use.
Remind teachers to turn of computers and other equipment when not in use. Make signs to help them remember.
Study global warming topics any time you are doing reports for school. Pass the word around about how important it is. Send us your reports too, we want to read them:)
Use the internet to learn about melting glaciers and changes in animal migrations, and tell your friends about it.
Learn about earth's animals and plants that are going extinct due to global warming, and think of ways we can work together to save them. Send us your ideas so we can add them to our website.
Write to your congressmen/women and senators. Tell them you want them to concentrate their efforts on reducing global warming. See our "How to contact your leaders" page.
Posted on :12/02/11
An 8th grader from Windward, CA, Calli has written a very nice article on "GLOBAL WARMING".
It'sa letter to Future President telling about the EFFECTS of "GLOBAL WARMING".
I like to share it with you.....Dear Future President,
Congratulations on becoming president!!! What a major accomplishment! In this letter you will be reading about global warming. I think that global warming is an important issue in our world, and should be dealt with immediate action. Global warming is not only an issue in America, but all over the world. It is very dangerous for all humans, plants, and animals. Because of global warming, many bad things are happening to our world, and if we do not do something soon global warming will become a very hazardous thing.
Global warming is a fairly new discovery. Global warming is also a very important and urgent issue that needs attention right away. Scientists did not know that global warming was occurring, until the 1980's. Scientists also believed that global warming was occurring because certain gasses were polluting the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide is a certain gas which lets sunlight and heat into the earth, but also keeps these two things balanced. This is just like a greenhouse. The glass of a greenhouse lets sunlight and heat come through. This allows the plants inside to grow. Now, there is an excessive amount of carbon dioxide. This is making the earth overheated. Global warming was not a problem at first because people were not relaying on fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are used to power many things such as cars factories and much more. When these fossil fuels are used they burn up and form carbon dioxide. Trees use carbon dioxide as food, but as people cut forests down, all the carbon dioxide is left in our atmosphere.
Global warming is important because many bad things are happening to the Earth. Some of these things are the ice caps melting, animals becoming endangered, and the air polluting by carbon dioxide and other gasses. Because the Earth is overheated, the icecaps are melting. This is a major hazard, because if all of the icecaps melt, the sea level will rise, causing all of our major coastlines to be lost forever. When the icecaps melt, not only will they wipe out the coastlines, they will also harm many species of animals. Animals will become endangered, because many animals will not be able to adapt to the new climate that global warming will bring. Many new diseases will be introduced to our planet. New diseases might be introduced to Earth because of the heat. The heat will bring out many more bacteria and viruses which might harm many people because no one has ever experienced those diseases before. Some people and scientists are starting to believe that because of global warming there will be an ice age. Scientists have this prediction because "destabilization of ocean currents may cause changes in the flow of jet stream, and create the threat of an ice age."
Global warming could become a major hazard to all living things very soon. Many people know about global warming, but are not doing anything about it. This is not okay because if people do not try to make a change, global warming will become a lot more dangerous. There are many things people can do to help reduce global warming. Some of the more simple things people can do is to reduce, reuse, and recycle. You can reduce the amount of carbon dioxide you use by turning off any lights when you are done using them, use public transportation or carpool, use green appliances in your home, use alternate energy sources, like solar and wind power, make sure that your dishwasher is full, so you do not have to run extra cycles, and get a car with good gas mileage, not just a hybrid. Hybrids are not good for the environment because many parts of the car are not reusable or recyclable. All of these things can save many pounds of carbon dioxide from being polluted into our environment. If every city or town, had one of these simple things, we could slowly make a difference to stop global warming.
Global warming is a major hazard to the earth, as you can see. Humans can do whatever they want to the earth. Pollute it, endanger the animals, plants and even humans. In the long run all that they are really doing is destroying themselves. The Earth will always renew itself no matter what happens. Thank you so much for reading this letter. I hope you take this into consideration.
Sincerely,
Calli
