Goodwin Goes Green

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Public Schools www.planetpals.com www.ecokids.com www.freecycle.org

MAKE A DIFFERENCE FROM A - Z

A - Avoid fast food
B - Buy recycled products
C - Compost
D -DON’T buy aerosols!
E - Eat organic
F - Find out how to RRR
G - Grow a garden
H - Help keep USA beautiful
I - Identify energy eaters
J - Just start recycling
K - Keep your eyes open!
M - Maintain your “stuff”
N - Notify E.P.A of polluters
O - Organize a clean up
P - PLANT, PLANT, PLANT
Q - Quit ignoring problem
R - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!
S - Separate your garbage
T - Turn down heat/off lights
U - Understand global warming
V - Visit recycling center
W - Write letters of protest
X - eXercise your green rights
Y - Yell at a litterer!
Z - Zero in on solutions to... SAVING THE PLANET

Outrageous Facts!

* Using recycled paper for print run of the
Sunday NY Times would save 75,000 trees!
* Each year, 1 million sea birds, 100,000 marine mammals,
and 50,000 fur seals are killed as the result of eating or
being strangled by plastic!
* Americans dump 32 thousand pounds of sewage into their waters every minute of every day!
* Although water covers 70% of the Earth’s surface, all the FRESH water represents ONLY 1/100 of 1%
of the Earth’s total water.
* Americans throw away 25 BILLION styrofoam coffee cups every year, and 25 MILLION plastic bottles every HOUR!
* If all the cars on U.S road had properly inflated tires, it would save nearly 2 BILLION gallons of gasoline a year!
* A single quart of motor oil, if disposed of improperly, can contaminate up to two million gallons of fresh water.
* Each year 40 million acres of tropical rain forests, an area larger than the state of CA, are destroyed through burning or logging.

PLEASE CONTACT JERMAIN LAWRIE TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS AND IDEAS FOR GOODWIN GOES ‘GREEN’ THANK YOU