Have you Pledged to a Billion Acts of Green? #earthday
It’s a wonderful world! Don’t let anyone tell you different…
If it’s to stay this way…we must do our part to Save the Planet. We must also do our part to teach this to the students that we serve.
Earth Day is this Friday, April 22, 2011. Take the time with your students to make a Pledge to a Billion Acts of Green!
Here are just a few ideas that I really believe are worthwhile:
- A Billion Acts of Green
Earth Day Network’s A Billion Acts of Green® website is designed to prove the idea that real change occurs best when millions of people commit to it with their actions. With its easy-to-use online registration tool, any person or organization can register an Act of Green, from Earth Day events and community climate meetings to tree plantings, large-scale light bulb changes and workplace renewable energy retrofits. Simple individual gestures like riding a bike instead of driving and washing laundry in cold water may also be recorded.
- Reclaim your Mailbox! 41pounds.org stops your junk mail and catalogs — protecting the environment. Junk mail wastes an incredible amount of natural resources and contributes to global warming. This service covers an entire household for five years!
- The New York Times Read important articles in the paper that awaken our “Green Consciousness” and support us and our students to think about taking action. This is good one that can kick-start a discussion on how meat consumption is taking a toll on our planet.
- Edutopia.org A Free download of Classroom Resources for Green Projects. Looking for ideas and resources to inspire environmental awareness and action in your classroom? Edutopia brings you Think Green: Tips and Resources for Earth-Friendly Learning Projects. This practical guide, filled with inspiring ideas and classroom-tested resources, will help you plan green projects that take student learning deeper. Full of simple and practical ways to prepare our students for 21st-century success, this guide will help you deliver the relevant and meaningful education all students deserve.
Leave me a comment. I’d love to hear about the great projects and commitments that you and your students pledge… to do your part to SAVE THE PLANET!
Do it for him…
And Do it for her!
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LISA DABBS
Wife. Mom. Educator. Author. She started her career as an elementary school teacher in Southern California. In this role as teacher, she assisted with a grant project and became the Project Director of a Language and Literacy program. Read more
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