Hello Again,
In this post here are some helpful tips to recycle.
Grap a bunch of friends and do this:
-Plant a Garden. Trees and plants help decrease CO2 in the environment, and they're pretty! Remind people the beauty of a green planet by rallying them into planting a community garden. For added energy efficiency and fun, plant veggies and flowers. And remember: Fresh food always tastes better!
-Flex those vocal cords! Go to your local city hall and demand that they print city documents on recycled paper. Write letters, make calls, recruit your friends and their friends and friends of their friends.
-Sell or swap items made of recycled goods. Designate a day when you'll all get together to make some stuff, and then have a recycled craft fair. You'd be surprised how much you can make-like bird feeders or flower holders fashioned out of plastic bottles. The sky's the limit!
Things you can do with your family:
-Get your famz in the recycling mix. Make it easy for your family to seperate garbage by setting up the correct bins for paper, plastic, and metal. A lot of people don't recycle because it's not convenient-make it convenient!
-School 'Em. On the importance of conserving energy and water. Show them the facts(my last post) and how small steps can make a difference-like turning down the thermastat a few degrees, taking shorter showers, shutting the water off when they brush their teeth. Every small gesture matters! Then post cute reminders around the house-like post it notes (made of recycled paper, thank you) on the bathroom mirror and refridgerator door.
-Have a family craft night! Using recycled materials. Teach 'em the million and one cool things you can make with old cardboard milk cartons!
-Have a green dinner! Opt for organic, free range chicken or organic pasta, and veggies from your local farmer's market. And if that doesn't sound appetizing, try organic mac and cheese. Yes, it does exist! Be sure to look for organic labels and try to include as many fresh, local products as possible.
At school or church:
-Start a club! Does your school have a club to combat global warming? If not, start one. Students can push the administration to make the school greener or more energy efficient. You can even get people together from you church to see how it can cut down its carbon footprint. Then approach your priest with your ideas.
-Think and do! Where do you spend your time? Go there and help come up with ways to recycle. Walk through your place of worship after a function and see all the waste that's produced. Get your youth group to collect the water and soda bottles, then recycle them. Not only will you be doing a good deed, but you'll also be making people aware of the importance of recycling.
-Post it up! Ask your church and/or school administration if you and your friends can use some bulliten board space to put up a display about going green. Include facts, ways to make a difference, and info on local recycling times and locations. Show 'em that every little bit counts!
See there are many ways you can help use some or all of these tips to help save the planet. Remember every little thing you do to help counts. Even just recycling one item can help. Post comments on more tips to help recycle! My next post will be great gift ideas for your man to get you so tell him to look at this blog!
-Alley
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Monday, May 26, 2008
Recycling
Hey All,
Recycling is a really important thing, and not recycling is one of the reasons causing global warming! Here are some facts about recycling:
-The average American uses 650 pounds of paper each year. 100 MILLION TONS of wood can be saved each year if all that paper was actually recycled.
-About 80% of what Americans throw away each year is not recycable, yet our recycling rate is only 28%.
-Americans use 2.5 MILLION plastic bottles every hour! Most of them are thrown away...
-Everymonth Americans throw away enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper(think: Empire State Building). All these jars are recycable!
-Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures a year! Ever heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? It's twice the size of Texas (my home state) and is floating somewhere between San Francisco and Hawaii. Its also 80 percent plastic, and weighs in 3.5 million tons.
-Recycling one ton (about 2,000 pounds) of paper saves 17 trees, 2 barrells of oil(enough to run the average car for 1,260 mile), 4,100 kilowatts of energy (enough power for the average home for six months), 3.2 cubic yards of landfill space, and 60 pounds of pollution.
-The 17 trees saved by recycling a ton of paper can absorb a total of 250 pounds of carbon dioxide from the air each year.
-If all our newspapers were recycled, we could save about 250 millions trees each year! If every American recycled just one-tenth(that's one out of ten)of their newspapers, we could save about 25 MILLION trees a year.
-More than 20,000,000 Hershey's Kisses are wrapped each day, using 133 square miles of aluminum foil. Believe it not, ALL that foil is recycable, but not that many people realize it so most it goes in the trash!
-Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours- or the equivalent of a half a gallon of gasoline. In spite of this, Americans throw away enough aluminum to rebuild our entire commericial fleet of airplanes every three months!
-A typical family consumes 182 gallons of pop(aka soda), 29 gallons of juice, 104 gallons of milk, and 26 gallons of bottled water a year! Thats a lot of containers-make sure they're recycled!
I bet most of you didn't know this. I didn't know it either! We need to do something. My next post will be ways to help recycle. So check in tommorow! I give a BIG thanks to dosomething.org for these facts. This is where I'm getting all my information. So check that website out one day and even become a member. It's one of the greatest website ever! Leave comments!
-Alley
Recycling is a really important thing, and not recycling is one of the reasons causing global warming! Here are some facts about recycling:
-The average American uses 650 pounds of paper each year. 100 MILLION TONS of wood can be saved each year if all that paper was actually recycled.
-About 80% of what Americans throw away each year is not recycable, yet our recycling rate is only 28%.
-Americans use 2.5 MILLION plastic bottles every hour! Most of them are thrown away...
-Everymonth Americans throw away enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper(think: Empire State Building). All these jars are recycable!
-Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures a year! Ever heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? It's twice the size of Texas (my home state) and is floating somewhere between San Francisco and Hawaii. Its also 80 percent plastic, and weighs in 3.5 million tons.
-Recycling one ton (about 2,000 pounds) of paper saves 17 trees, 2 barrells of oil(enough to run the average car for 1,260 mile), 4,100 kilowatts of energy (enough power for the average home for six months), 3.2 cubic yards of landfill space, and 60 pounds of pollution.
-The 17 trees saved by recycling a ton of paper can absorb a total of 250 pounds of carbon dioxide from the air each year.
-If all our newspapers were recycled, we could save about 250 millions trees each year! If every American recycled just one-tenth(that's one out of ten)of their newspapers, we could save about 25 MILLION trees a year.
-More than 20,000,000 Hershey's Kisses are wrapped each day, using 133 square miles of aluminum foil. Believe it not, ALL that foil is recycable, but not that many people realize it so most it goes in the trash!
-Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours- or the equivalent of a half a gallon of gasoline. In spite of this, Americans throw away enough aluminum to rebuild our entire commericial fleet of airplanes every three months!
-A typical family consumes 182 gallons of pop(aka soda), 29 gallons of juice, 104 gallons of milk, and 26 gallons of bottled water a year! Thats a lot of containers-make sure they're recycled!
I bet most of you didn't know this. I didn't know it either! We need to do something. My next post will be ways to help recycle. So check in tommorow! I give a BIG thanks to dosomething.org for these facts. This is where I'm getting all my information. So check that website out one day and even become a member. It's one of the greatest website ever! Leave comments!
-Alley
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Mixed Religions??
I just got done reading this article in CosmoGirl about how American teenagers are starting to believe in one religion. I'm not sure if I oppose or go for it. I know I only believe in Christianity but I don't discriminate people for believing in other religions. But what if my Christian friends start believing in Budhism. I mean lets say your a Christian right? Your best friend in the whole entire world is a Christian. You believe in God and only God. Your friend comes up to you one day and says I think I believe in Hindu. What would you do? I'm kind of confused on what to think about it either. Here are some stats that they pointed out in this article:
-81% of adults identify themselves with one religion
-72% of girls say they're religious
-25% of girls say they follow their own mix of religious and spiritual beliefs
-51% of girls don't regularly visit a place of worship
What do guys think about this? Do you think this would help or hurt a person with mixed religious beliefs?
-Alley
-81% of adults identify themselves with one religion
-72% of girls say they're religious
-25% of girls say they follow their own mix of religious and spiritual beliefs
-51% of girls don't regularly visit a place of worship
What do guys think about this? Do you think this would help or hurt a person with mixed religious beliefs?
-Alley
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Sunday, March 30, 2008
I'm bored.
Hello readers-
I finally finished unpacking my room! I'm so happy. It looks great its so cozy. Yesterday I spent all day hanging out my friend Cheyenne. She's really cool. We went to the General Granbury festival. It was fun. I went back to the festival today with my Aunt Debbi, Coley, and Zac. We rode the rides first. My brother and I went on the ride where it spends so fast you lose gravity and you lift up. Then I went on the Tilt-A-Whirl with Coley and he's only 8 so he got a little scared so he had his eyes closed and his head on my shoulder the whole time. Then we went to a fun house and Coley ran into a mirror because it was so confusing haha! Then we did bumper cars. I'm a good driver, let me tell you. And then we went down these huge slides and it was scary. I thought it was going to be all babyish but it was crazy. Haha! Then I got the pink Chanel purse I wanted. It was a knock-off for only $50! So I just memorized my bible verse for school tommorow:
But we commend ourselves as ministers of God. By the word of truth, the power of God, by the weapon of rightiousness in the right hand and in the left.-2 Corinthians 6:4-7
-Alley
I finally finished unpacking my room! I'm so happy. It looks great its so cozy. Yesterday I spent all day hanging out my friend Cheyenne. She's really cool. We went to the General Granbury festival. It was fun. I went back to the festival today with my Aunt Debbi, Coley, and Zac. We rode the rides first. My brother and I went on the ride where it spends so fast you lose gravity and you lift up. Then I went on the Tilt-A-Whirl with Coley and he's only 8 so he got a little scared so he had his eyes closed and his head on my shoulder the whole time. Then we went to a fun house and Coley ran into a mirror because it was so confusing haha! Then we did bumper cars. I'm a good driver, let me tell you. And then we went down these huge slides and it was scary. I thought it was going to be all babyish but it was crazy. Haha! Then I got the pink Chanel purse I wanted. It was a knock-off for only $50! So I just memorized my bible verse for school tommorow:
But we commend ourselves as ministers of God. By the word of truth, the power of God, by the weapon of rightiousness in the right hand and in the left.-2 Corinthians 6:4-7
-Alley
Friday, March 28, 2008
Okay so I think I like this guy.
His name is Nick. I can't tell if I like him or not. I mean he isn't drop dead gorgeous but there's something about him that I really like. I mean his eyes are completly amazing. A lot of people think he is a nerd but I don't know. It's the weirdest kind of crush that I've ever had. His personality is great so maybe that's it. All the girls are like, who do you like? And I say nobody because they're probably gross out if they found out I liked Nick.
Friend wise everythings been going good. I have a wide variety of friends from 6th grade all the way to 10th grade. Some really good friends that I made are Shannon and Cheyenne. They're really cool. I don't know about Bailey though. I don't think she likes me. She doesn't talk to me that much. I feel really bad for the other new girl though because she doesn't try to hang out with us girls. She's kind of out there, you know? She was homeschooled her whole life so she's probably not the most outgoing girl in the world but I don't know, she should get out just a little bit more. See ya!
-Alley
Friend wise everythings been going good. I have a wide variety of friends from 6th grade all the way to 10th grade. Some really good friends that I made are Shannon and Cheyenne. They're really cool. I don't know about Bailey though. I don't think she likes me. She doesn't talk to me that much. I feel really bad for the other new girl though because she doesn't try to hang out with us girls. She's kind of out there, you know? She was homeschooled her whole life so she's probably not the most outgoing girl in the world but I don't know, she should get out just a little bit more. See ya!
-Alley
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
My first day at CCA
Today was my very first day as a student at Cornerstone Christian Academy. I'd have to say it only was okay. A little bit confusing, okay WAY bit confusing. When I first got there no one really even bothered to talk to me so I just kind of stood around by myself as the whole class chit-chatted together. There was one girl named Bailey Blackmen that I knew from a few years back who did not once bother to come and say hi to me. Everyone else started to get nicer though but let me tell you, I really wanted the day to be over. I was so confused on where to go and I kind of was left out by myself sometimes but things were okay and I made a few friends.
I'm going to go up to Bailey myself tomorrow and talk to her since she wasn't kind enough to come up and talk to me. My mom says that she was just too shy or jealous that she was losing her place as most beautiful girl in the school. I'd rather her be too shy because I really don't want drama. I can't help if I'm beautiful, can I? I have to wear a uniform that isn't drop-dead gorgeous anyways. Well I'm out. Peace!
-Alley
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