GO GREEN CRITTER

By: Joseph MasiMrs. Dunavant

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What does it mean to go green?

• TO:• recycle• reuse• reduce

Going green can mean making baby steps by simply recycling paper and cans or by investing into a hybrid

Randolph-Henry Recycles

• Recycling plastic bottles

• recycling cans

Colleges going Green

University of Colorado, Boulder- • 1st student directed recycling center in 1970•New buildings meet LEED Gold standards•1st year students provided reusable shopping bags

University of Washington, Seattle-•LEED silver standard•Organic food focus•Pilot site to test the first compostable paper soft drink cup

Middleburg College, Vermont-•Biomass gasification plant reduces school’s carbon emissions by 40%•Track to become carbon neutral by 2016•Ski team converted its truck to run on waste veggie oil

Ways to improve Randolph Henry

We found in the recycle bin that there was trash also found in there with the recycled material

We need to fix the leaking faucets to conserve our water

What going green means to others..

What going green means to Patrick Moore: “making money by scraping aluminum”

What going green means to Nathan: ‘put trash in trash into trash and recycle recyclables”

What going green means to Jamie: “going green means a lot and there is a wide variety of ways to go green but to me we need to think about our environment for future generations”

Examples of going Green

• Recycle cans and plastic• shut off lights when you are not in that room•Use reusable shopping bags• use biodiesel vehicles•Use florescent light bulbs•Cut a tree plant a tree