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Kultur Dokumente
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Why Get on the Green
Fast Track?
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Get Up to Green Speed
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Can You Speak the
Language?
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Gauge Your Gas
Oil is not a renewable resource
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Solve the Plastic
Problem
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Save a Tree
• Paper takes up one-half of
landfill space
• Millions of trees cut for mail,
paper products
• $1 of a $10 purchase goes to
packaging
Solutions
Recycle all paper
Pass on books and magazines
Use less packaging
Opt out of junk mail at
www.dmachoice.org/mps
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Visit a Landfill
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Weigh Your Waste
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Give Biodegradability
a Break
How Fast Items Biodegrade
• Banana peel – 7 days
• Paper – 5 months
• Organisms break down - • Cotton clothing – 5 months
biodegrade - products to • Nylon – 40 years
return to the earth • Aluminum cans – 100 years
• Some biodegrade • Disposable diapers – 500 years
quickly, some never • Plastic bottles - never
Use a biodegradable
product today
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Rev Up to Reduce,
Reuse and Recycle
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Give Grooming the
Green Light
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Go Green in Your
Closet
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Good Job –
Good Beginning
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What Will You Do
in 21 Days?
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Review Questions
5. What slogan tells you how to cut down on all the garbage
you create?
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
6. What is the number one substance people throw away?
Paper.
7. What are two common household ingredients you could
use to make natural cleaners?
Baking soda and vinegar.
8. Clothing manufacturers are making fashions out of what
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More on Environmentalism From
Learning ZoneXpress
• Go Green Around Your Home Video/DVD
• Global Warming Poster
• What to Do with Used Clothing Poster
• The Mechanics of Organic Food
PowerPoint
• Organic Food Poster 27
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Resources
Books
• Better Basics for the Home: Simple Solutions for Less Internet Sites
Toxic Living – Annie Berthold-Bond
•www.epa.gov
• Conscious Style Home, Eco-Friendly living for the 21st
Century – Danny Seo •www.earth911.org
• Creating A Healthy Household – LynnMarie Bower •www.idealbite.com
• Green This! – Deirdre Imus •www.greenlivingtips.com
• It’s Easy Being Green, a Handbook for Earth-Friendly •www.thegreenguide.com
Living – Crissy Trask
• Naturally Clean, The Seventh Generation Guide to Safe
and Healthy Non-Toxic Cleaning – Jeffrey Hollender,
Geoff Davis, Meika Hollender, Reed Doyle
• Organic Housekeeping – Ellen Sandbeck
• Wake Up and Smell the Planet: The Non-Pompous, Non-
Preachy Grist Guide to Greening Your Day” – Grist
Magazine
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21 Days to a Green Life
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