Cool Ways You Can Help Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

By Colin, Jake, Cassidy, Michael, and Liam

http://womenesi.com/209/easy-ways-to-save-the-planet-earth/environment

Most people who care about the earth, often don’t know any ways to help and reduce their carbon footprint. Below i am going to list a few cool ways you can help combat climate change;

• Alternatives to driving. When possible, walk or ride your bike in order to avoid carbon emissions completely. Carpooling is also an excellent way to avoid unnecessary carbon emissions.
• Lighting. Turn off lights you’re not using and when you leave the room. Replace incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent or LED ones.
• Thermostat. Don’t set it too high or low.
• Eat locally-produced and organic food. Transporting food requires petroleum-based fuels, and many fertilizers are also fossil fuel-based.
• Cut the beef and dairy. It takes a lot of resources to raise cows, and it’s especially bad if you buy beef from somewhere like Brazil, where it was grazed on land that used to be tropical forest but was cleared for agricultural use.  Deforestation is one of the main contributors to climate change.
• Unplug your gadgets. Leaving your tech plugged in when it's not in use is a major waste of energy, even leaving your phone charger plug into the wall is still using energy.

 

These are just some ways we can help reduce our carbon footprint on our earth and save our world for future generations to come.

H2Woah on da Bake Sale

Blogged by: Andrea, Kerstyn, Katlin, and Melanie

Our bake sale was a success! We raised $171.20 all together with each group taking $57.05 to donate to each our charities.

Many Students from various grades and staff members all came up to our bakes ale booth. Even if people who came up to our booth but didn’t buy anything, they saw our cause and what we are trying to achieve for Npss Global Goals. However we did manage to sell all of our cupcakes that we made along with other baked goods sold out or almost sold out also.

Our group is very proud of the turnout and the fact we finished the bake sale with no cupcakes because that means people from Africa is going to be getting money towards clean water wells being placed and sanitation hygiene information being informed. Our next fund raising activity will be selling the Kernels popcorn with tags of clean water and sanitation facts attached to the bags. The bags of popcorn will be sold for $2.00 at the Global Goals Fair now hosted on December 8 that is on the Friday instead of Thursday now for inconvenient reasons.

Tis the season of H2Woah

Blogged by: Andrea, Kerstyn, Katlin, & Melanie

December is coming close and so is our grade 9 presentation and global goals fair. Our group has been hard at work preparing, practicing, and getting together the supplies we need in order to get our message/light out there on clean water and sanitation.

For our grade 9 presentation that will be commencing on Thursday December 1st, we prepared a powerpoint to present along with 3 educational games on water and a discussion to take place with each class. We plan to be laid back about our presentation so it doesn’t seem too forceful to the young grade nines. Our only little worry is the grade nines acting up and being disrespectful during our presentation, however our teacher Ms. Mcleod will be present and help get them back in line if they act reckless to us.

A last reminder is to donate to food banks, especially for over the holidays so that everyone may enjoy this season and have the supplies they need. I know this isn’t our goal to work on and an early subject to talk about right now but this is just a message to shout out for the less fortunate.  

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The Global Goals Bake Sale

Blogged by: Emma and Sarai

YOUTH FOR EQUALITY

Youth For Equality is giving our best efforts to raise awareness about gender equality but a part of our campaign is support. Support for women and men who are victims to inequalities because no one deserves to be alone in this fight for equality. Youth For Equality has decided to raise awareness as well as money for My Sister’s Place, a women’s shelter in Barrie for women who are victims of domestic abuse. All of our proceeds are going to this shelter because our main goal is to create equal opportunity as well as empower all women and girls because they tend to be victims of inequalities and gender-based violence. We have chosen to donate to a women’s shelter because we would like to contribute and give our support to the woman who were put in situations where they had no choice but to live in a shelter.

Our first step towards raising money for My Sister’s Place was to hold a bake sale. Youth For Equality collaborated with two other global goals groups, The Tree Musketeers and H2WOAH, to raise money. We all wanted to make money so that we could donate the proceeds to different places. Youth For Equality made brownies and homemade cookies to sell and the other groups made cupcakes and cookies and we set up our table at lunch on Friday, November 25th.

Our bake sale was a complete success! We sold everything we had with cheap prices. None of the baked goods were priced more than $2 so they were quite affordable. We were able to advocate for our campaigns to staff and students and explain why we were raising money and fighting for our goals. It was a positive experience and we were able to raise $171 meaning that each group got about $57 each.

Potential plans for the future:  to raise more money for My Sister’s Place by making and selling t-shirts and/or jewelry.

Images from:

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https://www.google.ca/search?q=my+sisters+place+logo&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=662&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjBqt2Y4svQAhUJ6YMKHZz2B64Q_AUIBigB#imgrc=CEvuRMmRdkJY3M%3A

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An Update on What We’re doing!

Blogged by: Emma and Sarai

YOUTH FOR EQUALITY

Achieving gender equality is our campaign’s main goal. We would like to create equal opportunities for all human beings and by doing this, Youth for Equality has started to spread awareness. As movember starts to come to an end, we realized that we needed to create more ways to spread awareness. We have made a twitter account with the twitter handle @femnpss and have kept consistent with tweets related to our goal so that we can spread awareness of the harsh realities of gender inequality as well as gain knowledge on how to conquer our goal. Youth for Equality has also created unique brochures about gender equality world-wide as well as gender equality in the workplace. We have taken these brochures and ran our first information booth at lunch on November 24th. Staff and students actually approached our booth and we asked quick quiz questions. The point of these questions are to raise shocking facts about our topic of equality and we were able to educate others! Also, anyone who approached the booth took one of our brochures to take away with them. In conclusion, our booth ran successfully and using our twitter, we were able to promote it.

Future plans: Youth For Equality plans to run our booth every Thursday at lunch in our Cafe but we are working to create a spinning “Question Wheel” structure (like the one to the right->) that students can spin. The wheel will land on a question and if the student or staff member answers the question correctly, we will have prizes handy for the winner!

Below is an example of one of our quiz questions.

What percent of women hold CEO positions in fortune 500 companies?

1. 10%
2. 7.3%
3. 4.8%
4. 12%

Photo Reference:https://www.google.ca/search?q=prize+wheel&rlz=1CADEAC_enCA716CA719&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=667&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiVr620ysTQAhVT3WMKHdU5B6kQ_AUIBigB#imgrc=CssEoZScWCvD3M%3A

The Tree Musketeer’s Bake sale!!

Raising money and awareness, one day at a time! :)

Blogged by: Sam, Mackenzie, Vanessa, and Tristin

Finally after planning for over two weeks are global goal group was able to step forward and take action!! We teamed up with two other groups (H2 woah and youth for equality) to make some delicious baked goods and for an added flare our group made some green wrap around bracelets.

All of the proceeds are going to Ducks Unlimited, a foundation that works to restoring wetlands aiding Canada’s environment in amazing ways. On their website they state: “We conserve, restore and manage wetlands and grasslands to benefit waterfowl, wildlife and people.” (ducks, 2016). I’ll make sure to link the site below so you’ll be able to check it out and see all the amazing things they do for Canada’s environment. Our group thought that this was a great charity to fundraise for because not only is it helping restore the environment, it is also helping Canadian Wildlife due to it protecting wetland species homes.

While fundraising for charities our group also wanted to raise more awareness about our goal; life on land. So we came up with the idea of handing out facts that were the size of business cards. Each card included our group name: The Tree Musketeers, a fact about the environment and our logo. The cards were sold along with the bigger sugar cookies.

In the end the bake sale was a success as we managed to raise $171.27 and also educate the students in our school! :)

Make sure to read our blog next week to keep up to date with our activities!

Picture This

Blogged by Vanessa, Sam, Tristin, Mackenzie

Worldwide, approximately 15 billion trees are cut down annually, according to Time magazine. The images above represent the loss of forests and loss of animal habitats. Records have proven that the amount of deforestation has decreased a significant amount since human civilization had begun to develop, however the rates of deforestation are still alarmingly high. An estimated >1% of over 80,000 tree species are studied or used for industrial and agricultural purposes. This could be huge for organizations and businesses, as there is potential for other tree species to be ideal for lumber, pulp production, and other things. An example of different types of trees being used for industrial purposes is the trend in bamboo shoots being used. It is believed that the contents of bamboo shoots can create a feel nearly identical to that of cotton.

If animals do not do this kind of damage to their own home, why do we, as people?