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Rethink Recycling
A soft February breeze swept through my hair as
I sat on a picnic blanket at a park across the
street from Berkeley High School. I was listening
to the condensed version of Annie Leonard’s
“The Story of Stuff” at Earth Team’s
February meeting. About ten other high school
students were sitting with me, all increasing
their knowledge on recycling.
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Submitted by Emily Ellsworth, Acalanes High School, Lafayette, CA
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Focus the Nation
I came to school this morning excited
about missing classes for the majority of the day.
I had low expectations and enthusiasm as I intended
to cruise through the seminars with little thought
or interest. I had heard it all before yet, as it
turns out, never in such an effective manner...
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Submitted by Various Students, 10th Grade, International H.S., San Francisco, CA
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Facing Our Inconvenient Truth
About a year ago
I read the incredible 'An Inconvenient Truth'
by Al Gore. After reading this book I felt compelled
and a little angry. Why hadn't I heard about
this before? Global warming has been occurring
at alarming rates since the 1970's and now that
it was almost to the point of irreversible consequences
was the matter being put in the spotlight.
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Submitted by Nicole Cogar, Horizons Home Study, Concord, CA
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How to Global Warming
“How to Global Warming” was a movie that addressed
the issues that we face with the environment.
It also gave us solutions to several problems
we face in today regarding energy saving and
wasting using humor AND scientific facts. In
the movie the makers of the film addressed issues
such as: Recycling, Shorter Showers, Carpooling,
Compost, Stabbing jelly, Hand-Me-Downs/Charity
Donation, Planting Trees.
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Submitted by Akeem Hayes & Yan Ingamells, 10th grade, International H.S., San Francisco, CA
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Video Review: The Story of Stuff
“The Story of Stuff” is a short film that I highly recommend. It’s hosted by a woman who spent ten years of her life traveling the world and researching how consumer goods get into our hands...
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Submitted by Peter Finn, International High School, San Francisco, CA
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Eighth Grader Helps Clean Up the World
Joshua Martarella Goes Green
Are you concerned about the world around you? Do you want to make this a better world for everyone? Joshua Martarella is an eighth grader at Stone Valley who is doing just that. He is involved with a group called EarthTeam.
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Submitted By Brianna Lane
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The Good Thing I Did for the Environment
Over My Holiday Break
Elizabeth: I reused all wrapping paper and gift bags I received last Christmas for my gifts this year.
Jocelyn: I offered to clean after the parties and sort out the recycling from the trash.
Cynthia: I reused wrapping paper and gift bags from last Christmas and I used them for this Christmas.
Joaquin: I conserved energy by not using the heater and just dressing warmer.
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Submitted By Eric Sanchez and Joshua Martarella
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Consumerism and Count Chocula
"Mmmmhhhhh…chocolate!" America's beloved fatso, Homer J. Simpson, utters this phrase in an episode of The Simpsons as he drifts off into a make believe land where everything is made of chocolate, from lamp posts to a Scottish terrier. As ridiculous as this make believe world may seem to us, a world in which chocolate is everything is not unheard of.
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Submitted By Andrew Shahamiri
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Kayaking
Over the summer I went kayaking in Santa Cruz with two of my best friends. We arrived in Santa Cruz at 12:00pm when the waters are usually the calmest. On the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf we each rented an open-deck kayak for a few hours. Once the owner of the kayak shop helped us into our kayaks, we were off!
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Submitted By Nicole Cogar
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Mobilization: The Power of Students
"This past weekend I had the pleasure of working for the Obama for President campaign. Though the town hall meeting I attended with Barack and Michelle Obama was truly inspirational, the most motivating was meeting fellow students, from all high school + college grades campaign as well..."
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Submitted By Max Perrey
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Earthquakes in My Life
"It’s Monday night, and as I sit at my computer completing my homework, I hear the coins on the desk begin to rattle and the books on the shelves slide out of their rows. Somewhat frightened, I walk toward the bone-white doorframe and stand firmly beneath it as I beckon my brothers to stand with me...."
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Submitted By Natalie Perkins
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The History of Our Soil
"San Andreas has had a blooming organic garden
for nearly 22 years. It started when a disenfranchised
student confronted our History teacher, Jim
Rice, about a job. Jim had been a licensed landscape
artist and horticulture therapist prior to becoming
a teacher at San Andreas..."
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Submitted By Chloe Flax
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Inspiring Young Emerging Leaders
"Inspiring Young Emerging Leaders (I-YEL) is a youth environmental organization where youth run and make decisions. During the Fall, we do many workshops and learn about different environmental issues that will prepare the interns for the New Year in January. We pick a project topic that we will be focusing on an environmental issue that we'll be working on for about five months..."
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By Various Students
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The Change Starts With You
"Horizon, Ole, Close-Up and FFA are just a few fo the clubs and groups at Tomales High. New this year to our school is the "Be the Change Club," which promotes positive attitudes and environment-friendly projects..."
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By Ashley Bagley
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The Green Screen Crew Recommends Green Movies
"Eric Sanchez: "An Inconvenient Truth" It was so inspiring and it changed the way I think about global warming.
Dyani Main: It's really important to know about this "Truth" because we are responsible for our Earth."
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By The Green Screen Crew
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On a Scale of 1 - 10?
"Asked by Earth Club students at Alhambra HS: On a Scale of 1 - 10, how concerned are you about the environment?
Emily Braz: My personal concern is about a 7. Its important because it will affect us in the years to come, and it destroys a lot of the natural beauty."
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By Alhambra Earth Club Students
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Update from Albany High School's EarthTeam
Environmental Club
Last year, a few dedicated students started
an environmental club at Albany HS. With about
six members working hard, meeting at least twice
a week, we started with a recycling awareness
campaign, educating students about recycling
on campus. We did a survey of the school to
see how students get to school, and were surprised
that in our one-square-mile city, so many students
drove to school every day..."
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By Allison Cooper
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The End…For Real
"It all ended when I was young. In the year 3950, there were 7759 people left on the earth. The Earth took a turn for the worse. Dangerous things started to occur frequently. Floods, tsunamis, hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, lighting and thunder attacks..."
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By Jael, Naomi, and Dajoune
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The End…For Real Part 2
"YEARS 2007- 3000
Ever since the year 2007, the inhabitants of Earth have been fillings its oceans with garbage to the point of overflowing. Even though it was reported that an island of plastic debris, bigger than the state of Texas, was floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, hardly anyone took notice..."
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By Jael, Naomi, and Dajoune
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A Word From The ESA
-Why Join the ESA?
-Alhambra Creek Restoration Project
-Ishi Wilderness Backpacking Trip
-Community Planting Day
-Every Thursday
-How ESA Has Evolved Over the Past 5 Years
-Being a New student
-Creating Class Agreements
-Parking Lot What?
-Eco-literacy peer mentoring project
-Favorite Experience at Eco-Lit
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EarthTeam Restoration Days
"On November 3 I went to the EarthTeam restoration day at Strentzel Meadow in Martinez. I had never heard of this meadow and I had no idea what to expect at EarthTeam meetings. I was pleasantly surprised by the whole experience. Strentzel Meadow is a beautiful area..."
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By Nicole Cogar
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LEAF 2007
"We were surrounded by teens and youth who cared and wanted to help the environment, when we stopped to look around all we could see was the beauty of nature."
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By Dyani Main
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What is the tallest bird you've ever seen?
How does it feel to stand next to a bird that is five feet tall and weighing only from eight to twelve pounds? It would feel great and scary at the same time!
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By Judy Pun
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More About Sand Hill Cranes & the Ecosystem
When we went to see the sand hill cranes, we also observed other environmental issues. We saw how the farm lands were...
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By Chai Saephan
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Keller Beach
In the past week Gov. Schwarzenegger has made many changes to the bay area economy. Most recent he has closed all beaches in the bay area and also some costal beaches.
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By Cameron Hamilton
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Cool Schools Global Warming Meeting
Through a tour of Berkeley, Chicory Bechtel, the Cool Schools program director, led a group of students to certain areas near Berkeley High School. First, the students were led to Washington Elementary, where they discovered that this would be the site of the first public school in Berkeley to be solely dependent on solar power.
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By Raj Khatri
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Save What's left!
What is the problem? Why is there so much garbage everywhere? Is it that we use too many resources that are non-recyclable? Or is it that we just don't recycle?
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By Colleen Zak
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What a Day!
I stepped out of my car and walked on the muddy, wet ground as I watched a yellow school bus pull into the meeting area. A stream of smiling students came out of the bus dressed in sweats and chatting with other, all waiting a busy day cleaning up the litter at Berkeley Aquatic Park.
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By Natasha Gupta
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Movie Review: Luna: Spirit of the Whale
I am a registered U.S. Indian of the Pottawottami Tribe and am proud of my heritage as were the native Indians of Canada in the new movie, "Luna: The Spirit Of The Whale". This movie was so powerful and filmed with such mastery...
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By Tyler Jolley
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Going Green: Necessity, Not a Fad
If you love the planet, you won’t only
count calories. You can now count carbon cost.
Instead of eating a banana from Ecuador flown
here on a carbon dioxide emitting jet, eat an
apple from close by, that means produced locally,
not far from the consumer.
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By Nikhil Gupta
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My Interview for Nourish on PBS
PBS has recently begun the project of creating an informative, intriguing new documentary. Entitled "Nourish", the film focuses on our human relationship with one of the most enjoyable aspects of life - food. Where we get it, how we buy it, from whom we buy it, how much we spend to get it, and even our favorite kinds of culinary creations are covered throughout the film.
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By Elizabeth Price
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Musicians For Relief
Two non-profitable groups "Music For Relief "and "Unite The United" got together and did something about the California wildfires that left thousands of people homeless and the landscapes damaged. What they did is they put together a music group auction with the money going directly to helping those affected by the wildfires...
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By Cynthia Zuniga
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Going the Distance
Going the distance is a belief which motivates someone to go for it all. Often they see it by looking out into it themselves. The present distance shows the middle of the afternoon, which is a partly clouded sky rapidly losing light...
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By Adam Sherman
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Youthful Action Gets Going
On November 7th the Cosco Buson oil spill dumped 58 000 gallons of contaminating bunker fuel into the San Francisco Bay, which is toxic to living organisms, especially birds, as it impedes their natural ability to thermo-regulate their bodies, deteriorates their feathers, making them vulnerable to disease and illness, or killing them as they attempt to remove it from their feathers themselves and accidentally ingest it.
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By Justin Halliwil
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Thoughts
from a Bay Area High School Environmentlist
I once had no hope for the environment,
but I have learned that "if we see
only the worst, it destroys our capacity
to do something" (Howard Zinn).
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By Samantha Barghahn
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A
Simple Lifestyle Change
When people talk about greening the community,
their subconscious instantaneously associates
the Toyota Prius, the rebuilding of trees
and other stereotypical “tree-hugging”
activities. The United States has come to
accept these as conventional means of improving
the environment.
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By Christopher Gioia,
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What’s
New at Saint Mary’s College High School
Saint Mary’s in Berkeley
is making big advancements towards saving
the environment. Their new club, the Environmental
Action Team, has been making steps toward
lessening the carbon footprint of the school.
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By Elizabeth Price, 12th Grade,
Saint Mary’s College High School
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Count
Carbon Cost, Not Just Calories
If you love the planet, you won’t
only count calories. You can now count carbon
cost.
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By Tyler Jolley, Stewart School, Richmond
, March 29 2007
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The
Strangest Catch (Pes Sapo)
On a tropical day during my summer
vacation in Guatemala this year, I saw what
nobody expected to see.
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By Alex Ortiz, Pinole Valley High
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