I try to do something good for the envirnment. I always bring my shopping bags to grocery store. Then I keep all small plastic bags of vegetables to pick up my dog's dropps during walking.  And I keep the middle size plastic bags for trash cans. I don't usually throw away plastic bags.

 April 19-23 Florin Tech explored the themes of Earth Week by making posters and having Don Huston of the City of Sacramento Waste Management Department come and speak to the morning and afternoon classes about the 3 R's (reduce, reuse, recycle). See more pictures in our gallery

Here are Earth Day related websites:

Gaylord Nelson and the Story of Earth Day

Children's Crafts projects using recycled materials - (Kaboose)

Earth Day Footprint Calculator

Another FootPrint Calculator...

Earth Day Network

Billions of Acts of Green

Green Your School

Meltdown: How does climate change effect people?

Travel Green

Wilderness Society Classroom Earth Day materials

VOA Special English stories related to the environment include:

Green Transportation Festival

Sharks: A Bad Image, but Oceans Value Them

Earth Day: 2003

Seven Win Goldman Environmental Prize

Study Measures Enviromental Effects of Human Activity

Here are beginning level stories related to Earth Day and the environment:

Recycling at Home

Keeping Our World Clean

Here are stories related to the environment:

Environmental Health

Better Gas Mileage

Hybrid Cars

Wind Energy

Second Hand Smoke

Here are California Distance Learning Project stories related to the environment and Earh Day:

 Burning Wood Bad for the Air

California Toxic Spill

County Starts Using Electric Buses

Hurricanes Could be Cause by Warm Weather

Californians Want to Fight Global Warming

Polluting Cars

Pollution Fight

Save the Forest