Posts Tagged ‘reducing’

With Vodafone Italian Phones Have a Lot of Energy


From a recent survey Italy turns out to be the first consumer of cell phones in Europe, with an average of 1.22 per head. Italians change them like dresses and the result is a huge amount of old cells in their houses. This passion for cell phone communication is all too audible on crosswalks, motorbikes, restaurants, theatres… Italians just have an unquenchable desire to talk and you can see people shouting into cell phones and not looking where they are going..

What about the waste management of these “prosthesis” of our hands??

Last Day = Earth Day For Green Students

The end of the school year is fast approaching. Twelve days for me, but who's counting? The end of school, in many grossly unrealistic teen movies, is often punctuated by kids gleefully throwing books and papers all over the hallway as they stick it to the man by trashing their locker before they head off for a summer of debauchery.

In reality, kids do have to clean out their lockers, and those of you

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Where is “away”? Kids find out through waste audit

Conducting a waste audit is an excellent way for students and adults alike to realize how much “trash” is thrown away each day. My students and I, with the guidance and equipment of the lovely Katy Mike Smaistrla, Education Coordinator at the Earthways Center in St Louis, did a weeklong analysis of what is thrown away at our school, and the results provided awesome learning opportunities and project potential.

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