Ingrid Howard (age:15)
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We will conduct an energy audit on our school so that we can plan for ways to reduce our school's use of energy and help our school become a Washington Green School. We will also fund raise so that we may purchase energy saving gear to give to people who sign an agreement to reduce their carbon footprint. We will make a presentation on saving energy at a local library or other community gathering place. We will ask several companies to donate coupons for CFLs or CFLs to give out at the presentations.
So...
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 03:12So we wish that we would have been able to dedicate more time to our project, but school and our other commitments kind of took priority, and we were not able to follow...
[Read More]Presentation
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 03:02So we had less people show up to our presentation then we would have liked; apparently we are not very good at advertising. However, the people that did show up seemed to...
[Read More]blog prompts 4, 5, 6
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 02:50So we got really busy with homework and other activities. But anyway, here are our thoughts on these prompts... 4. Our goals and mission statment is to help people help the...
[Read More]Snow Bear
Saturday, January 21, 2012 - 02:50It actually snowed! So I decided to opt out of making a snow man, and make a snow bear. Here's a picture...
[Read More]What We've been doing....
Monday, January 16, 2012 - 15:59So I believe that I already mentioned in the last post that we've set up to give a presentation at the local library (the one that you may recall was mentioned as...
[Read More]Blog Post 3 and Other news
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 02:35We do think that a project like this will give people hope for the future. This project shows how people's efforts can really make a difference, and helping the environment...
[Read More]Environmental Efforts around the world
Sunday, January 1, 2012 - 21:06I saw this really awesome sign in a Subway station in Taiwan. I thought it was super cute. - Ericka It says "Take the Subway, Love the Earth"
[Read More]Blog Post 2
Sunday, January 1, 2012 - 20:56We both live in Vancouver, WA. Not Vancouver BC or Washington DC. Vancouver is in the southern part of Washington, across the Colombia river from Portland. Vancouver has tons...
[Read More]blog post 1
Sunday, January 1, 2012 - 20:48Our team consists of Ericka Young, Ingrid Howard, and our spanish teacher Mrs. Olveda. Mrs. Olveda is the leader of our school's ecology club; we don't know anyone who is...
[Read More]Nature Pictures and Getting Started
Sunday, December 11, 2011 - 03:14So we are getting started, and will have the first couple of blog posts up shortly, it's just taking a while due to editing difficulties and technical errors and other...
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