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Environmental Design

Think of something that you would like to invent. Find out which materials you will need and think what will happen to the material when people throw it away. How can it be recycled? Can it be used again?

Julia

Earth Day April 22, 2008

Dear friends

Earth Day, the one that most people know about, is next week on April 22, 2008. Julia has the privilege to speak to several high schools at Niagara Falls, in Ontario, Canada. The students are part of Schools in Bloom. They have planted many species of vegetation. I am talking about the role of peace parks and gardens, of working working peace and environment together, and learning about survival on planet earth.

I have created another slide show for them. If you can't find it here, then look on the slide show page on the IHTEC website.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2518229/EarthDayNiagaraFinal

http://www.ihtec.org/index.php?id=137

China celebrated Earth Day with a stamp. You can find it on this blog.

http://www.globio.org/glossopedia/article.aspx?art_id=35


Maybe you can design an Earth Day stamp for your school.

Cheers
Julia

Spring Time - Bees & Honey

Hallo Sam

Hurray. It is Spring Time again. The snow is beginning to melt here and soon the birds will migrate back for the summer. The winter silence causes me to be sad. Triple glazed windows protect us from the environment outside. So I welcome the sounds of life as spring approaches.

In Spring the bees start their outside work again, when the flowers bloom. Bees don't hibernate in the winter, they snuggle together in a ball, constantly moving their bodies to keep the temperature at 90o F or 32.2o C. A beehive has between 20,000 and 30,000 bees.

Did you have honey for breakfast? Well this morning I ate the lifetime work of several dozen worker bees. What I eat in 1 year takes bees 55,000 miles or 8,8513 kms. They visit about 2 million flowers a year. One worker bee produces 1/12 teaspoon in its lifetime.

The queen bee lays 1,500 eggs a day and is the only bee to lay eggs.

How many times does a bee flap its wings in a minute? 11,000 times.

How fast does a bee fly? Ans: 15 miles per hour while it visits between 50 - 100 blossoms per trip.

How much honey can a hive create in a day? 2 lbs of honey.

So please look after the bees. They work hard for all of us.

Love
Julia

EARTH DAY MARCH 20, 2008 - CLIMATE CHANGE & ENERGY

Hallo dear children

This year IHTEC is encouraging children to celebrate Earth Day, in 2008 on Climate Change and Energy.

John McConnell, was the founder of Earth Day. Granny Julia has met Mr. McConnell, he is over 90 years old. The original date was March 21, 1970, on the Equinox each year, but as schools became involved the date was changed. The flag above is the original Earth Day flag.



School Earth Day April 22, 2008
http://ww2.earthday.net/~earthday/

I have found you some interesting ecological games to play with your family members. They are online calculators. Let me know what your footprints are today.

Earth Day Footprint http://www.earthday.net/footprint/ has a map of the world with many languages to choose from.

Global Ecological Footprint Calculator http://www.ecologicalfootprint.org/Global%20Footprint%20Calculator/GFPCalc.html

Australia Ecological Footprint Calculator http://www.epa.vic.gov.au/ecologicalfootprint/calculators/default.asp

New Zealand Ecological Footprint http://www.mfe.govt.nz/withyou/do/footprint/

UK Carbon Footprint http://actonco2.direct.gov.uk/index.html this is a fun picture for you.

ZeroFootprint Calculator http://zerofootprint.net/profile/sign_in

Safe Climate Calculator http://www.safeclimate.net/calculator/

List of Carbon Calculators http://www.earthfuture.com/climate/calculators/

Wikipedia on Footprints http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_footprint

Have fun. I will let you know mine when I have calculated it out. I do hope you copy this and take it to school.

Love Granny Julia