Presidential Garden

I am so excited! The First Lady and her family and helpers are planting a garden at the White House! http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/michelle-obama-gardens-47022002?src=nl&mag=tdg&list=dgr&kw=ist Soon some of my relatives will be sprouting in Washington DC! Maybe I'll take a road trip to see them and meet the president....!
How are your own gardens shaping up?

Feed the Worms! for me, for you!

Thanks to all of the kids that helped me and my team collect compost at our last Go Green Wednesday at Clemson Elementary. We collected more than 20 gallons of compost (uneaten lettuce, apple cores, carrots...). Instead of going to a landfill and becoming harmful to our environment, these leftovers (which may be any food and vegetable waste) will become food for worms, and eventually food for me, Sprout, as nutritious rich compost which will help me grow healthy! This in turn eventually becomes food for you in the lunchroom! 

Can you kids imagine what 20 gallons is? Each of your milk jugs at home (the big ones) is a gallon. 20 of these a day means (20 x 5) 100 gallons a week, and (20 x 180) 3,600 gallons a school year. Try to picture that many gallons in your refrigerator? Impossible. 

So kids instead of making garbage :( we are completing a cycle of life :) Don't you think we should do this everyday?

About Landfills

Composting for Kids

Help! are we really going digital?

As a Sprout, I spend a lot more time outside soaking up the sun than watching tv. But... a friend just reminded me that our tv's are becoming obsolete and "what were we going to do?!!" Well, I don't know if you want a converter box or a brand new tv, but I'm more worried about what will hapen to the old ones. They are toooxxxiic! I don't want them hanging out in my garden, leaching their yucky lead into our earth! So before you throw yours away, consider donating it (places such as the Helping Hands or the Salvation Army love a nice tv) or go to http://earth911.com/ and find out where to recycle it. Thanks

Green Games!

Hey look green computer games and quizes http://www.kidsbegreen.org/

Jacques Cousteau

Remember the other day when I said that Jacques Cousteau was one of my heroes? This is a beautiful picture book about his life; I love everything about it! In the end the author says "His rallying Cry...when exploring, was "il faut aller voir", which translates roughly as "We must go and see for ourselves" , which I think is a wonderful way to start just about anything."

10 Things I can do to Help My World

This pretty picture book by Melanie Walsh gives even the youngest kids some ideas on how to go green; check it out! http://www.lmnop.com.au/blog/2009/02/10-things-i-can-do-to-help-my-world/

oops...

Have you ever "composted" your apple core, or banana peel, by throwing it out of your car window? Aside from the possibility of being pulled over by the game warden for littering (no really, it happened to a very embarassed friend of mine) It seems there is an even better reason for not throwing those things out of the window.....hmm, I never even thought of that...

http://planetgreen.discovery.com/travel-outdoors/roadside-litter-kills-animals.html