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September 2010
Planetpals Earthzine a Monthly resource for News, Holidays, World Celebrations and Events, Green Tips, Classroom Ideas, Special Links
Back to School Issue!
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| Planetpals News and Reviews |
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Planetpals Participated in Greenfest Boston
Germantown was a green town this August with the annual Greenfest Celebration. It's the region's largest multicultural environmental festival, Boston GreenFest celebrates the many ways we can create a better world by greening our lives and our communities. It was a great day with green jobs forum, concerts and children's events.
Planetpals SUMMER OF LOVE Celebration Continues
Planetpals SUMMER OF LOVE Celebration Continues through Peace Day Sept 21. It's been a big hit with our Yahoo, Topica, Facebook and Twitter fans! Al summer we have offered Peace Ideas,activities and fun facts. get in on the fun by joining one of our social networks!
HAVE A PLANETPALS DAY AT SCHOOL!
GREAT Idea from Seattle for classroom recycling!
One of our schools in Seattle, Washington has a PLANETPALS day every Friday.
The school encourages recycling by having the students take responsibility for emptying and compiling classroom and school recyclables. They are involved in the recycle process. Every class has a monitor.
Kids are also encouraged to bring in recyclable ink and cell phones for the recycle program (so the school can earn points) and prizes are given monthly.
 EPatrol for teachers:
Start an E Patrol at your school compliments of Planetpals. Ideas and Activities. A Planetpals E Patrol kit which includes: stickers , certificates and badge , classroom posters
Learn more--get your kit
ALSO NEW!!!
Free classroom signs:
Classroom paper/bottle/can RECYCLE signs for teachers, classroom , home
Be a PAL-Recycle Cans/Bottles:
Be a PAL-Recycle PAPER signs:
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Back to School!
Here are a few ways you can help the planet this school year...Remember, every litter bit helps!
- Take your lunch in a reusable lunch box, or cloth bag instead of paper bags..
- Recycle any packaging in your lunch box.
- Pack a cloth napkin instead of paper one. You can reuse it! Just count all your school days...that's how many paper napkins you saved.
- Cover your books in recycled paper bags or wrap... decorate them yourself, they could look fun and you might start a trend!
- Use up last years school supplies before you buy new ones.
- Use the reverse side of scrap paper for your first drafts of writing, art and math projects.
- Keep a "craft box" of discards you think might be handy for class projects during the year...mark it "my craft box" so noone will mistake it for trash! Keep things like empty yogurt containers, elastics, string etc...that might interesting and useful for your art.
- Take the bus or Car pool with friends...have your mom's take turns...It's fun to go to school in groups and you save lots of gas!.
- Ask your teacher to put up Planetpals recycle kits posters to remind everyone at school about recycling.
- Click here for more recycle ideas for everyday
Great Classroom Project!
Your school or class can earn points and cash...just recycle ink cartridges...
Start a group program at school or work. You will be earning free merchandise in no time! It's a good way to recycle. Be part of this easy and rewarding program.
 Every Litter Bit Counts and adds up, too!
Did you know that by recycling ink jet cartridges you are responsible for making a pretty big impact on the environment. It may seem small-but every litter bit counts
- Three and a half quarts of oil are used for every laser cartridge produced.
- Two quarts of oil are conserved for every laser cartridge returned through the Funding Factory Program.
- Two and a half ounces of oil are used for every inkjet cartridge produced.
- Every year over 275 million cartridges are thrown away. In terms of weight, that is equivalent to over 30,500 African Elephants!
- Stacked end to end, cartridges thrown away in one year would cover a distance of over 24,000 miles-enough to circle the earth.
- In the next seven years, if the all laser and inkjet cartridges are saved from landfills, a bridge can be built from the Earth to the Moon-223, 000 miles!
Start an ink jet/sell phone program in your school or organization today!
 Recycle ink jets and cell phones earn points and money
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| Feature Page on Earthzone |
This month the feature page is:
Parents/Teachers Page.
Chock full of great ideas for teachers and parents to share with their kids.
Planetpals is happy to assist you in any way we can. A special page for Parents and Teachers here at Planetpals points you to projects and ideas on Planetpals Earthzone and elsewhere to educate about the environment. |
What's in the bag for Teachers!
We now have totes 'n more in our store!
-Special introductory price!
Many designs to choose from
Check it out
Proceeds from the sale of products helps support the existence of Planetpals on the WWW
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The Decade for Kids:
Did you know? 2001-2010
This decade: 2001-2010 is named by the UN as International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence for the Children of the World
Four world observances this month:
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 International Peace Day :Sept. 21
This day is celebrated to bring awareness to world peace. Be kind to everyone everyday but particularly today!
So, Think of something you can do in your own way to celebrate this important Day. Maybe make a pen pal in a distant country...or reach out to a lonely person in your neighborhood.
Earth is such a beautiful place
with plants, and animals and the human race
vast lush forests and giant blue seas
colorful flowers and big tall trees
deserts of sand and jungles so rare
and millions of creatures, which all live there
Let's work together to keep it safe
a tiny bit of effort is all it takes
to love each other and keep earth clean
be kind and cautious and never mean
always thoughtful and caring, too
It's easy if we remember:
To think before we do! ©jag
See our PEACE PAGES for free peace clip art and more!
Learn more about Peace Day
 Ozone Layer Day: Sept. 16
A breath of fresh air:
International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer is Sept. 16. This day is meant to bring awareness to issues about the dissolving Ozone Layer causing holes in the atmosphere..
What are Ozone Holes? They are layers of the atmosphere where the Ozone layer is getting thin. Dangerous amounts of ultraviolet light are able to come through to the earths surface. That's why we need to wear sun screen when possible.
We can help by watching what we put into the air. See BREEZY to learn more.
See The Planetpals Zone Poster to learn more, too!
Learn more about OZONE day from unep
Pollution Prevention Week: Sept 21-27.
Planetpals is doing it's part for pollution prevention and one way is teaching kids about PRECYCLING...by using your head you can prevent a lot of recycling by precycling!
Learn about Precycling here
Download the NPPW brochure here:
Read more about NPPW here:
CAR Free Days: Sept 22
Boston, Paris, London, Bogota and many other cities are participating in promoting Car Free Day. Many programs to bring awareness are being offered in these cities. Check your town! And why not walk to school or take the bus ?
Is your town here? World car free day celebrations calendar...
Want to know the date of other environmental holidays? See the Planetpals ECO calendar....New and improved, we have added some many holidays. |
| Planetpals Monthly Activities |
 Back to school activity!
Planetpals BOOKPLATES
to help you identify your school books.
To print and paste now click here
PLANETPALS Peace Puzzle:
 Since it's International Peace Day on Sept 1. What monthly activity could be better than playing the Planetpals PEACE PUZZLE.
Download it, print it, cut it up and put it back together. Then hang it in your room to remind you to be a peace minded person and make friends with everyone.
download page now
 It's summer 'til Sept. 21!
A Garden of Friendship Greeting Card... From us to you, from you to your friends.
There is still time left to summer. if you haven't picked up your card and passed it on to a friend...do it now!
Pick up your Summer card - click here
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Every month we feature a link that has been given the Planetpals Safe or Clean Planet Award or is important for our pals.
This month we feature the Education World. A great source for teachers, parents and kids! "An educators best friend".
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Sing along with Planetpals!
Planetpals songs NOW on CD -BUY DIRECT!
You can now purchase Planetpals Music CD straight from the manufacturer at a considerable discount! The price is reduced from 16.99 at amazon to 12.97 direct!
11 upbeat songs Produced by Digital Sound Productions, Featuring the popular kids group JAMBO, To ORDER CD
 Get ready for America recycles Day:
Coming November 15
Planetpals has a lot planned for you for America Recycles Day...It's our favorite day next to Earth Day!
It's a great day to celebrate with school or your class....can you think of some projects that would be appropriate? Why not ask your teacher or parents to plan a project for this important day.
Does your country have a recycles day? If not you don't have to be American to celebrate!
Check out last years AR Day Page
Looking for something in particular? Use our search!
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