SAI SPIRITUAL EDUCATION LESSON PLAN



SAI SPIRITUAL EDUCATION LESSON PLAN

RACHEL CARSON

|GROUP: 2 |VALUE: Peace |SUBVALUE: Balance |

MATERIALS NEEDED: paper, pencils, copies for each student of “Reducing Your Environmental Impact”

SPIRITUAL PRINCIPLE (purpose of lesson): To understand the interrelationship of nature and man.

QUOTE: “The five elements – ether, air, fire, water, and earth – are the vesture of God, as well as of man. Use them moderately and with wisdom, with fear and humility.” [vesture = clothing; garments; covering]

— Sathya Sai Baba

“Man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.” – Rachel Carson (CBS television interview, 1963)

OPENING: THREE OMS / PRAYER / REPETITION OF GOD’S NAME

Prayer: “The light of God surrounds me

The love of God enfolds me

The power of God protects

The presence of God watches over me

Wherever I am, God is and all is well.”

• REVIEW LIFE APPLICATION FROM PREVIOUS LESSON

• INTRODUCE TODAY’S SUBVALUE AND DISCUSS QUOTE

• AFFIRMATION: I use the five elements wisely, with fear and humility.

SILENT SITTING / MEDITATION (Can relate to subvalue/spiritual principle.)

DEVOTIONAL GROUP SINGING: (Choose song to reinforce subvalue/spiritual principle.)

“This Land is Your Land” (words and music by Woody Guthrie)

Chorus:

This land is your land, this land is my land

From California, to the New York Island

From the redwood forest, to the Gulf Stream waters

This land was made for you and me

As I was walking a ribbon of highway

I saw above me an endless skyway

I saw below me a golden valley

This land was made for you and me

Chorus

I've roamed and rambled and I've followed my footsteps

To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts

And all around me a voice was sounding

This land was made for you and me

Chorus

The sun comes shining as I was strolling

The wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling

The fog was lifting a voice come chanting

This land was made for you and me

STORY-TELLING / LESSON (Relate the story to the subvalue/spiritual principle.)

Story: Rachel Carson: Protecting the Earth

PRE-STORY QUESTION(S)

1. Has anybody heard of Rachel Carson?

2. If none of the students have heard of Carson, ask if any of the students have ever seen an eagle (in the wild or in a zoo). (The eagle was almost driven to extinction due to the chemical DDT. Rachel Carson’s work led to an awareness of the dangers of DDT and its eventual ban.)

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS (These should relate to story, subvalue, and affirmation.)

1. What was Rachel Carson’s first love? (writing)

2. According to this story, what was Carson most concerned about?

3. How was she able to alert the public to the dangers of pesticides?

4. What is the name of the book that publicized the dangers of pesticides?

5. Why did she choose the title “Silent Spring”?

6. Why did she write this book?

7. What happened after she wrote the book?

8. Did she make a difference by writing the book? How?

9. How do our actions impact nature?

10. If humans respected all aspects of nature, how would this have changed this story?

11. What do you think are the value and subvalue of this story?

ACTIVITY (Design or choose, to provide an experience of the subvalue/spiritual principle.)

1. Have the students brainstorm ways in which we can reduce harmful effects to the environment.

2. Next, hand out “Reducing Your Environmental Impact.” (attached)

3. Next, have them write down on paper any interactions they had with the environment the day before. On another sheet of paper, have them write down ways in which they could improve that day, taking into account wiser uses of energy and more respect for the environment.

4. Next have the students as a group create a description of a model community and how it would look if everyone had more respect for the environment and wiser usage of energy.

LIFE APPLICATION (Assign for practice in the subvalue / spiritual principle during the week.)

Keep a list of all the fruits and vegetables that you eat this week. Most non-organic fruits and vegetables that we consume contain some pesticide residue. Carefully wash all the fruits and vegetables that you eat. Could you taste a difference? (Maybe you can’t, but your body will thank you in the long run.)

RACHEL CARSON: STANDING UP FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

Rachel Louise Carson was always a writer. Born in 1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania, she developed a love for reading and writing at an early age; her first story was published in the St. Nicolas literary magazine when she was 10. Though she was captivated by birds and all of nature as a child, her interest in writing led her to choosing an English major at Pennsylvania College for Women. In her junior year, a biology course reawakened her “sense of wonder” about nature, prompting her to switch her major to zoology.

While studying at the Marine Biological Laboratories in Woods Hole, Massachusetts she first saw and became enchanted with “the enormous mysteries of the sea.” From this point on, her writings focused more and more on marine zoology, and in 1951 she won the John Burroughs Medal and the National Book Award for “The Sea Around Us.”

Success permitted Carson to write full time and her new celebrity gave her the opportunity to speak out on concerns she felt strongly about. As early as 1945 – before most people were aware of its dangers – she spoke out about government abuse of new chemical pesticides such as DDT, in particular the programs which were spreading poisons with little regard for the impact on other creatures. Her initial writings about the impacts of DDT on all life in the treated areas went unnoticed.

Meanwhile, additional insecticides that were even stronger than DDT were being produced and distributed by the Department of Agriculture for public use. “The more I learned about the use of pesticides, the more appalled I became,” wrote Carson. “I realized that here was the material for a book. What I discovered was that everything that meant the most to me as a naturalist was being threatened, and that nothing I could do would be more important.”

With her fame and reputation for precision, Carson could count on the support of leading scientists and conservation organizations. However, magazines had little interest in this gloomy subject. Then, in 1957, wildlife started dying after a mosquito-control campaign near Duxbury, Massachusetts, followed by a pointless spraying of a DDT/fuel oil mix over eastern Long Island to eradicate gypsy moths. Next, an all-out war in the South against fire ants did such widespread harm to other creatures, that the public started to get alarmed. A great furor arose across the country over the spraying of cranberry plants with aminotriazole, which led to an Agriculture Department ban on all cranberry marketing just before Thanksgiving 1959.

Carson’s poignant description of the dangers of pesticides in her 1962 book, “Silent Spring,” galvanized both her supporters and opponents. The book begins with the following words: “There once was a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings....Then a strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change…. There was a strange stillness....The few birds seen anywhere were dying; they trembled violently and could not fly. It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of scores of bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh.”

Although this description was of a fictitious town, its depiction was completely accurate. Scientists at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service discovered that exposure to DDT or related chemicals, even when doing no observable harm to the parent birds, could seriously affect reproduction by causing the shells to be too thin to support chick development. The most famous of all birds to be affected is the symbol of the U.S. – the bald eagle. This bird was almost driven to extinction because it could not reproduce. It is only in the past few decades that eagle populations have returned to healthy levels.

Carson was violently attacked by threats of lawsuits and ridicule; a huge counterattack was organized and led by the chemical industry – including such industry giants as Monsanto, Velsicol and American Cyanamid, and supported by the Agriculture Department and the mainstream media.

However, Carson brought two strengths to this battle: a scrupulous respect for the truth and a remarkable degree of personal courage. She had checked and rechecked every paragraph in Silent Spring, and the passing years have revealed that her warnings were, if anything, understated. Conservation groups rallied to her defense. Several of their magazines published excerpts from the book, raising the public’s awareness and causing Carson’s attackers to back off. President John F. Kennedy asked Carson to speak to Congress about the problem. In their campaign to defame Carson, the chemical industry had only increased public awareness. A few years after Carson spoke to Congress, the use of DDT and other dangerous pesticides was banned.

Carson was not a born crusader but an intelligent and dedicated woman who rose to the occasion to fight for something she believed in passionately. In a letter to a friend in 1962, she wrote, “The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind – that, and anger at the senseless brutish things that were being done. I have felt bound by a solemn obligation to do what I could – if I didn’t at least try, I could never be happy again in nature. But now I can believe that I have helped a little.”

And help she certainly did – one of her legacies was the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970 – established in large part due to the concerns and the consciousness that Rachel Carson had raised.

Rachel Carson died on April 14, 1964. After her death The New York Times called her “one of the most influential women of our time.” Her work truly changed the world for the better.

Impact of DDT Bioaccumulation on Food Chain

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Simple food chain: (plants/krill, fish, whales)

SEA from phytoplankton (8 producers) to shrimp (4 primary consumers) to small fish (3 secondary carnivores) to larger fish ((2 tertiary carnivores) to marine mammals (1 top carnivore) and decomposers

LAND from plants (8 producers) to caterpillar (4 primary consumers or herbivores) to bird (2 secondary carnivores) to eagle (1 tertiary carnivore or top carnivore) and decomposers

GAME: Interconnections in web of life outline is realized with added effects of DDT on food chain

1. Children form circle holding to a thread of yarn; have children name the sea and/or land food chain consumers.

2. Ask what producer that grows here; Send all the producers into the circle still holding yarn

3. Next, is there an animal around that might eat that plant? Blind fold the herbivore and send into the circle to tug at the plant and everyone maintain silence still holding the yarn

4. Who eats that animal? Keep going. Send in the next carnivore to catch it’s prey

5. Bring in other animals,

6. Expand game if more children to bring other nature things as soil, water, rocks (become soil, lichen), etc. until whole group is strung together as web of life with a yarn.

7. Now, create plausible impacts or elimination’s for some member of web (e.g., the water gets polluted, or the tree is felled, etc.) when the water is polluted or the tree falls, that child tugs the string, anyone who feels this original tug is somehow affected, and so on, until all have felt tugs and made tugs.

8. Add on contaminant as DDT (pick a black tag to represent contaminant in producer and pass on to consumers who touch two producers die and out of the game) and let everyone feel what impacts the chain has? Eagles and Whales progeny and health is at risk as well as humans welfare in the long run.

9. For example Lupine (eaten by) mission blue butterfly (eaten by) land bird or fish-eating water bird (eaten by) raptor (dies, eaten by) vulture (decomposer); Bird lives in oak tree, along with some squirrels (eaten by) bobcats; The plants grows in the soil and all the animals, including humans and plants drink the local water and breathe the local air; Possible impacts: tree falls, water polluted, butterfly extinct, DDT residue in soil, sulfur and nitrogen oxides in air from combustion of fossil fuels, ozone deteriorated, over hunting of bobcats, etc.

OM SRI SAM RAM

REDUCING YOUR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

1. Turn down the heat and air conditioning

← Heating and cooling is almost half of energy used by an average house

← Turning down thermostat 1 degree in winter saves ~$15 per year

← Setting thermostat up 3 degrees in the summer saves ~$32 per year

← A programmable thermostat allows you to automatically turn down the heat or A/C at night and during day when family is away at work or school; Setting the thermostat back 5 degrees for 8 hours saves 8% of heating costs in this area. (For heat pumps, do not use programmed winter temperature set backs). Yearly savings of ~$40-80

← Even apartment dwellers can help the environment by turning down the heat or AC.

2. Replace incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs

← Lighting is 10% of electric bill for average house

← Compact fluorescents use ¼ the electricity and last 10 times as long.

← Over the life of the bulb save 50% when cost of both electricity and bulbs are included. If the price of electricity rises, savings will be greater.

← Replacing bulbs in the most used fixtures saves ~$40-50 per year for electricity

3. Contact utilities.

← Many have energy saving programs

← May be able to purchase green energy as a seva to the five elements

4. Seal leaks

← Caulk around windows

← Replace windows if necessary

← Seal leaky ducts

← Add insulating shades to windows

← Add insulation to attic, basement, ducts if needed

5. Turn off the power

← Avoid using electric and gas appliances when you can i.e. leaf blower, electric can openers, hair dryers

← Turn off lights, computer, TV etc. promptly when finished with them. If you reduce your usage by one hour a day, the yearly savings are:

➢ for the lights in an average room ~$8

➢ for a computer ~$25

➢ for a TV ~$6

← Unplug appliances when not in use – televisions, stereos etc. with remote controls, computers, telephone answering machines and appliances with clocks use electricity even when off

➢ Cost ~$3 a year per appliance

➢ Avoid if possible or unplug rarely used items

➢ Turn off computer’s surge protector to really turn it off

FACT: The typical annual home utility costs are 49% space heating, 23% appliances and lighting, 16% water heating, 7% electric AC and 5% refrigerator. In the average home, 75% of the electricity used to power home electronics is consumed while the products are turned off. This can be avoided by unplugging the appliance or using a power strip and using the switch on the power strip to cut all power to the appliance. (Data sources: U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Rocky Mountain Institute, and the Honeywell Corporation. Cost calculations were based on an average sized house of 2280 square feet with a gas furnace and hot water heater and energy bills of $1300 per year. Energy prices used for cost calculations were $0.08/kWh and $1/therm which are average prices in the mid-Atlantic area.)

6. Replace old appliances with energy efficient ones

← Horizontal axis washers (front loaders) save ~$65 annually

← New efficient refrigerators save ~$70-80 annually

7. Use less hot water

← Turning the thermostat on hot water heater down to 115 –120 degrees saves ~$13 per year

← Insulating the hot water heater saves ~$20 per year

← Dishwasher and laundry

➢ Run dishwasher and washing machine with full loads

➢ Don’t pre-rinse dishes before putting them in the dishwasher – this wastes up to 20 gallons of water per load and doesn’t get them any cleaner!

➢ Wash clothes with cooler water. If only cold water is used, savings are ~$94 per year.

➢ Horizontal axis washers (front loaders usually) use far less water and soap and get clothes cleaner. Yearly savings of ~$65

← Bathing and personal needs

➢ Low flow shower head saves ~$29 per year

➢ Aerators for faucets saves ~$6 per year

➢ Shorter showers - 5 minutes less in the shower saves ~$23 per year

8. Recycle everything you can

← Curbside – cans, glass, plastic, paper; know the rules for your area

← Use a recycling center if curbside recycling is not available

← Some other examples of recycling:

➢ Plastic bags can be recycled at grocery stores

➢ Milk in returnable glass bottles that go back to the store

➢ Rubber bands from mail can go back to the post office

➢ Ink cartridges from laser printers can go back to the manufacturer

➢ Packing peanuts can be taken to Mailboxes stores

← With the exception of old electrical appliances, repair or refurbish instead of replacing whenever possible

9. Buy recycled products

← Bathroom tissue, facial tissues, paper towels, napkins

➢ FACT: replacing 1 roll of regular paper towels with 100% recycled ones saves 544,000 trees!

← Paper, file folders

← Plastic bags, sponges

← Post-consumer content indicates how much of the product was made from stuff that we recycled. The rest of the recycled content comes from industrial recycling such as sawmill scraps

10. Reduce use of products made from oil or other mined minerals

← Most very toxic consumer products are made from oil or mined minerals such as mercury

← Insect and weed control products made from herbs and other plants

← Soap made from plants as opposed to detergents made from oil

← Reduce use of disposable plastic items such as plastic utensils, bags and wraps

➢ FACT: using 1000 throwaway plastic teaspoons consumes over 10 times more energy and natural resources than making one stainless steel teaspoon and washing it 1000 times!

← Reduce use of Styrofoam cups and plates

← Use rechargeable batteries when batteries are required

← Use low VOC paints and varnishes

← Switch to non-toxic dry cleaning if available in your area

← DISPOSE OF ALL TOXICS SAFELY

11. Reduce use of products made from trees

← Don’t waste paper

← Cancel unused magazine and newspaper subscriptions

← Some of the junk mail can be stopped by contacting the following:

For Advertising: Mail Preference Service

c/o Direct Marketing Association

P.O. Box 9008

Farmingdale, NY 11735-9008

(this takes several months to go into effect)

For pre-approved credit card and loan solicitations: 1-888-567-8688

➢ FACT: 100 million trees are chopped down every year for junk mail sent to American homes; 28 billion gallons of water are needed to make all the paper used for junk mail; the typical American household receives about 70 pounds of junk mail a year; The amount of junk mail sent grows by 3 billion pieces a year.

← If you must have those catalogs – encourage them to use recycled paper

← Recycle all paper allowable in your area & use recycled paper products

➢ FACT: Producing one ton of paper from recycled pulp saves 17 trees, 390 gallons of oil, and conserves 4,200-kilowatt hours of energy – enough to heat a home for half a year

← Avoid excessive packaging whenever possible

12. Keep things maintained

← Clean or change filter in furnace monthly

← Vacuum coils on refrigerator annually

← Gas stove should have a blue flame; if not, needs servicing

← Keep car tuned and tires inflated to recommended pressure

13. Miscellaneous Kitchen Tips

← Cover or wrap food items in refrigerator (water vapor from uncovered food makes the refrigerator motor work harder)

← Cover pots when cooking to avoid heat loss.

← Turn off cooking items a few minutes before final cooking time and let residual heat finish the cooking.

← Use range hood only as needed. This fan and the ventilation fan in the bathroom suck out all the heat or AC in a house in one hour.

← Use microwave, toaster oven or other small appliance to cook small amounts of food

← Pressure cookers for foods that cook a long time

14. Food

← Don’t waste food

← Vegetarian food uses fewer natural resources to produce

← Freshly prepared food saves the energy used at the processing plant, packaging and transportation costs

← Locally grown food saves transportation costs

← Organic food is not grown with fertilizers and pesticides made from oil

← Buy whole fruits and vegetables to avoid unnecessary trays and wraps

← Buy large economy size (less packaging per pound of product)

← Buy concentrates (less packaging)

← When you have just one or two items, say “No bag, thanks”

15. Plant a tree

← Areas with trees are 5-30 degrees cooler in the summer

← A deciduous tree shading the house in summer reduces cooling costs

← A tree or bush shading an exterior air conditioning unit reduces cooling costs

← An evergreen wind break reduces heating costs in windy areas

ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY OFFICE

1. Turn off your computer and printer when you leave the office for more than one hour.

2. At the end of the workday, turn off copiers, office printers, and all office lights.

3. Install motion lights, or turn off all lights when you leave the office for more than one hour.

4. Use fluorescent, not incandescent, bulbs.

5. Only use auxiliary lighting when needed (e.g., task lights, credenza lamps)

6. Avoid space heaters; dress in layers to be comfortable in varying office temperatures.

7. Use recycled computer paper.

8. Use spell-check and grammar-check before you print out a draft.

9. Use redline and strike-out functions to edit electronic drafts to show others your edits; avoid printing out and marking paper drafts.

10. Don’t print out e-mails – save them electronically instead – unless hard copy is needed.

11. Use single spacing and double-sided copying whenever possible.

12. Download reference materials and save and/or transmit them electronically; print out only the necessary pages.

13. Don’t make extra copies, or more copies than you need; save files and print them when needed.

14. Use the back of used computer paper for note pads and scratch paper; staple them together to make a note pad.

15. Pack lunch in reusable plastic containers and reusable bags; wash and reuse ceramic/plastic/metal cups, mugs, plates, cutlery; avoid disposable plastic, Styrofoam and paper items.

16. Buy napkins, paper towels made from recycled materials.

17. Make sure everyone in your office has, or has convenient access to, recycling bins.

18. Reuse binders and folders – or donate them to Sai Spiritual Education classes or local schools.

THE ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY GARAGE

1. Fuel efficient car

Ask: Do I really need such a large vehicle to transport large loads frequently?

Am I wasting money and energy (gasoline)?

2. Use manual lawn and garden tools – they cost less, provide exercise, don’t cause fumes/air and noise pollution, and don’t waste electricity or gasoline. If a manual tool won’t do the job, then electric tools are less expensive, cause less pollution, and are quieter than gasoline-powered tools (operating a gas-powered lawnmower for one hour emits as much air pollution as driving a car for 13 hours).

Ask: Are power lawn edgers, leaf blowers, snow blowers, electric shears, power trimmers really necessary to buy?

Alternatives: Rent power tools when necessary; borrow from a friend/neighbor

3. Organic fertilizers and pest control

➢ Use organic pest control products (such as soap or neem-based products

➢ Use organic fertilizers (such as compost, lawn clippings from mulching lawn mower)

➢ Avoid synthetic pesticides, lawn fertilizers, and weed killers, which poison birds and other wildlife, run off into streams and leach into groundwater

4. Dispose of toxic substances properly, in accordance with local rules (used oil, solvents, leftover paint, adhesives, etc.) If leftover paint, chemicals, etc. are still useable, save or give away to someone who can use them.

➢ Carefully clean up any spills of oil, antifreeze (poisonous to pets), or other hazardous substance, and dispose of any contaminated soil.

5. Use your recycling bin a lot; use your garbage can sparingly. Know and follow local recycling rules. Put only items that cannot be recycled, repaired, donated or reused into your garbage can.

6. Don’t keep pets in the garage. Even slight gasoline fumes are harmful.

PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT – ACTIONS WE CAN TAKE

1. CONSUME LESS! In America, we have grown used to an environment of plenty, with an enormous variety of consumer products always available and constant enticement to buy “more,” “new,” and “improved.” Energy is consumed in the manufacturing and transport of everything we buy, which means there are fossil-fuel emissions at every stage of production. A good way to reduce the amount of energy you use is simply to buy less. Before making a purchase, ask yourself if you really need it. Can you make do with what you already have? Can you borrow or rent? Can you find the item secondhand?

2. Buy things that last, repair rather than discard, and pass on items that are no longer needed to someone who can make use of them.

3. “Precycle” – reduce waste before you buy. Discarded packaging materials make up about 1/3 of the waste clogging our landfills. Vast amounts of natural resources and fossil fuels are consumed each year to produce the paper, plastic, aluminum, glass and Styrofoam that hold and wrap our purchases. Of course, some degree of packaging is necessary to transport and protect the products, but all too often manufacturers add extra wrappers over wrappers and layers of unnecessary plastic. Give preference to those products that use recycled packaging, or that don’t use excess packaging.

4. Bag your purchases in a reusable bag – or just don’t take a bag for your purchases. Get into the habit of carrying a bag when you go shopping.

5. Carry your own refillable bottle for water or other beverages. 24 billion gallons of bottled water are consumed annually and 65% of the bottles end up in landfills. It takes 1.5 million barrels of crude oil to produce these bottles. It’s much better to buy a reusable bottle and fill that with water. If you’re concerned about the taste or quality of tap water, consider using an inexpensive water purifier or filter.

6. Turn off appliances, heating and air conditioning when you’re not using them.

7. Computers and other electronics draw energy even when turned off—75% of the electricity used to power electronics is consumed while the products are turned off. So be sure to unplug them, too, or plug them into a surge protector and turn off the surge protector to really turn it off. A screen saver is not an energy saver. Unplugging these would reduce the machine's CO2 emissions by 83%.

8. Recycle papers, bottles and plastic whenever you can. Producing products from recycled materials requires much less energy compared to using new materials. Recycled paper uses 60% less energy than virgin paper. Producing one ton of paper from recycled pulp saves 17 trees, 390 gallons of oil, and conserves 4,200-kilowatt hours of energy – enough to heat a home for half a year; one tree has the capacity to filter up to 60 lbs. of pollutants from the air.

9. Use your consumer-power. Buying climate-friendly goods—such as energy-efficient light bulbs or electronics—can encourage manufacturers to go green. As noted above, choose items with less packaging – this also helps save energy.

10. Walk, bicycle or take a train or bus. Only drive in a car if you must. Cars add far more carbon per person to the air than public transport.

11. Minimize use of batteries, use rechargeable batteries.

12. Use recycled printer/copier paper and double-side whenever possible.

13. Use spell-check and grammar-check before you print out a draft. Use redline and strike-out functions to edit electronic drafts to avoid printing out and marking paper drafts.

14. Download reference materials and save and/or transmit them electronically; print out only the necessary pages.

15. Don’t make extra copies, or more copies than you need; save files and print them when needed.

16. Use the back of used computer paper for note pads and scratch paper; staple them together to make a note pad.

17. Reuse binders and folders.

18. Pack lunch in reusable plastic containers and reusable bags; wash and reuse ceramic/plastic/metal cups, mugs, plates, and cutlery to avoid disposable ones.

19. Eliminate use of Styrofoam cups and plates – they cannot be recycled. Biodegradable alternatives exist for plates, cups, bowls, cutlery etc. etc. etc. and prices are getting competitive.

20. Conserve hot water. Heating water is one of the major draws on household energy. You can cut energy use by taking showers instead of baths, taking shorter showers, and turning down the temperature of the hot water in the shower.

21. Plant and care for trees. Join or create an environmental club. You could do an energy ‘audit’ to explore how your school could save energy and how it might be able to use renewable energy.

22. Let others know. Share what you’ve learned with others. Tell your family, friends, classmates and teachers about climate change and what they can do to participate in the solution. Write a letter to the school newspaper, or even to your local newspaper.

23. Write to your political leaders. Petition for cleaner cars, better public transport or renewable energy.

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