waste

Author

By Erik Hare

Local Author

The next time you are doing something creative, take a look at what happens to the “left-overs”. It doesn’t matter whether you are painting a picture, making dinner, or cleaning up. Whenever you create something you are making more that you didn’t mean to make—let’s call that “waste”.

Resources

Green Guardian for Kids
greenguardian.com/for_kids.asp

Environmental Kids Club
www.epa.gov/kids/

Kids Page, pca.state.mn.us/kids

Create Less Trash at School Handout, download at www.reduce.org or call 651-215-0232 or 800-877-6300 to obtain multiple copies.

Ollie Saves the Planet interactive video. To order contact recycleminnesota.org/htm/ollie.htm or call 651-641-4560.

Eco Education, 1295 Bandanda Blvd.
St. Paul, MN, 651-222-7691
ecoeducation.org

Author

Compiled from

REDUCE.ORG and DOITGREEN.ORG.

Pack a No Waste Lunch

A “no-waste lunch” is a meal that does not end up in the trash. You can buy food items in bulk, then put them in reusable containers to carry to school or work. Packing your food in reusables is typically less expensive and creates less waste than buying food that comes in disposable containers.

Resources

Ideas for reducing waste at school, work and home, www.reduce.org

Getting an A at Lunch: Smart Strategies to Reduce Waste in Campus Dining guide. Download www.informinc.org/getatlunch.php

Success stories including schools in Minnesota www.wastefreelunches.org/success.html

Call the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency for multiple copies of "Creating Less Waste at School" 651-215-0232 or email clearinghouse@pca.state.mn.us

Author

Mark Snyder & Shea Peeples

MN OEA & Minneapolis Public Library

Includes Listing of Public Agencies

This article describes some of the government agencies that can help those of us seeking to improve our environment and what they have to offer.

Author

--Parts excerpted from www.reduce.org

"The less we take with us into the mountains, deserts, forests or waters, the more their spirit informs and enlivens us. We should be as reliant on our wits as much as possible and on "things" as little as possible. This means we should wear and carry as little as we can get away with while being in, and moving through, the natural world." -- Yvon Chouinard, Patagonia

Resources

Web Sites

Reduce Waste

www.reduce.org

Enviornmental Vehicle Rental Cars: 

www.evrental.com

Co-op America's Travel-Links
120 Beacon St.
Somerville, MA 800-648-2667
www.coopamerica.org

Minnesota Office of Tourism
500 Metro Square
121 7th Place E.
St. Paul, MN 651-296-5029
www.exploreminnesota.com

Author

Ben Stallings

World Population Balance

-- When we talk about environmental and social problems, we rarely mention population growth. We'll bemoan the shortage of affordable housing, the number of cars on the road, and the loss of topsoil to marginal agriculture. We emphasize how each person can make a difference by reducing consumption, but rarely do we consider that most of our problems are multiplied as we continue to add more people to the world.

Why Population is a problem?

Resources

United Nations Population Information Network

Sprawl City

 

Learning to Think Environmentally, Lester Milbrath

Earth Odyssey, Mark Hertsgaard

World Population Balance
P.O. Box 23472
Minneapolis, MN 612-869-1640
Email
Website