Global Issues Earth Week
Last week was yet again another very succsessful week for the Global Issues Club as they ended Earth week with some prizes for our students. Teusday and Wednesdays guest speakers gave excellent presentation on or city's plans to create a greener and more environmental city during the upcoming years for our growing population. One plan they have, is to turn compost into a emission free and non-pollutant gas for our vehicles. They are also planning to put compost bins in every school in Surrey! Teusday's energy conservation day for Sulli was perfectly acheived as half of the lights in the school were shut off to conserve some electricity. Wednesday's walk to school day went smoothly as ever, when students walked the hill or down the block to get to school in an evironmentaly friendly way. Some skateboraded, longboarded, and biked to school. It was really great to see all those students working towards a way to help out our environment. Thursday however was the real ice breaker as students lined up with their reusable water bottles and containers for their lunches to get a free cone of ice cream! It worked out wonderfully because the students were not polluting by using plastic wraps or foil for rheir lunches and instead using reausable containers. On the last day during morning announcements, all of the classes were shown a video on how much waste is collected on just the beaches of our earth. It showed how a group of dedictaed environmentalists go every year to some of these beaches and 'comb' the coast for plastic waste and garbage that was left on or reached the beaches through the ocean. It was sad to see how much waste we could produce but if we worked together like the environmentalists in the video we could collect as much waste as they did. In fact, one of our teachers has a son who works with his wife to clean these beaches in that video. The link can be found below. Friday, also included a raffle draw for the winners of some prizes who helped out during earth week.
The Global Issues club showed us that Earth Day should not just be one day but everyday. It was really amazing to see what we could do if we worked together as a community so just remember this: everyday is Earth Day.
Also, check out this video from the City of Surrey on recycling and waste collection:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b1cPUCOQwA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b1cPUCOQwA
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