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Do you have a child that has a love for the environment? Scotties Facial Tissue has recently announced the launch of their 4th annual Trees Rock! Video and Essay Contest! Either an individual child or a group of children in grades 3rd to 5th and 6th to 8th can enter the contest by submitting a short video (3 minutes or less) about the importance of trees. The video should be creative and can include things like: a skit, song, speech, jingle, poem, or an interpretive dance. Just be sure your child answers the questions, “Why are trees important to you, your school and your community?” and “How do you think your school could use $10,000 to beautify the outdoors?”. National votes will determine the grand prize winner who will receive $10,000 for their school to use towards a sustainable project. The remaining 10 finalists in both groups will not leave empty-handed and can walk away with prizes ranging up to $7,000!
Prefer writing over making a video? Student in grades 3rd to 8th may submit a 150 word or less essay answering the question, “Why are trees so important to you and your community?”. One prize will be awarded to a child in each grade level in each drawing with 30 prize winners total! Each prize winner will receive a $250 gift card and the teacher appointed by the winner at time of entry will also receive a $250 gift card. Both videos and essays must be submitted by November 15th to www.ScottiesTreesRock.com.
Scotties created the Trees Rock program out of a passion for the environment and a desire to share the message of sustainability to students. Despite the decline in environmental education at schools, studies have proven that learning about nature enhances “critical thinking and basic life skills” along with establishing “increased engagement and enthusiasm for learning and reduced discipline and classroom management problems”. An increase in environmental education not only helps students in science, but in other subjects such as reading and math. Scotties has conducted outdoor classes and tree plantings throughout the country and seen firsthand the passion and excitement from young people when they learn about the world around them.
Ready to get started on the video or essay? Head over to www.ScottiesTreesRock.com for additional info and rules! Looking for some video inspiration? Head over here to check out winning videos from past years.
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We recycle and we catch rain water for watering plants and washing outdoor items.
We recycle, reuse, I try to only use eco friendly cleaners, and we cloth diaper. Basically just try to do what we can.
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we recycle and also have solar panels on our house.
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We recycle everything we possibly can and the kids enjoy it
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We recycle, compost and do a lot of our own gardening.
We recycle and take things we don’t want anymore to Goodwill.
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We recycle glass,aluminum, and paper products.
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Thankfully we live in a town with a great recycle program and it is so easy to recycle just about everything. And I love to upcycle items, too.
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We cloth diaper :)
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We cloth diaper sometimes and shop at thrift stores to reuse items that are still good.
We do some recycling. Were trying to get into gardening and composting. And I only use a dryer about 10% of the time.
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We have a big garden, a compost pile where we put our food scraps and collect rain water for the garden. This summer I learned how to can tomatoes.
As a future teacher, I am always looking at ways to recycle things and use them in the classroom! I can’t afford to pay for a bunch of crafting supplies but toilet paper rolls and other recyclable things work are the best for crafts or projects with the kiddos!
I recycle, reuse and try to find multi purposes for new things I buy.
We reuse bread bags as lunch sacks. We reuse/repurpose everything we can.
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Cloth diapers, mama cloth, recycle, and upcycle when possible!
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We use coupons and try to only purchase “special” items when they are on sale. Also I shop all year for Christmas and get the bargains when I can.
We recycle and repurpose many items
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We recycle as much as we can, and this summer we did our first garden! We had so much fun and loved growing our own carrots, green orange and red peppers, tomatoes, radishes, peas, beans, cucumbers, watermelon, and celery! We loved being able to go to our garden and pick our own vegetables! We also did strawberries and blueberries! Was so much fun, will do it every year from now on!
We recycle paper, plastic and aluminum. I have a garden and fruit trees so I can quite a bit.
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I am starting to try to reuse anything I can and also be conscious of how much electricity and water I am using.
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We reuse many things. that is how we are sustainable
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I reuse the plastic bags from the grocery store for storing items. That’s just one way.
I had put my husband’s name down because I using his email address, but I am the one entering the contest and we reuse the plastic bags from the grocery store.
We recycle and use rain water on our garden.
We recycle our plastic, glass and paper products.
Our family recycles, we installed water saving toilets and showers and we compost.
recycle, use LED lights, short showers and combine washes
We have rain barrels and water our plants with the water.
Our newest thing is changing all of the light bulbs to led lights. They are not inexpensive, but we are doing a few at a time.
We recycle and take quick showers.
We recycle, grow most of our own veggies and I can our produce for use year round.
We are big fans of reusing, repurposing and buying used.
We recycle, walk as much as possible and buy things from thrift stores and yard sales.
Our garden is organic and we compost.
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We use cloth instead of paper. Cloth diapers, unpaper towels, mama cloth, family cloth, cloth wipes, reusable straws, we recycle plastic and cardboard, I don’t use the dryer very much, only when I have to. keep lights and TV off unless needed.
We cloth diaper and we recycle
I will admit we could do more but we try to save water, use organics when possible and hang out laundry.
we recycle and take short showers
We grow some of our own veggies.
We recycle, we have a large garden with fruits and veggies and we make sure to turn off lights we aren’t using.
We recycle, use reusable water bottles instead of plastic, and simply try not to waste water and electricity.
We recycle paper, glass, plastic and metal trash.
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We reuse our water jugs every week.
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We recycle, reuse things as often as possible, and try to use natural products.
We recycle whenever we can and use as much as we can over and over!
Hi! We are lucky enough to have curbside recycling pick-up. I also try to limit our use of disposables as much as possible. Thank-you!
We grow a lot of our food, we use energy efficient appliances and turn lights and other appliances off when not in use. We also watch out for electrical vampires.
We recycle and I reuse what ever I can!
We recycle everything we can and try to turn off/unplug electronics when not in use
We don’t use a lot of the lights, and turn them off when nobody needs them. We also try and use water as little as possible – short showers, etc.
We recycle and reuse everything we possibly can. I also make my own laundry detergent and household cleaners out of natural products.
We recycle and buy used items, and we free cycle our used items.
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We carry reusable bags with us at all times.
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We recycle and I teach them conservation ways. Thanks!
We try to reuse bottles, we recycle, and use cloth instead of paper when possible.
We have taught our kids from an early age to respect the earth. We recycle, compost and reuse.
I buy up groceries so I reduce carbon emissions on my trips to the store.
we ride our bicycles whenever we can and never use disposable paper towels or plastic bags!
We recycle and reuse whenever we can!
We use cloth diapers/wipes and usually unpaper towels!
We use cloth diapers.
We try to do as much as we can like only using lights at night and only if we’re in the room. We recycle almost all our garbage or compost food scraps.
I turn off all lights when not in use and if it’s not scorching hot outside I open my windows instead of using my air conditioner.
Most of our crafting and art is done with things we find in the recycle bin!
We recycle and reuse.
We coupon and we are GREEN, breast milk, baby wearing, cloth diapers, recycling and handmedowns :)
We try to keep all disposable products to a minimum, we do laundry one time a week, we grow a garden and when cooking I try to use up everything – even scraps! I make my husband’s lunches for work out of what I cook for dinner. :-) And we live in a shared household, aspiring to minimalism!
We recycle and love to eat food from the garden.
I’m very frugal and re-use a lot. You have to with a big family!
We re-use, reduce and recycle.
We recycle and reuse as much as we can
We recycle big items. We go shopping at Goodwill stores. We try not to use paper items when possible.
I’m sure I could do better at being eco-friendly, but I recycle, try to limit energy use and look for environmentally friendly products when possible.
We use our own shopping bags.
We use cloth diapers, recycle, reuse as much as possible, and garden some of our food.
We recycle and reuse, I also feed the birds and squirrels
we try not to send anything to the dump, so we repair and donate items. we recycle, and reuse as much as possible and try not to waste anything.
We compost, reuse and we recycle.
My family always recycles
WE RECYCLE, REUSE AND OUR FAMILY HAS ADOPTED A ROAD THAT WE CLEAN UP ONCE A MONTH
We recycle and we shop used a lot.
We recycle and use a compost! :)
The last few months my husband and I have made a concious effort to live more sustanainably. We started a small garden, and have been making our own compost. Along with that I have been making household products such as laundry detergent, fabric softener, and dish cleaner.
While these thing we are all doing are helpful, we really need to educate others on sustainable living. The more people who are informed, the better off the earth, and ourselves will be.
we recycle just about everything
We try and resuse random items as much as we can- repurposing products is a task but also kind of fun some times :)
We recycle and I try to go through the house several times a day making sure lights are off.
We use bamboo and other renewable resources.
We try to conserve water, and we have also stopped buying water bottles, now we use filtered water from the fridge and use reusable bottles instead. I try to be very frugal with paper products, but my fiancé is a different story.
We use hand-me-downs all the time. My daughter is the oldest- she passes her gender neutral stuff to my older son. When he outgrows his clothes, whatever can still be used goes to my younger son. When things can no longer be worn, we use them to make quilts and cleaning rags.