I know there isn’t anything recycling wise that relates to Good Friday…. So this isn’t about that, okay? It’s just a post that happens to be on Good Friday. ^^;

I am VERY pleased to say that I just sent my ‘letter to the mayor’ to all of my teachers. I’ve sent it to all of my family, and so far, with the use of a thesaurus, I have gotten VERY positive comments. Even from those relatives that absolutely LOATHE me! Soon, I will send it via e-mail to my mayor, and, hopefully, begin the first ever “conservation day” in my city!

I will be adding an author to this site. It will be my friend Chelsey, so please treat her with respect. She is going to help me with my conservation operation. It will be known in our city as Operation: Conservation! ^^ Yay!

Remember to reach out to your friends and family and do something to help YOUR environment!

So, with that said… Happy Good Friday! I have a volleyball tournament tomorrow, sadly, even though it’s between two HUGE holidays… =’( So, have a nice Saturday, and EASTER, too! Encourage the Easter bunny to hide some ORGANIC eggs! (Long story.) HAVE A HaPPY GOOD FRIDAY! ~

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I turn off the light and sit by my window on a fully charged laptop, so I can plug it back in when it’s low on battery. I take breaks form my computer and turn it off now and then. I use it to the fullest when it has battery and put it to sleep when I am “brb”. And, for the money, I work WHILE I play online. I’m actually working on a huge e-bay project right now, so that helps me a lot. ^^ I will then afford Gaia Cash and lower my expectations online.

I encourage you to do the same. Get active. If it’s snowing, then go outside and play in the snow. If it’s warm, go outside and enjoy the warm water. But most importantly, do something to help our environment while you’re out. Set up a program in your community, maybe set up a dater to plant some trees. This forum/journal topic series will for now and ever be known as Alexandria’s Conservation Operation.

Here are some things you can do to help our environment:
- Recycle your Sunday Newspapers. The all famous weekly newspaper destroys hundreds of thousands of trees for only one distribution. Once you’re done, recycle it! Please! (YOU CAN ALSO read the newspaper at a local coffee shop. This is an example of reusing our environment.)
- Set up a program. Talk to your city council or mayor and see if you can set up an event for tree/flower planting, which will produce more oxygen to counterract some of these harmful events. Two trees can produce enough oxygen for a whole human’s life. You can also score some brownie points from this. Nice thing to put on your resume, huh?
- Be a criminal. I don’t mean this literally- criminals are sometimes forced to be trash pickers. Well, grab a steak every now and then, and pick some trash yourself. Remember that if it’s recyclable, recycle it!
- Sell some NON high-fructose corn syrup lemonade. This means that, when the weather is warm, you can sell some lemonade… BUT it’s not pre-bought. It should be fresh squeezed. This saves money, time, and material from shopping. Remember that when you shop to buy recyclables whenever possible. That’s one of the many things a consumer should always look out for. You can keep the lemons and add it to your grass when it’s cut. Lemons and other old foods are compost, and they help grass become biodegradable in a landfill. Did you know that even biodegradables are becoming nonbiodegradable? There are so many things in our landfills that they are pressuring the earlier items and PRESERVING them. A newspaper was found in a landfill from 1970, not exactly very pretty or with that new scent of printed paper, but still READ able!!
- Wear handmedowns. Donate your old items. Basic examples of reusing! One more shirt handed down means one LESS shirt needs to be made. ^^ I wear old shirts over a cami, to give some girls an idea. To make it ‘fit’, wear a scrunchie/hair tie in the back. XD Boys can wear old shirts whenever, it just looks good on them.
- RIDE YOUR BIKE. I absolutely ADORE riding my bike! Not only is it good for you, it means less gas needs to be burned, saving both natural resources AND the planet (the fumes that come from the gas in your car is contributing to the greenhouse affect).
- USE A CLOTH SHOPPING BAG AND PROTEST AGAINST AQUIFINA/ICE MOUNTAIN/ETC. Plastic shopping bags and water bottles are the top sources of pollution. (Bottled water is tap water, believe it or not, just with a few chemicals in it to make it taste better. Resist the urge, and get a faucet filter. It’s actually MORE safe to drink than bottled water!) Then, use a plastic bottle that you can continually refill. Think of how many bottles of water you’ve drinken throughout your life… Think of how many people there are… Now think about America’s economy and how selfish Aquifina is (just kidding!!). ^^ What would Chuck Norris do? He would use a cloth shopping bag. Just IMAGINE how many you’ve ever handled!! What if you just used one cloth shopping bag, maybe a few, that you can continually put your groceries in? Ha-HA! Yes! That’s an awesome solution.
- Prevent hazardous waste. ^^ There are certain metals that are harmful to our environment. A full list will be included later, but I can tell you that battery juice and methane gas are VERY harmful. If you dispose of your batteries, and they get POKED in a landfill, their juice will ooze all over the place, killing plants… and animals. Now methane gas is created by garbage juice. That’s when there are so many objects in a landfill that they decay and create a juice underneath them. Somewhere in the process, methane is created underground. This is the result of many things, for methan is EXPLOSIVE. (da-da-DUMM) It actually filled and exploded a house once, that was near a landfill. A very harmful gas… Guess how you can prevent it? Recycle. ^^ Remember to dispose of hazardous waste by sending them to specific landfills that bury them and are designed to contain them.

Thank You! I will be posting almost daily. I am also planning to talk to my mayor soon about holding a city conservation fair. Yay! =]  Until then…

~ALEXANDRIA

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