TVs are Bad for the Environment.

http://www.gogreennola.org/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=90

TV is bad for the environment, too!

Here's something to think about before throwing your old TV [and other electronic devices] to the curb:

E-Waste Harmful Materials

Electronic waste accounts for 70 percent of the overall toxic waste that you currently find in landfills. In addition to

valuable metals like aluminum, electronics often contain hazardous materials like lead and mercury. When placed in a

landfill, these materials (even in small doses) can contaminate soil as well as drinking water.

Televisions

Back before there were plasma screen and liquid crystal display (LCD) tubes, we were all watching our Super Bowls and

sitcoms on cathode ray tubes (CRT). The CRT model provided room for all your switches and wires in a box behind the

screen, but it also stored a lot of lead.

Approximately 20 percent of CRTs are comprised of lead, equivalent to between four and eight pounds per unit.

Combine this with the fact that the FCC is going to require all televisions to run a digital signal by February 19, 2009, and

we could be looking at a lot of lead headed for landfills. Even the smallest amounts of lead can be a serious issue, and

we’re talking about eight pounds per unit.earth911.org

Also, don't forget that most people's energy is given to them by burning coal, a fossil fuel. In this way, electronics are harmful to the environment.

- The Teenage Narwhal

Oil Spill- Harm to Endangered Penguins

Oil patches cover a northern rockhopper penguin on March 23, a week after a cargo vessel slammed into Nightingale Island in the South Atlantic, initiating a roughly 1,500-ton of fuel-oil spill, according to the U.K.-based Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
The island, part of the British territory of Tristan da Cunha (see map), is home to 200,000 northern rockhopper penguins, half the world's population. The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists the bird as endangered, due to its mysteriously rapid decline in the past three decades.
Oil-Spill Video: Nightingale Island Wildlife

On March 18, two days after it had run aground, the Malta-registered "M.S. Oliva broke her back in the force of a relentless swell," leaking oil that spread into an 8-mile (13-kilometer) slick, according to the bird-protection group and the Tristan da Cunha government's website. However the slick seemed to have mostly dissipated by March 23.
Some 65,300 tons of unprocessed soybeans also spilled from into the ocean, and the vegetables' impact to the sensitive marine environment are unknown, the government's website said.
Hundreds of oiled birds are washing ashore, and a preliminary estimate suggests up to 20,000 birds may have been affected, according to the government's website.
(See pictures of birds oiled by the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.)
"The scene at Nightingale is dreadful," Trevor Glass, the conservation officer for the territory, said in a statement.
The "grave environmental disaster" may also reach ecosystems of the nearby Inaccessible and Gough islands, both UN World Heritage sites, according to the government's website.
—Christine Dell'Amore

Published March 25, 2011

The Tristan da Cunha Conservation Department deployed several rescue workers (pictured on March 23) to rescue and clean oiled penguins. Already, workers have collected 750 penguins, which will be transported to Tristan de Cunha for rehabilitation.
More bird-rescue experts from the South African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds arrived this week.
National Geographic Travelermagazine contributing editor Andrew Evans coincidentally visited Nightingale Island on a scheduled stop during a National Geographic Society-affiliated cruise. (The Society owns National Geographic News.)
"We were planning on going anyway, and en route we received word that a cargo freighter had crashed into the island," Evans told National Geographic News.
Evans, who spent a day on the island surveying the disaster, saw "hundreds—that's not an exaggeration—of northern rockhopper penguins covered in black oil. I saw dozens of fur seal pups with oil on their fur. It's really disturbing to see something like that."
(Read Evans's account of the Nightingale Island oil-spill aftermath.)

Published March 25, 2011

As of March 23, when this picture was taken, some penguins were already dead, possibly from exposure to fuel oil from the Nightingale Island spill.
"I saw penguins that were preening the oil off [their feathers]. Some were completely coated and others had patches on their chest," Traveler's Evans said.
Compared with crude oil, processed fuel oil has both good and bad qualities when it comes to spills, Nils Warnock, executive director of Audubon Alaska, told National Geographic News.
On the positive side, fuel oil evaporates faster than crude oil. On the other hand, fuel oil can actually be more toxic than crude oil to birds in the short term, because fuel oil is lighter and can be more easily absorbed into the birds' skin.
Once inside a birds' system, any type of oil can cause internal ailments, according to Warnock. Worsening the impact, oil-soaked birds vigorously preen their feathers to remove the toxic substance, accidentally ingesting it.
(Read more about how oil can harm birds.)

Published March 25, 2011

Read more articles about this event at http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/03/pictures/110325-oil-spill-penguins-nightingale-island/#/nightingale-island-oil-spill-penguins-oilde_33705_600x450.jpg !

Yet another oil spill. SHAME!

-The Teenage Narwhal

Beyond the Hour

Dear Fantastic Friends,
     I'd like to congradulate everyone who participated in Earth Hour. You all did an awesome job! Go to http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/03/pictures/110328-earth-hour-pictures-before-after-photos-world-environment/#/earth-hour-2011-rio-de-janeiro-during_33733_600x450.jpg to see Earth Hour pictures! I've decided to go beyond just the hour of Earth Hour and improve the environment by changing small things in my life. I encourage you all to do the same. Please see the video below. Anyway, on this page, I'm going to post people's resolutions for how they will become more environmentally friendly. If you have a resolution you would like to share, email your resolution and a screen name to rlalk@verizon.net . Enjoy becoming more environmentally friendly!

RESOLUTIONS:

1. I, The Teenage Narwhal (aka Taco Sauce), will use no plastic bags in my luches, take shorter showers, recycle all of my used, unneeded paper, andpersuade my parents to use environmentally friendly trash bags.
2. The Saw is going to create a composte heap in his backyard.
3. GRL is going to use fewer plastic bags, recycle waste 8.5' x 11' paper, and start a composte heap.
4. Violin will try to use less unnecessary paper, pick up litter that I find on the ground, turn off lights in my house if nobody is in the room, and donate money to environment-related charities

Please email your resolution and screen name to rlalk@verizon.net !

Smiles from,

The Teenage Narwhal

Earth Hour Beyond the Hour

WHY GO GREEN?

Dear Unknowing Ukaleles,

     Ever wonder why everyone wants to go green? I found a site that says why!

What’s the problem?

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the world population is expanding at a mind-boggling rate. The world reached 1 billion people in 1800; 2 billion by 1922; and over 6 billion by 2000. It is estimated that the population will swell to over 9 billion by 2050. That means that if the world’s natural resources were evenly distributed, people in 2050 will only have 25% of the resources per capita that people in 1950 had.
The world has a fixed amount of natural resources - some of which are already depleted. So as population growth greatly strains our finite resources, there are fewer resources available. If we intend to leave our children and grandchildren with the same standard of living we have enjoyed, we must preserve the foundation of that standard of living. We save for college educations, orthodontia, and weddings, but what about saving clean air, water, fuel sources and soil for future generations?
Some of the greatest threats to future resources come from things we throw away everyday. Household batteries and electronics often contain dangerous chemicals that may, if sent to a local landfill, leak through the bottom barrier and pollute the groundwater. This can contaminate everything from the soil in which our food grows, to the water which will eventually come out of aquifers and into our tap water. Many of these chemicals cannot be removed from the drinking water supply, nor from the crops that are harvested from contaminated fields. The risks to human health are tremendous.
Throwing away items that could be recycled diminishes energy, water and natural resources that could be saved by recycling.
Did you know...

• For every ton of paper that is recycled, the following is saved: 7,000 gallons of water; 380 gallons of oil; and enough electricity to power an average house for six months.
• You can run a TV for six hours on the amount of electricity that is saved by recycling one aluminum can.
• By recycling just one glass bottle, you save enough electricity to power a 100-watt bulb for four hours.

The more we throw away, the more space we take up in landfills. When a landfill becomes a “landfull”, taxpayers have to build a new one. The less we throw away, the longer our landfills will last. The amount of taxpayer money we save by extending the longevity of our landfills is an important community benefit.
http://www.gogreeninitiative.org/content/WhyGoGreen/

Smiles from,

The Teenage Narwhal

50 GREEN TIPS

Dear Curious Consumers,
     Here are 50 great tips that will help you become more environmentally friendly.

1. Lower your thermostat. Buy a programmable thermostat.

2. Reuse your water bottle. Avoid buying bottled water. In fact, reuse everything at least once, especially plastics.

3. Check out your bathroom. Use low-flow faucets, showerheads, and toilets.

4. Start a compost in your back yard or on your rooftop.

5. Buy foods locally. Check out Eat Local Challenge and FoodRoutes to get started. Buy locally made products and locally produced services.

6. Buy in season.

7. Buy compact fluorescent light bulbs. You'll find more on energy-efficient products and practices at Energy Star.

8. Turn off lights and electronics when you leave the room. Unplug your cell phone charger from the wall when not using it. Turn off energy strips and surge protectors when not in use (especially overnight).

9. Recycle your newspapers.

10. Car pool. Connect with other commuters at eRideShare.

11. Consider a car sharing service like Zipcar.

12. Ride a bike.

13. Walk, jog, or run.

14. Go to your local library instead of buying new books.

15. At holidays and birthdays, give your family and friends the gift of saving the earth. Donate to their favorite environmental group, foundation, or organization.

16. Get off junk mail lists. GreenDimes can get you started. They’ll even plant a tree for you!

17. Buy products that use recyclable materials whenever possible.

18. If you use plastic grocery bags, recycle them for doggie poop bags or for small trashcan liners.

19. Bring your own bags to the grocery store. Given a choice between plastic and paper, opt for paper.

20. Buy locally. Find farmers’ markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food near you at LocalHarvest.

21. Consider organic cleaning products like vinegar, borax, and baking soda.

22. If you have a baby, consider using cloth diapers. To sign up for a diaper service to do the dirty work, check out the National Association of Diaper Services.

23. Consider buying a fuel-efficient car or a hybrid.
24. Landscape with native plants. Check out the article on the EPA website.
25. Opt into a clean energy program. Check out the Green Power Network at the US Department of Energy.
26. Go paperless. Consider reading your newspaper and magazine subscriptions online. Switch to electronic banking and credit card payment, too.
27. Teach kids about the environment.
28. Take your batteries to a recycling center. Earth 911 gives you the scoop.
29. Turn your car off if you’re going to be idle for more than one minute.
30. Do full loads of laundry and set the rinse cycle to “cold.”
31. Recycle. If you’re not at home, take the extra steps, (literally), to find that recycling can.
32. Reuse. Plastic food containers make good crayon and marker holders. Use padded envelops more than once. Buy your toddler or preschooler’s clothes from a thrift shop and give away those that don’t fit to friends. Goodwill or the Salvation Army can help.
33. Limit the length of your showers. Even better, take a “navy shower,” shutting off the water while soaping up and shampooing.
34. Don’t run the water when brushing your teeth. Learn about water scarcity.
35. Wash towels after several uses.  
36. Purchase one case of water and provide clean water to 24 people (for over twenty years).
37. Give away your goods and find new ones at FreeCycle.
38. Recycle your technology. Dell, Hewlett Packard, Apple, and IBM, among others, offer recycling programs.
39. Go zero! Log on to the Conservation Fund’s Carbon Zero Calculator and in less than five minutes, you can measure and then offset your carbon dioxide emissions by planting trees.
40. Put your money where your mouth is—invest in green investments. Web sites like Co-op America's National Green Pages™ can help.
41. Learn about threats to ocean life and help Greenpeace take action.
42. Whenever you can, try using green cleaning products. Check out Cheap, Clean, and Green.
43. Find your local watershed and learn how to protect it.

44. Build a greener home.
45. Opt for eco-friendly and holistic health products.
46. Good to the last drop. Switch to fair trade coffee.
47. Go paperless at work. Distribute company information and post company material online.
48. Eliminate junk mail at work. For no fee, the EcoLogical Mail Coalition will eliminate the junk that former employees receive at work.
49. Plant a forest and feed a family while you’re at it.
50. Shop smart. Choose eco-smart products.

Read more: http://www.divinecaroline.com/22355/28177-fifty-green-tips-earth-day/3#ixzz1HnsiNJoq

Smiles from,

The Teenage Narwhal

Recycle Around The World 3

Environmental Song

Earth Hour 2011 Official Video

BLACKLE

Dear Tacos (yes everyone is a taco),
     A few years ago, google made blackle. blackle is the same thing as google search, except the color is mostly, well, black. Since it is black, it doent take as much energy to light up the screen.

How is Blackle saving energy?

Blackle was created by Heap Media to remind us all of the need to take small steps in our everyday lives to save energy. Blackle searches are powered by Google Custom Search.
Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. "Image displayed is primarily a function of the user's color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen." Roberson et al, 2002
In January 2007 a blog post titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine. Since then there has been skepticism about the significance of the energy savings that can be achieved and the cost in terms of readability of black web pages.
We believe that there is value in the concept because even if the energy savings are small, they all add up. Secondly we feel that seeing Blackle every time we load our web browser reminds us that we need to keep taking small steps to save energy.

How can you help?

We encourage you to set Blackle as your home page. This way every time you load your Internet browser you will save a little bit of energy. Remember every bit counts! You will also be reminded about the need to save energy each time you see the Blackle page load.
Help us spread the word about Blackle by telling your friends and family to set it as their home page. If you have a blog then give us a mention. Or put the following text in your email signature: "Blackle.com - Saving energy one search at a time".
Have a look at our energy saving tips page for ideas on steps you can take to save energy or you can follow Blackle on Twitter and we will keep you updated with simple energy saving tips.

There are a lot of great web sites about saving energy and being more environmentally friendly. They are full of great tips covering the little things that we can all do to make a difference today. Try Blackling "energy saving tips" or visit one of the many great blogs dedicated to environmental awareness.

My friend, Violin, also agrees that Blackle is awesome. Use Blackle!

Smiles from,

The Teenage Narwhal

EARTH HOUR

 

TODAY, MARCH 26TH, TURN OF YOUR LIGHTS FOR EARTH HOUR AT 8:30- 9:30PM!

Earth Hour is a global event organized by WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature, also known as World Wildlife Fund) and is held on the last Saturday of March annually, asking households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and other electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change. Earth Hour was conceived by WWF and The Sydney Morning Herald in 2007, when 2.2 million residents of Sydney participated by turning off all non-essential lights.^[1] Following Sydney's lead, many other cities around the world adopted the event in 2008.^[2][3] Earth Hour 2011 will take place on March 26, 2011 from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., at participants' respective local time.

Adopt a Narwhal!

NARWHALS

The "unicorn of the ocean," the narwhal (Monodon monoceros) is one of the rarest whales in the world. Narwhals are very elusive and mysterious in nature, and is very distinct in appearance due to the large horn-like tusk on its face. The tusk is actually a tooth that grows from the upper jaw of male narwhals.

Fast Facts

Length: 13-16 feet.
Weight: Up to 1.8 tons; females are slightly smaller than males.
Lifespan: 50 years.

Diet

Narwhals consume squid, fish and shrimp.

Population

Narwhal population estimates indicate around 45,000-50,000 individuals.

Did You Know?

Narwhal is a Danish word meaning 'corpse whale' since it is often known to swim belly up and lay motionless for quite a while.

Range

Narwhals are mostly found in the Atlantic and Russian waters of the Arctic. They have been known to travel around Greenland to eastern Russia. See a narwhal range map >>

Behavior

Narwhals generally move slowly, but are known to be remarkably quick when chased by predators. They prefer to stay near the surface of the ocean, but can dive up to 5,000 feet. Narwhals are migratory and move closer to the shore in the summer, while moving out to sea and living under packed ice in the winter months.
Most narwhals travel in pods of 10-100 individuals and sometimes in much larger groups. They communicate with various sounds like squeals, trills and clicks. The males often cross tusks in a behavior known as ‘tusking’. This may be a form of dueling, friendly contact or cleaning the tooth.

Did You Know?

Narwhals have been observed using their tusks for fighting other aggressive behaviors, and for breaking sea ice in their Arctic habitat.

Reproduction
Mating Season: March to May.
Gestation: Up to 16 months.
Litter Size: 1 calf.
Females give birth every 3 years or so and can nurse their calves for over a year. Calves tend to be brown with no spots.

Climate Change and Other Threats

Narwhals are mostly hunted by polar bears and orcas. They are also hunted by native Inuit people who are allowed to hunt this whale legally.
In addition, the narwhal’s habitat is threatened by the effects of global warming and pollution. Their small population size, limited range, and reliance on Arctic fish that are also being affected by climate-induced available food changes, make them extremely vulnerable. One recent study concluded that the narwhal might be even more sensitive to the impacts of climate change than the polar bear.

Species Spotlight

Read a Defenders Magazine article on the narwhal >>

Legal Status/Protection

• IUCN Red List: Near threatened.
• CITES: Narwhals are listed in Appendix II.
• The Canadian government instituted Narwhal Protection Regulations under the Fisheries Act in 1971. This made hunting narwhals illegal for anyone other than the Inuits. There is a catch limit of 5 narwhals a year per subsistence hunter and hunters are required to utilize every part of the narwhal.
• Learn more about legal status and protection of narwhals >>

How You Can Help

• Help narwhals and other wildlife by adopting a whale at our Wildlife Adoption Center.
• Take Action for Wildlife at our Wildlife Action Center.

From http://www.defenders.org/wildlife_and_habitat/wildlife/narwhal.php?lb_v=7 .

SEEKING ENVIRONMENTAL HELP?

Dear Environmentally-concerned Evolvers,
     I decided that I would help you all and myself become more environmentally friendly. I got to a website that lists environmental FACTS. It was http://library.thinkquest.org/11353/facts.htm . These are the facts I found:

• If just 25% of U.S. families used 10 fewer plastic bags a month, we would save over 2.5 BILLION bags a year.

• On the average, the 140 million cars in America are estimated to travel almost 4 billion miles in a day, and according to the Department of Transportation, they use over 200 million gallons of gasoline doing it.

• Every year we throw away 24 million tons of leaves and grass. Leaves alone account for 75% of our solid waste in the fall.

• Over 100 pesticide ingredients are suspected to cause birth defects, cancer, and gene mutations.

• Every ton of recycled office paper saves 380 gallons of oil.

• About 1% of U.S. landfill space is full of disposable diapers, which take 500 years to decompose.

• Energy saved from one recycled aluminum can will operate a TV set for 3 hours, and is the equivalent to half a can of gasoline.

• Glass produced from recycled glass instead of raw materials reduces related air pollution by 20%, and water pollution by 50%.

• Americans use 50 million tons of paper annually -- consuming more than 850 million trees.

• Homeowners use up to 10 times more toxic chemicals per acre than farmers.

• By turning down your central heating thermostat one degree, fuel consumption is cut by as much as 10%.

• Insulating your attic reduces the amount of energy loss in most houses by up to 20%.

• Enough glass was thrown away in 1990 to fill the Twin Towers (1,350 feet high) of New York's World Trade Center every two weeks.

• One ton of carbon dioxide that is released in the air can be prevented by replacing every 75 watt light bulbs with energy efficient bulbs.

• Many banks lent large sums of money to developing nations. In order to pay those debts plus interest many nations have turned to the mining of their natural resources as a source of financial aid.

• Every day 40,000 children die from preventable diseases.

• The public transportation that we have is a wreck. The U.S. continues to promote and invest in private car travel rather than public transportation.

• The human population of the world is expected to be nearly tripled by the year 2100.

• A three percent annual growth rate will result in the doubling of consumption and production of food and other products in 25 short years.  The amount of motor vehicles that are expected to be operated will increase 15 million a year until at least 2010.

• The world's per capita grain production has been on the downfall since 1985 despite the use of fertilizers and pesticides.

• Already a train system has been developed (back in 1987) which is based on magnetic levitation and causes minimal pollution. These versions of a train are already in use in several countries.

• Fibre optics, made of glass, are being used to replace copper cables throughout the world.

• The uncontrolled fishing that is allowed has reduced the amount of commercial species. Some species, up to one-tenth of their original population.

• Every day 50 to 100 species of plants and animals become extinct as their habitat and human influences destroy them.
• Deserts are advancing and taking over the land. In Mali the desert has taken over about 220 miles in as few as 20 years. Deserts can be repelled, by developing tree-planting projects, having better agriculture and by managing the land better. However, governments still are reluctant to fund anti-desertification, despite horrific droughts that have occurred in recent years.
• The Earth has been around for 4.6 billion years. Scaling this time down to 46 years we have been around for 4 hours and our Industrial Revolution began just 1 minute ago. During this short time period we have ransacked the planet for ways to get fuels and raw materials, have been the cause of extinction of an unthinkable amount of plants and animals, and have multiplied our population to that of a plague.
• Despite all of the damage we have caused the environment most of it is reversible. We can restore habitats and return species to them; clean rivers; renovate buildings; replenish the topsoil, replant forests. However, these activities do not relieve the worst symptoms of the damage. We still have to fix the source of these problems, us and our vision that we must progress.

• In Peninsular Malaysia, more tree species are found in 125 acres of Tropical Forest than in the entire North America.

• In Peru a single bush may contain more ant species than in the British Isles.

• A study has shown that there are possibly over 30 million species of insects dwelling in the canopies of tropical forests.

• 63,000 square miles of Rainforests are being destroyed each year.

• Rainforests higher than 3,000 feet above sea level are called cloud forests.

• Already over half of the world's tropical forests have been lost.

• Madagascar is the home to a rainforest where 60 percent of it's 12,000 different plant species are unique to that island.

• When you visit a pharmacist, one in every four purchases will have come from a tropical forest.

• Medicine produced in tropical forests bring in commercially 30 billion dollars a year.

• Large areas of South and Central America are cleared and burned for cattle ranching. This is so that farmers can provide cheap beef to consumers in the West.

• Every year approximately four billion tons of carbon accumulates in the air each year, about 30% of this comes directly from the continued burning of the rainforests.

• More than anything else, rainforest is destroyed by peasant farmers. However, the responsibility for this lies largely with the governments who fail to promote land reform and sustainable agricultural practices as an alternative to forest clearance.

• Greater than a quarter of our rainforest is in Brazil

• Penguins live only in the Southern Hemisphere and never in the Northern Hemisphere.

• A single porcupine is known to kill 100 trees in one winter. It uses it's sharp claws to climb a tree, sits on a limb to gnaw away at the bark and twigs and then stuffs them all into its mouth at once. Because of it's liking for bark, the porcupine causes much damage to forests.

• A scallop moves by sucking water into its shell and then squirting it out suddenly. It likes to wander around and this gives it enough force to push it in front in a zig zag manner.

• A male garibaldi damselfish attract females for mating by covering a rock with a thick layer of alga. A male which clean off a rock to allow only algae to live have a higher chance of mating. The algae is also used to protect the eggs of the fish.

• To prevent the nest from getting soaked, the rare white-chinned swift, which nests behind the waterfalls of Latin America plant pieces of moss in the nest which then grow and reinforce the nest.

• A porcupine loves salt so much that it would walk into a camp and gnaw on anything that has been touched by salt or even by perspiring hands.

• Despite having a shell of armour for the body, an armadillo has teeth that do not have enamel and thus have very soft teeth. It can only eat soft food such as ants, termites, grubs and bugs.

• The tip of an elephant's trunk is so sensitive and flexible that it can pick up a pin.

• If a mole does not find food within 12 hours, it will die. Its chief food consists of insects and earthworms.

• A male nightingale stops singing when its eggs have hatched so as not to attract unnecessary attention to the nest. However he gives short calls to tell the female that all is well or danger is approaching.

• Bolas spiders snare moths by producing chemicals similar to pheromones used by several species of female moths to attract mates.

• The webbed feet of the stormy petrel enable it to 'walk' on water. It spends almost its entire life over the ocean and only comes to land to breed. If a storm arises, they can't walk on water and are forced to remain in the air all day and night.

• Some giant land turtles are able to bellow.

• No one knows what happens to the seahorse during winter as it is only seen during the summertime.

• There is a species in the river Nile in Egypt that avoids its enemies by swimming with its black belly up and its white back down.

• The arctic tern, a migrating bird is able to travel back and forth as much as 22000 miles in a course of a year.

• The Amazon army ants raid nests of certain black ants and carry back to cocoons and larvae to their own homes. When the cocoons hatch, they will become the slaves of these army ants and do all their work.

• The nest that an osprey is a huge and attractive one which is unhidden from sight and the bird adds new material each year to the same old nest. The nest can weigh up to 450 kilograms.

• The Grasslands cover one-fifth of the land on Earth.

• The majority of grasslands are found around the tropics.

• Natural grasslands are; the savannahs of Africa, the North American prairies, and in southern USSR-the dry steppes.

• Semi-natural grasslands are where the forest has been cleared and grazing, cutting or burning maintains the grass cover. Tending to be more productive most South and South-East Asian grasslands are semi-natural grasslands.

• The temperate grassland soil contains a lot of organic material (more than the tropical)

Great facts, huh?  Please use some of thesefacts to become more eco-friendly. That was the intent.

Smiles from,
The Environmentally Concerned Teenage Narwhal

P.S. At stores, when they have those reusable bags, use them! They actually DO help the environment! If you don't have any or don't want to buy any at the moment, ask for a paper bag as opposed to a plastic bag. Paper decomposes faster than plastic. In fact, plastic doesn't decompose. The paper bags still kill trees, though, so don't use them instead of the reusable ones. Go to http://ezinearticles.com/?Plastic-Bag-vs-Paper-Bag-Facts---What-is-Best?&id=1582836 for a article about paper, plastic, and reusable bags.

SOLAR SITE?

Dear Silly Smarties,
     I found an ecofriendly website (that I made with my Quest class a few years back), and I wanted to give you all the link, just because. Go to http://www.savetheearthtogether.com/ .

     Save the sea turtles! I am very obsessed with saving sea turtles, if you didn't know. I love the Georgia Sea Turtle Center. Go to http://www.georgiaseaturtlecenter.org/ !

     http://www.epa.gov/earthday/tips.htm has quite a few tips on becoming ecofriendly.

     To find out how to make a difference in environmental health, go to http://www.epa.gov/earthday/share.html .

Alternative energeticness from,

The Teenage Narwhal

P.S. Want to learn more about Tel Aviv, Israel? Go to http://allabouttelavivisrael.yolasite.com/ . I also made this website. It was a project for History.

SET-UP STUPIDITY

Dear Assuming Allies,
     If you find a blog on the net that seems like a duplicate of this one, its true. This is a douplacate. When I was creating a site, I typed in the wromg password or email, and that was my old site. I can't do anything on it, so HA, HA, HA! I am NOT a plagiarizer. Sorry if anything is misspelled. I suffer from a severe case of can't-spell-for-life-itis.

Smiles and Eco-Friendliness from,

The Teenage Narwhal (Taco Sauce)

SICK

Dear Concerned Classmates,
     I was surfing in the Internet Ocean in hopes of finding a more specific topic for my silver award in Girl Scouts. Of course, my project has to be about becoming environmentally friendly. Anyway, I found a website that lists all, if not most, of the endangered plants and animals around the world. I copied it onto a word document and typed in the web adress so I could access it later. It was all in size ten ARIAL font.

ENDANGERED ANIMALS: 195 PAGES LONG

ENDANGERED ANIMALS: 169 PAGES LONG

Unless the majority of people take action quickly (including, me, you, and our families, and friends), we won't need a Mayan Calander or a solar flare to tell us when the world is going to end; we are going to end up killing ourselves (No, not suicide. Suicide= bad. We will run out of resources and starve. Sudy the food web, people.).

IT ONLY TAKES ONE PERSON TO KILL OFF THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE. Isn't that sick?

I have to go catch some more waves; I'm already at the Internet Ocean.

TAKE ACTION.

Smiles from,

The Teenage Narwhal

P.S. Go to http://www.earthsendangered.com/plant_list_html.asp
Also go to

http://www.worldwildlife.org/ogc/species_category.cfm?sc=AWY1000WCGP6&searchen=google&gclid=CNCspPfS7KcCFQbc4AodLX6YaQ