Earth Day Year 7

Earth Day

Saturday 22nd April 2023

YEAR 7
with
Magdalena Polikowska

By Milena K

Protecting our planet starts with you

How and why we celebrate the earth day

The first Earth Day - archive, April 1970

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Words by Milena K

Our planet is an amazing place, but it needs our help to thrive! That’s why each year on April 22, more than a billion people celebrate Earth Day to protect the planet from things like pollution and
deforestation. By taking part in activites like picking up litter and planting trees, we’re making our world a happier, healthier place to live.

Fifty years ago, millions of Americans
participated in the
first Earth Day, an event
held to increase public
awareness of the world’s
environmental problems

Newspaper Stand

The Earth Day

Wednesday the 25th April 2023

written by Lukas

Save energy

Why should we save energy?

1. Switch off lights and electrical appliances when you are not using them.
2. Use energy-saving LED light bulbs.
3. Shut windows when the heating is on.
4. Do not use air conditioning when it is not really needed.
5. Use solar powered devices.
6. Wash at cold a temperature.
7. Install solar panels on the roof of your house to generate free energy.

The reason why we should save energy is our planet: Earth. Generating electricity and heating by coal, gas and oil causes big damages to the environment. Greenhouse gases produced by human activity cause climate changes what is very bed for people, animals and plants. To protect our planet we need to reduce emission of these gases and I will give you some examples how we can do it. Please check the list below the picture.

Recycling

Earth Day

by Tereska

PAPER (books, magazines, carton, cardboard, stratch paper)

PLASTIC (bags, bottles, packet)

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GLASS (bottles, jars)

Recycling is very important! Will be our planet clean and pretty or pollute and ugly? We decide. Remember! When you sort rubbish, don't leave it in the forest and park, you help our Earth.

Saturday 22nd April 2023
Hania Ka

Get a bike

Do you want to breathe dirty air?

With these little things you can help the planet a lot.

Give your neighbour or friend a ride to school or work.

Smog from cars causes the Earth to become dead! Road transport has the greatest impact on air quality.

Most people die not because of asthma, but because of a heart attack, embolism and stroke. They are caused among other things, by smog.

Why mindlessy pollute the Earth?

Take a bike instead of a car.

In big cities, public transport for students is free. This is to encourage teenagers to use public transport to reduce the number of cars on the streets.

People pollute the air more by driving. We harm not only the planet, animals and plants, but aloso ourselves. Air quality in Poland is among the worst in Europe.

In Poland, over 40,000 people die every year due to poor air quality. In large cities, car traffic and aviaation have the greatest impact on the number of deaths.

The World Earth Day

Monday 28th April 2023

by Tadeusz

How to compost food

Benefits of food composting

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Hi guys, in this article I want to convince you that composting food is very useful, healthy and ecological and I want to learn you How compost food.
first to compost food you need... composter. You can make it with many things , for examle with barrel. If you have a composter, you also need leftovers, which you can also throw grass and leaves in there

Benefits of food composting are for example,
- having cheap fertilizer for plants both in the pot and in the garden
-Saving on rubbish collection

Buy local Food

Why we should buy local food

Buying local food can have several benefits for both individuals and the broader community. Here are a few reasons why we might consider buying local food:
- Supports local farmers: when you buy local food you are supporting farmers and producers in your own community. This can help to strengthen the local economy and create jobs.
- Fresher produce: local food is often fresher than food that has been shipped long distances. This means it may be more nutritious and have a better taste.
- Reduces environmental impact: Transporting food long distances can have a significant environmental impact due to the fuel used in transportation. Buying local food can help to reduce this impact.
- Supports biodiversity: When you buy local food, you are supporting a diversity of crops and livestock that may not be available from larger, industrial farms.
- Builds community: Buying local food can help to build a sense of community by connecting consumers with the people who produce their food.

Overall, buying local food can have many benefits for individuals and communities, from supporting local farmers to reducing environmental impact and building community.
Locally grown food is full of flavor. When grown locally, the crops are picked at their peak of ripeness versus being harvested early in order to be shipped and distributed to your local retail store. Eating local food is eating seasonally.

Even though we wish strawberries were grown year round in Michigan, the best time to eat them is when they can be purchased directly from a local grower. Local food has more nutrients. Local food has a shorter time between harvest and your table, and it is less likely that the nutrient value has decreased. Food imported from far-away states and countries is often older, has traveled and sits in distribution centers before it gets to your store.Local food supports the local economy. The money that is spent with local farmers and growers all stays close to home and is reinvested with businesses and services in your community.
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Keep calm and eat local grown
by Zuzanna S.

Why Local Food Is Better Than Imported?

There are several reasons why local food is better:
- Freshness- Local food is typically fresher than food that has been transported from far away. This is because local food doesn't have to travel as far, so it spends less time in transit and on store shelves. As a result, it retains more of its nutrients and flavor.
- Sustainability- When you buy local food, you are supporting local farmers and the local economy. This means that fewer resources are used to transport the food, and there is less pollution from transportation. Additionally, local farmers often use sustainable farming practices, which are better for the environment.
- Seasonality- Local food is often grown seasonally, which means that you are eating fruits and vegetables when they are naturally meant to be consumed. This not only supports the local ecosystem, but it also means that the produce is at its peak freshness and nutritional value.
- Diversity- Local food often includes a wider variety of fruits and vegetables than you might find in a grocery store. This is because local farmers often grow heirloom varieties and other unique crops that are not typically grown on a large scale.
- Traceability- When you buy local food, you can often trace it back to the farm where it was grown. This provides transparency and accountability in the food system, and can help ensure that the food is safe and healthy.

Everyday life

Sara

Choose reusable prosucts instead oversingle- use

Why we shoud use reusable products, no over single-use?
There are many reasons, and this is one of them.
Nearly 1 million plastic beverage bottles are sold worldwide every minute, and 1 trillion plastic bags (1,000 billion) are used every year. In addition, only 14 percent of plastic packaging is recycled. What is worse, more than 8 million tons of plastic end up in the seas and oceans every year, excluding fishing nets and fishing gear.
So if humanity continues to produce and dispose of plastic wherever it is projected, by 2050 there will be more plastic in the oceans than fish (in terms of weight).
Let's remeber the earth is our planet, we shoud take care of it.
So what can we do on a daily basis to take care of our planet? For example, use reusable products instead of disposable ones.

The ways that we can save our planet every day.

Small step - big change.
Think green, keep it clean.

Reuse It!
Sometimes people call ours a "throwaway society." That means that we're throw away old stuff and buy new stuff. Many times, even if you no longer need something, someone else just might.

Here are some other ways to reuse the stuff you have:
Choose reusable travel cups instead of disposable paper or plastic cups.
Take your own bags — preferably reusable ones — when you go to the grocery store.
Drink tap water instead of buying bottled water. If you don't like how your tap water tastes, a low-cost filtration system could make a difference. Get a reusable water bottle so you can take it with you.
Organize a swap among your friends. What can you swap? Books, toys, even clothes. It's a way for everyone to get something new without spending any money and without throwing a bunch of stuff away. Set aside some items for your swap when you're cleaning your room!
Take paper from your computer printouts and use the other side for more computer printing or just to draw.

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Plant a tree

100% work was put in by Nikodem i Filip

By Nikodem & Filip

Why are trees important to the environment?

Trees help clean the air we breathe, filter the water we drink, and provide habitat to over 80%

Most people recognise that trees play an essential role in the environment, but they perhaps undervalue the true extent of these incredible organisms’ benefits. Trees provide oxygen and limit carbon in the atmosphere. They reduce air pollution, provide food and shelter for wildlife, minimise erosion and maintain healthy soil, increase rainfall, and absorb sunlight as energy. Simply, trees are an essential component of life on Earth.
Depending on the type, size and condition of a tree, the amount of carbon it takes out of the atmosphere varies widely. A single tree can absorb as much as 22 kilos of carbon in a year, and sequester 0.09 tonnes in total by the time it reaches 40 years of age. The same tree will add enough oxygen to the atmosphere to support between two and four people for a year. Trees also increase air quality by filtering a variety of pollutants including heavy dust particles. They effectively absorb harmful gases such as sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide. Trees also naturally clean pollutants out of the soil and either store them in their root systems or convert them into less toxic substances.

Surprisingly, trees can have a dramatic effect on the weather systems in their area. Because of their size and the extent of their root structures, they often pump large amounts of water out of the ground. As they sit in the sunlight, much of this water evaporates through the leaves into the atmosphere. Through this process, a forest of trees can create a significant amount of the rainfall it needs for its own and the entire ecosystem’s survival.
Trees are one of the great solar energy collectors in the world. Virtually all energy on earth comes from the sun, and trees are the most effective living organisms at transferring that light into energy. In fact, trees are responsible for collecting as much as 50% of all energy collected by life from the sun. Numerous animals then eat tree leaves, flowers, bark, fruit and chutes, transferring that energy further into the ecosystem. Leaves also fall from the trees and are broken down by microbes in the soil to create nutrient rich fertiliser for other plants.
The immense size and extent of trees make them important to their local environment too. They cool the ground around them, providing shelter for animals and appropriate conditions for a variety of plants to grow. They block wind that can cause soil deposits. Trees also are essential in holding water and soil within the ecosystem. Without trees, bare soil is quickly stripped of its nourishing topsoil by heavy rain, which either runs off into the ocean or rivers and streams that fill up with silt.
Trees are also the oldest and largest organisms on the planet. There are Bristlecone Pines that are over 5,000 years old and Giant Sequoia trees with a volume of almost 1,500 cubic metres. Trees cover 31% of the earth’s land surface, over 4 billion hectars.

Stop cutting down trees

Multinational corporations cut trees for economically reasons, expecially to get paper, but it's one of the most dangerous things to do. There are a lot of reasons. Trees are essentials for life because they produce oxygen while they absorb carbon dioxide.
Also their knocking down influence the greenhouse effect, the temperature increase, and so climate imbalances. Finally this pollutes aquatic ecosystems and takes off natural resources from natives.
WAYS WE CAN PRVENT THIS:
-recyclable paper (plastic paper insted of paper from trees)
-Every time you trow out a platic bottle you should plant a tree
-Tree planting provides fresh water for millions of people across the the world. Seedlings planted in a riparian area – near a river or stream – will help prevent erosion and improve water quality. In one year, 100 mature trees can remove 53 tons of carbon dioxide and 430 pounds of pollution from the atmosphere!