Happy Earth Day 2016

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http://earthdayparade.ca

http://earthdayparade.ca/more-info

This year's event will be happening at 1PM on Sunday, April 24th 2016!

The parade will begin at Commercial and Broadway at 1PM (view)

And the festival continues at Grandview Park 2:00 to 5:00 pm (view)

See the list of performers at the bottom of this page. http://earthdayparade.ca/more-info

As always, the event is family friendly, and youth from the across the Lower Mainland are welcome and encouraged to come.

We hope to make this the most colourful and exciting Earth Day yet, but we can’t do it without you. 


So be creative and come out with floats, costumes, signs, banners, props or anything else you can imagine to show your commitment to the environment and creating a better world!

Earth Day
https://earthday.ca

#Rooting4Trees with Earth Day Canada

Deb Doncaster, President of Earth Day Canada, meets Chatterer the Red Squirrel to talk about the exciting new #Rooting4Trees campaign. The goal: to plant 25,000 trees in April (Earth Month) to celebrate Earth Day Canada's 25th anniversary! Deb tells Chatterer how to help by visiting http://www.EarthDay.ca to take part in a crowd-planting initiative - each donation, even just $10, will ensure more trees are planted AND you’ll get some awesome rewards, too! Yes, Chatterer, even better than acorns… See more about trees at http://www.chatterer.ca. Video created in partnership with http://www.Kidoons.com

Social Pressure at School- "Litterless Lunch"

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Blog post by Tina Winterlik © 2011

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Not sure if I like this or not, love the green, but kids teasing each other about green issues..hmm


Quoting from the David Suzuki Foundations Blog- Lindsay Coulter, Queen of Green


"Now there's a new kind of Social Pressure at School- "Litterless Lunch"
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/blogs/queen-of-green/2011/04/do-your-kids-school-you-about-going-green/

 "There's a new kind of social pressure among six-year-olds, says one Mom I know. Two girls were teasing her son, but not because he didn't have the coolest gym shoes. Because he didn't have a truly litterless lunch! (Queens of Green in training? I can't be certain.) Dad ran out to buy reusable containers that night — no more plastic baggies. Now their son can eat his lunch with pride. 
 Read More Here"

Do your kids school you about going green?

 I found this part below very interesting especially as my daughter and I spend alot of time outdoors but not near as much as I did as a kid that's for sure. This is why the time we spent in Mexico was invaluable.  

It's nice to see the the Girl Guides are doing some great things.

Quoting Lindsay:
"Fact: we're raising a generation of indoor kids. In her survey, Dr. Rhonda Clements (PDF file, page 4) found that American children spend less time playing outdoors than their mothers did when they were young—even in rural areas.  

They go outside less often and for shorter periods of time. 

Fortunately, there are exceptions. Last summer I spoke to 2,300 Girl Guides. And Girl Guides across Canada participate in:

• Park and community clean-ups
• Recycling milk bags into bed mats for the homeless
• Planting trees to green urban spaces and help alleviate soil erosion
• Water quality testing in the backcountry of Banff National Park
• Growing thousands of kilograms of organic vegetables donated to local Food Banks"