Sri Lanka Girl Guides Go Eco-friendly

This is a really neat project that approximately 1500 Sri Lanken Girl Guides did at a series of eco-camps. They went on a campaign to end the use of 'sili sili' (plastic) bags, and one of the things they did was walk around busy shopping areas and look for people carrying plastic bags. When they found some one, they explained the effect these bags have one the environment and offered to exchange their plastic bag for a cloth bag that the girl guides had made.Their project was amazingly successful, and even though it was a long morning collecting bags, they were very proud at how many bags they had collected. (This sounds like a really good project for the environmental volunteer project, to help earn your Canada Cord). The original artical can be found here:
http://sundaytimes.lk/090503/FunDay/fundaytimes_2.html

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Eco Foot Print

Just as a quick post, here is a link to a simple eco foot print calculator, for all those who want to see how many planets they use :)

http://www.ecologyfund.com/ecology/res_bestfoot.html


Picture from: http://www.thequeenofgreen.info/green-footprint.jpg

What This Blog Is All About

Hello! This is a blog about different new eco-discoveries, enviromental problems, and how Girl Guides of Canada can help find the path to a more enviromentally friendly world, light a spark of reveloution, and link together people who care. :) The enviromental problems that this blog will focus on will mostly be in areas that Guiding takes place, and either on what they did to help, or what they might have been able to do. I wanted to write this blog because we are all a piece of this world, and all need to be part of the solution. This is our world, not the next generation's, and we need to take responsibility for it.


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