Environmental Evening February 13th 6:30-8:30

Riddle:  What is green, recycles rainwater and gets kids to eat their organic broccoli?  The new Orca greenhouse and science
building -- construction has begun!
 
ORCA ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES EVENING
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 13TH
6:30-8:30 PM, ORCA LUNCHROOM

WIN PRIZES!
SEE PLANS FOR THE NEW GREENHOUSE AND SCIENCE BUILDING!
RACE IN A RECYCLING RELAY!

The evening will provide an overview of the current and future Environmental Studies program at Orca along with hand-on activities and information about worm bins, farm to table, native plants, residential wind and solar energy, water conservation, local birds, and P patch gardening.
Contact TA McCann for further info or to help out.
229-9991 or tam@helpshare.com

Building towards Sustainability—look at some of these numbers and see what you can re-use or find to use that’s not disposable! Come learn more!

410,000 paper cups, equal to the number of disposal hot-beverage paper cups are used in the US every fifteen minutes.

2 million plastic beverage bottles, are used in the US every five minutes.

426,000 cell phones, equal to the number of cell phones retired in the US every day.

1.14 million brown paper supermarket bags, the number used in the US every hour.

106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the US every thirty seconds.