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Kids For A Cool Climate
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Your Stories |
This is the page where you can email in and tell us what you have been doing with tree planting or climate change campaigning.
Email: coolkidsforacoolclimate@yahoo.co.uk
Here are stories sent so far:
Lauren, who is on the Junior Board for the 2004 ICC in Connecticut (read below) has persuaded all the rest of the Junior Board to plant trees to make up for their travel to the conference. Well done Lauren.
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Georgia from the UK says that she has planted 3 trees in her garden. She has also encouraged her friends to plant trees and altogether they have planted 33 trees. She also uses the Cool Kids website to help her with her homework.
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"At North Keppel Educational Environmental Centre they taught us about potable water, about plankton and oxygen, about global warming and the ozone layer. We went plankton trawling one night to view the little phytoplankton's and the zooplanktons. On our earth these tiny little organisms are so important to the scheme of things. Without them the earth would wither and die. We learnt about zoozanthalae. Zoozanthalae are little animals that give the coral their colour and provide food for the coral. Global warming has caused the ocean temperatures to rise and these zoozanthalae leave the coral and the coral will die." |
Lauren is on the Junior Board for the 2004 International Children's Conference on the Environment.
Read about all Lauren's environmental projects
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UNEP's Children & Youth Department are promoting a tree planting campaign across the world. They are encouraging children and schools to adopt areas of land to plant with trees and look after. Contact Paul Okwaro for more information. Patrick Simpson, mentioned below, has planted 60 native trees with the CISV in Fredericton, New Brunswick for 'Plant For The Planet'. Why don't you get involved? |
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| “We planted 23 trees in a part of the Guelph Lake Conservation Area. We planted 5 (White) American Chestnuts, which were almost wiped out 100 years ago. We also planted 18 White Cedar trees. The area where we planted the trees was in memory of a girl named Kiera who died in a car accident. Her Dad started planting trees and wildflowers in a field in the Guelph Lake Conservation Area, in memory of her.” |  |
Rebekah from Ontario, Canada was a delegate and Junior Board member at the ICC.
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| “I have planted 20 trees using home composted from our cows. The seedlings I got from under the native trees around our area. The seeds had fallen down and started to germinate. I uprooted them and planted them around our farm in the form of a fence.” |  |
Lynnette from Kenya didn’t attend the ICC, but planted trees anyway.
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| “Keep up the good work. Since returning to New Brunswick, Canada, I have planted five trees and one shrub. I calculated that I travelled about 5K km by plane. I like the idea of the ICC forest, all over the world.” |  |
Patrick was also a delegate at the ICC.
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