Earth Day

I don't know if you knew already, but on April 22nd is Earth's birthday... sort of.


On that day we'll celebrate Earth Day in order to make people more aware of the problems and challenges but also the opportunities Earth and everyone on it are currently facing. That includes us people but not exclusively. We're not alone living on this planet, you know.


The BigCola students were asked to share their thoughts on an environmental topic of their choice. Have you ever wondered why it's called nuclear power plant when plants normally look like this?
 

A letter to all people

Everybody just think how they use the envinronment. They can’t damage the nature. They can’t build buildings a middle of somewhere, just that because that’s funny a ruin nature. Think about the animals. They can’t survive without a nature. Nature is their place to live. There is food and protection. When we are going to walk in woods, there are fresh air. It’s good thing, so why we should ruin that? All of you are stupid if you destroy the environment. 

Marie Fields

 

Recycling

Everyone in this world should be recycling different things. You may ask why? There is lot of reasons to do that. If nobody wouldn`t recycle the world would get polluted in hours even in weeks! We couldn´t live anymore in this unique world. Animals would die and different plants and trees for gone forever. So you should now know more than you did two minutes ago. It´s for your own best to recycle and do your own part of saving the planet. Many people thanks you for helping the environment from pollution by your recycling and help.

Eric Beach

 

A cry for recycling

Recycling doesn’t harm anybody, but not doing so does. The environment is suffering from the human race’s greed which leads to more producing of useless things and more buying of that stuff. But buying is not the worst, but wasting the products you have bought is. Slowly but steadily the planet is covered under bigger waste mountains, and progressive wasting of the precious natural resources is tiring the environment out leading to vast deserting and extinction of many different species. The amount of clean environment and water is rapidly decreasing and the amount of people who suffer from hunger is likewise growing steadily. The terror of waste is enormous.

So please, don’t buy things if you know you’re gonna throw them away sometime soon anyway. Don’t buy with feeling but with need and reason. Aim to recycle all of your waste, at least as much as possible, even just a little is more than nothing. You can always try to reuse your stuff and clothes or take them to the flea market or give them in charity. Take food on your plate only the amount you can eat, not anymore. If you take only little at a time you can go and get some more if you’re still hungry after eating it.

Don’t waste. Recycle. It’s your responsibility for the nature and for the future.

Eve Baggins

 

What can I do to save energy?

People waste energy almost more than they produce. That is a thing to be considered when planning your own energy consumption. If people saved more energy there wouldn’t be so much nuclear waste and other harmful wastes such as carbon dioxide (CO₂). There are few ways to save electricity and reduce energy consumption.

1. Try not to use electricity so much. People need electricity to live and survive, but you can always save electricity simply just by turning off the lights and other electronic devices, like computers while not using and televisions when not watching.
2. Favor green energy. Like solar panels and wind power. They can sometimes be more expensive but they are totally worth it. Many power providers have different plans for people who want to use green energy. For example if you live in Finland there’s Fortum which has plans for that.
3. Sort your rubbish. That’s the simplest thing to do in this list and it really helps the energy consumption. The wastelands need power too to ignite and burn their rubbish and that’s lots of power needed to do that. So recycling and sorting your rubbish is easy to do.
4. Use mass transportation vehicles like busses and trains instead of your own car or taxi. They use more fuel which makes them to consume more energy per unit. If we all used mass transportation we could reduce some waste produced and we would have more energy to use with other devices.
5. Turn devices on low power consumption. That helps a lot for example if you watch a video on your computer, turn the power consumption down, because you don’t need the computer running at its full power while watching a video instead of working.
6. Prefer short shower turns instead of long ones. Other way to save electricity through saving water is to use showers and not things like Saunas and baths. You don’t have to stop using them but surely you can reduce the usage.

We can save energy together, not alone so next time you watch TV or take a baht, remember how you could help the world by just switching power off or taking a shower instead. There are lots of things you can try and I’ll guarantee there is a way every one can help. We need to do something to help our planet and that time is now or never!

Alan Richards

 

The Earth Has Had Just About Enough

Our Earth. Our actions. Our responsibility.

We can do a lot for our environment. Recycling and using less electricity will lead to good results. Do we really want to live on a planet full of trash? I dont think so. Its not too late yet, but it will be some day if we dont make a change now.

Julie Hale

Nature’s Beauty

Long trees, darks forests, long and cold winters and lots of snow. The weather is cold and snowing. Or it is windy and raining, or hot, but everything is green and fields are blooming. To us this sounds ordinary, but to someone who doesn’t live here this is beautiful and exotic.

To us small roads and old buildings. Historical cities and rainforests and huge mountains are beautiful and amazing. We are never happy about where we live. There is always more place more beautiful. You should just step back and think about things that are typical to you but something amazing and magical to someone else.

You are never happy with what you have. There is always some place more beautiful and somewhere you want to go. Usually we take what we have for granted until we don’t have it anymore. So I think we should protect and take care of what we have because it disappear before we notice.

You can help by doing little things, like sorting your rubbish, switching the lights off or you can pick up a random garbage from the ground and put it in a garbage can.

By doing those little things you really can make a difference, even if it doesn’t feel like it at first.

Alice River

 

Endangered Creatures

There is many endangered animals and insects on Earth. Some of them live in jungles and mountains and some live in oceans and skies. There are some federations and companies who are really trying to save these animals. WWF is an international federation which is constantly working on spreading the word of endangered animals and environment and trying to fix the problems humans have with nature. Many people don’t understand how serious problem extinction is. When an animal is extinct it will not come back. Animals like Amur Leopard, Black Rhino and Cross River Gorilla are critically endangered. I think more people should focus more on saving the animals that are about to disappear. Animals is legacy of the Earth and we should take care of them.

Calvin W. Hill

 

Recycling

Recycling is easy way help our environment. You just must put your trash to right basket. You can recycle for example your bike. You can sell that bike or if you can´t sell it you must go in trash station.
But remember if you start recycling you must remember put trash right place.

Michael Hill

Our Earth

Look around you. What do you see? Have you ever been hiking in the wiId? I have. It’s so beautiful, pure and relaxing. You can feel the wind on your face and smell the fresh air. It makes you feel calm and gives you strength. We have to think how we live to give others these kind of experiences and to enjoy them ourselves in the future, too.

Think how extraordinary our nature is. It is so unique and wonderful. Our earth is created for us and we have to take care of every part of it including its animals, plants and nature. We can’t think just ourselves, business and money.

Sometimes it’s difficult to make choices because ecological and national products are much more expensive. And I’m really not perfect ether. If I had more money I’d buy finish food and products. But even I’m just sixteen I can effect a bit. Of course there is much more important things in the world, family for example. I think we don’t have to panic or stop using airplanes or something more radically but we can do something, we can recycle. And I think it’s worth it.
Charlotta Snowhill

A letter to all people

Why shouldn’t the Earth be taken care of?
When you put it that way, I bet you find no logical reason. And still, out there, there’s rubbish everywhere, because people are too lazy to pick up their own trash and take it to the recycle bin. They can’t look far enough to see the consequences of the small things they do.
Which takes less effort: taking your own rubbish to the bin than, in a few years, having to try and save the environment that people have already destroyed with their selfish actions? I think we all know the answer.

Marie Cain

 

A Letter to All People!!

So, when did you last time had a good glance around you? The environment is dying, have you noticed that? And that’s just not enough!! I’d always loved nature and nature all around my home. But two years ago, right there where I live, the machines came and destroyed all the beauty. The beauty of the trees and grass and all the flowers!! They destroyed it just to make A STUPID PARKING LOT BIGGER!! God, it made me angry. So as you now see, just harming the environment with carbon dioxide gasses, nuclear wastes and rubbish isn’t enough for you, you have to DESTROY IT!!?? WHY!!?? Okay, maybe the trees went to paper factory and I use paper when I draw and I draw A LOT but still. Why do you destroy the nature just to make some more fun and space for yourself? It annoys me.

I like the idea that people would use electric-cars but that won’t help either. It will just produce more rubbish everywhere. As we use electricity, we need it more and more and that’s when nuclear power comes alive. It produces so much power and makes so much electricity that people are happy to use more and more electricity at home. Tv, computers, laptops, freezers, fridges, electric saunas, chargers, more lamps, all kind of machines. I’ll tell you that I’m guilty too, I use a charger to charge my smartphone, I use laptop and because I’m scared to be home alone I switch on all the lights and Tv and my stereos. I use pretty much electricity too, don’t I?

And the rubbish, god, please. Why can’t people carry their rubbish to those stupid trashcans!? Why do you have to throw your paper rubbish, gums etc. to the trees? Think about this. If you someday buy a pet, a puppy and you have to take it out for a walk and then it eats someone’s gum and papers and then chokes and dies? How would you feel? These problems are everyday thing to the wild animals.

And all the waste you throw to the lakes and to the waters will pollute the water. And maybe someday you’ll have to drink that water. Even when the waters are cleaned, it doesn’t mean that the water is 100% clean and healthy. Just think about it.

I don’t mean that everybody behaves like this. There are many cities and countries that behave and look after nature. I’m happy about that. I just want to tell you that if you keep harming the nature you’ll someday harm yourself. That’s the point. If there’s no trees, grass, animals or enough oxygen in the air, we’ll disappear, you know. I hope people could understand that we need nature to live our happy lives.

Roxie Bluerose

 

The earth is doing just fine!

See, there is not nothing to worry. Really? I do not think so. If you just think that the earth is doing fine, you are totally wrong. The earth is not doing just fine! Not at all! And it is because us, human. We are the reason to everything what is happened the earth. We harm vegetation, we cut rainforest, we bur flue, we rubbish and most of all we do not protect the nature well at all! And now we think, why wilds animals are extinct, all in the world talk about climate change and how bad thinks are in the world just right now. So, what have we do about it? Almost nothing! Okay, some people are smart and star recycling thinks and sort they waste to protect the nature, but most of us do not nothing to protect nature. It is sad but true. We know about climate chance and we know that it is important to protect nature, but we do not really do nothing for it. Is it so hard to recycle thinks or sort rubbish? No, it is not so hard. It maybe take some time and patience but it word do it. Start it now! Better later or never! And you can feel proud of yourself! Then you know that you are not a one of those ass holes who do not take care about the nature! You are a superhero, because you care about the nature, the earth and the future! You make the earth to better place to live!

Emily Pommes