C.A.R.E. Stratford

Welcome! C.A.R.E. Stratford is a grassroots community dedicated to restoring the local environment by thinking globally and acting locally. Pioneered by the Stratford Central Secondary School Environment Club and Alumni, C.A.R.E. Stratford has planned events such as the annual Symposium on the Environment, screening of environmentally related films, recycling pick-up at local events, and more.

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Kerry McManus (at Stratford Central Secondary School): 519-271-4500

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Reflections on Day Three of C.A.R.E. Jr. Summer Camp

In my opinion before you can help the environment in huge quantity you need people to know that you don’t need to spend all there "green" to go green. Saving energy means lower electricity bills . That also means better insolation or less time in front of the tv. A lot of shoppers like a store that’s gone green and things like wind turbines solar panels and geo thermal heating can give a nice hefty pay off. That’s the kind of stuff we need.
A fuzzy peanut, age 12
P.S. Its my birthday !!!!!!!!!!

I was impressed with the video 10% because I learned how much people are throwing away. It is so bad for the environment. I hope people start reducing, reusing, and recycling because I want the environment to be healthy when I grow up.—Sparky

Today I (Cheese Ball) went to fly my kite but it went to high and crashed and broke again and again. But remember if you want to help the environment you must recycle. By: Me :) :] :} :()

When you cut down a tree, you do more than just cut down a tree. In fact... Most of the woodland animals depend on trees to survive. Without trees, birds will have no where to make nests and are forced to nest in waterspouts. Woodpeckers would have no insects to eat. There will be too much carbon dioxide, and squirrels would have no shelter in rain. Manny other animals must search for another tree, when hardly any are left. They search long distances for one. Hardly any of the animals would get shade and it would be hot because of the carbon dioxide. Wolfs would have no camouflage for hunting, and squirrels would have no food.. You are also taking away an animals opportunity of getting away from huntsmen. Not only does it affect animals, but humans too.

Today we built buildings made to hold heat. I tested mine 3 times, and twice the tempature went up to32 degrees Celsius. I flew my kite again, and it still doesn’t fly very well. Tomorrow we will be making solar burners.
Tiria

Today we made little houses with card board to see how munch heat it could hold. Me and tika and camper made one called reeces puff and we won with 35 .
Peanut age 10

Hi im Mr. Innocent pedestrian More yes I said more random words. Church acer fish kites outside ate. Woooow again hurt ankle computer. Duck pond random words me you cat. Fire alarm weird word awkward words. People another dog orange banana. Hot dogs are wieners haha.HA

Today was the third day of camp. Because of the weather, we stayed inside mostly. We made insulated ‘houses.’ We made them out of real house insulation, plastic, duct tape, and cardboard. Then we put a blow dryer a few inches away from an entrance, and heated the house for 1 minute. We then stuck a thermometer in for 1 minute, and the highest temperature won. Our temperature won with 35 degrees Celsius. When we stuck the blow dryer in all the way for 1 minute, the temperature was 45 degrees Celsius.

Today I liked flying the kite. It worked really well .I can’t wait until tomorrow when we make the solar cookers. I hope we cook hot dogs.–Joe

My favourite part of the day was all the games we played in the gym my favourite game was octopus
By popo

We watched a video about recycling and reducing. 8,000,000 trees are cut down and used to make mail order catalogues used in the US every year.
Thrill