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Environmental

Virtual Opportunities

use ecosia

One easy way to help the environment is by changing your search engine to Ecosia. The ad revenue generated from your searches will go towards one of their tree planting projects in various places across the world. You can view their projects on their blog and YouTube channel.

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Buy a reusable mask

Buying reusable masks helps support businesses, reduces the waste from disposable masks, and protects you from the risk of getting COVID-19. You can even help clean up the trash in the ocean.

Here are three organizations working hard to protect the future of our planet. They rely on generous contributions to continue fighting for climate justice and keeping the environment safe.

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Donate to orgs

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Sign petitions

If you are not able to donate money, you can sign petitions to help various environmental projects. There are many petitions out there, but here are a few suggestions from us.

Waste audit

The City of Frisco’s Environmental Services has given us this opportunity that you can do easily at home. Once you finish this paper, email jmarie@friscotexas.gov with this email outline:

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Hello,

My name is [insert your name here], I'm a member of Teens4Green. For volunteer credit, I've attached my waste audit.

Thank you

Here is a way you can grow vegetables using leftover scraps from cooking. This can help you save money and reduce food waste.

Grow from food scraps

Using one of these calculators, you can evaluate how sustainable your current lifestyle is. You can make small changes to your lifestyle to help reduce your negative environmental impact. 

Calculate your ecological footprint

By simply composting your leftover food scraps, you can make fertile soil and reduce the amount of food waste you produce. Here is a guide to get started!

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composting

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You can ALSO earn 1 hour for making a compost bin (send in pictures to document this) and a second hour for composting your yard waste and getting the bin started! Photos and parenTs' sign-off are needed to verify. 

EMAIL PICTURES OF YOUR BIN TO JMARIE@FRISCOTeXAS.GOV. YOU CAN PICK FROM EASIEST TO HARDEST: GRASSCYCLING, PASSIVE COMPOSTING, TUMBLER, VERMICOMPOSTING, BOKASHI, HOT Composting, and other methods!

LOG A FOOD WASTE DIARY

This volunteer opportunity is to log your food waste for one week. Things to include in your log: tossed leftovers, ends, stems, rinds, peels that you did not eat, food that went old that you threw out. If in the course of a regular week, you clean out your fridge of any food that has gone bad, please log that as well. You will make note which items and how much that are thrown out, and the reason why, and what state the food was in - 2 VOLUNTEER HOURS!

Free The OCean

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This is a game that uses ad revenue from its website to help clean up trash on beaches and in the ocean.

Vegan And Vegetarian diets

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These websites give vegan and vegetarian diet options to help the environment

If you have any other suggestions, feel free to tell us here

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