tictech: Invitation - The Earth Day Groceries Project

From: Mark Ahlness (mlahlness@seattleschools.org)
Date: Mon Jan 27 2003 - 18:13:59 PST

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    Hi tictechers, if you're on other ed discussion lists, you'll probably see
    this again in the next few days. Here's your early notice - Mark
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    Hello all (feel free to distribute widely),

    Earth Day is just around the corner - April 22! This is your invitation to
    join in on one of the oldest and largest educational activities coordinated
    on the Internet: The Earth Day Groceries Project. Celebrating its TENTH
    ANNIVERSARY on the Internet, this is a free environmental education activity
    where students are empowered as educators in their communities. Chances are
    pretty good that you or someone you know has brought home a beautiful work
    of art on a grocery bag on Earth Day. Here's your opportunity to get your
    school involved in the project that started it all.

    The web site: http://www.earthdaybags.org

    The procedure:
    1) a school borrows paper bags from a local grocery store
    2) students decorate those bags with beautiful environmental art and
    environmental awareness messages, and then return the bags to the store
    3) the store distributes those bags (full of groceries) to amazed shoppers
    on Earth Day
    4) the school sends in a report to the project web site, documenting its
    participation

    No registration is required. It costs nothing to participate. All that's
    needed is someone to organize the effort at your school (other groups can
    participate, too!). Stop by the web site to find out more. Even frequent
    participants will find new goodies there: a PowerPoint presentation, free
    desktop wallpaper, even screensavers!

    The Earth Day Groceries Project web site has complete information on
    participation, thousands of inspirational reports, and hundreds of beautiful
    pictures. In 2002, over a million pieces of art, carefully created on
    grocery bags, were given away by children who cared about their Earth. In
    the spirit of Earth Day, that message will be sent out again this year. I
    hope you and your school can be a part of it. Happy Earth Day! - Mark

    Mark Ahlness
    mahlness@attbi.com
    www.earthdaybags.org/mahlness.htm
    The Earth Day Groceries Project
    www.earthdaybags.org

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