We had a lot of different things going on last week at EcoRaiders. The younger members worked on mini herb gardens. We made the "planters" out of repurposed wood from the plexiglass window frame that was on the sign at the front of the school. Cans of beans served as the containers for planting the herbs. The mini herb planters will be sold at our Eco-handmade market which will be before the Winter holidays. The older boys worked with Ms. Sabena on creating the frames for covering the winter vegetables we planted last week in the raised flower beds. They created a frame using rebar and PVC pipes which will be used with a sheet of plastic over it. The 4th-6th grade girls were busy decorating their new, recycled notebooks and researching their own environmental action projects. More about this to come. To wrap up the session, Club members watched a short clip from "Trash Me", a project dedicated to raising awareness of how much trash the average American generates. Rob Greenfield is set out to wear a plastic suit filled with trash, adding piece after piece that he generates, for 30 days. You can learn more about this very unique project here: http://robgreenfield.tv/trashme/.
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