caseys household water audit

In oceanography, the class did a water audit to figure out how much water we use in one day. my family used 624 liters per day testing the toilet, shower, faucet, dishwasher, and clothes washer. here are three ways I can reduce that amount of water. Turn the water off when I brush my teeth. Put a full laundry load in the washer. Don't turn the faucet on full blast. Those are my three ways I can reduce the amount of water in my household.

One Class, Two very cool donations!

During the first 9 weeks, Mrs. Alonso's third grade class has been busy with math, reading, science, and Terracycling? That's right! It all started with a simple birthday party that served Capri Sun juice drinks. 3rd grader Quinton Phelan asked his teacher if he could collect the drink pouches to Terracycle. Mrs. Alonso and her class agreed and pitched in, not once, but twice already!

The EJSHS Green Team is a member of the Terracycle Juice Pouch Brigade which donates $.02 to the school for every pouch turned in. The class' donation got the Green Team closer to its goal of 500 pouches.

To show their appreciation, the Green Team presented the class with Terracycle bag, made completely out of 'upcycled' Capri Sun juice pouches. That way, when they collect in the future, they can store the pouches in the bag made out of pouches!!

Way to go guys!

Homely Water Audit

I have found that my house hold has been using and wasting at the most 540.9 Liters-a-Day. They were measured in sections that included Baths, Toilets, Showers, Faucets, Dishwashers, and Clothes washers. I have recorded all of the numbers from each section. These are the numbers: Bath- 0 L.; Toilet- 135 L.; Shower- 228 L.; Faucet- 15 L.; Dishwasher- 60 L.; Clothes Washer- 102.9 L.; Total Liters- 540.9. The ways I plan to reduce these numbers are to put a timer in to the shower, not over using water to hydrate my animals, and not using an entire cup of water when I only want 1/4 of the cup.

Long week

This week we have worked on are proposal to move Terracycling over to the other school. We have presented to Mrs. Bogle, the director of Greenwood County Economic Development, she is working on getting a grant for are Green Team. This Friday another guy we have presented to is bring us a tumbler, we get out for 2nd lunch and find out how this tumbler is going to work, and what other equipment we are going to need so we can get this project on the road, so we cant less trash going in to the trash cans.. and land fills!!!!!

What I learned and going to learn

I would like to learn more on how to clean up the Environment. Cleaning out the worm bins was very exciting to do. Learning how worms can help the Environment is cool. Learning about how a atom works is very cool.

The Green Team and Me

The reasons I would like to be part of the green team are to learn more about where all of the garbage goes when we throw it out, how to reduce the amount of recyclable items throw away, and how to control what goes in which trashcan. I would enjoy figuring out how long it takes to decompose. I want to find out where the stuff we recycle goes.

Playing with animals

I would like to get out of this class is to play with small animals. Examples like worms or frogs or other small critters. Another thing i would like to do is dissecting frogs. Or making chemicals that catch on fire.

A Shark Start

There are many kinds of sharks in the world. But one thing a lot of people don't know about sharks is that humans kill much more sharks each year then sharks do people. Also even though people think of sharks as really big, most shark species average less than 39 inches in length. One kind of Shark that is not one of those smaller ones is the Blue Shark. They are opportunistic feeders and will eat almost anything. But they usually feed on squid. They are very fast sharks, one of the fastest. But it is not the fastest of the sharks. The fastest is the Short-Fin Mako Shark. Blue Sharks are classified as low risk/ near endangered. They have five gill slits. Blue Sharks usually get to around 12.5 ft (3.8m) in length. They are willing to travel long distances for food.

Blue Shark

Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Garbage doesn't always end up in the dump. One of the things that a river cant stop is trash flowing down the river. The largest landfill isn't even on land. The great Pacific garbage patch is in the middle of the Pacific. It is two times the size of Texas. The reason all of the trash forms right there is because it is where three currents intersect and pushes the trash into the same spot. There is no one else to blame for this dump then humans. If you were to take a giant net out there and scoop a lot of trash up.

Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Thank You again BP!

The image of oil gushing from a broken well in the Gulf of Mexico was destroyed when a well cap was put on top of the well a month and a half ago. Engineers weren't expecting to see that image again. Thursday, when they planned to remove the cap as a beginning to raise the massive piece of equipment in the Gulf that failed to prevent the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. But the government wasn't offering a guarantee that no oil would leak. Plans were being made for oil collecting ships to be standing by in case of a problem. With the cap and failed leak preventer removed temporarily until another leak preventer can be put in, a lot will be balanced on the strength of a plug that was created when mud and cement were pumped down into the well. Essentially, the pressure pushed downward served to cancel the pressure coming up. But Rice University engineer professor George Hirasaki quoted "... there is still uncertainty about whether the cement settled everywhere it needed to in order to keep oil and gas from finding its way up. Just because it didn't flow when they tested it doesn't mean the cement displaced all of the oil and gas, " Hirasaki said "that's why many people have felt that finishing the relief well was the ultimate solution to the crisis." He was involved in the oil containment effort in the Bay of Marchland field off Louisiana after a well burned in the early 1970's. The government still plans on ordering BPPLC to do the so-called bottom kill operation. But it believes the wisest course is to put on a new leak preventer first to deal with any pressure that is caused when the relief well intersects the broken well.

-Robert Obourn

The Green Team Success

I planned on taking this to help with becoming a game warden. So far this has been a very fun, entertaining and informative class. I see a potential to help with knowledge to move farther with a my future career. I have donated a 60-80 pound Turn-able mixer. I does need some work, but after the Ag class gets it fixed,it will benefit us very much with our protein loss at lunch. This will eliminate most of our protein losses, and benefit us very well. I have found out many things to help our ennviroment and to help the whole planet earth. There is a great future in this class, and I hope you considering joining Eviro Science next year.

New Greenteamers

We have many plans that the Green Teams this year. At first I didn't like being on the green team. However now that I'm getting the hang of how the green team work. The place I see my self on the green team is a worker.

Being a member of the Greenteam means that I'm helping save money for the school and sometimes myself. I try to attack the areas of money saving, because it seems to interest me the most. I am also interested in the progress of our Dream Green House. The plans for this Green House are going to be very energy sufficient and when we do need to use energy it will be very minimal. Another area were trying to succeed in is Terracycling and Recycling, we save 80 lbs per day and 400 lbs per week on average. With all of our help we can save thousands of pounds going into the land fill.

Me

The beginning of the year has brought a new class with some great people. Each of them bring something different to the table, but each of us will tell you in time. I, Jesse James Fisher, has brought the idea of what if. How can I help is thinking of how I improve another person's idea. I can be shot down and be ok with it. My job is still unknown beyond What If...

Lets get stuff done

I am Wyatt Kelly and I came into this class thinking that it would be kind of boring but now I have changed my whole idea about this class. This year we are talking about doing several different things and I think that they are all good ideas. The idea I like the most is that we go around after Christmas and collect the Christmas trees that people have used and mulch them and donate the mulch to the local greenhouse and to local farmers that need it. The other one that I like is the one that we go around when school is over and clean out the kid's locker are recycle the paper and pencils and all the other stuff that kids just throw in there lockers.

EJSHS Greenteam

I'm very excited about being a part of the Green Team this year. I have learned some about what the Green Team does and I am more then happy to contribute my idea's and help to the school. I think that our goals are very manageable and they will help us get out information about recycling, terracycling, composting, and conserving energy. I think that my favorite project this year will be expanding everything we do here at the high school to the elementary school. The elementary school doesn't even have simple recycling. It would help our district save money and just help get the word out about what we're doing here at school. Our community isn't really informed about what we're doing at school and I think they should be educated about everything so they can also do what we're doing. I think it would really help our community out.

Me about the "green team"

I wasn't that interested when I first was in this class. Through out the pasted two weeks I have learned a lot about this class and have become very interested in the "Green Team". I hope we can get a lot projects started and hopefully Finish a couple, in the next couple years I hope we get a lot of interest in this Science program, and collect trash through out the year that's not going to the land field.

EJSHS GreenTeam

At the beginning of the year, I only took this class because I thought it was just going to be an easy A. Which it kind of is, but it also requires you to be involved and use your hands as much as your brain, and I learn a lot better when I am doing hand s on things. As these past couple of weeks have went by I have became more and more excited about being apart of the Green Team and making a difference. I was pretty excited about getting as t-shirt also! but I haven't quite convinced Mrs. hart. Our goals go as far as what we can do right now and what people in the near future can do to keep our goals growing. I think if we apply our 5 initiatives to every project we do, we could go far.

What? Why? And How?

The primary role I play in the EJSHS greenteam is to provide ideas and support to the teams primary goals. Not only provide ideas, but also improve on the ideas of others if any is needed. All brainstorming, self-correction, and insightful discussions allow us to develop more economical practices along with those practices in which deter our amount of waste produced in our school and homes. The entire point is to develop ideas that are realistic and practical considering we are working on a small scale on a world-wide problem. Also although we cant change the worlds practices in a single day or even by the end of this year, we can influence the surrounding community to begin to change their waste practices and develop a more environmentally conscious mindset. When all is said and done the hopes that someone somewhere has changed the way the choose to dispose of their waste material has benefited the environment and the surrounding community along with the hopes that that same person is willing to influence friends, family, and acquaintances to do the same. There is a theory that everyone is related in the world through six people that you know and six people that each one of those people know, so realistically we are trying an environmental version of the movie "Pay it forward".

Green Team- Season 2

The school year is well underway and the same goes for the green team. This year's members are: Tayler Smith, Taylor Moore, Madison Strate, Wyatt Kelly, Tanner Frakes, Jesse Fisher, Angel Fisher, Shelby McMullen, Jerry Alexander, and Wayne Moots.

In addition to learning about solid waste management, we have set in motion plans for Terracycle expansion to the elementary school, additional composting of food waste with the help of a compost tumbler, and the acquisition of a mechanical mixer that will help us compost our proteins.

If you would like to become a member of the greenteam, help with fundraisers and grants, or just simply learn more about our projects, stay tuned to this website or contact us ejshsgreenteam@yahoo.com.