Halloween Is Just Around The Corner!

Hey guys!

       Everyone must be excited, halloween is fast approaching! Everyone will be out trick or treating, having a good time, and all that good stuff. But this year, let's try and make this halloween a treat for mother nature too, how does that sound?

       As always, it's the little things that  impact the environment the most. So this halloween, try and go green. For example, you could use re-usable/recycable bags to store all your candy and such. Those bags will go a long way, they will be good for mother nature as they will be re-used again, and not to mention they will be good to satisfy your hunger!


       Instead of driving a car from neighbourhood to neighbourhood, just walk. It not only saves you money (from not buying gas), but your also not releasing any greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, so it's a win-win situation.

      Also, try to make costumes yourself out of eco-friendly material. Consider the following for a moment. You go to a store and pick up a really nice looking costume that you think is really going to bring the 'Trick' out of trick or treat. Now, have you ever thought of what made up that costume? Chances are, it's a plastic, a non biodegradable plastic that will not break down into the soil. I suppose you can re-use that costume over and over again if you like it, but making a costume yourself out of mother nature friendly material will be fun for the whole family (or just you :), it will give you a real sense of accomplishment, and it will help nature out a lot as well.


Thank you for reading, hope everyone has a really fulfilling and safe halloween!

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Cool Campaign

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       I was just reading the newspaper 'The Globe and Mail' where I found a really cool campaign. Basically, it's a recycling project, where the newspaper gives you facts on recycling certain types of material. Today's fact was really interesting, it says:
 "You can make an XL size T-shirt by recycling 5 plastic bottles."

...And another fact:
"If you recycle fibres of plastic material, you can make many items, such as tissue boxes, other bottles, and many more!"

It just goes to show that if your recycle, you are helping the Earth, so recycle, you never know what your creating by doing so!

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Cool Scientific Terms!

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       I just wanted to share with you all some really cool science terms that I learned in school over the past few weeks. There're all related to biology, so if your looking for physics or chemistry terms, sorry! Anyway, here they are:

Salinity: Salt

Oligotrophic: Low in nutrient content (refers to a water body)

Eutrophic: High in species richness, biodiversity and nutrients (refers to a water body)

Primary Succession: A type of ecological succession that starts in a virtually lifeless area, where soil has not formed yet. For example, if a volcano erupts, the lava and smoke would kill off all the eco-systems around it. So if a new eco-system is born out of that kind of situation, it would be called Primary Succession.


Secondary Succession: The second type of ecological succession. Basically, this starts with an event such as a forest fire or hurricane (an event that weakens or damages an eco-system) and a new eco-system emerges out of an already established but weakened eco-system.

Biodiversity: The variety of life in an ecosystem.

Species Richness: The number of species in an area.

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