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Introduction:

Hello everyone, we are very happy to meet you and look forward to working together on solutions to help our planet!

We are a grade 9 Geography class of 27 students at Senator O'Connor College School.  Our high school is located in Toronto, which is the largest city in Canada.  Toronto is a very busy and multicultural city with people from all over the world. Walking around downtown Toronto you will see many different cultures represented, and our city hosts many festivals each year.  We are located by Lake Ontario so we have a beach, as well as parks, a zoo, malls, skating rinks, museums and galleries, theatres, and numerous interesting neighbourhoods to discover.   

We have created a video to introduce ourselves:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8uK3X8k7fU&feature=share

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Contributions Challenges:

Activity 2: Ways to Conserve Energy

• Invest in wind and solar energy.
• Turn of lights when not in use.
• Unplug electronics when not in use.
• Use hydro-electricity.
• Stop the burning of fossils fuels.
• Drive an electric car.
• Use LED light bulbs instead of more traditional and more harmful bulbs.
• Plant more trees.
• Take shorter showers.
• Recycle old and broken electronics.
• Turn off water when your not using it.
• Use rain -water to water plants.
• Add solar panels to roofs .
• Unplug your phone when it is at 100 percent.
• Turn off devices (computers, phones and etc) when not in use.
• Unplug loose plugs when they aren’t charging anything.
• Turn of heaters and air conditions when they are not in use.
• During the summer , open windows during the day instead of having the AC on the entire day.
• Use fresh air from outside as well as shade from trees instead of fans and air conditions.
• Create awareness to gain government funding
• Insulating the house to prevent heat from escaping

Activity 3:

Nestle: We found many false claims from Nestle such as stealing water from poor countries and selling illegal water that were prohibited to use. During the California drought, Nestle took water that could have been used. Nestle listed many claims on the page that are elaborated in detail about their goals and what they are trying to accomplish. Nestle focuses on waste reduction and clearing marine littering. They also made a claim that their Maggi noodles were safe but the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India banned their noodles, suggesting they were unsafe and hazardous for human consumption, causing Nestle to lose more than half a billion dollars. 

The H&M company has a recycling program that claims they have clothing bins in store where you can bring in old, stained, torn up clothes and they will turn them into new and send them to different parts of the world to be resold into a new piece of clothing. Some people have been saying that the old clothes don't actually end up being remade and resold. One of our students have tried to contact the company and ask if these rumors are true, but they deny any knowledge of this happening and then hung up.

We took the challenge of contacting Volkswagen and finding out their plans to produce a clean way of transportation. There was a Volkswagen scandal in 2015 about how they said a vehicle produced clean energy but, they produced false advertisement and created a device to cheat on the emission tests. Now they are in the middle of planning a clean way of transportation but are facing challenges given by the laws and keeping it affordable.

Evaluation:

Feedback from: Kraslava State Gymnasium

We discussed your guide how to save energy in class and we liked the suggestions to unplug loose plugs when they aren’t charging anything and to create awareness.

I really enjoyed reading your suggestions on how to save energy. Maybe,if we follow these conditions, our planet will become much better (Alex).

I think that the ways to conserve energy are good, but I feel like sometimes in summer it’s really hot, so we can`t do without air conditionier (Daniela).

I was surprised when I read about Nestle stealing water from poor countries and selling illegal water and Volkswagen company that made a device to cheat on the emission tests (Richards).

However, it`s not clear if Nestle really focuses on waste reduction and clearing marine littering.

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