- please 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
entirely on the Internet: The Earth Day Groceries Project. Celebrating its
fourteenth year on the Internet, this is a free environmental education
activity where students are empowered as educators in their communities.

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

The procedure:
1) a school/group 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

You do not need to register. It doesn't cost anything. All that's needed is
someone to organize the project at your school (other groups can
participate, too). Stop by the web site to find out more. You'll find
complete directions, an FAQ, screensavers, PowerPoint presentations, desktop
wallpaper, and much more! There is of course a project blog - pick up the
rss feed and stay up to the minute on project news:
http://www.earthdaybags.org/blog

In its fourteen years on the Internet, this project has put several million
pieces of inspirational art, carefully crafted on grocery bags by children
who cared about their Earth, in the arms and homes of people all over the
world. In the spirit of global environmental awareness, and believing they
can make a difference, children will send this message out once again in
2007. I hope you and your school will be a part of it. - Mark

Mark Ahlness
The Earth Day Groceries Project
http://www.earthdaybags.org

mahlness@...
http://ahlness.com





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