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You bje surprised at the
variety of ways you can help save the
Earth. Here are just a few:
1 Gather up old toys, books, games
and puzzles that you don’t want or
use anymore and find places that
can use them, like hospitals and
libraries. Or have a garage sale. The
things you’ve out
grown are still
valuable. By p:
them on to oth<
instead of thro’
them away, yor
make less tras)
save precious
resources.
2 Don’t dump harmful liquids on the
ground on purpose. The earth is
like a sponge that soaks everything
in. Dumping even common, everyday
things on the ground will pollute
groundwater.
3 Plant flowers, trees or shrubs in your
backyard. It’s a great way to provide
food for the birds, butterflies and
other creatures that live near you. Or
start a brush pile with bushes and
branches for small animals to use as
“cover.” If they know they can hide them
selves when they need to, they’re more
likely to visit you. ®
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Recycle them at curbside or at your local
PennDOT office. Or have them made into
cool, environmentally friendly items!
For the PennDOT office nearest you, call
877-726-8824 or visit www.state.pa.us
Or contact Littlearth Productions in
Pittsburgh. It recycles old plates into cus
tom products such as CD holders, photo
albums and purses! And for each custom
order, it will donate $1 to the Environmen-
V3y
The Susquehanna Art Museum’s new
VanGo! museum on wheels is on the
road, touring the state with original art
made from found objects and assembled
from renewable materials.
The exhibit, entided ReUSE, ReNEW!, is
designed to teach students about recy
cling, urban management and conserva
tion.
VanGo! is a retrofitted bus that brings
original works of art to sites across
Pennsylvania, visiting schools,
community groups and just about any
place where people request "the art
museum that comes to you."
This latest exhibit reflects the growing
interest and concern about the
environment by today’s artists.
Many of them are increasingly voicing
their fears about environmental abuse by
using found objects as a statement
about the importance of recycling and
valuing our earth.
These artists, who have organized into
groups such as "the dumpster divers,"
are attempung to spur environmental
awareness through their unique works.
For further information on VanGo! or to
schedule a visit to your area
call 717-233-8668.®
Bread Pudding
INGREDIENTS
2 cups stale bread,cubed
2 cups scalded milk
1/4 cup sugar
2 eggs, beaten
1/2 tsp salt
3 tbsps butter
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp nutmeg
Isfoer school
pulling its WM^K?
If your school already recycles office
paper, corrugated paper and alu
minum—good for you! If it also recy
cles materials such as glass,
newsprint, plastics, steel and bimetal
lic cans, and leaf waste, even better!
But if your
does not
have a recy
cling pro
gram yet, y<
should hel[
one. You wil
need a tear
or other pi
school employee to serve as recycling
coordinator, but there are a lot of
things you, the students, can do to
get a program up and running suc
cessfully. Call 800-34&4242 today! ©
Ne)p for a Healthy fr»«
In every home, large or small, new or old,
city or country, there are potential risks to
your family’s health and the environment.
Home-A-Syst, a cost-effective, state-operated,
national pollution prevention program,
helps you identify these risks.
Home-A-Syst begins with a checklist
of questions to identify problem areas:
• How safe is your drinking water?
• Do you use hazardous household
products safely?
• Is there lead-based paint in your home?
Then, when you find potential concerns,
Home-A-Syst can help you develop an
action plan to reduce the risks.®
In Pennsylvania, contact Home-A-Syst State
Coordinator Cathy Bowen at
cbowen@psu.edu or call 814-863-1614.
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Place bread cubes in greased baking dish.
Add butter and sugar to scalded milk.
Add salt, vanilla and nutmeg to eggs.
Mix milk mixture and eggs.
Blend milk and egg mixture with bread cubes.
Place baking dish in pan of hot water.
Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour.
A knife should come out clean when inserted.
Serve hot with cream or milk.
You can reduce the amount of trash you make
simply by buying products that are reusable,
refillable or concentrated.
Take a look through your trash. Identify what
you are throwing away.
Here ore some other helpful hfcite:
• Use a sponge rather than paper towels.
• Buy concentrates
• Buy fresh produce without packaging
• Avoid double-bagging
• Avoid single-use products.
• Repair, rather than replace, broken items
• Donate unwanted materials to chanty.
• Have your name removed from junk mailing lists
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