FAHION SHOW!!!!

tomorrow is our fashion show....I am SOOO excited!! We have a ton of peices and havve the movie theater rented! See you tomorrow at one...Homer Movie Theater

Fun Facts!

Just wanted to share some fun recucling facts:
-In 2000 13,500 cans were recycled every minute in California.
-One recycled tin or aluminum can can save enough energy to power a television for 3 hours.
-One recycled glass bottle can power a computer for 25 minutes
-One recycled plastic bottle can power a 60-watt light bulb for 3 hours.
-70% less energy is used to recycle paper than to make paper from raw materials.
-80% of American trash is recycleable, but only 28% is actually recycled.
-350,000 cans are made every minute.
-Only 27% of newspapers produced in America are recycled.
-Americans use 80,000,000,000 cans every year.
Here are just a few facts, I hope they encourage you to recycle.

Future Plans!!

So, today we are planning for everything we want to do in the future. We are planning a fashion show in December, and even though last year was great and it seems like it will be hard to improve, but this year it's going to be EVEN BETTER!! We also recently spoke with the Borough Assembly and are still a little starstruck from our visit to D.C.
Remember, reduce, reuse, recycle!!

TEDx EcoLogical Presentation Over view

When I found out I was selected to speak at the TEDx teen event in Homer I was so excited. My family and I enjoy finding fun TED talks to share with each other. Because I am a homeschool kid we enjoy talks that have to do with education ideas, authors and kids issues. Knowing I was going to be live steamed on the internet was a bit overwhelming. I prepared my speech based on the Presidential Youth Award my friends and I had just won. The theme of the Homer TEDx event was "Sustain Us". It didn't take long to answer what sustains me - my friends! While writing my speech and selecting pictures to accompany my Power Point presentation I had one hurdle to overcome. I had to get my speech down to five minutes. Imagine my surprise when I was standing in front of the cameras with my wireless microphone speaking live to the world and I realized the timer had the clock for three minutes, instead of five. I talked fast and clipped through my presentation in record time. All in all it was a successful talk. I'm glad I did it. It was personally a great experience.

TEDx Homer this year included a separate event just for teens. The four teen organizers, myself, McKenzy Haber, Katherine Dolma and Justice Sky all had a bet on how many would attend the teen event. McKenzy won! We had 41 attendees. We picked the talks, organized an after event beach party and participated in an outdoor Grandmother Drum drumming seesion. It was the hottest day of the year and the sun shine and drumming was a great was to transition from the indoor TED event to the outdoor beach party. All in all it was an opportunity for Homer teens to watch and listen to some amazing TED talks while lounging on pillows in a beautiful, dark room. Next year we hope to have more local teens to attend. 9/10/11 is the date. It's a Saturday. See you there!
Over and Out,
Team EcoLogical, Adi Davis

Presidential Environmental Youth Award Winners

Yes, EcoLogical has done it again and won another award. The Presidential Environmental Youth Award! EcoLogical gets to fly to Washington D.C to accept the award and also have the pleasure of meeting President of the United States of America.

Newspaper

The EcoLogical girls have gone national! The Associated Press has recently picked up a story about the EcoLogical Girls written by the Homer Tribune. Just Google: Homer Teens Lobby for Greener Habits in School.Check 'em out!
-EcoLogical Team

EcoLogical Girls Clean up Trash

Saturday, May 1st, the EcoLogical girls cleaned up trash for their towns annual "Trash Day". We had so much fun and would like to thank anyone else who participated as well. We certainly found some odd things: An old type-writer era 1973,and an old bike era 1975.
-EcoLogical Team