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An Eco Club:- An Eco-club offers programs
An eco-club is a club where bha- and activities to encourage stu-
vanites help the school using mot- dents to reduce pollution, plant
to reduce, reuse and recycle. trees, and more other things.
Through this club we can try to The meaning of an eco-club is, a
group who work to contribute
*make every day an earth day or an for the improvement of the en-
vironmental conditions.
environment day or an eco-day in
our school. .Eco club is a platform
on which we get the knowledge
about environment. It also enables
the students to be sensitive to-
wards environmental concern to
tackle environmental problems.

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The purpose of the club is to create April 22
awareness of environmental issues, World Earth
such as protection, conservation,
preservation, and restoration, with day
an emphasis on educating and em-

*powering the students on planting

more trees and on regarding various
environmental issues and to educate
students about reduce, re-use and re-
cycle of plastic materials and waste
materials and creating best out of
waste.

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By our eco-club:- essay writing competitions,
Eco Clubs play an important role painting competitions, poster
in creating environmental making competitions on planting
awareness amongst the future trees or how to reduce plastic,
generation of the school. Organ- rally, etc, recycling old newspa-
pers of the previous day & prepa-
*izing tree plantation programs, ration of best out of waste are the
are the various programs done
environmental awareness pro- by our eco-club.
grams celebrating like world
Earth day, world environment

Day and conducting competi-
tions like quiz competitions,

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Eco - club is a club of students

and teachers and students where

bhavanites, who are in eco club,

help the school to save the envi-

ronment using the motto “reduce,

*reuse, and recycle”. This motto

means that:-

Reduce : reduce the number of Recycle : we also make best out of
tissue papers, rough papers, etc. waste such as newspaper bags, etc.

Reuse : put papers in the pa-

per bin without tearing it so that

we can reuse it.

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We share ideas. Just as a climber Avanthika sudarvelan
takes support of a rope and climb on Class: vii – B
them as a group we students of eco
club take full support and help from

*the teachers to improve.

“If we refuse to reuse it is the

earth we abuse

If we refuse to reuse it is the

earth we abuse”

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The Importance of Eco-Clubs An Eco-Club is a platform
where students can learn more
The world is facing major prob- about the environment and
lems concerning the environment reach out and spread messages
like global warming, pollution, of sustainable development and
etc. All the countries of the world environmental conservation to
have come together to find a solu- fellow peers, teachers and par-
ents.
*tion to these problems. We, as res-

idents of Earth should also do our
part. Eco-Clubs have been estab-
lished in various schools around
the world to make the students
aware of the environmental prob-
lems that we face in this genera-

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An Eco-Club can bring many Eco-Clubs will influence the
changes to the school and parents of the students as
our surroundings. It will well. When a student begins
teach students more about to implement energy and wa-
the environment and make ter conservation, waste man-
them aware about the diffi- agement, etc. in life, the par-
ents will feel compelled to do
*culties that our planet faces the same themselves. Like
this, these clubs can bring
today. It will encourage changes to our community as
them to step up and make a whole and can do a small
the necessary changes to our part in rejuvenating our envi-
planet. It will motivate stu- ronment.
dents to generate do their
best to protect the environ-
ment.

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Eco-Clubs are just as important “Never doubt that a small group
as Math and Science in school. It of thoughtful committed citizens
will give students a better under- can change the world; indeed, it
standing of our world. It will is the only thing that ever has.”
shape students for the future so
that they can take proper care of —Margaret Mead

*the Earth. We all have to work to-

gether to make a change.

By Fida Ancy

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An Amazon cry…..

They told that I live in the Amazon

*I heard it in the pain of dying

The fire clutched on to me and didn’t leave
If I am not wrong, I live in the Amazon.
The creatures wearing similar clothes with a mask
They tried to separate the red flower from the large trees
But missed the small plants like me
Who were groaning to live
Our groan was deaf to ears.

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The red flowers kept passing on, on and on
I heard the pain of my dear friends

*Who pass by my way for water

Oh! They are no more to cross my path.
I wasn’t fully turned to ash
Only part of me joined the heaps of grey
With the pain of death ,helpless I watched my dears die
Oh dears! Oh dears! I was helpless.

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Eco warriors

This Earth is a fine place and worth
fighting for! Keeping this in mind
we have eco clubs started in schools
to stop the environment being de-
stroyed further in school.

Eco club is a platform on which we I am too proud to say that I am
too a part of the eco club and an
*get the knowledge about environ- Eco – Warrior too.

ment. The Eco Club plays an im- I would like to end this by a
beautiful quote by NELSON
portant role in creating environmen- MANDELLA –

tal awareness amongst the future

generation. Eco Clubs in schools will

empower students to participate and

take up meaningful environmental If you cannot clean the surround-

activities and projects. The students ings then don’t make it dirty!

taking part in Eco Club are consid-

ered to be eco warriors.

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Small but mighty, bees keep our eco- Avoid Pesticides
systems working to perfection, but Boycott using pesticides, fungi-
they are in danger and need your cides or herbicides as these can
help. Bees – both bumble and hum- contaminate plants and kill bees
ble, and most importantly, vital to in the process.
our environment.

*Although they seem to quietly blend

into the background, they dutifully
pollinate the flowers in our gardens.
But what makes them so key to our
natural world? Bees pollinate flow-
ers, which helps plants reproduce

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Plant All Year Round

Bees need a home, too! Planting

throughout the seasons will en-

sure they have food and shelter

even when it’s cold and rainy out-

side towards the latter end of win- Ditch The Lawn Mover
A freshly cut lawn may be
*ter each year, you remember to

sow seeds for spring and summer
plants.

aesthetically pleasing to the

eye but letting glass grow is

of benefit to the bees as again

it provides them with protec-

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Create A Bee Bath

We have heard of bird baths, and

this is pretty much the exact same

principle but on a smaller, bee-

shaped scale. Fill a small bowl with

water, arranging with stones for

the bees to land on. This gives them Welcome Other (Helpful) In-
sects
*a platform to drink the water from

when they need a break from polli-

nating.

Give bees a few allies in the form
of beneficial bugs like ladybirds,
beetles and hoverflies. These all
hunt pests like asphids, so are a
friend of both bees and your gar-
den.

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Ozone day

The theme of World Ozone Day In 1957, Professor Gordon Dob-
2019 is '32 years and Healing'. son of Oxford University discov-
This year's theme celebrates three ered the ozone layer. Ozone is
decades of remarkable interna- made up of three atoms of oxy-
tional cooperation to protect the gen. It is highly reactive gas and
Ozone Layer and the climate un- is represented by O3. It reduces
the harmful UV radiation reach-
*der the Montreal Protocol. In ing the Earth's surface.

2018, the latest Scientific Assess-
ment of Ozone Depletion was
completed. This assessment shows
that the parts of the Ozone Layer
have recovered at a rate of 1-3%
per decade since 2000

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Ecoenzyme
Ecoenzyme is a complex solution
produced by fermentation of brown
suger ,waste fruit and vegetable
odds, and water in the ratio 1:3:10.

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O3 can reduce carbon dioxide
(CO2) in the atmosphere and heavy
metal that traps heat in the
cloud. Hence heat can be release
from the earth, reducing green-
house and global warming effects.

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