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January 1st - March 15th 1996

BLUE PRINT EARTH PAGE OF SOLUTIONS

These are some solutions to BluePrint Earth problems as discussed by my 7th and 8th grade students.

Drugs:

Ozone layer:

Education:

Rain Forests:

Animal Poaching:

Deforestation:

Poverty:

TRAFFIC:

POLLUTION:

DRUGS:

GARBAGE:

TREES BEING CUT DOWN:

ENDANGERED ANIMALS:

by Arnav Manchanda

CRIME

DRUGS

GANGS

GRAFFITI

LITTERING

OIL SPILLS

POPULATION EXPLOSION

TOXIC WASTE

RACISM/VIOLENCE

To reduce pollution from cars, we have to stop driving so much
Perhaps laws must be passed to reduce driving.
Prices of buss and train / subway tickets must be lower.

We have to buy less goods
We have to buy goods that can be re-cycled
Use money to find ways to re-cycle more of the garbage we throw away...
We - in the Western World - have got a lot of things we don't need.
Why not stop buying some of the stuff we don't need... ???
We can reduce our consumption by taking better care the things we have by fixing them...

Make regulations on ADVERTISING, specially on TOBACCO and ALCOHOL!!!!

When smoke and pollution comes from other countries, we can stop buying products from that country
- like French products because of nuclear testing...

In Norway there is a campaign going on : STOP VIOLENCE... It makes a lot of people stop and think.....

These are the major solutions from Eydehavn School.

We are 6th graders from the TAG Center in Emporia, VA, USA
Here are some of our solutions to the world problems we listed earlier.

1. Stop using aerosol sprays to help stop deteriorating ozone layer.
2. Make school more interesting so people will stay in school.
3. Don't sell guns and weapons to minors and people with criminal records and raise prices on all guns and weapons to stop violence.
4. Change the law about throwing away leftover food from restaurants and ship this food to the hungry.
5. Wean addicted people off alcohol and then stop selling alcohol.
6. Put transparent bars on windows and doors to stop theft.

POLLUTION

CRIME

DESTROYING PLANTS AND ANIMALS

MONEY SHORTAGE

NATURAL DISASTERS

WASTE

ALL of our problems can be solved by our attitudes. That is the key that can make a difference.

These solutions are from Chelsea Kaluahine, Liko Ha'o-Bergado, Shannon Williams, Heidi Burns-Rozycki, Naomi Nordmeier, Marco Bucao, Sudim Lazo, Delta-Dawn Taniguchi, and Pearl Sotelo, students at King Kaumuali'i Elementary School - on the Island of Kaua'i in the state of Hawai'i.

Solutions from Villingaholtsskoli in southern Iceland.

Drugs:

Pollution:

Hugner:

Ozon:

Wars:

Violence:

1.Ozone layer:

2. Drugs:

3. Forest getting cut down:

Solutions:

Hello! We are Lauren and Christina from Brooklyn New York.
Thank you for your letter we are very happy to hear your opinions. Now we are going to respond to your letter.

1. Homeless:

2. Deforestation:

3. Ozone Layer:

4. Pollution:

5. Wars:

6. Diseases:

7. Fires:

8. Oil Spills:

9. Endangered Animals:

1. Pollution

2. Crime

3. Racism

4. Drugs

5. Homelessness

6. Poverty

A group of 5th graders at Nesbit Elementary came up with these solutions to some problems they listed for Blue Print Earth.

Violence

Drug Abuse

Homelessness

Acid Rain

Ozone Depletion

Nuclear Waste

1. Control the materials needed to make nuclear bombs so prople can't make them and destroy those already made.
2. Make a law with a very stiff penalty if someone makes a nuclear bomb or abuses nuclear energy.
3. Organize a huge clean-up of all of our cities and waterways.
4. Parents must have more control over their children, a curfew for all teens, a training program that parents of troubled teens must attend.
5. Laws that make manufacturers produce items that are environmentally safe, recyclable.
6. Develop new uses for our garbage.
7. Make a law to prohibit drinking and the advertising of drinking illegal on T.V., in children magazines, and on billboards.
8. Alternate ways to stop pollution from industries.
9. More money allocated to research cures for diseases.
10. Prohibit the sale of all tobacco products.

1. Ozone layer:

2. Drugs:

3. Forest getting cut down:

Hi, our names are Mildred Avila , Shana Oshima , Erin Garlie , Scott Serizawa and Raymond Serquina.

Kidnapping is another kind of violence. They take the children and use them for hostage and they would kill them or maybe rape them . For example on the Philippines a little girl was going home from school and kidnapped her and raped her .

Wars are another kinds of violence. People are getting into fights and involve other people into the wars, and they get killed even though they are innocent. In P.I. there is a place where the people had a big fight and they started killing each other who was not involved with the fight and got killed.

Hello!
Our names are Aaron, Levonn, Trishen, and Charley. We are all in the sixth grade and attend Wilcox Elementary school, on Kauai.

We hope our solutions can help ourselves choose the right thing to do.

Pollution can hurt the animals, it can also kill them. Throwing rubbish on the side of the road is bad. It is bad because there are storm drains on the side of the road that leads out to the ocean if your rubbish goes down the drain the ocean animals might think it is food.They might eat it.The way we might be able to solve the problem is by hiring volnteers to pick up rubbish on the side of our road ways.Recycle our rubbish to save the earth and animals.

Drugs Solution

Killings

Pollution

Bombs

Wars

Violence in the Streets

Alcohol

Litter

Wasting Energy

Rape

Pollution

Natural Disasters

Wars

Drugs

Crime

Violence

Killing Animals

Homeless People need homes

No more starvation

A cure for all diseases

Gangs

Bombs

Population Grows too fast

Too much littering

Too much school

Too many little bugs

1. Pollution Solution

2. Solution to people dying from guns and knives

3. Solution to drug selling problem

4. Solution to problem of people killing eachother because of their color

5. Solution to people killing eachother because of gangs

Hi, we are Shaun Kruger, and Jennie LaFortune.
We are writing about recycling, and being wasteful. Recycling is a big help to the problem with waste and garbage. You wouldn't think something so serious and important could be so easy to do. There are many possible solutions to improve this problem. Something as simpleas having separate containers for aluminum, glass, paper, and plastic. We also should be cautious with what we buy. On most packages it will have a recycling symbol, which either means it can or is able to berecycled. It is also very difficult and next to impossible for colored kleenex and tissue paper to be recycled. Plastic, and more can not go back into the earth. Styrofoam takes a long time to biodegrade, and when it does it turns to a poison gas. If every person helps out a little, is cautious with what they use and buy, the earth will be much cleaner for us and rising generations to enjoy.

Hello our names our Josie Airhart, Scott Koffman, Eliza Maughan, and Katie Faust.
We are talking about some environmentmental issues. The Olympics are bringing a lot of people to the United states, and is also going to bring a lot of people to Salt Lake city where it has a lot of pollution already. This leads us into overpopulation. This is a big problem in the world today. There are a lot of babies being born every day. We can solve this problem by spreading out over the world, there is a lot of unused space in the world. With all these people there are too many cars that cause a lot of pollution. We can solve this problem by setting up car pools and taking the bus. People also cause these problems in boats. Boats burn gas like any other car, they also destroys marine life, such as manatees. Manatees are a very endangered species, they get killed by boats all over the ocean.

Hello, we are Annie Sonntag, Rachael Wright,& Marc Jackson in the eighth grade class from Olympus Junior High.
We think our number one problem in the world today is *pollution*. Some of our alternatives to pollution are first, don't waste anything because the more you waste products the more factories have to produce products and that is how the bad pollution gets in the air. Another solution to pollution is to carpool with your neighbors and friends. Also, if you are going somewhere close, just walk or ride your bike. Some ways we can stop littering are we can put waste bins all around parks and streets. We can set examples for other people by throwing away our garbage and recycling our products. So lets please do all we can to solve the pollution in our world.

Hi, our names are: Addie Watson, Leisl Wunderli, Mandy Richards, Matt Goreham, and Heather McDonald.
We have the topics deforestation, animal extinction, endangered species, and animal killings. How do we stop deforestation? We could recycle, plant forests that are meant to be cut, electric heaters, and stopbuilding so many residential areas! How do we stop animal extinction? We can tell people to stop littering and polluting. We can also pay money to a rainforest foundation. We can also talk to our neighbors, family members, etc... We can also print signs on computers, and put the signs everywhere. So everyone can see them. How can we protect the endangered species? We could not destroy the rainforests,because that is their habitat. Also we can join WWF ( World Wildlife Foundation ), and donate money to help save all the endangered species. How do we stop all of the brutal animal killings? We could not buy fur coats, leather products, and all of us should become vegetarian. We could start persuading people to stop hunting for poor, defenseless animals!

Ozone Depletion By Chris Higginson and Hale.
We areconcerned about the ozone. The holes in the ozone aregetting bigger everyday, and their is not much we cando to restore it. Because we can't restore it, we haveto stop it before it starts. One of the main problemswith ozone depletion is the daily chemicals we use. These include anti-freeze, gasoline, DDT, pesticides,aerosols, and a lot more. We propose that we justplain stop using these chemicals, that's probably notpossible until we find a new way to get to place toplace. If we do this we can protect ourselves from thesun's ultra violet rays, and have a much cleaner,prettier Earth.

SUMMING UP THE BLUE PRINT SOLUTIONS

We are looking forwards to seeing all your solutions on the KIDFORUM list soon!

Indu Varma
&
Tor Arne Richvoldsen

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