Cool Kids...
We have found this really cool website...we thought we'd share it with you. It's cool becasue Sarah who made the website is from Rotherham (well it's near Sheffield), and because she was less than 13 years old when she went to Victoria in Canada for a conference about the environment, WOW. you can go to the 'tree calculator' and work out how many trees you need to plant to repair your pollution damage.
http://www.coolkidsforacoolclimate.com/Take%20Action/TakeActionIndex.htm

If you are taken to school in a car just 2 miles each way then that needs 1 tree. Our flight to Denmark (approx 600 miles) needs another tree. It's a good job we didn't go on a summer holiday...just 5000 miles on a plane would have meant another 5 trees!!! Soon we'll need our own forest! all the space will fill up with trees...?

The 'Cool Kids For A Cool Climate' project was
set up by Sarah Bowler, a member of Wildlife Watch in
the UK.

The idea came about when she was working on the Junior Board of the UNEP International Children’s Conference on the Environment held in Victoria, Canada in May 2002. The Junior Board were very concerned to make sure the conference had as little impact on the environment as possible. Sarah realised that the flights of all the
delegates coming to Victoria from all over the world created a lot of greenhouse gases. The worldwide forest began when Sarah set up a pledge system so that
delegates could promise to plant trees at home to make up for the CO2 emitted by their flights to Canada.
Sarah took this idea home and started a partnership
with South Yorkshire Forest so that travellers from all over South Yorkshire/Britain/the World could have the opportunity to plant trees to offset the pollution caused by their travel.

The launch of Cool Kids For A Cool Climate took place on 20th November 2002 at Greenland Nursery & Infants School, Sheffield, UK.

Sarah has lots of useful information about the environment and climate change and what you can do to help. Have a look. NOW.

http://www.coolkidsforacoolclimate.com/About/AboutIndex.html