Kids learn ways to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) through recycling & green actions on the Nick.com Big Green Help website. Be environmentally friendly with Nickelodeon.
The Big Green Help is Nickelodeon’s broad initiative aimed at helping kids understand the importance of environmental awareness and carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction.
What is the Nick.com Big Green Help? How Can Kids Save the Environment?
The premise behind Nick.com’s Big Green Help is simple: find positive ways to protect the earth every day. There are four elements to the Big Green Help, as follows:
Slow the Flow. This pertains to slowing down the use of Earth’s natural resources. Nickelodeon asks kids to take the environmentally friendly actions of turning off lights, chargers, televisions, and other appliances when not in use as well as replacing ordinary light bulbs with compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs).
Recycle and Precycle. This refers to buying recycled items or only items that can be recycled. Pledges in this category include the following: recycle as much as possible (paper, plastic, aluminum, and glass), forgo bottled water for tap water, and use reusable lunch bags.
Grow the Green. This one’s simple – grow green things that will absorb carbon dioxide. Under this category, kids are asked to plant four trees this year, use recycled paper products, or convince one person per month to replace five regular light bulbs with CFLs.
Curb the Car. This one is aimed at getting people to use alternate means of transportation to reduce the carbon dioxide output of large vehicles. Pledges related to this include ditching the car four miles per week (and going on foot, bike, or skateboard instead), turning off the car engine instead of idling, and reminding parents to keep car tires inflated.
Daily Green Tips: Recycling, Going Green, Being Environmentally Friendly
The Big Green Help website has been offering one green tip per day since April 23, 2008. The first one was to use recycled paper products; more recent tips include using reusable lunch containers instead of sandwich bags and to send evites instead of paper invitations for a party. For the holidays, the site suggests keeping a recycling bin ready to collect gift wrapping when the presents are being opened.
Perhaps the most interesting part about the Big Green Help challenge is that kids obviously can’t achieve all of the pledges alone. Many of them involve adults, such as the ones about not idling a car, keeping car tires inflated, and buying CFLs. So by getting kids interested in the environment, Nickelodeon is getting the attention of an exponential number of adults (parents, teachers, neighbors, etc).
The purpose of the Big Green Help is for kids to learn environmental awareness; Nickelodeon shows them how to save the environment through simple every day actions.
Resource:
Nick.com Big Green Help website
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Dec 31, 2008 11:49 AM
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Jan 5, 2009 2:56 PM
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Jan 9, 2009 3:46 PM
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i ride my bike to my freinds and to myhouse i really hope the world will
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Jan 15, 2009 4:44 PM
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Jan 25, 2009 12:42 AM
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Jan 26, 2009 8:34 AM
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Mar 10, 2009 6:18 PM
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Langley AFB Kids pledge to plant a flower garden.
Apr 4, 2009 10:42 AM
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Apr 4, 2009 10:46 AM
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wow now thate i think about it we are not going to be able to save our
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Apr 5, 2009 5:07 PM
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Apr 8, 2009 7:05 PM
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Apr 10, 2009 7:38 PM
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everyone PLEASE SAVE MOTHER!!! where are your grandchildren going to live
when trash is on everywhere and no one can live anywhere!!! :(
Apr 12, 2009 6:34 PM
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plese save our earth by recycleing.reuse bottles or use them to craft. For
ltlt use recycled items to make a craft.
Apr 13, 2009 6:10 PM
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earth needs help. so every one needs to start to
help. like recycling and reuse and make posters and
dont pollute our planet.
Apr 13, 2009 10:33 PM
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please help us to save mother Earth...did you want to have a dirty and
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Earth...please help us to protect and save our Earth...your simple start
help us a lot..thank you!!!
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Apr 20, 2009 6:27 AM
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Apr 20, 2009 2:39 PM
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HELP OUR WORLD BY RECYCLE PAPER AND USING BOTH SIDES OF THE PAPER AT SCHOOL AND AT HOME. COURTNEY
Apr 20, 2009 2:56 PM
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My sister and I Recycled a lot of Water Bottles and more!!!We hope that our
recycle is a success
Apr 22, 2009 3:46 PM
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I think that everyone should try and recycle as much as we can and we all
need to take care of our Earth because Earth was already here when we were
born and thats only because our ancestors were caring enough to get up
and recycle and use stuff that saved energy. We all need to get up too and
make a difference in this world and make this Earth a better place for
years to come like our acestors did for us. -Amber G.
Apr 22, 2009 3:56 PM
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Apr 22, 2009 4:44 PM
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Apr 22, 2009 5:08 PM
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Apr 22, 2009 5:23 PM
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Apr 22, 2009 5:48 PM
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May 26, 2009 1:42 PM
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May 26, 2009 1:43 PM
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help the planet do it for your health please help
Aug 10, 2009 11:52 AM
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GLOBAL WARMING DOES NOT EXIST!!!!!! HUMANS ARE NOT CAUSING THE PLANETS
PROBLEMS. GOD WOULD NOT DESTROY THE WORLD. GLOBAL
WARMING/CLIMATE CHANGE DOESN'T EXIST. YOU PEOPLE EVEN KEEP CHANGING THE
NAME OF IT!!! I THINK YOU NEED TO TAKE CARE OF THE PLANET, BUT THERE
IS NO SUCH THING AS "GLOBAL WARMING"!!! I WILL NOT EVER
"GO GREEN"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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