Earth Day

22 Apr 2010

Graham Team Members Do Their Part To Keep The Planet Clean

 

In observance of Earth Day, many Graham team members took part in a half hour beautification project around the Graham office complex.

Team members scoured the parking lot, landscaping, entrance and exit roads in search of anything harmful to the Earth. Items found ranged from candy bar wrappers and plastic cups, to license plates and horse shoes.

“Taking a little time out of your day to make the area a little cleaner is very rewarding,” said Heidi Heimbuch, organizer of the event. “And on a day as beautiful as today, it’s also a lot of fun.”

Today marks the third year in a row that Graham team members were given the opportunity to participate in Earth Day activities.

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When we heal the Earth, we heal ourselves

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Did You know...

  • Never underestimate the importance of recycling: if every newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year. Unfortunately only 27% of all American newspapers are recycled.
  • Earth Day Networks estimates that 500 million people from 4,500 organizations in 180 countries will participate in Earth Day events during the month of April.
  • Earth Day is big with schools. On many school calendars, it is the third most activity-inspiring holiday, after Christmas and Halloween.
  • Companies have even gotten into Earth Day. Last year, office supply store Staples introduced office paper made entirely without new trees.
  • Earth Day is a relatively new holiday and was first celebrated on April 22 in 1970. More than 20 million Americans participated in this first Earth Day celebration
  • Earth Day was founded by a senator of Wisconsin and the day is credited for creating the environmentalism movement.
  • The first major international conference on environmental issues was held in Sweden in 1972 and was sponsored by the United Nations.
  • Only 11% of the earth's surface is used to grow food.
  • More than 20,000,000 Hershey's Kisses are wrapped each day, using 133 square miles of tinfoil. All that foil is recyclable, but not many people realize it.