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Girl Scouts make an impact at the Sammamish Farmers Market!

Please support our local Girl Scouts this Wednesday at the Sammamish Farmers Market!  They will be sharing information at their recycled crafts booth, as part of The Global
Green Team Environmental Project!

This past May, these local Girl Scout joined The Environmental Summit; Global Green Team at
Camp Robbinswold, on the Hood Canal; Sponsored by the Alcoa Foundation. 



http://www.alcoa.com/global/en/community/foundation/info_page/about_overview.asp



The Girl Scouts of Western Washington invited to
"Environmental Summit”, where one girl can make a difference and together
girls can change the world. At the Environmental Summit, they learned how
their choices affect the world around them.  The Environmental Summit

Sessions included discovering their selves, inspiration to do great things in
the world, connecting to the modern world, identifying different types of
waste, and learned leadership skills. Now that they have completed the
Environmental Summit, our girls have committed to carry out their Take Action Project with their Environmental Summit Teams in their local communities. There are several teams introducing this, and our teams of girls are from Sammamish, Woodinville, Marysville, and
Snohomish County.



Our impact project will be submitted to Girl Scouts/Alcoa
by
 August
2, 2013

These Green Teams
are dedicated to reaching the community, educating a minimum of 50 school age
individuals on the importance of recycling.  After much brain-storming, the girls formed some great ideas! To bring awareness to the
community and change the world one person at a time, they decided they wanted to
work on the following  projects:                                                                

  • Clean up a park & have
    pre-schools help:  Need to coordinate with schools to get kids

    interested.

  • Make recycled projects and
    teach/give instructions to children / have facts available about what was
    learned: requirements are to make posters, share them at a market, and

    make bookmarks or instructions for recycled crafts to hand out at a
    market, and to call local markets to ask about setting up a booth. 

  • Presentation will discuss what they learned at
    The Environmental Summit and what their plans are to implement a
    recycling program at the local school and throughout the community.  Their
    program will not only reduce waste, but teach the other kids how to create crafts
    out of recycled materials. 
DEPRESSING FACTS: While in our group session, the girls shared the most depressing facts:
  • Bags and Trash in
    the ocean killing turtles and sea life     

  • Balloon remnants
    killing animals
FUN: At the Market, we will show you how to make:
  • Reusable Fused Plastic Tote Bags out of your plastic bags
  • Make Dog Leashes out of  your plastic bags!!
  • Fun & Whimsical "not stuffed" animals out of pop cans!
  • Craft Apron out of old T-shirts
  • and MORE!!! 
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