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QUESTION: What do you do to help the environment?
ANSWER: Last winter, my teacher, Ms. Teves, had a group of her students do a project on solar energy. As the project went on, my group started to look into what it would take to convert our school to solar energy use. Ms. Teves thought we should present our project to the Sunnyvale school district to show the benefits of going solar.
Q: What happened?
A: We did, and the school district decided to get photovoltaic panels for every school in the district. They will also be installing monitoring devices in the classrooms to measure how much energy we are saving.
Q: How does that make a difference?
A: If we converted my school to solar energy, we would use much less oil and gas and that would be good for the environment.
Q: How can other kids find out more or get involved?
A: For our project, we learned most everything we needed to know about solar energy by searching the Web. There are websites that are devoted to helping schools convert to solar energy. For example, we used need.org. |
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