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]]>Before you conduct your search, Google the kinds of trees that are common to your area and get a sense of how tall they can grow. Then, gather your search party, a long piece of string, a tape measure, your phone, and a notebook. Travel to three or four locations where a local species of tree likely grows, such as parks or fields, and have everyone search for the biggest tree of this species. When you find large trees, measure their circumference with the string and tape measure, and record your findings in the notebook. When you find a tree with the largest circumference, take a picture of everyone standing around it, and make plans to visit it again next year!
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]]>This year, make your efforts fun by throwing an Earth Day Bash. Start by gathering your friends and family at a nearby park or field to pick up trash. Supply the crew with garbage bags and rubber gloves and set a timer for thirty minutes to an hour of clean-up. Be sure to separate recyclables from waste and dispose of everything properly.
Afterwards, offer each member of your clean-up crew a dollop of hand sanitizer and invite everyone to reconvene at your home for an Earth Day potluck. Ask your guests to bring items that are ethically and sustainably sourced, such as produce grown organically by local farmers and dishes that don’t require using a lot of electricity to prepare. Think salads, delicious dips, hummus, and zucchini “noodles.”
After the meal, invite your guests to adopt one or two eco-friendly practices and commit to them for a whole year. Examples include carrying your groceries home in reusable bags and making your own non-toxic cleaning solutions out of white vinegar and essential oils.
Once everyone has selected one or two eco-friendly practices to adopt, have guests take a moment to pull up the calendar app on their phones and enter reminders such as “place a reusable bag in the car” or “add tea tree oil to Sunday’s shopping list.”
Finally, schedule a follow-up to the Earth Day Bash, so that everyone can share new eco-friendly ideas, report the results of their efforts, and enjoy another clean-up and potluck.
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1 Roasting skewer
5 Got together
8 Mischievous
12 Seduced by a swan
13 "The Locomotion" singer Little —
14 Sharp flavor
15 Yemeni port
16 Chemical warfare agent 18 Firearms lobby
19 Slightly colored
20 Five-term Arizona senator Barry —
22 Type of computer program 25 "You've Got Mail" company
26 Catsup constituent
28 One easily fooled
31 Ronald's wife
32 Bahamian capital
34 1/1000 inches
35 Intelligence org.
36 Abbott and Costello
film of 1944
41 Colorado Home Rule municipality
42 Ram's dam
43 Target center
46 Operatic solo
47 Worldwide nuclear watchdog
48 Belief system
49 Muscular spasms
50 Wagers
51 — Alamos
52 Fitting
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1 Argot
2 Peter, in Spanish
3 Paragon
4 Lay in the sun
5 Lowly
6 Happening
7 Aim
8 Sleeping
9 Semi
10 "L" operator
11 "— So Fine" (old Chiffons number)
17 Speedwell
19 Relatively weak poker hand
21 Hydroelectric generators
22 Prohibit
23 One way to sell stocks 24 Miniature
27 Formerly French Sudan 28 Cable/satellite network 29 Owns
30 World's largest economy
33 Reveal
34 Old web connectors 37 Permission
38 Creepy
39 Once bitten, — shy 40 Leavening agent
41 Unfortunately
43 Tipple
44 The Emirates
45 Allow
46 Bill dispenser
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Email your answers with “Trivia: Go the Extra Mile” in the subject line to [email protected] for your chance to win cool stuff! Deadline for entry is April 30, 2019. Five winners will be selected by May 15, 2019 and notified via email.
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]]>- Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food helps us redefine what it means to be healthy and make better food choices, by following the simple strategy of "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
- Nigel Crisp's Turning the World Upside Down: The search for global health in the 21st Century takes a fresh look at the current state of world health–– what the issues are and how they affect each one of us–– and offers a new vision for improving health around the world in the 21st century and beyond.
- And for all you athletes, Shalane Flanagan and Elyse Kopecky's Run Fast. Eat Slow: Nourishing Recipes for Athletes offers 100 flavorful and nourishing recipes to keep you moving!
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| Across 1 Dot follower 4 Flat-screen type (Abbr.) 7 Winter malady 10 Government consumption advice 11 Iridescent gem 13 Enfold 14 Broadcast 15 Those completing a race 17 Damp 19 First Marxist Chilean President 20 Feeble 21 Surgeon's knife 22 Male heirs 24 Louse egg 25 Slugger's stat. 26 Army snack bar 29 Torpedo vessel (Abbr.) 32 Scrooge's expression of disdain 33 Worn clothes 36 In the slightest 38 Political top dog (Abbr.) 40 "— and old lace" 42 Take over illegally 43 Tidal measures 45 Wharton product 46 President and Chief Justice 47 Greek god of love 48 Needed to use an ATM 49 Lyric poem 50 Rocky crag 51 Tibetan ox |
Down 1 E.g. charley horse 2 Detestable 3 Dolphins quarterback Dan — 4 Barn upper level 5 Cost-of-living yardstick 6 SNL comic — Carvey 7 Fries 8 Pantry 9 Discombobulates 12 Actress — Langtry 13 As soon as 16 Roofer 18 Coordinate 23 Californian pine 24 Ultimate degree 27 Indigenous 28 Siestas 29 Therefore regarding 30 Ill-informed 31 Take care of yourself! 34 Irritable 35 Novak Djokovic's homeland 37 Slack support 39 Slap on the bottom 41 Breath mint 42 AKA CCCP 44 Old card game |
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