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Youth up cycled old clothes to new items and bags. Took action - committed to donate more, and work to preserve own clothes so they need less new ones

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Our Embers troop turned old tee shirts into shopping bags or book bags!

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Our Ranger unit upcycled old t-shirts into tote bags.

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Our Guides had a clothing swap where they brought clothes they no longer needed and picked out new clothes from what was brought in. Any clothing leftover was donated to a used clothing charity

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I created a workshop where I taught students how to repair and upcycle clothing. I also explained why learning to repair clothing we already have is important. While the students worked on their desired project a documentary about climate and clothing played.

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Members of the 1st Windsor Forks Guides and Pathfinders Repurposed jean pockets to make winter decorations for their homes instead of using new supplies.

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My action is about how creating stuffed toys from old clothes can help the environment

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Explained why you need to give your clothes a second chance in the form of a donation to thrift stores or a clothing drive and explaining the consequences if you aren't doing it.

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Created stuffed toys with unwanted clothes.

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We created a PPT on different popular fast fashion clothing brands and how they are affecting the Earth, and what measures they are taking to change.

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I decided to make this video as an attempt for others to be educated and informed of the ways clothing harms our environment, and how we can address the situation

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Clothing 4 Climate: Circle Learns About Clothing

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Collecting Clothing from family and friends with two group. Share "new" clothing to prevent wash. Collecting more clothing with Friends and Family from our third group. Shopping in the clothing collected. Sorting and bagging 7 bag to donate to local thrift store.

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We reused fabrics to create a new item, a washable napkin.

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We used collect and saved fleece material to make toques

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We collected worn out, non donatable clothes and upcycled them into pin cushions with our girl guide unit

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The 64th London Guides cut-up old t-shirts and made them into pot holders by weaving the strips together.

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My action is a power point to raise awareness

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We told every on about how the green house gas is not good for our world. They was lots of fun fact to help people learn more about every thing.

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Tessa Pettigrew and Chloe Sutherland, New Brunswick

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Tessa Pettigrew and Chloe Sutherland, New Brunswick

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We made a power point to spread awareness about fast fashion brands and sweatshops. This will give people the chance to learn about fast fashion brands and how to help the environment.

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For our project we made a pouch and made it out of recycled clothes. We then would bring it to the person that bought it.

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We went to the gym and found a pair of shoes and we cleaned them.

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WE FOUND A DIRTY OLD SHOES WE TRIED TO CLEAN THEM BUT WE CANT REMOVE THE STAIN SO INSTEAD OF TROWING THEM WE DEEP CLEAN THEM AND WE RESTORE THEM WE DESIGN THE SHOES AND WE COLORED THEM AND NOW THEY DONT LOOK DIRTY ANYMORE AND YOU CAN WEAR IT AGAIN.

WE TRIED OUR BEST TO HELP THE CLOTHING SOCIETY.

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We used eco-friendly and recyclable materials to make pouches

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Us three grade eights decided that we together would make an event for our school. We decided on making a donation box for our school for clothing that is in good condition and taking the time out of our day to donate the clothing others cannot spare the time for. this way we are helping increase the amount of time clothing is worn and also reducing the amount of clothing sent to landfills.

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We made a short-story on a girl with a clothing obsession. It had research and actual information on climate change and how clothing affects that.

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What we did is that we were going to make yard sales of are old clothes and other things etc

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New Brunswick

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we made this poster to help people learn about recycled clothing

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We made a poster about recycling clothing

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I made a poster about how clothes use a lot of water and why its bad for the ocean, rivers, and lakes

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New Brunswick

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We took a pair of broken and damaged pants and sewed it back together, then we decided to turn it into an item we would use all the time so we cut the pants legs off and taped them together to make a rug that we use every day :)

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We upcycled old and unused jeans, this way we are contributing to the environment by addressing vital issues. By repurposing discarded jeans, it lessens the amount of textile waste produced, keeping jeans out of landfills and lowering the environmental effect, and conserving resources such as water and energy that would be otherwise used in the creation of new clothing items.

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Miguel, Jacob, Jake and Luis made a power-point presentation about Lululemon's negative impact on the environment.

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We took old jeans that would have otherwise ended up in a landfill, and redesigned them so that we can wear them, by extending their life.

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Restyling old shoes

For this project we formed a group of four people: Teagan, Nathalie, Allison, and Smile. During this project we accomplished our task to recycle old shoes and restyle them to look better. Restyling your old shoes instead of throwing them out and buying new ones keeps waste out of the landfill which reduces greenhouse gas emissions. The materials we used were an old pair of shoes, paint, paint brushes, water, garbage bags etc. we started our task by laying down garbage bags so the floor wouldn’t get dirty, after that we got out all the paint and then we proceed to paint our shoes, we didn’t have a plan when we started, we just went with it. We painted the shoes then left them out to dry, relaced them and then they were ready.

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We used old jeans, tshirts and pillowcases to make purses and bags.

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I had made some upcycled dog toys with and old teeshirt and some sewing needles and thread.

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The 1st Stellarton Guides/Pathfinders took action by making their own camp hats from jeans and tshirts.

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We spoke about what was the best way to dry our clothes and designed products to do so.

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I made a poster saying recycle to Sarcan for the better of the environment. I hope to influence families and people from Canada to donate and recycle to their local Sarcan!!!

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The 131st Mississauga Embers unit watched the video “Trouble with Clothes”, had a discussion around clothes and our environment. They then upcycled t-shirts to make dog toys that were donated to our local animal adoption centre.

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We chose to find more eco sustainable ways to remove normal everyday stains. Their are two main reasons for this, one was because we cause pollution by the chemicals we use and two so less micro plastic would be put in the ocean. We realized baking soda, vinegar, club soda, salt and lemon juice once all mixed together with just baking soda on the shirt works best. We recommend that you use a tooth brush, scrub hard and it may take a few tries.

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2nd Happy Valley Guides repurposed old shirts and made grocery bags!

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The girl guides collected old clothing, jeans. They were excited to make doll clothing, jean bags, sock bunnys from old clothing. We talked about waste from clothing stores. Alternatives to discarding flawed clothing. The girls are now planning a used clothing and items swap and shop for earth day

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Microfiber filter

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There was a bleach spot on my hoodie. So I made a design out of bleach to make it look better.

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I recycled an ild pair of jeans into something new

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I transformed a pair of jeans into a bag

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I repurposed jeans and made a water bottle holder out of a pant leg.

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I built a rake to dry clothes on.

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We upcycled an old T-shirt to make no-sew reusable bag!

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We repurposed Pjs and old sweatshirts to make dog toys for the SPCA!

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The 3rd Burnaby Pathfinders from BC upcycled old shirts or shoes by decorating them to give them new life, and made no-sew tote bags out of old t-shirts. (On behalf of her more aquatic cousins, our unit mascot Hildegard von Pathfinder the octopus thanks us for reducing plastic waste in the oceans!)

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We used mis-matched socks to make sock snowmen. These sock snowmen are fun to play with and make a great winter decoration.

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I made a clear presentation describing the environmental effects of fast fashion and what we can do to stop it in order to influence people my age to do the same. I have also changed my habits to help the world with this problem.
Link to the presentation: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfUN2sWIIohL8xjWzqpcOlM_OPCCo-CbHehnIKUKt2GEaENcA/viewform?usp=sf_link

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Porters Lake Pathfinders upcycled old bridesmaid dresses. Giving them new life with their unique individual designs.

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My action is asking my people to donate their clothes.

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Our action is to spread awareness about the effects clothing has on the environment. Many items are thrown out within a year due to fast fashion and people throwing out their clothes instead of donating them. Some materials and equipment needed to do this would be social media, a computer/phone, or equipment to make an infographic. The more people that see the effects, the more people would want to spread it. They could post things, create posters, or websites. That is how out action could be started and what we can help do.

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I'm planning on reusing, donating, and recycling unused clothes.

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My action talks about how synthetic fibers (mainly polyester) can be very damaging to the environment, and encourages all kinds of pollution. My action is to hopefully educate others more on how polyester has and is affected/affecting the environment.

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How polyester is damaging the environment, inducing grave climate change

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3 Ways You Can Reduce Greenhouse Gasses

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Khalsa School Calgary students took several actions and they are as follows:

-Redesigning old and worn out shoes
-Mending Ripped Clothing By Using Needles And Thread and Sewing Machine
- Air-drying clothes
-Donating re-usable clothing items
-Recreating new articles from used clothing
-Designing Micro Plastic Filters for washers
-Educating and influencing Others

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Windsor Guides #107 upcycled old jeans into super neat crossbody purses! We learned how to grommet and loved our new creations 😊

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From sock ball fight to all packed up! These packages of used, old, holey socks are on their way to Smartwool Canada for the Second Cut Project towards our Clothing 4 Climate Challenge! We had a tape line and whatever team had the least amount of socks at the end won. Too much fun, so many laughs & cheers. The Guides & Brownies LOVED it!! Some had never had the opportunity to pack up a package before and really enjoyed that task too 😊 We watched a short video on a company in Italy that takes old clothing that don’t get sold at second hand shops and break them down to create new yarn/thread to be used to make new clothes, as well as a video advertisement about the Second Cut Project. We also explored the impacts clothes have on the world & climate change, how plastic water bottles can be turned into clothes and completed the Life Cycle of Clothing activities (slideshow, how they compare and the knowledge check quiz)

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I used old pieces of clothing and old buttons off a sweater to make this small stuffed animal frog.

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What a fabulous night to have a meeting outside!! ☀️ We started the Let’s Talk Science Clothing 4 Climate challenge and made adorable repurposed jean owls with Brownies and Guides 🦉 we even used old t-shirts, rags, towels, socks and our scrap felt as the stuffing!! 👍🏼 All the jean owls turned out amazing!!

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Windsor Brownies & Guides started the evening by completing the Environmental Impact of Clothes section. We watched the Trouble with Clothes video and talked about 'Does it really matter?' & the ripple effect. We then made t-shirt tote bags. We finished off the night by having a 'Swap & Shop'. The Brownies & Guides were invited to bring gently used clothes, shoes, books, toys, whatever for the 'Swap & Shop'. The girls used their newly made t-shirt tote bags to shop and everyone went home with new to them items :) it was a lot of fun!! I'm one of the leaders of the unit and even went home with some new finds!

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We upcycled old jeans into new lunch bags. We all learned how to sew with a needle and thread and a sewing machine so we can re use more things or fix old clothing.

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Our Brownies and Guides upcycled socks into cat toys. We also used t-shirts to make dog toys, headbands and infinity scarves! The girls had a great time and the clothes didn't go to our landfill.

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Members of the 1st Windsor Forks Guides & Pathfinders Upcycled t-shirts into reusable bags.

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The Mackenzie girl guides had a clothing swap / up-cycling night! All left-over clothing was donated to the thrift store.

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1st Kelly Rd guides made Jean upcycled vases.

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We learned to make bags out of old jeans to give them new life and keep them out of landfills!

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I cut the sleeves off and stapled an old, ripped shirt shirt to make a bag.

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As a group we will be planning a clothing swap and a clothing drive. The members were very excited to learn about upcycling using their favourite articles of clothing. We will have a meeting where as a group we make creations from old clothing

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Upcycling old jeans into fun stuffed toys

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1st York-Sunbury Rangers upcycled tshirts into reusable shopping bags.

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We used old socks and fabric scraps to make puppets after having a puppeteer tells us about her awesome career. We used materials readily available and talked about upcycling in ways such as this. We even talked about donating some of our new fabric friends to small children/kindergartens etc.

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Our unit participated in this action to demonstrate the many positive effects that clothing swaps have on our lives and environment. Clothing swaps help extend the lifetime of clothing/accessories and puts more uses to them. Clothing swaps give us a chance to get the most of all our clothes. You could also find a clothing item that you really love, all for free! Clothing swaps aid with decreasing garbage inflation at landfills, in addition to decreasing POLLUTION. Our group had a blast finding new clothes amongst ourselves. We spoke about why clothing swaps are beneficial, and then laid out our clothes to look like a store so that it was more engaging. We gave each other feedback on how the clothing items looked on each other to see if it was right for us. Thankfully, everybody including the leaders, found something they loved to add to their wardrobe! It was overall a great experience and we will be doing it again.🤗

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It's a t-shirt transform into a dog toy.

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I took several pairs of old jeans and transformed them into a style of skirt I always wanted.

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I used an old curtain that my cat had destroyed to make a bag to wrap an oddly shapped present. I also tried to avoid using wrapping paper this year and instead reused brown paper that came in amazon packages and old pillow cases. It was fun to get creative with the wrapping

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I researched the clothing crisis and the fast fashion industry. With the facts and statistics that I collected, I created a quiz that I shared on my Instagram stories. This way I was able to engage my followers with an eye-catching quiz while sharing with them the truth about the fast fashion industry.

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I have went from using the dryer up to three times every week, to only using it about once a week and air drying more of my clothes.

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I did some research into the extent of the sustainability practices in place at American Eagle Outfitters and shared my findings with others in an infographic.

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I made a quiz app about clothing labels. Laundry symbols help us to make smart choice when shopping and caring our clothes to avoid clothes wasting.

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I created a clothes hanger that can dry your clothes but can also harness wind power for Eco friendly energy

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My actions are that I will air dry my clothes, clean my clothes by hand if it's just a little stain because washing clothes in a washing machine isn't good for the environment and keep clothes for long periods of time, not just for 10 days. That would be a waste of money and clothing.

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The Let's Talk Science website provided resources and ideas for my students to show their creativity. Students were engaged in the action projects for the clothing4climate module. They redesign clothes, dye shoes, write petitions, remove stains from clothing, create quiz, and games!

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I made my favorite stuffed animal using my old clothing for climate action.

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We reused clothes for our waterwheel!

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The world has a lot of issues at the moment, one of the most significant is climate change. There are many things happening that are making this crisis more detrimental, but a particular cause is electricity. This source of energy is frequently used in daily life which has led to moving climate change in a dangerous direction. This is what inspired Team P.A.N.N. to build an alternative for how electricity is produced.

So to get to the point, for a while now we have been working on a model of a water wheel that in the end will produce electricity to showcase a different, and simple but effective way to do this task. Additionally, it is going to power an object in our classroom for an example to show its capability.

Now how will this avail us as humans exactly? Well, for starters it will reduce greenhouse gas emissions which means a decrease in pollution within the atmosphere. Likewise, renewable resources such as the water wheel might replace power plants that create electricity.During our phenomenal project, we received a lot of help from two of our wonderful teachers: Ms. Jagpal, as well as our technology teacher, Ms. Seto. They were both very supportive during the last couple weeks of our project, helping us gather a few last minute materials, as well as a few over the top suggestions that really pulled our project together. We definitely learned that our generation of youth can make an impact on our environment! It definitely was not easy, but who doesn't enjoy a new challenge!?

A few steps that we had to take were:

Although these steps seem simple, we did face a few setbacks along the way such as where were we going to find a water pump, how were we going to connect the light bulb to our wheel, and lastly, how we were to create water suction in an eco friendly way. When it came to sharing our project, we presented in front of the other grade 6/7 classes and told them about the benefits of our project such as how it will be creating electricity in a way where the environment is not harmed. We also told them that our goal is to be able to power an object in our classroom that is commonly used. An item that we had in mind is our teacher's fairy lights, she uses them almost daily and must spend a lot on batteries so we decided to help our environment and benefit her as well. That's not all, we will be using this outside of our school in our homes and in our parents work places. A big impact that we have noticed right now in our project is how much attention that not only our project is receiving; but how much attention our peers' projects are getting as well. That really showed and is showing us that people know what climate change is and want to take action as well. One way that we and our peers have spread awareness is by creating social media accounts. Ours is an instagram account that goes by team_p.a.n.n.

We really hope that we can power more items in our school/community and eliminate large power plants that create electricity with our alternative solution.

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I used scraps of unused fabric to make reusable wrapping paper for holiday presents!

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I've started donating my old clothes to girls in my neighborhood and thrift stores. I've taken a reusable bag to shop and have cut out plastic bags completely from my life. If I do have a plastic bag, I use it to pick up animal waste and to line wastebaskets. I've also been turning off the lights my family leaves on, as well as only using the toilet once a day to save water. Unfortunately, I still use a lot of electricity since I work on the computer, but I do remember to take breaks and go for walks, taking a bag with me to pick up cans and junk.

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I redesigned a jean pant leg into a bucket hat!

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I created a Quiz Game on the Kahoot game platform about clothing to raise awareness how clothing has impact on climate change.

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I upcycled a pair of old jeans into a fashionable embroidered skirt!

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There were too many holes to repair in my favourite sweater, so I got new yarn and reknit the sleeves.

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I repaired a small rip in an otherwise completely fine shirt!