Show Title: 4H Involving Today's Youth
Producer: Linda Kubitz
Time: 27:40
Show begins here:
>>>TODAY ON IMPACT... 4-H IS INVOLVING TODAY'S YOUTH.
---(We're really looking to plant seeds in the minds of the kids as well as the plants here on the beach.)---
---(The kids seem to really enjoy it. They get out and have a good time and learn a little bit about the local ecology at the same time.)---
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>>>THIS IS IMPACT. A WEEKLY LOOK AT ISSUES AND ANSWERS THAT IMPACT OUR LIVES AND THE WORLD AROUND US. PRODUCED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA'S INSTITUTE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES.
>>>MORE THAN A THOUSAND PEOPLE A DAY ARE MOVING TO FLORIDA. POPULATION STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA PREDICT IF THE CURRENT TREND CONTINUES, THE STATE'S POPULATION WILL DOUBLE BY THE YEAR 2020 TO MORE THAN 25-MILLION PEOPLE. BUT WHAT DOES ALL THIS MEAN TO FLORIDA'S DELICATE ECO-SYSTEM? WELL, IMMENSE PRESSURE ON OUR NATURAL RESOURCES ON AN UNPRECEDENTED SCALE. THAT'S WHEN ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CAN MAKE AN IMPACT.
---(wind blowing hard)---
>>>WHEN POWERFUL STORMS SLAM INTO FLORIDA'S COASTLINE, EROSION LIKE THIS IS USUALLY THE RESULT. EACH YEAR, A MASSIVE AMOUNT OF BEACH IS LOST TO THE SEA AND MAINTAINING A STABLE SHORELINE BECOMES NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE.
>>>RANDY ANDREWS-CHAIRMAN/ST. JOHNS CO. WATER CONSERVATION: It's a very big problem, this past year we experienced a great deal of erosion. We've lost, I'd say 60 or 70 feet, of linear feet of dune and probably 4 or 5 maybe 6 feet of height in dunes just in this area right here alone. I've watched this beach since 1965, and it's more eroded now than it's ever been and we lost probably more this past year than we have ever before.
>>>BILL HARB-ST.JOHNS CO. DISTRICT CONSERVATIONIST: The dunes are being destroyed, and there's houses that are in jeopardy of being washed away as well. So we're trying to help the natural resources end and the people.
---(We got about a thousand plants to put out so we're going to have to work pretty hard to get it all done.)---
>>>4-H EXTENSION AGENTS WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA SAY RESTORING THE NATURAL VEGETATION CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE BUT IT MEANS LENDING MOTHER NATURE A HELPING HAND.
>>>TONY CUBBEDGE-UF/ST. JOHNS CO. 4-H EXTENSION: Well the reason for the coastal vegetation is we live in a coastal county in St. Johns County and it's one of our ecosystems that's probably is the most impacted. We just had a real, real bad winter this past winter and we lost a lot of dune habitat, we lost a lot of the dunes to erosion, so it's a constantly changing environment, and it's an area that we can help in by providing some of the dune stabilization and planting these plants on the dunes.
---(We're going to be planting 2 different types of plants today. These right here are the panicom-ameriam or also known as bitter panicom and those over there are the spatina paytins also known as salt marsh cord grass.)---
>>>ARMED ONLY WITH THEIR BARE HANDS AND SEVERAL BOXES OF PLANTS, A GROUP OF 4-H MEMBERS FROM ST. JOHNS COUNTY IS TAKING ON THE ENORMOUS JOB OF REBUILDING A SMALL SECTION OF FLORIDA'S COASTLINE.
---(You need to get it down into the moist soil and you take a plant and you get it...it's probably going to take about 10...8-to-10 inches of depth so that you can get that root all the way down, cover it and you can pull it up just a little bit to make sure that root's straight.)---
>>>JEB BECKER-4-H MEMBER: I'm out here because I want to help the beaches and I enjoy coming out to the beach and I want to save them...to keep them around for a while.
---(They'll get pretty tall about 2 feet...2 1/2 feet...digging)---
>>>BY THE TIME THEY'RE DONE, THE 4-H MEMBERS WILL ADD MORE THAN A THOUSAND COASTAL PLANTS TO THE DUNE LINE...HOPEFULLY HELPING TO HOLD BACK THE STRONG TIDES DURING SUMMER AND WINTER STORMS. PROJECT ORGANIZERS SAY PLANTING NEW COASTAL VEGETATION CAN HELP STABILIZE THE BEACH BUT THERE ARE NO GUARANTEES.
>>> CUBBEDGE: We've seen areas that we planted now, like I said we've been doing this for about 15 years and you can go to some of the areas that we've planted now and they are, the dunes are stabilized, the plants have taken and they're doing real well. The dunes are building and unfortunately some of the areas, like the area we planted last year, we lost the whole two dunes that we planted last year due to some erosion from this past winter, so the kids get to not only see the success stories but also see the, you know, Mother Nature in effect and, you know, we lost that dune last year and that's a part of the learning process as well is that everything you do isn't going to exactly come out so picture perfect all the time.
>>>BESIDES LEARNING ABOUT COASTAL RESTORATION, THESE CHILDREN ARE ALSO GETTING A GLIMPSE AT THE BIGGER PICTURE AND HOW THE COASTAL ECO-SYSTEM WORKS.
>>>CUBBEDGE: We do a little talk about the ecosystems and the importance that they are in these coastal areas. They also learn a little bit about the plant species and how they're grown and how they function as to serve as a stabilizing the dunes in a dune ecosystem. They get the hands-on experience of actually planting these plants, and just being in the out of doors, here we are right on the beautiful Atlantic Ocean, and they get to see seashells and jellyfish and other things as they're walking around to the sights, so hopefully they're-they're learning all along the way. It'll help us all in the future. The children if we can instill a good stewardship for our earth and our planet here, our local ecosystem's now while they're young, they're only going to carry that with them into their adulthood and hopefully into the voting booths and everything else as well if we create good citizens and-with a good stewardship of our resources and understand that if they're used properly that they can be maintained and if, and to really just to instill that good ethics and stewardship for our resources.
>>>THESE FUTURE STEWARDS SAYS THEY'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE CHALLENGES OF BALANCING THE NEEDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT, WILDLIFE AND THOSE OF FLORIDA RESIDENTS.
>>>AMANDA SIGMAN-4-H MEMBER: It's just one of the many 4-H activities that we do to help save the environment, and every little thing that you do counts, and eventually adds up and helps save the environment and helps it a lot.
>>>A.J. WILSON-4-H MEMBER: I guess it saves the environment because, I guess the beaches will stay where it is and it will keep the, will keep the soil together and won't break up and get high up on the shores.
>>>HABB: I believe it will make a difference with the 4-H'ers because they getting an educational process out of this, they're getting hands-on experience, they're out here enjoying the beach, and later on they'll be able to come back, few months, and they'll see what they planted and how well it's done and that it does work.
>>>ANDREWS: It's going to give them a whole lot more appreciation for it than if they read it in a text book or saw it on a video. Getting their hands down in the soil and working, knowing what it's going to take to get that plant established and-and growing, you know, and being able to come back and see that healthy plant doing it's job, accumulating sand and stabilizing the dune with it's root mass, it, you know, they're going to see a whole lot more and appreciate a whole lot more that way then if they just experienced.
---(They're both good species...)---
>>>HANDS-ON TRAINING IS ONE OF THE CORNERSTONES OF 4-H AND MANY PROGRAMS HAVE BEEN EXPANDED TO MEET TODAY'S ENVIRONMENTAL NEEDS.
>>>CUBBEDGE: It's always been a part of 4-H. 4-H is of course in the College of Agriculture and it's run through IFAS, and a good appreciation and understanding of the environment is a integral part of that, a lot of 4-H activities people think are only have to do with agricultural and the farms and things like that but it's not, it's far from the truth. There's so many, a variety of projects and activities that you can get involved with through 4-H and this is just an example of one of the ecological projects that we do here.
---(Ya'll are doing a great job over here.)---
>>>WHILE THIS LESSON TEACHES THE CHILDREN THE IMPORTANCE OF PROTECTING OUR COASTAL RESOURCES, IT'S HOPED THEY'LL ALSO WALK AWAY FROM THIS PROJECT WITH THE VIEW...ANYONE CAN HAVE AN IMPACT ON EVEN OUR GREATEST ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS....ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS TRY.
---(tree being pulled down from house)---
>>>HURRICANE ERIN DID THIS. ALTHOUGH NO ONE WAS HOME AT THIS RESIDENCE WHEN THE STORM PLOWED THROUGH THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE, ERIN LEFT HER MARK JUST THE SAME.
---(tree falls down)---
>>>RANDY HOBGOOD-HOBBY'S TREE SERVICE: The damage has been 98% trees falling on homes. Luckily, no one has been hurt. As far as dealing with it, you know we just take it one day at a time and do what we can do to get it cleaned up. You're looking probably 3-400-thousand trees damaged or on the ground just in the tri-county area.
---(chain saw)---
>>>YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE A POWERFUL STORM TO FIND A MOUNTAIN OF YARD TRASH AND DEBRIS ON CITY STREETS TODAY. FLORIDA'S BUSY GARDENERS CAN PROVE TO BE QUITE A MATCH.
--- (All right guys, today we're going to learn about recycling, but we're not going to talk about recycling aluminum, or glass, or newspaper, or plastic. We're going to talk about recycling yard waste. Okay, that's things like grass clippings, prunings, what else--twigs, pine cones, all the things that you may find in your yard.)---
>>>SOME YARD TRASH IN FLORIDA IS STILL GOING TO THE WASTE. BUT LUCKILY, A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF THE YARD TRASH IS NOW BEING RECYCLED INTO USEFUL PRODUCTS. THAT MESSAGE ON THE IMPORTANCE OF RECYCLING IS BEING PASSED ON TO 4-H MEMBERS.
>>>DAVID DINKINS-EXTENSION DIRECTOR-BRADFORD CO.: The reason recycling our yard trash is important for energy conservation, is we're saving money by having, or by not having the solid waste haulers go by and pick it up, take it to a processing facility, and do all the things at the processing facility that's necessary. It's projected that about a half gallon of fuel is used per household per year, just on picking up yard trash. And for example we have some children here from Duval County, they've got about a million, you know, people. We're talking a half-million, you know, gallons of fuel, right there is just one example. Another way energy is saved by using yard waste is by mulching the plants we're going to use less water, you know, less pumping, less herbicides, and well less human energy hopefully on pulling weeds, if you use mulch. So there's all types of ways to save energy in the landscape, through yard waste management.
---(Ya'll looked at all of them? O.K. I'll help you.)---
>>>AS PART OF A EFFORT TO PROMOTE YARD TRASH RECYCLING, 4-H MEMBERS ARE ASSIGNED THE JOB OF JUDGING THE BEST COMPOSTING SYSTEM AMONG THE MANY COMMONLY USED TODAY.
---(You all are going to be the compost bin evaluators. You all know what that means. I want you to look at this bin here, is a three-bin composter, see the green drum. All these have a poster with information. I want you to look at that and practice using it, and say which would be the easiest for me to use and recycle my yard trash, and then I want you look at the wire bin over here to your right. Look at the wire bin and see if that would be a good one to use, and read the posters and look at the price. Each of these bins has a different price on them.)---
>>>THE STUDENTS ARE TRYING TO FIND OUT HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF RECYCLING AND BENEFIT THE ENVIRONMENT AT THE SAME TIME.
>>>MANDY RUSCHER-4-H MEMBER: I think it's important to compost, so we don't have to fill up our landfills, but if we compost we can just use that in our yard. And it just, saves a lot of space and energy.
>>>RICHARD SIMPSON-4-H MEMBER: Use your dead leaves that you rake up off the ground and bag them up and put them in your garden and use them instead of just burning them or throwing them away.
---(The correct temperature of the bin should be?)---
>>>IN ADDITION TO LEARNING THE REASONS WHY COMPOSTING IS IMPORTANT, THE STUDENTS ALSO LEARNED THE RIGHT METHODS OF COMPOSTING...THE PROPER DO'S AND DON'TS.
---(Volume--that's the size of the pile--it needs to be at least three foot by three foot.)---
>>>EXPERTS WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA SAY BACKYARD COMPOSTING CAN BE AS SIMPLE AS CHILD'S PLAY BUT EVEN IF THESE CHILDREN DON'T COMPOST ON THEIR OWN...IT'S HOPED THEY WILL ENCOURAGE THEIR PARENTS TO DO SO.
---(If you're actually going to continue to take your trash, and let the garbage man haul it off, or if you're going to burn your leaves, draw a picture showing that. If you're going to compost, show me that, or if you're going to rake them in a landscape bed, show me that. )--
>>>DINKINS: Composting is just one aspect of yard waste management. We don't expect much of these kids to compost, but we do expect them to leave their yard waste on site, either by composting, or by using the leaves in their flower beds, or just one child for example said he gives his leaves to a neighbor that in turn gives them to a gardening friend. So we're just trying to, again like with all our 4-H programs, teach them to be a good stewards of their environment.
>>>THE MESSAGE OF STEWARDSHIP AND ACCEPTING RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR PLANET SEEMS TO BE ONE THIS GENERATION UNDERSTANDS.
>>>ELIZABETH STUTSMAN-4-H MEMBER: There's a kind of energy called non-renewable, and if we keep using, if we waste all of that, we won't have any when we grow up.
>>>BESIDES COMPOSTING, THERE'S MORE THAT CAN BE DONE TO CONSERVE ENERGY.
>>>DINKINS: We've got a solar panel here at the bathroom at camp. So they're learning about how to collect the water and heat it by solar power. That's one way. Little simple things like putting a water restricter on their shower heads. We hope they'll adopt that practice. In growing their vegetables, we'll hope they'll use mulch on their vegetables. For the youngsters that might get into commercial farming, we're looking at putting a plastic mulch down and using drip irrigation to save energy that way. We're also looking at using compost and animal manures, instead of commercial fertilizer, which will also save energy.
>>>PRESERVING THE ENVIRONMENT FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS IS ON THE MINDS OF THESE 4-H MEMBERS AND MANY VOW TO DO THEIR PART TO CONSERVE OUR VALUABLE NATURAL RESOURCES IN THE COMING YEARS.
---(Are you thinking hurricane with this system at the present time? Well, we think that maybe the system could become a hurricane in a couple of days but still we have to wait and see what happens with the upper level winds.)---
>>>FINDING THE LATEST COORDINATES OF HURRICANES IS SO MUCH EASIER WITH HELP OF ELECTRICITY. WITH THE PUSH OF A BUTTON, FAMILIES ARE UPDATED ON STORM INFORMATION WITHOUT LEAVING THEIR HOMES.
---(shower running)---
>>>AND WHAT SHOWER WOULD BE COMPLETE WITHOUT HOT WATER.
>>>OR HOW WOULD STEAMED CLAMS TASTE WITHOUT THE STEAM?
>>>IT' EASY TO SEE HOW ENERGY IMPACTS OUR LIVES BUT UNFORTUNATELY, MOST OF US TAKE IT FOR GRANTED. AN UNUSUAL ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PROGRAM BY THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IS TRYING TO CHANGE THAT.
---(I want you to sit up here and I want you to put together and split atoms. That's what nuclear is. Fission and fusion of atoms.)---
>>>BETH BOYD-UF ENERGY SPECIALIST: We're trying to teach them how different types of energy work, how different things work, how much energy things take. We figure if we teach the kids what takes more energy and what doesn't, they'll take it home and they'll apply it at home and they'll say, mom, dad, these bulbs work better, or something like that.
---(Eating food, right. What form of energy is he? Electrical. What's he doing? Electrons--what are they doing? They're moving around--moving electrons. Okay, What is she? Radiant, sun, solar, right. What form of energy is she? Heat, which is what form of energy? Thermal, very good.)---
>>>THE PROGRAM TEACHES THE CHILDREN ABOUT BASIC FORMS OF ENERGY...MECHANICAL, CHEMICAL, ELECTRICAL, RADIANT, THERMAL, AND NUCLEAR.
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>>>BOYD: Mechanical is things like cars and bicycles. Chemical, we get all our energy from the food we eat, chemical, that also includes the gasoline that we use for the cars. Electrical is the moving electrons. Thermal is heat energy. Chemical is again, the food. Nuclear is the splitting and putting together of atoms. And radiant is solar energy. We teach the kids six basic forms of energy, that way they can cover all bases and you can teach them about the transformation of energy, what type of energy everything takes. That gets them to thinking about it and how much some energy takes.
>>>ANOTHER WAY TO DRIVE THE POINT HOME ABOUT ENERGY USAGE IS THROUGH PEDAL POWER.
---(Okay, you don't feel anything do you? Okay, try to keep peddling, this is going to be harder, okay. Okay, now put your hand over here.)---
>>>THIS IS NO ORDINARY BICYCLE. IT WON'T TAKE YOU AROUND THE BLOCK OR EVEN TO THE END OF THE CORNER. WHAT IT WILL DO IS TEACH YOU ABOUT ENERGY IN A WAY YOU'VE PROBABLY NEVER LEARNED BEFORE.
---(Okay, you can stop. Which one's harder, the fan or the blow dryer. Is the blow dryer a lot harder. Okay, hop off. tell me, does anybody know.)---
>>>THE UNUSUAL BICYCLE IS ACTUALLY CALLED AN ENERGY CYCLE AND YOU GET A LOT MORE FROM IT THAN JUST A GOOD WORKOUT.
>>>BOYD: The energy cycle is a really good way of showing the transformation of energy, from the chemical from the body, to the mechanical used for the bike, to the electrical used in the generator up to the live energy used in the light. It shows them how incandescent lights take a lot more energy than fluorescent because they use heat, shows them how the blow dryer takes a lot more energy than the fan because it uses heat. It shows them how much energy a radio and a tape player takes, so that when they leave the room they don't just leave it on and walk out, they understand that they're using a lot of energy.
>>>ONCE YOU GET ON THE ENERGY CYCLE, YOUR LEGS BECOME THE PRIMARY SOURCE OF ENERGY. THE HARDER AND FASTER YOU PEDAL, THE MORE ENERGY IS GENERATED.
---(Can you keep going or are you tired?)---
>>>ELIZABETH STUTSMAN-4-H MEMBER: It was hard, and the incandescent lights were more harder and it took up more energy than the fluorescents.
>>>RICHARD SIMPSON-4-H MEMBER: I learned that it takes a lot of energy--energy to, like, power light bulbs and power radios, and hair dryers and stuff like that. And, just takes a lot of energy--energy to do it.
---(Now, I want you to start riding.)---
>>>THE ENERGY CYCLE PROVIDES 4-H MEMBERS A PERSONAL LOOK AT HOW MANY ENERGY IT TAKES TO RUN EVERYDAY HOUSEHOLD ITEMS. ORGANIZERS HOPE THE CHILDREN WILL WALK AWAY FROM THIS EXPERIENCE WITH A BETTER APPRECIATION OF ENERGY AND A BETTER UNDERSTANDING FOR THE NEED FOR ENERGY CONSERVATION.
>>>BOYD: Children are going to be the grown-ups of tomorrow. They're the ones that are going on, they're the ones that-we're using up all our renewable resources now, or non-renewable resources, they're the ones that are going to have to think about this problem in the future. So if we bring it home to them now, they start thinking about it now, by the time they're grown-ups and have to deal with the problem they have some idea of what's going on.
---(What I want you to do now, is I want each of you to tell me a different way you think you can save energy, whether it be at home or here at the camp or whatever you think you can do. And I want the first six ways to be different. So Elizabeth, what's one way you can save energy...Turn off the water when you're not using it. When you brush your teeth, turn off the water. There's no reason to leave it running. Lynn...turn off the lights when you leave the room. So we've got turn off the water when you brush your teeth, use fluorescent light bulbs, turn off the light. Anthony.)---
>>>SABRE MICHAEL-4-H MEMBER: We need to start saving energy and that I need, we need to start using fluorescent bulbs, instead of in-indescent, because fluorescent bulbs use less energy. And I learned that, it's better to be aware of what you're doing, like not having the refrigerator open.
>>>TEAIRA PETERKN-4-H MEMBER: I think it's important to conserve energy in the future because we gonna need it for air conditioning, so you won't be hot and pass out, and, for like your lights and stuff, and, fans, stuff like that.
---(On the count of three I want everybody to say what the definition of energy is, okay, so one, two, three. The ability to do work. Very good.)--
>>>ALTHOUGH PEDALING ON THE ENERGY IS HARD WORK, IT'S ALSO A FUN WAY LEARN HOW MUCH WE DEPEND ON ENERGY IN NEARLY EVERYTHING WE DO.
---(Nuclear fission. It is the splitting of an atom's nucleus, okay. A lot of energy is created when you split an atom's nucleus. I'm going to give you two paper balls. And those are going to be your split nucleus, okay? And we're going to stand in a circle and we're going to start the chain reaction. Once you get rid of both of your paper balls, get them off the ground and start chunking them. Okay. You'll get into it, I promise. And there is a chain reaction. All right?)---
>>>IT MIGHT BE DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE BUT THIS IS AN IMPORTANT LESSON IN ENERGY CONSERVATION. ON THE SURFACE, IT LOOKS LIKE FUN AND GAMES BUT EXPERTS WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA SAY UNDERSTANDING ENERGY THROUGH GAMES IS A KEY TO CONSERVING IT.
>>>RHANDA MCKOWN-UF-4-H ENVIRONMENTAL SPECIALIST: It's a really fun way for the kids to be able to recognize that there's a chain reaction that happens in most everything, and there's a chain reaction in the food chain, you know, nuclear fission, none of them ever get to hear about that in school until they get in college and I figure it's a really neat approach for them to be able to go ahead and get familiarized with it, and I give them a visual aid of what the chain reaction in the molecules and things.
---(Okay, this is the energy pyramid guys. These are different trophic levels, okay, and this is to demonstrate how you lose your energy when you would go down a food chain. You have your producers, primary consumers, which eat the producers, your secondary consumers which eat the primary consumers, and your tertiary consumers that can eat either one. The whole idea of the game is so that you can visually and physically be able to move from one trophic level to the next, without actually having to eat plants and animals and stuff.)---
>>>ANOTHER ENERGY GAME CALLED 4-CORNERS HELPS 4-H MEMBERS LEARN MORE ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENERGY PRODUCERS AND THE VARIOUS CONSUMERS OF THAT ENERGY.
>>>MCKOWN: It shows them what it's like to be part of a food chain, cause you have your vegetation, which is your producers, and then your next level is your people that eat the grass and vegetation and things, and you have your next level that eats those animals and then the high level which is us and we talk about how as you go up the pyramid you lose more and more energy and it's very, very little energy that we get to keep from the sun, but it's enough to keep us alive.
---(Tertiary consumers--you're out! Come on guys...come have a seat.)---
>>>MCKOWN: Tertiary consumers are omnivorous, that's you and I. They can eat meat, they can eat grass, they can eat any of that, and still stay alive and since they're high on the energy pyramid they don't get very much energy, they have one one thousandth of a percent from the original energy from the sun and I use the example if I give you a thousand coca-colas you're only allowed to drink one and they'll, oh my goodness, and I say well, it's not very much energy but it keeps us alive, and they-they think that's really neat.
>>>PLAYING ENERGY GAMES GIVES THE CHILDREN A CHANCE TO EXERCISE THEIR BODIES BY THROWING PAPER BALLS AND RUNNING BUT IT'S THE IMPACT ON THEIR MINDS THAT IS HAVING THE GREATEST BENEFIT.
>>>STUTSMAN: After this camp, I'm going to go home and tell my parents if they need a new light bulb to go and get a fluorescent.
>>>MICHAEL: Every time we turn on the light and we walk out of the room it's using up the, sources that we might need for a real big cause one day.
>>>SIMPSON: I going to conserve energy in the future by turning off the water, unplugging things that I'm not using.
>>>AS THE 4-H MEMBERS PLAY, THEY'RE ALSO LEARNING IMPORTANT LESSONS ABOUT THE BALANCE OF NATURE AND WHAT PEOPLE CAN DO TO PRESERVE IT.
>>>MCKOWN: Turn the light off, when you leave a room, put your air conditioner on 78 degrees, turn the water off when you're brushing your teeth. Don't keep it running, make sure that you don't have drips in your faucets or pipes. The simple things. It's real easy to conserve energy. Use a paper napkin, you know, a couple times if you can, use cloth napkins preferably, that saves energy in having to recycle, and there's a lot of things you can do at home to be able to conserve energy.
>>>LEARNING ABOUT THE FOOD CHAIN HELPS THE ENVIRONMENT IN A NUMBER OF WAYS. UF EXPERTS SAY IT NOT ONLY TEACHES CHILDREN ABOUT THE DELICATE BALANCE OF NATURE BUT ALSO SHOWS THEM THE CONSEQUENCES OF WHAT HAPPENS WHEN NATURE IS OUT OF BALANCE. WHEN THESE CHILDREN BECOME THE GROWN-UPS OF TOMORROW, IT'S HOPED THEY'LL MAKE BETTER INFORMED DECISIONS ABOUT PRESERVING OUR NATURAL RESOURCES FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.
>>>FLORIDA'S NATURAL RESOURCES HAVE A LOT TO OFFER NEW RESIDENTS AND IF FUTURE POPULATION PREDICTIONS COMES TRUE, BY THE YEAR 2020, MORE THAN 13-HUNDRED PEOPLE EVERY DAY WILL BE FLOCKING TO THIS STATE. BUT EXPERTS ARE HOPING IF WE'RE PREPARED THROUGH ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND PLANNING, THE NATURAL BEAUTY AND OUR NATURAL RESOURCES CAN BE PRESERVED FOR THE FUTURE.
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>>>IMPACT, A WEEKLY LOOK AT ISSUES AND ANSWERS THAT IMPACT OUR LIVES AND THE WORLD AROUND US. IT'S PRODUCED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA'S INSTITUTE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES.
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