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NEWSPAPER November 22, 2019 Fridays for Future : Global Environment March By Milan Arpino and Dév Shrikam LRS 5th Grader, Maya Narendula, peacefully protesting during the Global Climate Strike in September. Fridays for Future is an organization that is trying to peacefully protest against global warming. Did you know that this organization recently coordinated marches in thirty countries, including the USA? According to NASA, there is evidence for climate change such as a rise in global temperature, warmer oceans, rising ocean levels, and declining Arctic sea ice. Activists such as Greta Thunberg and Fridays for Future are trying to raise awareness and reduce plastic in our oceans. Here in our school community, Long Ridge is collecting single-use plastic to see how 1 much the school uses on a weekly basis. We think organization’s like Fridays for Future will really help the earth's future, but we need to do something about it too. The Global Environment March on September 20, 2019 was designed to represent the earth's beauty. Greta Thunberg, a 15 year old student, started her peaceful protests when she sat in front of the Swedish parliament every school day for three weeks. Greta started a global protest that demanded presidents and politicians make more laws to protect the earth's atmosphere and environment. She posted her actions on Instagram and Twitter and her post blew up. Fridays for Future is an organization that is trying to protest against global warming. It began in August, 2018 with Thunberg’s peaceful protests but the organization has grown to include helpful information on its website. A newsletter, opinion articles, documentaries, and important dates for upcoming cleanups are just some of the helpful actions that this website offers. We, with Fridays for Future, can help by not buying plastic bottles. If we do buy plastic bottles, we must recycle or we can reuse them. We can also help by protesting against factories and toxic waste going into nature. Plastic shopping bags are also ending up in the oceans, and each of us can bring our own reusable shopping bags to the market when we shop. We believe we can and need to protest against global warming and pollution. Let’s save our future! The Long Ridge School community is working together to collect single-use plastic to find out how much single- use plastic the school uses each week. These are just some of the ways to help our environment. The Global Environment March and Fridays for Future have helped the world become more aware of global warming. Nasa scientists believe there are many reasons for global warming. 97 percent of scientists agree: “Climate warming trends over the past century are extremely likely due to human activities.” What do you think you can do to help the world become a better place? Sources: https://www.fridaysforfuture.org/about, www.nyctimes.com www.climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/ 4Ocean: Actively Cleaning our Oceans and Coastlines 2 By Owen Black and Will DeSantis There are currently over five trillion pieces of plastic floating in the oceans worldwide. This staggering number is scary, but there is hope. 4Ocean is a company that is trying to take this numerous amount of plastic out of the ocean. It is also the biggest trash-cleaning company on earth. The problem of too much plastic is global, and the company 4Ocean is helping. The company started when the founders, Andrew Cooper and Alex Schulze, took a trip to Bali, Indonesia. Newsweek reports that Schulze said, “The plane was landing, and I saw what I thought were big lines of seaweed. But they were actually little tide pools of plastic. The beach was just covered in plastic.” Andrew and Alex saw fishermen actually plowing through mounds of garbage to get to open water. They realized that if they hired fishermen to pull plastic from the ocean, they could clean the oceans. Cooper and Schulze founded 4Ocean in January, 2017. 4Ocean funds its efforts from the sale of 4Ocean products. These products are mentioned later in the article. Andrew Cooper and Alex Schulze created an amazing company two years ago, and they are working very hard to sustain it. The 4Ocean company works seven days a week. They have taken about 7,057,504 pounds of garbage out of the ocean, and that number is still climbing. If you want to monitor the amount on the 4Ocean website, go to https://4ocean.com. The company is not global yet, but they are working in 27 countries so far. Carissa Lewis (LRS science teacher and future Head of School) was asked for her opinion of 4Ocean and said, “Not only are they actively helping to clean the ocean, they are recycling and reusing the materials they collect and giving the average person an opportunity to also be involved in helping the oceans.” These materials are being recycled and repurposed. 3 The 4Ocean company sells bracelets, metal water bottles, and clothing. The 4Ocean bracelet beads are made of glass and plastic water bottles, that have been discarded in the ocean. All items are cleaned before they are used in products. 4Ocean has 25 bracelets so far, and they come out with a new one every month. You can sign up for a monthly subscription, - a new bracelet every month - buy a two pack, or just buy a single bracelet. 4Ocean creates many amazing products On October 13 and 14, 2019, 4Ocean had a clean-up meeting called Water Warriors Summit. The WWS met to discuss how to protect the Chattahoochee River basin in Georgia. Almost twenty years ago, the city of Atlanta was forced to remove 1,136,000 pounds of trash, including seven automobiles, from streams that feed into the Chattahoochee! 4Ocean will keep cleaning up, and you can help! We hope you have learned a lot about this amazing company. If you want to help them out, buy their products and go to their cleanups on November 23, 2019 in Florida! Sources: https://garivers.org/chattahoochee-river/ 4ocean photo courtesy of https://4ocean.com Rock Shops: Through the Years By Leonardo Ferraro 4 At The Long Ridge School there is a thing called a Rock Shop. What is a Rock Shop? Who are in the Rock Shops? I will answer these questions and more. Read on. A Rock Shop is a territory at The Long Ridge School where people build rock walls or trade rocks and sticks. Students think it’s like the caveman times when they builT stuff out of sticks and rocks. Now people are trading and sharpening sticks to build or break things. Students are keeping their most valuable rocks in rock safes where they cover their valuable rocks in giant rocks. I interviewed Danny Cepeda, the LRS facilities manager. I asked him how Rock Shops have changed since he started working at LRS in 1993. He said that many years ago it started as stick huts, and every summer the camp dismantled the huts and threw the sticks into the woods. In 2003, students started using the rocks from the stone walls and the huts evolved. Now, trading is a huge part of Rock Shops. Every new school year, Rock Shops begin with a new clean start because the camp takes them down every summer. I have interviewed PattI Lesando, the LRS secretary, about Rock Shops. She told me interesting things about Rock Shops. I asked her how long Rock Shops have been in this school. Since Patti can remember, the Rock shops have been popular. People in Rock Shops have traded rocks and sticks and they build with sticks and break stuff with sticks. I have interviewed Will Desantis, a 4th grade student at LRS. He told me what he builds in Rock Shops. He builds shelters made out of sticks and rock walls. I also interviewed Mark Feygin, another 4th grade student, who is going to tell me what people do with sticks and rocks. They build traps and forts and trade with sticks, rocks, and litter. I have also interviewed Felix Katch, a 3rd grade student, and he is going to tell me why they trade sticks. They trade sticks to build teepees and shelters. I have interviewed Dév Shrikam and he told me about what he did in Rock Shops. He told me that he and his friends chipped rocks. I have interviewed Wes DeNatale and he told me what he does in Rock Shops. He does digging and planting safes in his Rock Shop, like under the stump and in the ground. Sometimes there are also vice Rock Shop leaders. I work in Rock Shops and all I know is people train to build and dig in the dirt and people have fun. I have positive reviews about Rock Shops and I have fun. People are having fun with Rock Shops and I had fun talking about them with you. I would suggest we should have a Rock Shop Summit. I’m Leonardo Ferraro and and this is Rock Shops: Through the Years! The Pokémon Company: A Card Game 5 By Felix Katch Do you like Pokémon? Pokémon is a Japanese media company, and they make TV shows, card games, video games, toys, books and costumes. The company has been around for 23 years, and it has a global presence. In this article you will learn about all things Pokémon. Did you know The Pokémon company was launched in 1996 in Japan? The creator was named Satoshi Tajiri. The company came to the U.S.A. in 1998. In that time, the company made different cards.