Send a Tree-Free eCard

Are you doing what you can to help the environment? Send eCards to your friends and increase awareness about the issues — and what kids can do to make a difference.

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First, pick one of the four environmental themes below.

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Pick one fact to include on your eCard.

Temperatures are projected to rise more rapidly in the next 100 years than in the last 10,000 years.
Source: Scholastic's Kids' Environmental Report Card
If the Greenland ice sheet melts completely, it will add enough water to raise sea levels all across the world by 21 feet!
Source: The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming
Eleven out of the 12 of years between 1994 and 2006 were the hottest on record.
Source: The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming
Because of global warming, the amount of ice formed during winters in the arctic is not keeping up with the amount of ice melting during the summers.
Source: American Museum of Natural History

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In crowded California, urban sprawl is the number one threat to most of the state's 286 endangered species.
Source: American Museum of Natural History
Scientists estimate that 100 to 10,000 species go extinct each year.
Source: American Museum of Natural History
Only 1,600 to 3,000 giant pandas live in the wild today.
Source: Scholastic News Online
After 30 years on the endangered species list, the Yellowstone grizzly bear gained enough numbers to be taken off the list.
Source: Scholastic News Online

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In 2006, people produced more than 251 million tons of trash. That's about 4.6 pounds of waste per person per day.
Source: Scholastic's Kids' Environmental Report Card
More than a billion people live without enough safe, clean water.
Source: American Museum of Natural History
Thrown-out food makes up about 10% of garbage sent to landfills.
Source: American Museum of Natural History
What can you do to protect marine leatherback turtles? Make sure plastic bags don't wind up in the ocean. They're a major threat because they look just like the turtles favorite treat: jellyfish.
Source: American Museum of Natural History

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I'm selective about the seafood I eat. I try to eat fish that comes from carefully monitored and sustainable fisheries or aquaculture.
Source: American Museum of Natural History
I ask for tap water instead of bottled water. Packaging and shipping the two billion gallons of bottled water that Americans drink each year uses huge amounts of energy and produces tons of pollution.
Source: American Museum of Natural History
I try to eat produce that is grown locally and eat foods that are lower on the food chain to reduce the energy needed to feed you and me!
Source: American Museum of Natural History
I use plastic bags more than once — or I bring my own bag to the store. To make 14 plastic bags, you'd need the same amount of petroleum that it would take to drive a car one mile.
Source: The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming