Easter Sunday - The Final Blog

Easter Sunday 2016!

 Happy Easter - Hallelujah - It's our Final Blog!!!

Hello everyone and first of all, a really big thank you for visiting our blog. We have loved making all the videos - it's been hard at times - but we've learned a lot along the way.

The first attempt at making the video for tonight took us over 10 minutes because really we'd love to talk about all the things we've learned by going on our lent adventure!                              

The main thing we'd like to say is that we discovered how important it is to have a Growth Mindset - to keep on learning and be determined to keep on learning and understand that no-one has all the answers. 

We've learned things we had no idea about, like Palm Oil destroying the rainforests, that factory farming of rabbits even exists (!!!) and that there are lots of things you can do to help causes you care about - like signing petitions, not buying certain products and just spreading the word about important topics, like we have with our blog. We've  learned  that some things are very complicated, like the refugee crisis and that some people would rather not help other people - but that made us more determined to keep going because there are so many people who need help.

There are lots of things we have changed about how we live our lives. We eat less meat, read labels more carefully and think twice about some of the stuff we throw out and how we can save energy.

We hope we've been able to make a difference and that by doing lots of small things, working together, we can change the world and save our planet. Here is a list of some of the things we've tackled on the Blog:

Day 1 - Litter
Day 2 - Sock Apples (recycling!)
Day 3 - Switch it Off
Day 4 - It's About Love
Day 5 - If it's not Dirty was at.... (think about our habits!)
Day 6 - END THE CAGE AGE!!!!!
Day 7 - We're Talking Rubbish
Day 8 - Stay Safe Online (and be Kind!!!)
Day 10 & 11 - Helping Refugees
Day 13 - Helping the Birds
Day 14 - Fight Against Cancer
Day 16 - Saving Our Libraries
Day 18 - Fairtrade Sunday & Thinking Beyond Fairtrade
Day ??? World Book Day - help the world love reading
Meat Free Monday - cutting down to save the planet!!!
Going Organic & Ending Factory Farming
Recycling helps others too
Animal Rescue - our story
Say No to Palm Oil
Cleaning up for Earth Hour
M'on the Bees - Saving our environment - we can all help

It's quite a list and we could have done so much more. If there is one thing we hope though, it's that everyone in the world adopts a Growth Mindset. If we learn every day and we are willing to change our minds about little things, maybe we will change our habits and work together for change.

We did this blog as part of Lent, rather than giving up something, we wanted to do something positive for the planet. We aren't experts about the Bible but we think Jesus would have learned a lot about himself by going into the dessert and fasting for all that time. He had to find the strength to face what he knew was coming because even if he believed he was the son of God, it must have been really hard.

No-one knows for sure if Jesus was the son of God or even if there is a God - that is for everyone to decide for themsleves what they believe. We think though, that the important thing is that he is someone who wanted to make the world a better place for everyone and that he wanted to teach people how to be good and kind to each other and have more love in the world.

We hope that by doing our blog we have tried to follow Jesus' example and play a small part in making the world a better place.

Wherever you are in the world and whatever religion you follow or whether you don't follow one at all, we hope you have enjoyed our blogs and we thank you for visiting our site.

Happy Easter to you all and many many Easter Blessings to everyone,

Amelie and Erin xxxx

Cleaning Up For Earth Hour

It's Earth Hour

Cleaning Up For Earth Hour

Hi Everyone - today is the day of Earth Hour, which is all about the world coming together to save energy....We already did a blog about switching off electricity when you don't need it though - so today we want to talk about one particular part of daily life which is really harmful to the environment.

When we were doing our blog on switch it off, we saw how the games console and tv used more energy than light bulbs. We also saw how heating an old cup of tea in the microwave used less energy than boiling the kettle for the same time (about 40seconds). This is because the kettle uses more power, it says 3.5kw on the plug, whereas the microwave was 700 watts!

The shower however, uses 9.5kw and you use it for a lot more than 40 seconds when you wash yourself. It seems most people tend to have a shower every day but if that is true, we are probably using all the energy it is recommended we use, just on washing ourselves. This is really bad news and even if we turn everything off when we aren't using it and try and buy things which use less energy, we probably wouldn't save as much energy than if we just spent less time in the shower.

Having a shower every day also uses a lot of water, which isn't great for the planet either but a lot of skin specialists also think it isn't good for your skin and hair to wash every day either. We've all got so used to washing frequently, that our body's oils are washed away and we probably smell more because of this too. We are not saying not to wash and be smelly all the time but if you wash the bits that smell the most by having a sink bath or using cloths and soap, it will work just as well.

We have a box of clean cloth wipes that we use and then wash in them in the washing machine. We use them for hankies too and it's a great way to cut down on waste.

Basically, we want to do all we can to help the planet and cut down on energy. If everyone took one less shower a week that would be a lot of energy saved. Even spending less time when in the shower, maybe washing your hair less, would help if we all did it.

Working together, we can stay clean and clean up the planet too!

Thanks for visiting....we hope you enjoyed Earth Hour too. There are some useful links below.

Amelie and Erin :)


https://www.earthhour.org/

Our Switch It Off Blog

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/08/shower-once-a-week-polluting-environment

http://www.ryot.org/study-shower-less-hygiene-health/912353

http://www.cheekywipes.com/

http://www.wisebread.com/how-to-shower-less-and-still-feel-clean