Hello Japan!!! And Yoko, Mr. Ohmori,Yoshiko, Kiyomi, the people from Canon

and everyone I met while at the Youth Environmental Conference in Kobe.

THANK YOU for bringing me to the conference and THANK YOU for giving us these awesome Canon Cameras to document what is going on every day in our countries concerning the environment. I know that working together we CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

See you next month with more pictures.

Slater

 

­Pesticides, chemicals to kill unwanted plants or weeds,

to maintain a perfect lawn.

 

Wires. They are a common sight all across our globe, wires to

bring energy to our homes and businesses. All around the globe,

energy is becoming a problem because of how we get it, either

from coal, fossil fuels, nuclear etc, or a more sustainable choice:

wind, solar, etc.

 

 

This shows some of the garbage at my landfill waiting to be

sorted. The landfill will be full in 2 years.

 

 

Also at the landfill, tires, a substance that we can use for many

things, but are more likely to be easily thrown ‘away’.

 

This may only be one plastic bag, but how many ‘one plastic

Bags’ are there? They are everywhere, when you look closer.

 

I was shocked to see clear-cutting so close to where I live, about

30 minutes away. Clear-cutting forests is more disturbing when

it’s so close.

 

 

 

This is only one bottle. Only one.

But, like the plastic bags,

they are everywhere, and the only one

way of thinking is leading to us ignoring

a bigger problem of garbage than we think.

On the 30 minute drive home from school

we counted 31 plastic bottles or bags that

were trash at the side of the road or in a pond.