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Mortola Library  
Earth Month Activities and Display   

Students, faculty, and staff will be read continuously from 8:30 am to 7:30 pm.  Participants were welcomed to read original works or previously published material. 12-3 will featured Earth Readings in honor of Earth Day.

For pictures from the read aloud, click here.

• Last year’s display showed that we wasted 4.65 trees in one semester of print jobs that were not collected at the CRC lab.
• In another effort to reduce the use of chemical pesticides, the library will be making available marigold seedlings on the day of their Library Read Aloud as gifts to readers and attendees (they are natural mosquito repellants).
• Also available will be notepads made from the paper in the “Think Before You Print” display from last year.

In addition to the Think Before You Print Display, the library is doing a display on Recycling and conservation of resources.  It included recyclable materials and recycling facts like: recycling 5 plastic bottles creates enough fiberfill to stuff a ski jacket.  It also had tips on how to conserve energy with simple tips.

As of  4/29/04 this pile represents:
35,750 Sheets of paper
4.30 Trees
$550.55
At this rate, over an entire semester it will waste:
143,000 Sheets of paper
38.6 Trees
$4954.60
.021 Acres
At this rate, over an entire year it will waste:
429,000 sheets of paper
115.8Trees
$14,864.80
.60 Acres

This is the pile that was used for our Guess the Paper Weight Contest.  It weighed 344.7 lbs!