Sponsor:
Ms. Fulton/Ms. Shively

   What is Chipko? This is an Indian (Asian) word meaning treehugger. It is also the club for Marcus students that care about our environment. Come join us!

Chipko - From their origins as a spontaneous protest against logging abuses in Uttar Pradesh in the Himalayas, thousands of supporters of the Chipko movement, mainly village level women, have won bans on clear felling in an number of regions and influenced natural resource policy in India. The name of the movement comes from a word meaning "embrace". The women practiced satagraha - nonviolent resistance, and interposed their bodies between the trees and the contractors' axes, thus becoming the environmental movement's first tree huggers.

Did you know?
•Recycling a 4-foot stack of newspaper saves a 40-foot pine tree.
•The third largest port exporting waste paper from the United States is Laredo at 452,000 tons per year (followed by Los Angeles and New York).
•Recycling paper saves 25 to 70 percent of the energy, 60 percent of the water, and 17 trees that would be consumed per ton of virgin paper manufactured.
•Recycling paper reduces associated air pollution by 60-75 percent, water pollution by 15-60 percent, and harvesting waste by 40 percent from what would be produced in manufacturing virgin paper.
•Every week, more than five hundred thousand trees are used to produce the two thirds of newspapers that are never recycled.

For more cool environmental facts like these, check out www.environmentaldefense.org.