PCDS in Arizona
I’m now learning that last spring 50 students in the fifth grade at Phoenix Country Day School in Paradise Valley, Arizona canceled about 400 catalogs. Congratulations PCDS!
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Park School 4,466
Park’s Middle Division smashed our 4,125 canceled catalogs record from two years back, and I’m giddy to report that 170 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders canceled 4,466 unwanted sales catalogs. 38 kids canceled 60 or more to get a One Tree Club patch. Several canceled 120 and will get the Two Tree Club patch! Two others are in the Eight and Nine Tree Club (see post below).
Our efforts will stop 26,796 catalogs from being made and mailed in the next 12 months (assuming 1 cancellation stops 6 future catalogs from production) and will save 74 trees! This will also save a tremendous amount of water (75,000 gallons) and energy use (3 “cars worth” of CO2 stopped).
Borrowing an idea from Shady Hill teacher, Drew Mckay, 12 Park teachers told the kids we’d dye our hair green or wear green wigs for a day if they could break the old record. And now they have. Uggg.
Enjoy a slide show about our CCC. Green hair to be added next Tuesday!
Becky and Chris!
I am compelled to write a special post to Becky and Chris. These 4th and 5th grade students are the Tom Brady and Peyton Manning of canceling catalogs. When we started the One Tree Club this year, they came in as the first to reach 60 canceled in only 3 or 4 days! From then on each night, they were canceling massive amounts of catalogs. They put in dozens of hours in their mission to help our planet.
In just 30 days using CatalogChoice.org, Chris canceled 556 unwanted sales catalogs! Becky used the phone and canceled a whopping 511! That’s a combined 1,067 canceled catalogs, these two will save 17.5 trees in one year’s time! Two kids. 17.5 trees. Stunning.
Special thanks to these two, and also their neighbors who gave them so many catalogs that they no longer wanted. Also, to their parents who got their colleagues to bring in hundreds of unwanted catalogs, too. Becky and Chris, you are my catalog canceling heroes. Many people and the planet owe you their appreciation for your hard work.