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	<title>The CATALOG CANCELING CHALLENGE</title>
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	<description>5,635 kids in 15 states have canceled 34,379 unwanted sales catalogs so far...</description>
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		<title>South Dakota Girl Scouts Join!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three 8th graders in Girl Scout Troop 74504 from Rapid City, SD canceled at total of 196 unwanted sales catalogs! Each of these young women canceled over 60 to join the One Tree Club and their patches are in the mail! They used this CCC project as a part of their &#8220;Forever Green Project&#8221; where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkschool.org/blogs/ted_wells/2010/02/19/south-dakota-girl-scouts-join/</link>
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		<title>Recycling Rangers in Key West ROCK!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Poinciana Elementary School’s Recycling Rangers, in Key West, Florida, have completed their second annual Catalog Canceling Challenge. Thanks to the 16 students ages 5-10 who participated, they canceled a total of 255 catalogs and will save 4 trees in one year&#8217;s time. Ms. Weidner’s class of fifth graders who canceled a total of 65 catalogs were the winners of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkschool.org/blogs/ted_wells/2010/02/19/recycling-rangers-in-key-west-rock/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;We have one Earth&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My class reads Time for Kids, an 8-page new magazine, each Wednesday night. In December, &#8220;TFK&#8221; gave out a homework sheet asking kids to give President Obama advice and to mail in our responses. We did, and guess what showed up in last week&#8217;s magazine? A green morsel of wisdom from Becky, one of my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkschool.org/blogs/ted_wells/2010/01/31/we-have-one-earth/</link>
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		<title>Shady Hill School Cancels 1,008!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A BIG CONGRATS to Shady Hill School&#8217;s 4th grade in Cambridge, MA for breaking 1,000! 4th grade teacher (and new daddy!) Drew Mackay reports:
Once again our Catalog Canceling Challenge was a success with a grand total of 1,008! We tracked our totals weekly, made math problems with the number of catalogs canceled, and created a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkschool.org/blogs/ted_wells/2010/01/19/shady-hill-school-cancels-1008/</link>
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		<title>PCDS in Arizona</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;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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		<link>http://www.parkschool.org/blogs/ted_wells/2009/12/24/pcds-in-arizona/</link>
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		<title>Green Hair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We teachers in Park&#8217;s Middle Division (3rd-5th) told the kids we&#8217;d dye our hair green, wear wigs, and/or put on their recess recycling superhero costumes for a day if the kids broke their old record of 4,125. They did it, and here are some photos of us this morning. Click to enlarge&#8230;or not.
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		<link>http://www.parkschool.org/blogs/ted_wells/2009/12/08/green-hair/</link>
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		<title>170 Kids Save 74 Trees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By canceling 4,466 unwanted catalogs, our school will stop over 26,000 from being made in one year&#8217;s time&#8230;and that will save 74 trees. 74! In honor of our work, several students made this &#8220;catalog art&#8221; recess on Friday.


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		<link>http://www.parkschool.org/blogs/ted_wells/2009/12/05/170-kids-save-74-trees/</link>
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		<title>Park School 4,466</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Park&#8217;s Middle Division smashed our 4,125 canceled catalogs record from two years back, and I&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkschool.org/blogs/ted_wells/2009/12/03/park-school-4466/</link>
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		<title>Becky and Chris!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkschool.org/blogs/ted_wells/2009/12/03/becky-and-chris/</link>
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		<title>New &#8220;ABC News&#8221; Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the latest class video about the CCC project and our new patches. Enjoy!




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		<link>http://www.parkschool.org/blogs/ted_wells/2009/11/11/new-abc-news-video/</link>
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		<title>The One Tree Club Patch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Students who cancel 60 catalogs personally can join the ONE TREE CLUB and we&#8217;ll send you this patch.

By canceling 1 catalog, you stop 6 from production, figuring conservatively.
If 360 catalogs come from one tree (19 billion catalogs divided by 53 million trees per year), then canceling 60 stops 360 and saves one tree. Using this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkschool.org/blogs/ted_wells/2009/10/31/the-one-tree-club-patch/</link>
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		<title>Tenacre School, Wellesley, MA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jeny Randall from Tenacre Country Day School in Wellesly, MA sent in the following post about their spring CCC. Congrats to Tenacre 1st to 6th graders for cancelings 668 catalogs!

 &#8220;How many of you get catalogs at home in the mail?&#8221; The students were settling onto the floor for our morning assembly and every hand [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkschool.org/blogs/ted_wells/2009/10/30/tenacre-school-wellesley-ma/</link>
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		<title>350.org</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a recent Huffington Post article I wrote about 350.org &#8230; and my son&#8217;s connection to a few Atlantic Harbor Seals on our way home from the Boston 350 festival.

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		<link>http://www.parkschool.org/blogs/ted_wells/2009/10/30/ten-acre-school/</link>
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		<title>50-Simple Things Book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The CCC is now featured in the new addition of &#8220;50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth,&#8221; I&#8217;ve been told. With over 1 million copies in print, this is the world&#8217;s best selling environmental text for kids. I&#8217;m not sure how they found out about our project, but we&#8217;re very grateful to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkschool.org/blogs/ted_wells/2009/08/12/50-simple-things-book/</link>
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		<title>Timberlane Middle School</title>
		<description><![CDATA[950 students at The Timberlane Middle School in Pennington, New Jersey, canceled 1,614 catalogs this spring according to principle Tony Suozzo. Congratulations Timberlane!! Special recognition goes to the Apollo team in 6th grade for canceling 293 catalogs. To see a slide show of Timberlane&#8217;s results that Principle Suozzo made, click here.

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		<link>http://www.parkschool.org/blogs/ted_wells/2009/07/15/timerlane-middle-school/</link>
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		<title>Independent School Magazine, Greenschools Award, and Facing the Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1 - The CCC got some nice press in NAIS&#8217;s summer 2009 issue of Independent School Magazine (click to read). Thanks NAIS! I hope many more independent schools will join our effort next year.

2 - Our project won an award this spring!  We won the &#8220;Green Difference Award&#8221; for &#8220;Outstanding Environmental Project&#8221; from the greenschools [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkschool.org/blogs/ted_wells/2009/06/29/independent-school-magazine/</link>
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		<title>Wisconsin Girl Scouts!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fifth grade Girl Scout Troop 722 from Waunakee, Wisconsin, sent in the report below. They canceled 586 catalogs collected from four Waunakee schools! In the process they ended up on TV, too!
&#8220;Thank you for such a wonderful &#8216;green&#8217; project. We got the idea from a link posted by our Girl Scout Council.  The troop was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkschool.org/blogs/ted_wells/2009/06/03/first-wisconsin-school/</link>
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		<title>Brunswick School Reports</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lizzy DeVan at The Brunswick School in Greenwich, CT emailed today with their results. The 1st to 4th grade boys (it&#8217;s an all-boys school) canceled 677 catalogs! The CCC was organized by student members of Bruswick&#8217;s &#8220;Green Bruins&#8221; club (Charlie Burdett, Sean Redahan, Jackson Brymer, Max Bergstein, Jared Wofson) with help from Ms. DeVan. They [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkschool.org/blogs/ted_wells/2009/05/28/brunswick-school-reports/</link>
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		<title>Our First New York School!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 180 PreK to 5th graders at the North Warren Central School in Chestertown, NY wrapped up their CCC. They canceled 417 sales catalogs and loved to project! 4th grade teacher and organizer, Cheryl Erickson writes:
&#8220;Thanks for sharing this great project with everyone and for creating such a wonderful web site to support it.  You made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkschool.org/blogs/ted_wells/2009/05/01/our-first-new-york-school/</link>
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		<title>Page School, West Newbury, MA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The John C. Page school canceled 458 catalogs this month! They&#8217;re ending with a special ceremony next week where their Green Team will present green books to their library.
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		<link>http://www.parkschool.org/blogs/ted_wells/2009/05/01/page-school-west-newbury-ma/</link>
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		<title>Our First California School!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s post was written by Kate’s 2nd graders at The Children’s School in La Jolla, CA (near San Diego). Thanks to Laura Lavoie, Lauren Karkenny, and Carrie Orsborn for organizing! Their strategy was having the entire school collect cats for several weeks, then 50 student members of their Green Team and 15 teachers canceled 850 catalogs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkschool.org/blogs/ted_wells/2009/04/30/our-first-california-school/</link>
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		<title>Earth Day Poems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My students wrote these poems Earth Day Morning, edited and practiced reading yesterday, and we filmed today during a nature walk. During our walk we got to watch an Eastern Ribbon Snake sunbathe then swim in a stream.



 5/3 UPDATE: My mom watched this video and was inspired to write the poem below.

dear earth,
thank you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkschool.org/blogs/ted_wells/2009/04/24/earth-day-poems/</link>
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		<title>SNL Ad Against Junk Mail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What I&#8217;ve been attempting for two years, SNL does in under three minutes. They shred the thin paper that is the Direct Mail Industry, then recycle it against them with this parody. No, it&#8217;s not &#8220;Junk Mail,&#8221; it&#8217;s &#8220;Fun Surprise Mail!&#8221; Pass it on.




 It comes from CrooksAndLiars.com.
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		<link>http://www.parkschool.org/blogs/ted_wells/2009/04/20/snl-add-against-junk-mail/</link>
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		<title>New York Times&#8230;NOT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ugg. What disappointment. After six months of working on an OpEd about the catalog problem, my wife and I had ours accepted to the New York Times on Monday. Then it was pulled at the last second before getting into today&#8217;s paper.
This is extremely hard to do (it&#8217;s like me making the NE Patriots), but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkschool.org/blogs/ted_wells/2009/04/16/new-york-timesnot/</link>
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		<title>Six PA Schools Report!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jason Palo from Charles Patton Middle School in Unionville, PA helped organize CCCs in six different schools from his district! Jason should get some kind of serious &#8220;Tree Saver Award&#8221; for his efforts. Their results are in:
 Hillendale Elementary canceled 414.
Unionville Elementary canceled 473.
Pocopson Elementary canceled 269.
Chadds Ford Elementary canceled 235.
Charles Patton Middle School canceled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkschool.org/blogs/ted_wells/2009/04/13/6-unionville-pa-schools/</link>
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		<title>Earth Day Sheet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Lawton and I designed this Earth Day worksheet. It&#8217;s a two night homework assignment. When it comes back, discuss students&#8217; thoughts for each section. Best of all, implement some of their green ideas as class projects. Can any tie in to your curriculum? Other ideas include cutting out their drawings to make a display [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkschool.org/blogs/ted_wells/2009/04/11/earth-day-sheet/</link>
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		<title>Coatesville, PA Girl Scouts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two green, gracious, and groovy Girl Scouts from Troop 4911 in Coatesville, PA canceled 172 catalogs recently. These 6th graders and their troop leader, Claudia Rose-Muir, now have their whole school doing it for an Earth Month project! These two have earned their Girl Scout Bronze Award and continue to show great leadership and inspiration [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkschool.org/blogs/ted_wells/2009/04/08/coatesville-pa-girl-scouts/</link>
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		<title>Ellis School in NH</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Girl Scout Daisy Troop 24902  challenged their school, The Ellis School, in Fremont, NH, to join our Challenge.They just completed it and the 5- to 13-year-olds canceled 600 catalogs. Way to go Ellis School! Congratulations!

Special thanks to Mrs. Pipitone&#8217;s 7th graders who helped organize the CCC and counted all the catalogs! And to Debra Wentworth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkschool.org/blogs/ted_wells/2009/04/02/ellis-school-in-nh/</link>
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		<title>West Newbury, MA Joining In!</title>
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		<link>http://www.parkschool.org/blogs/ted_wells/2009/03/18/newburyport-ma-joining-in/</link>
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		<title>Cancel Yellow Pages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Yellow Pages are too thick to prop up wobbly tables, but too thin to work as booster seats so most don&#8217;t need them. This is especially true since sites like YellowPages.com can get you phone numbers so quickly. The aking of these phone books also use up 19 million trees annually (reminds me of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.parkschool.org/blogs/ted_wells/2009/01/21/cancel-yellow-pages/</link>
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