1. Think Green Simple Ways to Make Camp Eco-Friendly
Kasey Bozeman, University of Georgia

2. What does it mean to be GREEN?

3. Why be ecologically aware?

4. Ecological Awareness & Actions Impact …
Your Campers
Your Facility
Your Bottom Line
Yourself

5. How do you get started?

6. Measure Your Current Impact
Carbon and/or Ecological Footprint
Resource Usage
Water
Electricity/Gas
Paper
Activity Supplies
Waste

7. Create a Plan Choose Sustainability Over Waste Budget
Small Alterations

8. Educate & Implement Educate Staff, Parents, and Campers Make Changes
Share Your Success

9. The Great Cotton Swab Debate

10. Water Drinking Water Dining Hall/Kitchen Bathroom/Bathhouse
preparing food
cleaning dishes
Bathroom/Bathhouse
toilets
showers
sinks

11. Electricity Appliances Thermostat Lighting Computers Energy Star – EPA
Lightbulbs
Timers
Computers

12. Paper Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Abundant Printing & Copying GOOS paper
Junk Mail - FTC

13. Activity Supplies
Acquire
Use
Disposal
Cost/Impact to Program

14. Waste Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Replace Toxic Products Compost
Baking Soda
Vinegar
Hot Water
Compost
25:1 ratio

15. Teaching the Next Generation
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv
Environmental Education
how to think, not what to think
Activities
sun tea
plant bingo

16. In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we are taught. Baba Dioum, 1968

17. Kasey Bozeman University of Georgia kaseyb@uga.edu