Carpooling is a great way to save gas while also minimizing your carbon monoxide output! #apesintro APES Project Lorax

Reusable water bottles help reduce the amount of plastic that goes back into the environment. This prevents the plastic from ending up in our lakes and harming animals. #apesintro APES Project Lorax

By recycling my plastic water bottles, I am helping reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills. Recycling also saves energy, which can help reduce the amount of greenhouse gases produced! #apesintro APES Project Lorax

The small lake by my house is surrounded with this rip-rap that prevents erosion of the sediment underneath it. This is a great way to minimize the amount of suspended solids in the lake that can clog fish gills and decrease the aquatic population. APES Project Lorax #apeswater

Fertilizers are often used in yards. However, when fertilizer gets into runoff and enters waterways, this can cause algae bloom to form and dissolved oxygen to decrease. This is bad for aquatic organisms, so don’t use fertilizer when you don’t have to! APES Project Lorax #apeswater

This pond in Franklin has a lot of pollution. This can cause poor water quality, algae blooms, duckweed cover, and lack of submerged plants. Make sure you throw away all garbage because we need to keep a healthy environment for all organisms in ponds! #apeswater APES Project Lorax

Using reusable masks not only helps stop the spread of Covid, but limits our use of disposable masks that are likely to end up in landfills or as waste in the ocean. #apeswater APES Project Lorax

Even though temperatures can get very cold in Wisconsin, I am glad that I live in a temperate forest biome. Living here means we experience all four seasons! #apeseco APES Project Lorax

In my backyard, we have several ash trees within the woods. Since the invasive species of emerald ash borers came to the United States, they have killed many of our ash trees by feeding on the bark, leaving the trees dead as you can see in the picture. APES Project Lorax #apeseco

here is a perfect example of a k-strategist. maisy is an english retriever who is just growing out of her puppy stage. she has a longer lifespan than r-strategists and can only produce few offspring! APES Project Lorax #apeseco

This salad is an example of a vegetarian meal. After learning how many resources I use through my ecological footprint, I pledged to have a vegetarian meal at least once a month. This change reduced my footprint by 1 earth, which is a big difference. 🌎 APES Project Lorax #apespop

It is important to be aware of the impacts our decisions can have on our ecological footprint. Something as easy as using a reusable water bottle instead of a plastic one reduces the amount of waste we produce while also reducing our ecological footprint. #apespop APES Project Lorax

Super thankful for all the public land available in our state of Wisconsin! This gives my dog so much room to run around👍🏽🐶🐾 APES Project Lorax #apesland

This forest pictured is an example of an old-growth forest because the trees showed are over 100 years old based on their characteristics. This means that this forest has never been logged before and this shows good management! APES Project Lorax #apesland

This is where my family grows a vegetable garden in the summer. Just like the radishes we grew in class, the soil here needs to have a specific amount of potassium, phosphates, nitrates as well as a specific pH in order to grow the vegetables we plant. APES Project Lorax #apesland

This is my car that runs only on regular unleaded gasoline (Petrol). There are alternative vehicles that are better for the environment like hybrid cars that use gasoline and the battery, or electric cars, but these can be more inconvenient to fill up. APES Project Lorax #apesenergy

My house is powered by coal which emits CO2 into the atmosphere. Other energy sources like wind and solar energy are cleaner for the environment. However, the problem with these energy sources is that they vary in availability and intensity. APES Project Lorax #apesenergy

Transporting by bus is fueled with diesel fuel which comes from crude oil. Diesel fuel is more efficient and emits less carbon dioxide. As well, we are saving energy by traveling together! Go Sabers! APES Project Lorax #apesenergy

The layer of the atmosphere where we live is called the troposphere. This layer is responsible for the weather that we experience in Wisconsin such as rain, snow, and thunder. The next layer up would be the stratosphere where good ozone is found! APES Project Lorax #apesair