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Getting The Word Out In El Paso
September 20, 2007

We've been very busy in El Paso. Each day, we visit about 10 classrooms to play the "No Fish Game" demonstrating how in the past fifty years, 10 fish have become 1 fish in the world's oceans. That's more effective than telling the kids that fish stocks have declined 90%, which is a fact.

Here we are in Mrs. Oaxaca's class:

Here we are in Mrs. Chavez's class:

Here we are reading:

The children have been tons of fun, well-behaved, and enthusiastic about the book. They've drawn their own fish, written notes to me on them, and decorated their hallways and classrooms with crafts related to the story and the subject of overfishing. Loma Verde is an unusually high caliber school.

It's especially touching to find this much interest in the desert, far from the ocean where you might expect people to be indifferent to a subject involving the sea. Nobody should be indifferent to this, however, and I'm happy to find that people in El Paso are not.

Good thing: the situation is getting worse, not better, according to the latest from the Worldwatch Institute.

Today we'll be joined at the school by two TV stations. We can't wait!

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