Yesteryear Blogs

1972: Tenth Grade Paper

This is the first post of GoingTrueGreen’s NEW Yesteryear Articles and Blogs category. Prior to adding GoingTrueGreen.com with my GoingTrueGreen blog to my work, I posted a Hotwire blog on my EnergyHotwire.com website which was a metamorphosis from my first website originated in 1995 called the Lightbulb Hotline. Before Blogs, I wrote articles for local newspapers or organizations’ newsletters going back to the 1980s. However, my very first discourse on the subject of our environment was back in 1972 when I was in tenth grade. I had to write my first thesis paper for Mrs. Mayer, my tenth grade English teacher at John Glenn High School. She gave the class numerous topics that we could select from and I chose to write about pollution mostly due to a lasting impression that was made on me by a television commercial I saw a few years earlier. I will never forget the tear coming down the face of the actor who represented Native Americans after viewing the ways people littered upon the water and land from his canoe.

Now I recently made a short video summarizing my work and I thought back to my tenth grade report that I haven't read in over 40 years. After locating the report in an old album, I read it again and realized that the message I am speaking today, is the same message I wrote all those years ago! Some messages don't need to change. Follow the LINK below to see the video and some excerpts, introduction and conclusion, from the hand written pages of a 14 year old boy…

Young Discourse On Environment

Bill Lauto
, GTG
Environmental Scientist

International Sustainability and Energy Consultant

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