If I Were President, This Is How I Would Save the Earth

Jacquie Burgess has been the St. Lucie County's Recycling Manager for over 7 years, Jacquie's earlier years were in education working with Kindergarten children. Having unconditional love for children as well as the environment, Jacquie is a large advocate of teaching children about the environment. "Children are our future". We need to teach them about the environment, and how to contribute to care mother earth.

Jacquie was inspired to write a children's book while teaching a Kindergarten class. A student named Matthew drew her a picture saying what he could do if he were the president.

Many years later Jacquie meet the President at the Emergency Operations Center after a Hurricane hit St. Lucie County. She asked the president if he Recycled? He responded of course he did! It was then that she put the picture, and the book together "If I were the President.This is how I'd save the Earth."

Artist Annie Linger

has called herself "Save Paper Annie" since childhood days in Wet Virginia, and throughout her careers in advertising, yacht delivery and watercolor illustrations. Favorite subjects are landscapes, architecture, and boats in Miami and Key West, Florida, and the Bahamas; farms, animals and old barns in West Virginia.

She reuses old business letters for stationery, old greeting cards and printed materials for gif wrapping, new greetings and decoupage, old calendars remake into new, advertising brochures become scrapbooks. There is plenty of paper to turn into note pads, memo pads, and plain ole scratch paper. You can do it too!