America Recycles Day, November 15 (November 15, 2010)
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C “The day is not yet as famous as Groundhog Day.”
E “And it is not a national or a state holiday. America Recycles Day. Celebrated in many communities. For over a dozen years now, they say.”
C “November 15 is nationally recognized but is not nationally known. The day may become the equivalent of Earth Day observed in the Fall when the bounty has been harvested. One day to encourage us to reduce, reuse and recycle. America Reduces, Reuses and Recycles Day is a bit much.”
E “And there were no America Recycles Day sales inserts in the paper to recycle. One day to inform and involve and not spend.”
C “Once again, however, we may be chanting to the choir.”
E “The day and effort should be targeted to kids. They can carry the message home and convey it to the adults. Yet it is the kids who were told at home to deposit their gum wrappers in the trash who don’t toss their butts out the window. Reaching those who toss their butts out the window is the challenge.”
C “What types of vehicles are those butts flying out of? I suspect that they are the two-gallons-per-mile rigs. Gasoline is a resource, a resource is finite, gasoline is finite. We need to get real. And really reduce not just reuse and recycle.”
E “Yet, I understand those who don’t worry about global warming because they are worrying about paying their heating bill.”
C “The warm inner glow you feel when doing right does not warm the house.”
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www.lnt.org/programs/peak: The PEAK (Promoting Environmental Awareness in Kids) program
Bumper stickers of the week:
Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
Don’t light up and turn out the lights
Take the Lead: Install LED lights and turn them off
Be enlightened: Lights out or there will be lights out
Build it tight, ventilate it right
Insulation is your friend
The cheapest energy is the energy you don’t use
Get your food from and close to the farm and field; don’t consume gas to feed your consumption
Take only pictures; Leave only footprints
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