Category: Causes
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World Water Day – March 22, 2010
Mark your calendar, greenies, World Water Day‘s right around the corner, specifically on March 22, 2010. This effort came about thanks to the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro. As former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan wrote, “(w)ater is essential to life.” We need potable water to survive….
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World Water Week
In honor of World Water Week, here are some tips from Seventh Generationon water conservation: If you have a water meter, check your home for hidden leaks. Take a reading, don’t use the water for several hours, then check the meter again. If your new reading is higher, you’ve got a leak somewhere. Leaky faucets…
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World Wildlife Fund
from Focus, the World Wildlife Fund newsletter May/June 2007 issue: We’ve all heard that the US is the world’s single largest contributor to global warming, with average annual emissions of 19.6 tons per person. This is nearly five times the world average of 3.9 tons per person. Reduce your Carbon Footprint by recycling, driving less,…
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Paper…so easy to use, so easy to waste
In our office, the recycling bin is always chock-full of used paper. Sadly, most of them were printed only on one side. The other side, completely blank. Thank goodness, though because I usually gather them together and reuse them as notepads. I don’t even bother to cut or bind them. I have one big binder…