Welcome to Close the Loop's Monthly Newsletter Issue 15 - April 2002 A Newsletter for Friends of www.close-the-loop.com _____________________________ In this issue: Way to go, PA! Clean your Air (CYA) 15 Questions to Test your Ecological Footprint Upcoming Events Marketplace: Exceptional Products Propose an Article ______________________________________________ "If you want change, you must be the change." -Gandhi ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Way to go, PA! In Pennsylvania, some 10 million residents - or 85 percent of the state's population - are provided recycling collection or drop-off service. More than 3,200 recycling and reuse businesses operate in the state, employing more than 81,000 workers. About a dozen of the state's 67 counties have exceeded the state's recycling goal of 35 percent. Source - Resource Recycling Magazine, www.resource-recycling.com Dec. 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Clean Your Air (CYA) Plug into clean electricity. It's Available, It's Affordable, It's Reliable. It's the single easiest way to improve the quality of our air! CYA is a public education initiative of the Mid-Atlantic Renewable Energy Coalition (MAREC). MAREC is a coalition of environmental and charitable organization, government agencies and renewable energy businesses working together to increase consumer demand for clean electricity so that there will be substantial new development of clean electric generation in the Mid-Atlantic states. For the first time, we have the power to choose clean electricity instead of electricity that pollutes our planet and endangers our health. By choosing clean electricity, we will increase the development of new domestic electricity resources and technologies, reducing our dependence on polluting fuels. Since renewable sources of electricity like the wind and the sun can be naturally replenished, they offer tremendous benefits to our health and our environment, while ensuring our energy independence. EVERY SINGLE HOUSEHOLD CHOOSING CLEAN ELECTRICITY IS PART OF THE SOLUTION. For every 1,000 households that buy clean electricity, the benefits to the environment are equivalent to: planting over 950,000 new trees taking 1,700 cars off the road not driving 20 million miles Choosing Clean Electricity is the single easiest way to improve the quality of our air! Join the growing number of individual residents and businesses who are choosing renewable electricity and creating a cleaner, healthier and more prosperous future. Please visit: www.cleanyourair.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 Questions to Test your Ecological Footprint To protect our home, the Earth, we must know how we affect it. Each of us has an impact on our planet. The Ecological Footprint helps us understand how much land and water is needed to produce the resources that we consume, and to get rid of the waste that we produce. Please visit: www.earthday.net/footprint.stm --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events: National Playground Safety Week April 22-26, 2002 Concerned adults and children are asked to assess their playgrounds together in recognition of National Playground Safety Week. By concentrating efforts in the following four areas, the number of playground injuries resulting in emergency room visits and death would dramatically decrease: Supervision, Age-Appropriate Design, Fall Surfacing, Equipment Playgrounds don't become safer all by themselves. They need people like you to stick their necks out and do something! So what can you do? Please visit: www.uni.edu/playground/safety_week.html to learn more. Luncheon May 14, 2002 Pocono Mountains Chamber of Commerce presents "Closing the Loop" with Rita Lacey from Close the Loop, LLC, 12 o'clock noon at the Monroe County Area Vocational Technical School in Bartonsville, PA. $15.00 (includes lunch) Send check to: PMCC, 556 Main Street, Stroudsburg, PA 18360 by May 10th. Subjects to be presented: Turning a dream into a reality; Recycling fact vs. fiction; Inspirational stories to build a model of earth-friendly, people-respecting, profit enhancing business. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marketplace: Exceptional Products Rubber Mulch: Close the Loop, LLC offers a variety of products made entirely from non-toxic, shock-absorbing shredded recycled tires. Playground rubber mulch is more economical than wood mulch. Made from forklift tires, rubber playground cover has been proven to have superior shock absorbing capability, and is virtually metal & fiber free. Playground rubber is cost effective, eliminating the need to constantly replace decaying material. It is safer for our children by eliminating splinters, scraped elbows & knees. It drains well after a rain, which reduces mud, is non-staining and does not attract insects or animals. It is less likely to compact than other loose-fill materials, and easy to install. Help us to make a dent in our annual pile of 270 Million tires in the USA by making good use of shredded rubber. To view all of our products, including rubber mulch, tire swings, promotional items made from recycled materials, etc., please visit www.close-the-loop.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Propose an article If you have an informative article that you would like us to feature in an upcoming newsletter, please email your article to closetheloop@msn.com . If we use your article, a link to your web site will be featured as well. As always, we are interested in any comments or feedback and would love to hear from you! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Happy Earth Day 2002! -- Close the Loop |
