I know we will probably all have to purchase some items for our kids, for me it's the new backpack and "two red correcting pens".
But I was just at the Website for Center for a New American Dream and they had a list of school supplies to AVOID...
Like, did you know some backpacks have PVC - poly vinyl chloride? Think toxic new cheap shower curtain smell... Those aspects of back to school hadn't even occured to me. Or how about correction fluid? Can you imagine inviting toxics into your classroom??? So check it out for yourself!
http://www.newdream.org/marketplace/bts.php
BTW
I've heard from people who 'like the blog' but no one's posted any comments. I guess you have to join blogspot to be able to comment, so be my friend instead and join Facebook, then the used is cool Facebook group.
We won't be able to spread the idea if we just keep it here in the TC's.
Have a great day - g
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Dear Ginger,
I’m with the Center for a New American Dream. We saw that you mentioned us, and thought you would be interested in checking out our new campaign. Last October, nearly 14,000 New Dreamers took the pledge to break their bottled water habit, reducing more than 46,000 pounds of carbon emissions in one month. That same month, we published our first edition of the Responsible Purchasing Network’s Guide to Bottled Water, our most popular RPN guide to date. We decided to take our work a few steps further and launched a multi-year campaign dedicated to Break the Bottled Water Habit at both the individual and institutional levels. We will have a pledge-based contest on our website starting in August, and the second edition of the RPN bottled water (or, more appropriately, bottle-less water) will also be released next month.
You might also be interested in checking out our two blogs. Our Carbon Conscious Consumer (C3) blog grew out of our C3 campaign. By getting people to change their daily habits in six simple ways we were able to eliminate 3.5 million pounds of carbon emissions. We also relaunched an old popular New Dream column as a blog in Live Green Below Your Means. The purpose of this blog is to prove that one doesn’t have to be rich to live green and provides easy and inexpensive tips to save the environment and some cash at the same time.
This is just a little of what we’re currently up to. Be sure to check out our website as we’re always adding new information and organizing campaigns to reduce our negative impact on the environment.
Thanks for supporting our work!
Sincerely,
Chris Mastin
Center for a New American Dream
Christopher@newdream.org
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