Eco-Operate

Leave it to the Left Coast!

In San Francisco, CA founder Ellen Raynor
has opened a new business this past week
to recycle post consumer carpet!

From there site -"Carpet currently makes up bet-
ween 3% and 5% waste in the landfill and
lasts a very long time!"

Much of what they 'recover' or collect feeds a
'cradle to cradle' process and is transformed
into new carpet again- this process besides
being a money saver avoids landfill build-up and
maybe more importantly reduces the "need for
virgin oil in the carpet manufacturing process".

For a lot more info visit them:
SF Carpet Recycling

A Lighter Footprint

Yahoo has a Carbon Footprint Calculator that you can use to see what impact you
and your friends/family are having on the planet. What's great about it is that one
can instantly make a plan and 'pledge' to offset their impact.
In measurable amounts of carbon you can decide to what degree you can
lessen your impact through simple and often easy choices.

Equally good, or maybe even better is that the site shows how many others are
making a 'pledge' and to what extent their positive accumulative effect will be.

Current count:
62,050 People are pledging to save 168,467 TONS of C02/yr
Which is equivalent to 125 not driving for about a year.

"10 Things Never to Buy"- "21 Things to Recycle"

For two great lists put together by Co-op America of "10 Things Never to Buy" and
"21 Things To Recycle" - spelled out nicely by Shannon Murray of greenpride.org for
our benefit - visit her site now!