Stay tuned for details on the following volunteer opportunities:
Earth Day 2008 Celebration and Restoration
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Summer Service Days
Friday, July 11, 2008
Summer Service Days
Friday, August 8, 2008
California Coastal Cleanup Day
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Previous events:
César Chávez
Day of Service & Learning
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service
Monday, January 21, 2008
America Recycles Day
November 15, 2007
Make a Difference Day
October 26, 2007
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| Date: |
Thursday, November 15, 2007 |
| Locations: |
8:00 AM to 12:00 PM
- Aroma Café, 1122 Fourth Street, San Rafael
- Starbucks, 1100 Fourth Street, San Rafael
- Dr. Insomnia, 800 Grant Avenue, Novato
- LaCoppa Coffee, 466 Ignacio Boulevard, Novato
1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
- Trader Joe’s, 337 Third Street, San Rafael
- Whole Foods, 340 Third Street, San Rafael
- Safeway, 950 Las Gallinas Avenue, San Rafael
- Safeway, 700 B Street, San Rafael
- Safeway, 470 Ignacio Boulevard, Novato
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| What: |
Marin Conservation Corps will be distributing information at a number of locations in response to the national campaign to heighten awareness about recycling. If you can’t stop by, then consider taking the recycling pledge. |
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There are infinite reasons to recycle, reuse, and reduce! |
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Recycle
 In a lifetime, the average American throws away 600 times their adult weight in garbage.
Recycling an aluminum can saves enough energy to run
a television set for three hours or light a 100-watt bulb for an entire day.
A glass bottle can be recycled time and time again into another glass bottle or product, without any loss of quality. Glass is 100% recyclable. Our earth is not.
Re-Use
If every household reused a paper grocery bag for one shopping trip, about 60,000 trees would be saved.
If only 100,000 people stopped their junk, mail, we could save up to 150,000 trees annually. If a million people did this, we could save up to a million and a half trees.
The junk mail Americans receive in one day could produce enough energy to heat 250,000 homes.
Reduce
According to the EPA, over 380 billion plastic bags,
sacks and wraps are consumed in the U.S. each year.
Each year, an estimated 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide. That comes out to over one million per minute. Billions end up as litter each year.
Americans throw away 44 million newspapers everyday. That’s the same as dumping 500,000 trees into landfills each week.
For more information, call Marin Conservation Corps’ volunteer hotline at 415.454.4554 ext. 285.
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