Happy New Year from the Energy Stars Steering Committee!
Members of the Curtis Park Energy Stars Steering Committee have all made an energy conservation New Year's resolutions. Please join us in taking at least one new action this year to help reduce carbon emissions planetwide.
"My goal this year is to get off mailing lists and reduce junk mail at my home." Gerre
"I resolve to encourage all my students to turn in assignments double-side to save paper. I will use only reusable containers for all my family's lunches and snacks (no ziplocks!)." Arlene
"I vow to never walk out of a store in 2008 with a plastic bag and will mention my resolve to banish plastic bags to each clerk that automatically, like a robot, tries to insert my purchase into a plastic bag." Kathy
"I purchased a cloth bag for when I go shopping and I won't take any more plastic bags from stores. I will also make two-sided copies for everything I hand out at the community board meetings I'm involved in." Rosanna
I will register with Catalog Choice (https://www.catalogchoice.org/) to stop unwanted catalogs from coming in the mail." Terri
More from Terri:
According to Catalog Choice, 53 million trees are used every year to print catalogs, which translates into 3.6 million tons of paper. The energy used to produce the paper alone creates 5.2 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions-equivalent to the global warming pollution of two million cars.
Another option for getting off mailing lists: Direct Marketing Association https://www.dmachoice.org/MPS/mps_consumer_description.php
The first lets you pick catalogs from a long list.
The second (DMA) worked well for me in the past, by removing my name from pretty much all lists.
