[Eco] Events going on in April

[Rebecca Stallings]

What my Girl Scouts wound up doing for Earth Day was:

1. For our snack, we had organic apples.  My assistant leader had found 
some statistics online and used the apple to demonstrate: Imagine the 
apple is the Earth.  Cut it in fourths; 3 represent water, and the rest 
is land.  Cut the land in half; one represents the parts that are too 
sandy, icy, swampy, rocky, or mountainous; the rest is the area where 
people live.  Cut that in fourths; 3 represent buildings and roads, and 
the rest is available farmland.  But wait!  We can't farm down to the 
Earth's core!  Cut off the peel.  Compare that 1/32 of a peel to the 
whole Earth.  That is all the land we have to grow our food.  Do you 
think we should pollute it?

2. We emptied the can and bottle recycling bins in the church where we 
meet and rinsed the items and packed them into blue bags to be added to 
my curbside recycling.  7 girls and 2 leaders were able to get that done 
in 10 minutes!  I haven't yet, but I'm going to count the containers and 
calculate the resources saved so I can tell the girls next week.

Luisa suggested:
 >you could stop over to a friendly establishment and wish people a Happy
 >Earth day and give away some pledge cards...

You know, I think the actual pledge you wrote is beautiful, but I won't 
hand out those cards because the later part of the text (a) does not 
explain what EcoFluxx is, which is confusing to people who don't know, 
and (b) is essentially an ad for EcoFluxx, and as much as I love Looney 
Labs, I think that handing people ads for Earth Day is cheezy, and 
urging people to buy more stuff is contrary to the whole idea.  When 
it's time for a new print run, how about putting just the pledge and 
then a little EcoFluxx logo and tagline and the foundation URL?

The card as it currently exists makes perfect sense for inclusion with 
EcoFluxx decks.  It does not make sense as something to hand people on 
the street.  And what happens to things handed out on the street that 
don't make sense?  They become litter!
		---'Becca