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Captain Daryl Fisher dfisher@ashevillenc.govMeliss...

2008-09-15T19:07:03.300-07:00

Captain Daryl Fisher dfisher@ashevillenc.gov

Melissa Williams
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Curt Euler
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Brenda Sears
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Dear Josh,I’m with the Center for a New American D...

2008-08-05T12:12:36.592-07:00

Dear Josh,

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

your blog is kind of boring, though the graphics a...

2007-12-11T02:33:12.889-08:00

your blog is kind of boring, though the graphics are better than mine. obviously im bored if I found it googleing. yeah thats all i got to say right now.

the problem is, is it really true, when you consid...

2007-10-01T16:09:00.294-07:00

the problem is, is it really true, when you consider the impact of the entire transportation industry, the asphalt on all the roads, the toxicity in mining and manufacture... cows don't throw a cloud of smog in the sky blanketing every large city on earth... shipping food won't have so much impact once fuels used are cleaner... i think it's an interesting juxtaposition, but is it a necessary debate to compare the two, when both need to be dealt with in a creative fashion?

I'm working on a novel called "Food That Eats You,...

2007-09-20T23:37:33.338-07:00

I'm working on a novel called "Food That Eats You," which is all about food and the role it plays in our lives...

http://www.fluxnovel.blogspot.com

Maybe you'd be interested.

Hey, I really like your blog. I'm trying to 'live...

2007-07-09T09:03:08.970-07:00

Hey, I really like your blog. I'm trying to 'live greener' and I also want to try to make my college dorm more environmentally friendly.

On another note, I'd really appreciate feedback on this idea I have, it's on my page. Just think you might have an opinion...thanks.