2008 Christmas Giveaway Winners
And the winners are
K Barber from Manitoba and Jessica from British Columbia! Congratulations!
Both winners should be in good shape this year for Santa as according to a CBC article - Santa letters tout reusable lunch bags - Santa is responding to kids’ letters this year with green messages. And he has good reason.
The North Pole is in danger of having a completely ice free summer by 2013. Besides not being good for Santa, there are a number of other consequences.
- Northern peoples can no longer live their traditional lifestyles and are seeing their culture, language and communities melt away with the ice.
- Seals can’t build ledges on which they rest, eat and bare their young.
- Polar bears must swim greater distances than their bodies were meant for in order to find decent hunting grounds. Many now drown.
In other words, an entire ecosystem is in collapse.
There is good news. We can all make a difference by reusing rather than discarding our lunch bags, sandwich wrap, water bottles, bags and many other items we use regularly. Did you know that 99% of what we buy lands up in a landfill within six months?
Each reusable sandwich wrap will keep 260 disposable sandwich bags out of our landfills each year if you take sandwiches to work everyday. A reusable sandwich wrap costs $7.50. The cost of 260 disposable sandwich bags at $0.04 each: $10.40 each year. So using a the sandwich wrap can save you almost $3.00 in the first year. If you are buying your sandwiches at the local shop each day, packing your own will save you a lot more that $3.00.
Although $3.00 may not seem like a lot of money in savings, add that to what you are saving by bringing your own water bottle, and all the other savings you can come by being green. Somewhere I heard that being green is expensive. For me, being green has saved me money.
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