Let's All Lose a Little Weight and Celebrate Earth Day!

As everyone knows, tomorrow, the 22nd of April, is Earth Day. It seems as if for a lot of years people ignored Earth Day. I remember it being quite a big deal when Earth Day began in the 1970's. Now there is a renewed interest and awareness which seems to have begun with Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth. The awarenenss level with global warming, pollution, etc. has increased dramatically.

I came across this website called http://www.41pounds.org. Apparently, the average junk mail we each receive every year comes out to 41 pounds. Imagine the amount of waste that is created! Even if the junk mail is recycled, there is energy used to create the paper, print the mailings, send the mail, and to recycle this junk.


So if 100 of us contact this website and asked to be removed from "junk" mail lists, we could potentially save 4100 lbs of mail! Over two tons of junk!

Anyone up to the challenge?