1. Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway? (labels only)
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3. Genetically Modified FOODS need LABELS!
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LABEL Genetically Modified
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Multinational corporations want to "improve" our foods by modifying their genetic make-up. This allows them to patent and thereby control the production of GM foods around the world.
Even if we can't stop Monsanto™ from experimenting on the human race, we can demand that all GM foods be properly labeled, so we can choose! Contact your legislators now!
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Genetically Modified
FOODS need LABELS!
Multinational corporations want to "improve" our foods by modifying their genetic make-up. This allows them to patent and thereby control the production of GM foods around the world.
Even if we can't stop Monsanto™ from experimenting on the human race, we can demand that all GM foods be properly labeled, so we can choose! Contact your legislators now!
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Multinational corporations want to "improve" our foods by modifying their genetic make-up. This allows them to patent and thereby control the production of GM foods around the world.
Even if we can't stop Monsanto™ from experimenting on the human race, we can demand that all GM foods be properly labeled, so we can choose! Contact your legislators now!
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4. Prevent WWIII. Conserve Water.
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Conserve
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Any future world war will probably be fought over fresh water. As natural systems fall behind human demand, human systems of retrieving fresh water will develop at great expense. Nations and regions will compete for the diminished sources. As water systems are privatized, only those who can pay the increasing costs will have water.
For more information, visit WorldWatch.org or NewInt.org, read "Water Wars."
Let's conserve water in our homes, schools and businesses.
- Take only the showers you really need. Use low-flow shower heads. Never let the water run while shaving or brushing. Use hot water only when really necessary.
- Flush your toilet with gray water from your laundry or with rain water. Save the water from your downspouts in a cistern or in recycled plastic barrels. Pump the water into your water closets using a small electric pump powered by a battery recharged by photovoltaic cells (solar power!)
- Water your garden and lawn with a drip system from point #2. Since most municipalities calculate your sewer bill based on your water usage, both your water and sewer bills will decline when you use rain water. Fix drips.
- Doing dishes together builds bonds. Do full loads in a high efficiency clothes washer.
- Filter your own water. Refuse to use bottled drinking water, which is unregulated and expensive and produces an enormous amount of plastic waste.
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Prevent WW III. Conserve Water.
Any future world war will probably be fought over fresh water. As natural systems fall behind human demand, human systems of retrieving fresh water will develop at great expense. Nations and regions will compete for the diminished sources. As water systems are privatized, only those who can pay the increasing costs will have water. For more information, visit WorldWatch.org or NewInt.org, read "Water Wars."
Let's conserve water in our homes, schools and businesses.
- Take only the showers you really need. Use low-flow shower heads. Never let the water run while shaving or brushing. Use hot water only when really necessary.
- Flush your toilet with gray water from your laundry or with rain water. Save the water from your downspouts in a cistern or in recycled plastic barrels. Pump the water into your water closets using a small electric pump powered by a battery recharged by photovoltaic cells (solar power!)
- Water your garden and lawn with a drip system from point #2. Since most municipalities calculate your sewer bill based on your water usage, both your water and sewer bills will decline when you use rain water. Fix drips.
- Doing dishes together builds bonds. Do full loads in a high efficiency clothes washer.
- Filter your own water. Refuse to use bottled drinking water, which is unregulated and expensive and produces an enormous amount of plastic waste.
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Prevent WW III.
Conserve Water.
Any future world war will probably be fought over fresh water. As natural systems fall behind human demand, human systems of retrieving fresh water will develop at great expense. Nations and regions will compete for the diminished sources. As water systems are privatized, only those who can pay the increasing costs will have water. For more information, visit WorldWatch.org or NewInt.org, read "Water Wars."
Let's conserve water in our homes, schools and businesses.
- Take only the showers you really need. Use low-flow shower heads. Never let the water run while shaving or brushing. Use hot water only when really necessary.
- Flush your toilet with gray water from your laundry or with rain water. Save the water from your downspouts in a cistern or in recycled plastic barrels. Pump the water into your water closets using a small electric pump powered by a battery recharged by photovoltaic cells (solar power!)
- Water your garden and lawn with a drip system from point #2. Since most municipalities calculate your sewer bill based on your water usage, both your water and sewer bills will decline when you use rain water. Fix drips.
- Doing dishes together builds bonds. Do full loads in a high efficiency clothes washer.
- Filter your own water. Refuse to use bottled drinking water, which is unregulated and expensive and produces an enormous amount of plastic waste.
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5. Live Simply. You'll Love It!
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- Simpler living is SAFER. Let's REDUCE our consumption.
- Simpler living is SEXIER. Let's REUSE and spice up our clothes.
- Simpler living is SATISFYING. Let's RECYCLE our stuff.
- Simpler living is SANER. Let's RESTORE our renewable resources, our wetlands, grasslands and forests.
- Simpler living is SUSTAINABLE. Let's RESPOND by pressuring governments and corporations toward justice for the poor.
Simpler living is SACRED. What SPIRITUAL JOY to be unburdened from so much stuff, not to be distracted from/to be able to focus on RELATIONSHIPS within ourselves, with friends and family, with the Earth and its creatures, with God!
- Less Stuff to Pay Off
- Less Stuff to Maintain
- Less Stuff to Guard
- Less Stuff to Store
- Less Stuff to Worry About
- Less Stuff Means More Time
- Less Stuff Means Fewer Burdens
- Less Stuff Means Less Guilt
- Less Stuff Means More Money and Time to Give Away
- Less Stuff Feels Great!
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Live Simply.
You'll Love It!
- Simpler living is SAFER. Let's REDUCE our consumption.
- Simpler living is SEXIER. Let's REUSE and spice up our clothes.
- Simpler living is SATISFYING. Let's RECYCLE our stuff.
- Simpler living is SANER. Let's RESTORE our renewable resources, our wetlands, grasslands and forests.
- Simpler living is SUSTAINABLE. Let's RESPOND by pressuring governments and corporations toward justice for the poor.
- Simpler living is SACRED. What SPIRITUAL JOY to be unburdened from so much stuff, not to be distracted from/to be able to focus on RELATIONSHIPS within ourselves, with friends and family, with the Earth and its creatures, with God!
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Live Simply.
You'll Love It!
- Less Stuff to Pay Off
- Less Stuff to Maintain
- Less Stuff to Guard
- Less Stuff to Store
- Less Stuff to Worry About
- Less Stuff Means More Time
- Less Stuff Means Fewer Burdens
- Less Stuff Means Less Guilt
- Less Stuff Means More Money and Time to Give Away
- Less Stuff Feels Great!
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Live Simply.
You'll Love It!
- Simpler living is SAFER. Let's REDUCE our consumption.
- Simpler living is SEXIER. Let's REUSE and spice up our clothes.
- Simpler living is SATISFYING. Let's RECYCLE our stuff.
- Simpler living is SANER. Let's RESTORE our renewable resources, our wetlands, grasslands and forests.
- Simpler living is SUSTAINABLE. Let's RESPOND by pressuring governments and corporations toward justice for the poor.
- Simpler living is SACRED. What SPIRITUAL JOY to be unburdened from so much stuff, not to be distracted from/to be able to focus on RELATIONSHIPS within ourselves, with friends and family, with the Earth and its creatures, with God!
- Less Stuff to Pay Off
- Less Stuff to Maintain
- Less Stuff to Guard
- Less Stuff to Store
- Less Stuff to Worry About
- Less Stuff Means More Time
- Less Stuff Means Fewer Burdens
- Less Stuff Means Less Guilt
- Less Stuff Means More Money and Time to Give Away
- Less Stuff Feels Great!
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6. Close the Loop. Use recycled products. (labels only)
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Use recycled products.
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7. Take Back Your Time Day - Oct. 24!
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It's time to challenge the epidemic of overwork, overscheduling and time famine that threatens our health, our families, our communities and our environment.
We're putting in longer hours on the job now than we did in the 1950s. In fact, we're working more than medieval peasants did, and more than the citizens of any other industrial country! On average, we work 350 hours -- nearly nine full weeks -- longer than our peers in Western Europe do.
Overwork threatens our health, reducing time for exercise and encouraging consumption of calorie-laden fast foods. Overwork threatens our marriages, families and friendships as we find less time for each other. It weakens communities as we have less time to volunteer. It reduces employment as fewer people are hired, and are required to work longer hours. It leaves many of us with little time to vote, much less be informed, active citizens. It contributes to accidents large and small, reducing our security. And finally, it contributes to the destruction of our environment -- encouraging use of convenience and throw-away items and leaving us without time or energy even to recycle. Every environmentalist knows that on a finite planet, unlimited economic growth is unsustainable -- already we'd need four planets if all the people of the world duplicated our lifestyle. Let's have free time rather than more money and stuff as the reward for increasing productivity.
We're not against work. Useful and creative work is essential to happiness. But American life has gotten way out of balance. Producing and consuming more has become the single-minded obsession of the American economy, while other values -- strong families and communities, good health and a clean environment, active citizenship and social justice, time for nature and the soul -- are increasingly neglected. We CAN have balanced lives.
On Friday, October 24, Americans can say NO to the overwork, over-scheduling and overstress that threaten to overwhelm our lives. The date falls nine weeks before the end of the year. We Americans now work nine weeks more than Western Europeans do.
Take part or all of the day off work, and join in to initiate a much-needed national conversation about work/life balance and how we can reclaim it.
Colleges and universities across America will sponsor teach-ins about work/life balance -- fear of leisure, frenetic schedules, a "living wage" for the working poor, hurried children, couples with too little time together, the need to simplify our lives, reducing the "hidden work" (like junk mail and telemarketing calls). Similar events will occur in places of worship, union halls, businesses and non-profits. Outdoor Take Back Your Time fairs will feature speakers, entertainment and ways to reclaim your life.
Our model is the first Earth Day, which brought a new environmental awareness to America, leading within two years to the passage of the most significant ecological legislation in our history -- EPA, Endangered Species Act, Clean Air & Water Acts.
Take Back Your Time Day is an initiative of The Simplicity Forum, a leadership alliance promoting and honoring simple, just, and sustainable ways of life for all. Alternatives for Simple Living is a founding member.
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Take Back Your Time
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TAKE BACK YOUR TIME DAY is a nationwide initiative to challenge the epidemic of overwork, over-scheduling and time famine that now threatens our health, our families and relationships, our communities and our environment.
BRING "TAKE BACK YOUR TIME DAY" TO YOUR CITY OCTOBER 24, 2003
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TAKE BACK YOUR TIME DAY is a nationwide initiative to challenge the epidemic of overwork, over-scheduling and time famine that now threatens our health, our families and relationships, our communities and our environment.
OCTOBER 24, 2003 - TIMEDAY.ORG
BRING "TAKE BACK YOUR TIME DAY" TO YOUR CITY!
To find out how, visit our website at: www.timeday.org
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