| In This Issue |
| Climate Awareness Month |
| Chemicals & Pesticides & Cell Phones... Oh My |
| What The Heck Do You Do With Old... |
| Plastic Update |
| And The Good News Is... |
| Blast From the Past You Had No Idea About, Really... |
| Recommending Online Viewing |
| RGG Events |
Get Out & Play Weekend - promoting opportunities for families to get out and enjoy the natural world. Oct. 3-4
Concord Area Grower's Harvest Celebration - featuring food from local farms. Monday, Oct. 5, 5:30pm, Courtyard by Marriott at the Grappone Center, Concord NH. Make your reservation today by calling: 603-225-0303. Only $20 per person.
NOFA-NH's 1st Annual herb & Garlic Day - Saturday, Oct.10, 9am-3pm, at the Massabesic Audubon Center in Auburn, NH. RGG will be vending as a proud member, come by and say hello.
NOFA-NH
Seacoast Better Living Expo - Saturday, Oct. 24, 10am-5pm, at Frank Jones Center, Portsmouth, NH. RGG will be displaying a full line of eco-friendly gifts for the holiday season. Come see all the great new products we have.
Better Living Expo
RGG Events |
| New At RGG! |
Mini LED Key Chain Light Clip, fully crankable. Great Stocking Stuffers!
Mini LED Rechargeable Light, charges in your vehicle's 12v power socket.
More hand blown glass straws.
Superior quality Clothesline Kit for drying your laundry, made with weather-proof die-cast zinc pulley and ball-bearing action, built to last and will not rust.
Online Store
New scents of 100% soy candles.
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| Green Tip |
Is the pilot light on your gas stove burning blue?If it's yellow, that means it's not burning efficiently, so make an appointment to have it serviced by the gas company.
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Save 20%
Save this month on our Energy Saving, Maine Balsam Fir-filled "Draft Stoppers" for windows made with 100% Hemp.
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Climate Awareness Month
A lot happens in October; call it the transitional month if you will. It's definitely fall - time to think about colder nights and how there aren't many days left to button up the house and make it more energy efficient. Time to rake leaves and make compost (hint hint!) October is Fair Trade Month - a great month to commit to buying Fair Trade products like coffee or chocolate. Breast Cancer Awareness Month campaigns with Making Strides all across the country. (Did you know gender-benders are related to breast cancer?) And for something radically different this Halloween, we want you to know about the "Reverse Trick-or-Treating" Campaign by Global Exchange where individuals, schools, PTOs or whole communities can participate. (The deadline is soon so check it out.)
Despite this flurry of activity, we would like to focus on climate change. In two months the world will meet in Copenhagen to discuss what could be the "road map" which determines our planet's future. Even during this past month, scientists have continued to present evidence of increased changes beyond previous predictions. To bring climate awareness to the forefront, www.350.org has organized an  International Day of Climate Action. We urge you to take action: attend an event, create an event, scourer the website or watch this video: 350
We could go on and on about the latest evidence, the current predictions, and why this is really serious stuff, but we think the links we provide are much more interesting! We hope you will contact our leaders and urge them to take strong action against climate change in the coming months leading up to Copenhagen. And now for your reading enjoyment:
The Alps - Endangered and Disappearing
Alaska's Acid Oceans
4 Degree Rise (7.2 Fahrenheit) likely by 2060
World Leaders Say Time Is Running Out
What Is Your Footprint Anyway?
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Chemicals & Pesticides & Cell Phones... Oh My
Big Beauty Companies continue to use some really nasty chemicals. But the biggest kicker of all is that some companies who make large donations to Breast Cancer Research (we think for marketing purposes) continue to have cancer causing ingredients in their products, even chemicals the Breast Cancer Fund has denounced.
Read more on Treehugger...
Want to know more about what might be on your food that you can't see? Try this new website: What's On My Food
Latest Research on Cell Phone Radiation Is Out - a must read about children and young people. Read the research by EWG
Check Out Your Phone Now
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What The Heck Do You Do With Old...
Skis and snowboards that your local swap fair will no longer take? Glad you asked! Turn them into something useful of course - it's called repurposing or upcycling. Cool Furniture
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Plastic Update
We used to think that food packaging didn't leach. But think again: Chemicals Leach From Packaging
There's not just one disgusting plastic ocean gyre... and not just 2 ...nope, not 3 or 4... but 5 huge floating gender-bender fish eating plastic gyres in the world. Yuck! The Science of Trash
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And The Good News Is...
With the recession, a decline in travel and energy use has resulted as folks try to save some pennies. And guess what? That has translated into CO2 reduction for the first time in 40 years. So you see, we can make a difference! (but CO2 is still way too high so don't go all party on us.) You CAN make a difference.
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| Blast From the Past You Had No Idea About, Really...
So Don Shea, a dear 85 year old, was munching on some soy beans and happened to say that the first time he had heard about soy was with Henry Ford's car made from soy. Uh, say what? That's right, he remembered the famous movie/photo of Henry Ford taking a sledge hammer to his 1941 "Hemp" car made from hemp, soy, flax and other non metal/plastic materials AND it ran on biofuel. Watch the 1941 Ford Hemp Car (scroll down for video) "What the h#@&% happened?"
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| Recommending Online Viewing
The National Parks
A 6-episode documentary by Ken Burns, "The National Parks, America's Best Idea" aired on PBS this week and is available online for a limited time if you missed it. Enjoy stunning photography and beautiful film footage of our National Parks and feel connected with nature while watching.
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Thank you for reading and for caring about the environment. Have a Green Day!™
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