( A quick way to convince people to support doing something to halt human influenced climate change.)
Do you have a bag of e-waste that you are waiting to get rid of like me? My bag currently has a bunch of batteries and a few phone chargers. This Friday the Simi Valley Town Center Mall has an event to help you get rid of them in a more environmentally responsible way than throwing them in your trash.
Do people really hold onto batteries until there is an e-waste event? I have a feeling that most people toss the stuff out. What happens to those batteries other people throw in their recycling can?
The Simi Valley Town Center Mall is holding an Earth Day celebration this Friday. Click on continue reading for details, including a list of sponsors and events.
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Here is their press release:
Earth Day celebrated at Simi Valley Town Center on April 17
E-waste collection center, resource booths, demonstration and more to show your 'Green' side and help make a difference
What:
To celebrate Earth Day, Simi Valley Town Center invites visitors from throughout the region to recognize green living, learn in the process, and obtain free items to help conserve energy and reduce waste.
Simi Valley Town Center's Eco program offers green options and education at every turn, all aimed to provide easy-to-take steps to protect the environment.
Schedule:
9 a.m. to 3 p.m.: Electronic waste collection. An "e-waste" collection center, sponsored by the City of Simi Valley, Waste Management and CJSeto Support Services, LLC, presents visitors with an opportunity for free disposal of unwanted computers and household electronic items. In the Town Center parking lot near Wells Fargo Bank.
3 to 8 p.m.: Eco Resource Fair, in Center Court of the Town Center.
Visit Guest Services to receive a free compact florescent light bulb if you pledge to "Make the Switch" to energy-efficient lighting (while supplies last).
Visit Guest Services to get an "eco" tote bag for purchasing a $25 gift card or more (while supplies last).
Resource Fair: Information booths by the City of Simi Valley and Waste Management, and from organizations to present information about water conservation and landscaping; and demonstrations such as the City's Video Inspection Vehicle, and Vac-Con, a combination sanitation truck and Simi Valley Transit compressed natural gas-operated van.
When: Friday, April 17, 2009
Where: Simi Valley Town Center, 1555 Simi Town Center Way
Locally anticipated for more than 20 years, Simi Valley Town Center is a 600,000-square-foot open-air shopping, dining and entertainment regional center. Located north of Highway 118, between First Street and Erringer Road, the center features premier tenants such as Anthropologie, Brighton Collectibles, California Pizza Kitchen, Coach, Urban Outfitters, White House Black Market, Z Gallerie and more than 100 additional retailers and eateries. Simi Valley Town Center is owned and managed by Forest City Enterprises, Inc., a publicly traded (NYSE: FCEA and FCEB) national real estate company. For more information visit www.simivalleytc.com.
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Below is information for another Earth Day event:
Citizens for Peaceful Resolutions will have a booth at the
Earth Day Every Day Earth Day Celebration
April 18th, 2009 from 11am to 7pm at the Promenade Park
This kid-friendly event is organized by Ventura Charter School of Arts and Global Education and the City of Ventura.
It will be preceded by the city’s annual “Keep America Beautiful” Beach Clean Up Day from 9am to 11am.
Our goal of this Earth Day celebration is to educate people about ways they can make changes to their everyday lives to live with awareness of the footprint they leave on our earth and community. We will accomplish this by featuring exhibitors that can provide information, services and products, and educate our community about living a more sustainable way of life, every day.
Thanks for the attention, Brian, keep up the good work!
Brian,
I enjoyed the video and this young man's attempt to reason with folks on what steps, if any, we should take to deal with climate change. While I do believe the science, I know many do not, so any time we can have an intelligent discussion on this subject, it will help. For me, I do not need science to prove to me that we should live in harmony with nature and not waste resources -- it's just common sense. Another reason to pursue carbon emission reduction is national defense -- by buying foreign oil, we are bankrolling all kinds of countries, foe or friend. If we pursue alternative energy resources, we keep those dollars here and protect America.
This is a typical Left Wing Progressive Socialist Trick to convince people that Global Climate Change is altered by human activities. If you look at the basic physical make up of the Earths atmosphere that is impossible!
I've been a believer in climate change since the late 1970s but at this point in the Corporate Right's bamboozling of America, I don't give a rat's bottom if it's caused by human activity or we were just overdue for it. What I AM concerned about is the complete lack of response to what is factually observable, ie, the oceans are rising (there's no room for debate there), exotic diseases & pests are spreading into regions(including here) where there is little or no natural defenses, that due to drought & famine 3-4 billion people will soon begin to migrate across national borders.
Do we wait for the flooding and the disease and the crop loss and the border wars to get out of control before we do something? Or do we admit there's a problem, whether man made or not, and start doing something smart, for once.
Only GOP koolaide drinking sheep who are owned by big oil are still denying climate change.