• New American Dream: New Dream News: Issue No. 36, October 19, 2007
  RPN Guide for Bottled Water, Congress Switches to 100% PCW Paper, and more
  (tags: newsletter newamericandream newdreamnews green)
• International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW): Animal Update Online: October 2007
  New Life for Tsavo National Park and more
  (tags: newsletter ifaw animals wildlife animalrescue)
• www.kansascity.com | 10/15/2007 | The Stuff of Life, Part 1: ‘Wanting is the thing that makes this world go around’
  “The things you own end up owning you.” — Author Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
  (tags: kansascity consumerism stuff)

• Beer Goggles!
  “Made by reusing empty beer bottles, these goggles are a playful take on eyewear.”
  (tags: recycle reuse shopping)
• Directed Buy: On carbon offsets | By Umbra Fisk | Grist | Ask Umbra | 15 Oct 2007
  “[Carbon offsets] are a good thing insofar as they provide support for low-carbon infrastructure. They are a poor thing insofar as they become indulgences.”
  (tags: advice environment climatechange carbonoffsets)
• Flickr: I Found This By The Curbside!
  “Things you find, in the Trash, by the curb, Dumpster diving – Items you take home and make your own!”
  (tags: flickr photos garbage reuse recycle)

• On planes and cars | By Umbra Fisk | Grist | Ask Umbra | 17 Oct 2007
  “Which is less harmful to the environment when traveling long distances, flying or driving?”
  (tags: advice environment energy cars flying pollution)
• Eco Lawn Mower Bike – Turf Munching Choppers (VIDEO)
  “Folks across the world have gotten their welders out and burned together a spare bike and an old push mower to create custom choppers that actually chops.”
  (tags: green garden lawnmowers energy diy)
• The Columbus Dispatch : Give and take
  “While other online sites such as eBay and Craigslist offer similar community-networking functions, Freecycle.org handles only items that change hands at no cost.”
  (tags: freecycle positive)

• Garbage Can Do | Grist | News | 12 Oct 2007
  “Strange but true: Our trash is going green.”
  (tags: green garbage freecycle wm)
• Pipeline Through Paradise: Big Oil’s Plan to Tap the Arctic
  “There are more untapped oil and gas reserves in the Arctic than almost anywhere else in the world—and with the ice melting, the race to get to them is about to turn ugly.”
  (tags: news environment conservation oil climatechange)
• Sierra Club: Club Currents: Volume VI, #85: October 16, 2007
  Sierra Club: Email – Sierra Club Currents — Sing Out for Clean, Safe Energy
  (tags: newsletter sierraclub clubcurrents takeaction environment)

• Why environmental groups have been slow to fight the border wall | By Glenn Hurowitz | Grist | Grist Feature | 16 Oct 2007
  “This species could be in an ocelot of trouble.”
  (tags: news environment animals wildlife conservation immigration)
• National Wildlife Federation: EnviroAction: October 2007
  National Wildlife Federation: Email – October EnviroAction–Ducks a la Warming
  (tags: newsletter nwf enviroaction animals wildlife conservation)
• NPCA | A Climate of Change
  “The debate is over—global warming is a reality. How will our national parks respond to what may well be the greatest challenge ever faced by planet Earth? “
  (tags: news environment climatechange parks npca)

• UCS: Greentips: September 2007: Ensure a Strong Future for Forests
  “The best way to reduce emissions from tropical deforestation is to help ensure these trees are not cut down in the first place. Your purchasing decisions can play a role in this effort.”
  (tags: newsletter greentips ucs forests environment conservation)
• New American Dream: Carbon Conscious Consumer: Break the Bottled Water Habit
  “Take the Pledge, Spread the Word, and Win a Fabulous Prize!”
  (tags: newamericandream takeaction contest water)
• Sierra Club: Club Insider: October 16, 2007
  Sierra Club: Email – Tips for a Green Halloween
  (tags: newsletter sierraclub clubinsider holidays green)

Today, Kansas City Freecycle is proud to be one of fifteen thousand (!) blogs participating in Blog Action Day, a blogswarm to bring attention to environmental issues.

You can participate in one of three ways:

On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind – the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic. Our aim is to get everyone talking towards a better future.

Blog Action Day is about MASS participation. That means we need you! Here are 3 ways to participate:

* Post on your blog relating to the environment on Blog Action Day
* Donate your day’s earnings to an environmental charity
* Promote Blog Action Day around the web

‘Course, since we’re all about green and free here at KCF, I’d also like to suggest freecycling as your enviro action of the day! Or, spread the Freecycle word to your friends, family, co-workers, heck, even your friendly Price Chopper cashier. It’s free, it’s easy, and it’s totally green.

Want more ideas? Go! Browse! Now!

Feel free to leave your favorite green suggestion in the comments.

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Tagged: blog blogging blog action day green environment freecycle kcfreecycle blogswarm

• The Sierra Club: Club Currents: Volume VI, #84: October 9, 2007
  Sierra Club: Email – Sierra Club Currents — Fund Progress, Not Nukes!
  (tags: newsletter sierraclub clubcurrents takeaction environment)
• On tossing food waste | By Umbra Fisk | Grist | Ask Umbra | 10 Oct 2007
  “We’ll sort through the peelings, but let’s start with the end and say: It would be better to properly compost your food.”
  (tags: advice compost food environment)
• Flickr: Salvaged House
  “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle & of course – Salvage! What have you salvaged and creatively reused in your home or garden?”
  (tags: flickr photos diy home garden reuse recycle)

• Erring on the side of tabloidism | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist
  “The horrid misreporting on the case of the British judge and An Inconvenient Truth”
  (tags: news climatechange environment politics)
• Take Action: Think Outside the Bottle Pledge
  “Because water is a human right and not a commodity to be bought and sold for profit…”
  (tags: reduce water consumerism takeaction)
• Care2: Annie’s Green Living Series: October 2007
  Care2 Newsletters: Roasting Pumpkin Seeds, Preserving Fall Leaves, Why Garlic for Your Heart and more…
  (tags: newsletter care2 greenliving)

• Blog Action Day
  “On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind – the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic.”
  (tags: environment activism blogging events)
• A Grist special series on food and farming | Grist | Grist Feature | 09 Oct 2007
  “You know where babies come from, sure — but do you know where Tater Tots come from? In this two-week series, we’ll take you on a behind-the-scenes tour of your very own diet.”
  (tags: news food agriculture environment pollution)
• Flickr: TRASHION NATION – New stuff from other peoples trash
  “Trashion nation is about finding creative ways to re-use trash, thrifted and found objects. If you make art or other stuff from TRASH, FOUND, RECYCLED, THRIFTED and SECONDHAND MATERIALS, post your images here.”
  (tags: photos flickr garbage reuse recycle diy)