Bucks for the Bay Challenge
Plastic bag photo credit to rphlegm on Flickr
Save The Bay Introduces ‘Bucks for the Bay’ Challenge
The statistics are scary. Every year, residents of the San Francisco Bay area use more than 3.8 billion plastic bags. Of these, more than 1 million bags end up in the Bay, threatening wildlife and the overall health of the ecosystem. But plastic bags aren’t the only concern. Pollution and sprawl are major threats to the environmental health of the area.
Thankfully, San Francisco Bay has found a champion in Save The Bay – the largest regional organization working to protect, restore and celebrate the Bay. This summer University of Phoenix has committed their support to the cause by matching individual donations dollar-for-dollar (up to $40,000) before Aug. 31.
Every donation makes a difference – whether its $5 or $500 – and in this case, you get to feel like you’re giving twice as much! Plus, donors also get the opportunity to download a Bay screensaver and images to use as desktop backgrounds.
You can find more information at http://savesfbaygallery.org/landing.html
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It is so imperative for our country to start working on the environment as a whole. Our lives rely on how effective we are at going green, and making it into a competition is the perfect solution. Everybody loves a good competition, and it would unite the country into a fun little race to green, while saving our planet on the side. Although some people's motives wouldnt be ideal, we would still be getting the job done and thats what is important at this point.
Lots of Supermarkets have banned using plastic bags. Hopefully the rest of the world will soon follow. Thanks for sharing this with the rest of us.
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