Fwd: We’re Taking Earth Day Off

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> Friday, April 21, 2006

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> IDEAL BITE ~ a sassier shade of green

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> Today's Daily Tip: We’re Taking Earth Day Off

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> Earth Day’s tomorrow, but what about the remaining

> 364 days of the

> year?

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> The Bite:

> This weekend, people around the world will be coming

> together in

> celebration of Earth Day. But Biters know that one

> beach cleanup per

> year ain’t gonna hack it. That’s why this Earth Day,

> we ask that you

> encourage a friend (or 5) to take a Bite and make it

> Earth Day every

> day. In the meantime, join us in celebrating the

> impact that all you

> Biters have had in the 10 short months since Ideal

> Bite started:

> (http://idealbite.com/newsletter/referafriend.php)

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> The Benefits:

> - At least 11,576 Biters removed their names from

> mailing lists,

> preventing 324,000 lbs of junk mail paper from going

> into landfills

> and preserving 2,755 trees. TIP: Just Say No to Junk

> Mail - January 2,

> 2006

>

(http://idealbite.com/tiplibrary/tip.php?tip=20060102)

> - At least 9,421 Biters kept the equivalent of 35

> bathtubs full of

> pesticides out of the waste stream by drinking

> organic, rather than

> non-organic, beer. TIP: Mmmm, Organic Beeeer! -

> September 28, 2005

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(http://idealbite.com/tiplibrary/tip.php?tip=20050928 & title=Mmmm,_Organic_Beeeee\

r!)

> - At least 7,897 Biters purchased their weekly fruit

> from a local

> farmers’ market rather than grocery store, having

> the environmental

> impact of removing 13 cars from the roadway for an

> entire year. TIP:

> Really Buying the Farm - CSAs - June 29, 2005

>

(http://idealbite.com/tiplibrary/tip.php?tip=20050629 & title=Really_Buying_the_Fa\

rm_--_Community_Supported_Agriculture)

> - At least 9,978 Biters kept their tires properly

> inflated during the

> last 10 months, saving enough gasoline to send a

> Prius around the

> entire Earth exactly once. TIP: Under Pressure -

> June 20, 2005

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(http://idealbite.com/tiplibrary/tip.php?tip=20050620 & title=Under_Pressure)

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>

> Personally Speaking

> Heather dreams of the way her line-dried sheets

> smelled as a kid – so

> as often as possible, she takes her wooden drying

> rack to her roof

> garden. Jen has a clothesline she uses in the 4

> months it’s warm in

> Montana.

>

>

> Wanna Try?

> - Invite your friends to take a Bite, and enter our

> contest to win a

> trip to where the Bite was born.

> (http://idealbite.com/newsletter/referafriend.php)

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>

> Bang for the Bite Rating: 5 Apples (out of 5)

> Congratulations, Biters. All of you deserve five

> apples for a job well

> done.

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>

> Cocktail Tip

> The first Earth Day was held in San Francisco in

> 1970.

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I have decided to do the 2006 CN

Tower Climb for World Wildlife Fund. This link should take you to 'My Climb

Page', where you will be able to sponsor me online if you so desire. Thanks.

http://wwfcentral.ca/NetCommunity/Page.aspx? & pid=233 & srcid=232 & frsid=129