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Want to Do More? Help the CCC fight global warming!

· Take the pledge. It’s free & easy, and by giving us demographic information (no, not your name, address or phone number) you let us know what sorts of actions work for what sorts of people; this helps us design better climate campaigns.

· Make a donation. We are always looking for items that we can “raffle” at tabling events. We can also really use things like gift cards to Staples or Kinkos, to cover our printing costs. Right now we are trying to raise the funds to do a second printing of our “Things You Can Do” booklet for school kids — a donation of a Kinkos gift card would really help us with this!

· Own a business? We’d love it if you could distribute our “Things You Can Do” trifold brochures at your store. (We will supply them for free.)

· Live in Coventry? Send a letter to the town council telling them you appreciate their passage of the Smart Power resolution, and that you’d really like to see recycling bins at Patriot’s Park.

Who to write to:

Our new, great, updated Coventry Town Council:

Council Chairperson: Elizabeth A. Woolf

Vice Chair: William J. Zenko

Secretary: Julie A. Blanchard

Members: Jennifer Scanlon, Lisa Thomas, Christopher Merisotis, Patrick Sullivan

Where to Write:

Coventry Town Hall
1712 Main Street
Coventry, CT 06238

You can even submit your letter electronically by clicking here.

[Your Street Address]

Coventry, CT 06238

Elizabeth Woolf, Chairperson

Coventry Town Council

Coventry Town Hall
1712 Main Street
Coventry, CT 06238

[Date]

Dear Ms. Woolf:

Thank you for passing the Smart Power 20% by 2010 resolution, which will allow us to join communities across Connecticut in helping to create cleaner air, a healthier community and true energy independence by supporting clean energy obtained from non-polluting, renewable sources.

Coventry can also do its part by making recycling bins available in Patriot’s Park, so that visitors can recycle their cans and bottles. This action is extremely important – plastic bottles can sit for 700 years in a landfill (and glass bottles can sit for a million years), but recycling just one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a television for three hours and saves a half-gallon of oil. Americans use a million and a half gallons of oil every year making plastic water bottles, but we only recycle 23%. We can change this – for instance, in 2006, people in the Minneapolis-St.Paul area reduced their carbon emissions by an amount equivalent to those produced by 125,000 cars, just by recycling cans and bottles.

I hope that the Town Council will support energy conservation by passing a resolution to bring recycling bins to our town park, and thanks again for showing through your leadership that Coventry is an environmentally conscious town.

Yours Truly,

[Your Name]

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