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Save The Earth With Your Car

- Recycle motor oil and batteries
- Call your local transit system for bus schedules
- Call your local carpool program or start one in your town
- Carpool the kids to their school events
- Carpool to the ski slopes
- Carpool to go shopping
- Eat lunch at the office instead of going out
- Call stores first to see if they have what you want
- Combine several small trips into one
- Shop by mail and catalogs
- Plan an evening at home with your kids
- Do errands on the way home from work
- Encourage your teens to walk or ride their bikes rather than taking the car, and do the same yourself
- Shop for a neighbor when going to the grocery store or form a neighborhood co-op
- Have your car's emissions tested regularly
- Tune-up your car, especially before winter
- Check for proper tire inflation when gassing up
- Don't repair your car's air conditioning yourself, have it serviced at a station that recycles CFC's
- Don't buy a car with air conditioning
- When buying a new car, let dealers know that fuel efficiency is important
- Park and go inside instead of idling at a drive-up window
- Remove unnecessary articles from your car; each 100 lbs. of weight decreases fuel efficiency by 1%
- Enjoy sports and activities that don't require gas or electricity
- Avoid accelerated starts to save gas
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Ethical Choices

- The planet and its plants and animals are worthy of our ethical concern.
- Plants, animals and the environment have intrinsic value; moral value because they exist, not only because they meet human needs.
- We should consider whole ecosystems, including other forms of life, in our daily decisions.
- Industrialization has created pollution and ecological imbalance. It is not only the duty of that industry to make changes to protect the environment, but all of us must make daily decisions that help to restore the environment and make it sustainable.
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End Captive Hunts

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Ban Mountain Lion Trophy Hunting
In the forests of Colorado, a mountain lion runs as fast as he can, away from the deadly snarling of a pack of hunting hounds. It is dawn, and he has been running all night. He is exhausted, limping on a bloody leg that was caught in a trap, but the sound of the hounds spurs him on. He staggers further - and is confronted with an enormous cliff. The snarling grows louder. He looks desperately for an escape, but is cornered, too tired to fight back. The last thing he sees is the band of hounds bounding toward him, their teeth at the ready, before bang! The bullet hits him, and he feels no more.
This was the tragic fate of over 29,000 U.S. mountain lions in the past decade. They were forced to undergo unbearable pain, torture, and terror before meeting a gruesome death - all so that their body parts can hang from a trophy hunter's wall.
Mountain lion trophy hunts are justified by hunters as protecting humans, by controlling mountain lion numbers and decreasing the risk of human-animal conflict. However, such hunts can actually increase the likelihood of being attacked. This was demonstrated last February, when a Colorado jogger was attacked and managed to strangle the animal. Trophy hunters used this instance, and others, to advocate for the right to hunt mountain lions freely. However, the reason the jogger was able to strangle the lion was that he weighed only 40 pounds - in other words, he was a kitten, three or four months old. There were no other mountain lions found in the area, indicating that the attacker was an orphan, and much too young to survive on his own. Without a mother, who was likely killed by humans, the starving kitten had no choice but to attack the jogger in his desperation for food.
Mountain lions do not naturally attack humans. Since 1890, there have only been 25 fatal attacks; it is far more likely to be struck by lightning or stung to death by bees. They will, for the most part, only attack if they are in desperate circumstances - for example, in the case of the Colorado jogger, if they have lost important family members. The killing of mountain lions does not prevent attacks, only upsets their delicate social structures and forces the poor animals to lash out at humans in starving desperation.
Since mountain lion trophy hunting does not prevent attacks, why do we do it? Why do we subject these majestic animals to torture, pain, and death, for no reason except to give trophy hunters a deranged sense of satisfaction? Why do we orphan kittens, slaughter mates, and shoot young, full adults, with their whole lives ahead of them? Help end this horrific practice in the United States to save thousands and lives and create a kinder, more humane planet.
Recycling Basics

Become An Earth & Animal Activist

- Public Relations: This subcommittee does all of the canvassing, handles advertising, books tables, creates banners and posters, and serves as a press contact to drum up media attention.
- Outreach: This subcommittee liaises with other organizations, local businesses and anyone that might be able to support your cause through advertising, funding, in-kind donations of space or food, etc.
- Logistics: This subcommittee takes care of all practical matters such as scheduling, booking performers, finding needed equipment and services, getting necessary permits, arranging for parking, taking care of food, etc.
- Financial: This subcommittee keeps track of the budget and makes sure everything runs smoothly where money is concerned. Tasks include creating a budget, paying performers and service providers, setting any event prices, arranging for donations and identifying pre-event fundraising needs.
Save The Earth At Work

- Schedule deliveries together
- Subsidize and sell employee bus passes in the office
- Encourage employees to phone first rather than driving
- Use teleconferencing instead of driving to meetings
- Take the bus, walk or ride your bike to meetings
- Offer employees incentives for not driving
- Buy gas-efficient or alternatively fueled vehicles for your fleet
- Put a carpool matching map in the office
- Buy a bike rack for your employees
- Buy an office bike for employee use
- Buy recycled paper for office use
- Start a paper recycling program
- Make two-sided copies whenever possible
- Put an aluminum can recycling bin next to the pop machine
- Bus, carpool, walk or bike to work
Fundraise For The Earth & Animals

Leafleting & Tabling

- Do I need a permit? Permits are usually easy to apply for, although they may take two or three weeks to process.
- How often can I use this spot?
- Are there restrictions on the type of equipment that can be set up?
- Are there any regulations on selling items such as buttons and bumper stickers at a table? If so, you can ask for donations instead of charging for the merchandise.
- Ask for several copies of the application form to save for future use.
- one or two card tables or a folding display table
- folding chair
- pamphlets
- posters
- a plain table cloth to cover the table, long enough to reach the ground
- a donation can
- signup sheets (so you can contact activists for future events)
- paperweights - small but heavy
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Save The Earth At Home

- Insulate your home
- Buy energy efficient appliances
- Caulk and weather-strip
- Install storm windows
- Wear warm clothing and turn down your thermostat
- Close off unused areas in your home
- Buy low wattage or compact fluorescent light bulbs
- Turn off lights that don't need to be on
- Use cold water instead of hot
- Use small ovens or stove-top cooking methods instead of your oven
- Don't burn wood during periods of high pollution
- Convert your fireplace to natural gas logs
- Don't let your fire smolder
- Use hard, dry wood when you do burn
- Buy a new, low polluting wood stove
- Put your fire completely out before you go to bed
- Clean your chimney
- Set your refrigerator to 38 degrees, no colder
- Insulate your water heater
- Substitute lemon oil or beeswax for wood cleaners, polishes and waxes
- Recycle aluminum and glass
- Recycle newspapers
- Reuse glass containers
- Buy a house plant
- Plant a tree
- Plant evergreen trees on the north side of your house
- Plant deciduous trees on the south
- Do all ironing at one time
- Snuggle with a friend and turn down the thermostat
- Run dishwashers only when fully loaded
- Run clothes washers only when fully loaded, but don't overload
- Hang your laundry to dry
- Clean the lint screen on your dryer
- Take quick showers instead of baths
- Install water-efficient showerheads and faucets
- Turn down your water heater to 121 degrees
- Start a recycling program in your neighborhood
- Defrost your freezer
- Buy recycled paper
- Cook with quick-heating, copper-bottom pans to conserve energy
- Teach your children about these ideas
- Use your microwave instead of the oven
- Limit or eliminate using disposable items
- Bring your own reusable bags to the grocery store
- Reuse your paper and plastic bags
- Write companies urging them to use paper rather than plastics
- Request paper instead of styrofoam whenever possible
- Use water-based paints whenever possible
- Buy products that will last
- Don't buy fire extinguishers containing halon
Hold A Public Meeting

- Distribute and post flyers.
- Create social media event pages.
- E-mail details to the people on your contact list.
- Make a public service announcement over the radio or on TV.
- Get a newspaper listing in the "event" or "calendar" section.
- Send a news release to local newspapers.
- A few days before the meeting: Call your speaker to confirm the date and time he or she is expected. Find out how the speaker would like to be introduced, and take a few minutes to write and practice the introduction. Confirm your room rental. Make sure your equipment is reserved and that you have adequate extension cords to hook up the equipment.
- The day of your meeting: Arrive at the room at least an hour ahead of time. Set up the equipment you'll be using and make sure it works. Lay out literature on a table in the back of the room, and arrange chairs near the front of the room.
- As people arrive: Be at the door to greet people. Circulate a signup sheet, but remove it when the meeting is ready to start.
- Introduce the speaker to start the meeting and thank him or her at the end of the meeting. Ask people if they've added their names to the signup sheet, and thank them for coming to your meeting. Urge them to get involved. Give them something specific to do: write a letter, make a telephone call, share your social media pages, or hand out leaflets. Always end on an upbeat note.
- A few days later, send a short thank-you to your speaker; you may want to invite him or her again.
- Send a follow-up message suggesting specific actions to people who attended the meeting, and be sure to add any new contacts to your mailing list. Post photos and videos of the event on public media.