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Eastern Lebanon County School District, PA Toner Cartridge Recycling Program

Type: Program
Status: Ongoing
Source File: http://www.elco.k12.pa.us/recycle.php
Description:
The ELCO school community has been actively involved in recycling toner cartridges from printers over the past several years. Due to the commitment of local businesses as well as individuals, our program thrives. Points accumulated are used to obtain technology equipment which is used by students K-12 to complete projects in their classrooms.
Why is recycling so important?
* First,the cartridge recycling program has made a dramatic impact on saving space in landfills.
* Secondly, it is teaching our youth the importance of saving our environment.
* It costs us nothing to operate this recycling program.
* With the earned points we can place technology equipment in our classrooms.
Recyclables are being collected at all district building offices. Toner cartridges and cell phones are being accepted from organizations as well as from parents and interested community supporters. The items can be dropped off at any district building. If your business has a large quantity, contact Mrs. Dotty Noll at the HS to arrange for items to be picked up. ELCO School District is extremely appreciative of all community support.
Category:Pennsylvania
Category:Programs
Category:Recycling
Category:School Districts
Eckerd College, FL Climate Commitment

Type: Policy
Status: Ongoing
Source File: http://www.eckerd.edu/green/energy/climate.php
Description:
President Donald R. Eastman, III is one of only 400 college presidents to have signed the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment, a high-visibility effort to address global warming by garnering institutional commitments to neutralize greenhouse gas emissions, and to accelerate the research and educational efforts of higher education to equip society to re-stabilize the earth's climate.
Building on the growing momentum for leadership and action on climate change, the Presidents Climate Commitment provides a framework and support for America's colleges and universities to go climate neutral. The Commitment recognizes the unique responsibility that institutions of higher education have as role models for their communities and in training the people who will develop the social, economic and technological solutions to reverse global warming.
Presidents signing the Commitment are pledging to eliminate their campuses' greenhouse gas emissions over time. This involves:
* Completing an emissions inventory
* Within two years, setting a target date and interim milestones for becoming climate neutral.
* Taking immediate steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by choosing from a list of short-term actions.
* Integrating sustainability into the curriculum and making it part of the educational experience.
* Making the action plan, inventory and progress reports publicly available.
The college and university presidents and chancellors who are joining and leading the Commitment believe that exerting leadership in addressing climate change will stabilize and reduce their long-term energy costs, attract excellent students and faculty, attract new sources of funding, and increase the support of alumni and local communities.
Read the Commitment (PDF)
Category:Climate Policy
Category:Colleges
Category:Eckerd College
Category:Florida
Category:Policies
Eckerd College, FL Environmental Film Festival

Type: Program
Status: Ongoing
Source File: http://www.eckerd.edu/eff/index.php
Description:
Held each spring, the Visions of Nature, Voices of Nature Environmental Film Festival brings compelling and important films to the Tampa Bay area and the Eckerd College community in order to raise awareness and promote discussion of questions relating to nature, place, and the environment. Now approaching its tenth year, the eight-day festival brings film scholars and filmmakers from around the world to engage the audience in lively discussions of the environmental perspectives contained in documentary, animated, experimental and feature films.
2008 Film Schedule
February 23, 2008
The Unforeseen
February 24, 2008
Animation Celebration!
February 25, 2008
Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea
February 26, 2008
Exploring the Mother of Waters
Washing Away
February 27, 2008
American Values, American Wilderness
February 28, 2008
In the Shadow of the Moon
February 29, 2008
Stand van de maan
March 1, 2008
Up the Yangtze
Category:Colleges
Category:Culture
Category:Eckerd College
Category:Florida
Category:Programs
Eckerd College, FL Reusable To-Go Container System

Type: Program
Status: Launched in July 2007
Source File: http://www.eckerd.edu/green/waste/ecoclamshell.php
Description:
Background
In July of 2007 Eckerd College was awarded a grant from the Environmental Research and Education Foundation to pursue the production of a reusable to-go container and system. This project developed from an Introduction to Environmental Studies audit conducted in the fall of 2004.
What is Reusable To-go and Why Does it Work?
Each year millions of clamshell polystyrene (Styrofoam) disposable containers end up in a landfill. This issue can be solved by implementing a reusable to-go system. The reusable to-go system consists of a durable, dishwasher-safe, hinged lid container called the “EcoClamshell.” Students check out the container from the cafeteria and return it later where it is then sanitized and put back out for reuse.
The reusable to-go system is a new model for waste reduction. This closed loop system minimizes the production of to-go containers, uses a product that can be recycled at the end of its lifespan, and cuts down on the amount of plastic material entering the landfill. The “EcoClamshell” was created with all of these points in mind.
The system is also an opportunity to incorporate recycling education into daily life. As individuals use these containers in place of the disposable alternative, they learn that sustainable solutions do not necessarily entail inconvenience. The system works in exactly the same fashion as its disposable counterpart.
Environmental Benefits of Program
* These containers are manufactured and shipped less frequently than disposables.
* Fewer natural resources are used because of the longer lifespan (years instead of a day).
* The waste generated by disposable containers is avoided.
Category:Colleges
Category:Eckerd College
Category:Florida
Category:Food Packaging
Category:Programs
Eckerd College, FL Yellow Bike Program

Type: Program
Status: Launched in 2004
Source File: http://www.eckerd.edu/green/transportation/yellowbike.php
Description:
The yellow bike has in recent years become a new symbol of Eckerd College. The program supports a fleet of yellow bicycles that students, faculty and staff can use to get themselves around campus. This means fewer cars on campus, fewer unjustified car rides to class, and fewer emissions overall. The cleverness and innovation of the program has garnered significant press coverage, not the least of which centered on the program's being recognized by the National Wildlife Federation. Links to press are below.
Eckerd's Yellow Bikes Program Receives Campus Ecology Recognition by National Wildlife Federation
National Wildlife Federation's Campus Ecology Yearbook, December 2005
Is This Seat Taken?
The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 9, 2004
Biking it and liking it
Bay News 9, April 6, 2004
Eckerd's plan: A free ride for every student
St. Petersburg Times, March 27, 2004
Category:Colleges
Category:Eckerd College
Category:Florida
Category:Foot-Powered Transportation
Category:Programs
Eckerd College, FL Zero Waste Campaign 2008

Type: Program
Status: Launched in 2008
Source File: http://www.eckerd.edu/green/waste/zerowaste.php
Description:
Zero Waste: Reuse the Refuse
This year Eckerd College embarked on the first official Zero Waste Campaign at our institution. During student move-out, large amounts of waste end up in the landfill. This is not a phenomenon specific to Eckerd but one that occurs at institutions of higher education across the nation. This year the office of Service-Learning worked to bring reusable items to various non-profits for donation.
To achieve this goal we partnered with Better World Books, Haslam’s bookstore, Goodwill, the Saint Pete Free Clinic, the Louise Graham Regeneration Center, and the Ronald McDonald House. We filled the large Goodwill truck four times with clothes, furniture, and electronics. All of the books we collected were donated to Better World Books or Haslam’s bookstore. In total, this came to 60 boxes of books and 30 boxes of unopened food and usable toiletries that were donated to the Saint Pete Free Clinic. During the duration of the week recycling was made available to residents moving out. All paper items were donated to the Louise Graham Regeneration Center and the Ronald McDonald House.
The mission of this campaign was to support local organizations while minimizing our overall environmental footprint. Both of these goals were accomplished successfully. Next year we hope to continue, expand, and improve our efforts to minimize end of the year waste. Remember to always reduce, reuse, and recycle!
Category:Colleges
Category:Eckerd College
Category:Florida
Category:Programs
Category:Zero Waste
Ecocapsule

Nice Architects Go Eco
Portable, solar-powered ecocapsules -- live rent- and electric-bill free, globally .... 
Serenity wherever 
As the saying goes, Turn on (the ecosystems), Tune in (to a natural spot), and Drop out (of the city hustle)
>Slovakian firm Nice Architects has built an egg-shaped “Ecocapsule” that runs entirely on solar and wind energy, allowing its dweller(s) to live both literally, and figuratively, off-the-grid.
>The completely self-sustaining portable home contains a 9,744 watt-hour battery, a 750 watt wind turbine, and high-efficiency solar cells that can support you for about a year in pretty much any location in the world, provided there is some sunlight. (It probably wouldn’t work in a cave, for instance, should someone desire to live in one.)
>The capsule also includes a rainwater collection and filtration system. Inside, there’s a kitchenette with running water, a flushable toilet, a shower, a bed, and work space. Nice Architects says the capsule, which is about 4.5 meters (14.7 feet) long and 2.4 meters (7.9 feet) wide, can comfortably fit two people.
Check out a Go Eco
http://www.nicearchitects.sk/
http://www.ecocapsule.sk/
http://www.ecocapsule.sk/advantages
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Category:Alternative Living
Category:Appropriate Technology
Ecosystem

* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:ECO.png
Eco Definition 
German zoologist Ernst Haeckel, who in 1866 coined the term oekologie from the Greek oikos, meaning “home, place to live.” Haeckel was thinking primarily of the “homes” of animals, but by the time the word translated into English in 1875 (initially spelled “oecology”), its meaning had broadened to embrace plant habitats as well.
The related term ecosystem was proposed by the British botanist Arthur Tansley, 60 years after one of his own professors first translated Haeckel’s oekologie. It may have been ecosystem, which treats eco- as a prefix to a standard English word, that gave English speakers permission to do the same in coining a host of other terms... (Via Merriam-Webster)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem 
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GreenPolicy360: Eco and Ecosystem have now become terms of a movement, a modern environmental movement, a whole earth movement... We are an eco-movement, a green movement, an ecology with ecology studies... and on we go....
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Beginnings of the Modern Environmental Movement 
* https://greenpolicy360.net/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf
Environmental movement
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_movement
Earth System Science
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_System_Science
It's All Related
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/It%27s_All_Related
Earthrise
* https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Earthrise
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Planet Earth
: 50+ years since the Apollo Mission surprised us with a first-ever "Earthrise" view of our home planet
GreenPolicy360: We remember, as we watched Apollo missions in 1968 and 1969, how our views of who we were as citizens changed. We saw, for the first time, our Earth rising.
'Earthrise' as seen from Apollo 8 was a magic moment, a Whole Earth vision, and a beginning of the modern Environmental Movement.
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Planet Earth Perspective
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Earth_Perspective
The original Earth Day Flag (1970)
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Category:Earth
Category:Earth360
Category:Earth Day
Category:Earth System Science
Category:Ecology Studies
Category:Education
Category:Planet Citizen
Category:Whole Earth
Ecuador

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuador
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ecuador
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Ecuador became the first country in the world to codify
Rights of Nature
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/ecuador
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https://www.lonelyplanet.com/ecuador
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INDC
Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) -- 2015 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intended_Nationally_Determined_Contributions
 Equador's INDC plan - PDF
PDF-2
http://www.mapsopensource.com/ecuador?url=ecuador
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Ecuador_%28orthographic_projection%29.svg/549px-Ecuador_%28orthographic_projection%29.svg.png
http://www.mapsopensource.com/images/ecuador-location-map.gif
http://www.mapsopensource.com/images/ecuador-provinces-map.gif
Category:Ecuador
Category:South America
Category:Location
Category:Countries
Category:Agricultural Economics
Category:Ecological Economics
Category:Economic Development
Category:Human Rights
Category:INDC
Edinburgh, Scotland Biodiversity Action Plan

Type: Policy
Status: Adopted
Source File: Click here
Description:
The second Edinburgh Biodiversity Action Plan was launched on 17th November 2004. This new plan, supersedes the first Edinburgh Biodiversity Action Plan 2000-2004, which still contains much relevant information in this plan. The second Plan was the result of two years of review work carried out by the Edinburgh Biodiversity Partnership. As a result of the review the Partnership identified that the most effective way to deliver action for Edinburgh's biodiversity was to prioritise habitat conservation, which then benefits a wide range of species. In comparison with the first Plan 2000 - 2004, the second Plan contains only 15 species action plans compared with 97 in the first Plan. These 15 are for species requiring specific action which would not be accommodated for by general habitat management. Over the time scale 2004 -2009 the Edinburgh Biodiversity Partnership will be working to implement the actions contained within the Plan. This work will be co-ordinated by the Edinburgh Biodiversity Officer based in the Council. Successful implementation will provide opportunities for both wildlife and people to thrive in a Edinburgh's quality environment.
Biodiversity Action Plan 2004 - 2009
Biodiversity Action Plan 2000 - 2004
Biodiversity Supplementary Planning Guidance
Gardening in Harmony with Nature
Category:Biodiversity
Category:City Governments
Category:Policies
Category:Scotland
Category:United Kingdom
Edinburgh, Scotland Climate Challenge Fund

Type: Program
Status: Ongoing
Source File: Click here
Description:
Edinburgh communities are being encouraged to take advantage of an exciting new fund to help cut their carbon emissions. The Government’s Climate Challenge Fund, has £18.8 million to give away to carbon-reducing community projects by 2011. 
Grants of up to £1million are available to help community organisations plan, learn, communicate and most importantly, take action to reduce carbon emissions. Projects could involve using less energy, walking and cycling more or using more local food supplies.
Edinburgh Worktrack is one local organisation which has already benefited from the fund. Recently awarded £65,000, the Craigmillar Community Combined Heat and Power Scheme aims to develop more cost-effective energy systems including a community owned Combined Heat and Power (CHP) scheme. 
The City of Edinburgh Council has set an ambitious target of achieving a carbon free economy by 2050. A Carbon Management Plan for the Council has been developed and procedures established to ensure that all policy and spending decisions account for impact on carbon emissions. However, community-led initiatives are also essential in tackling the everyday causes of climate change and the Council is encouraging local communities across the city to take action to cut their carbon emissions and is keen to lend support where possible.
The Council is currently working in partnership with Edinburgh Voluntary Organisations Council to develop a proposal for carbon reduction in local voluntary services. Community consultations on the proposal are currently being carried out via the Neighbourhood Partnerships and if there is enough support for the proposal a project will be developed on which to base a funding application in the near future.
Category:City Governments
Category:Climate Policy
Category:Green Funds
Category:Programs
Category:Scotland
Category:United Kingdom
Edinburgh, Scotland Fairtrade City Initiative

Type: Program
Status: Launched in December 2003
Source File: Click here
Description:
The Fairtrade Towns/Cities initiative is run by the Fairtrade Foundation in the UK. The purpose of a Fairtrade town is to contribute to the Fairtrade Foundation's aim of tackling poverty by helping disadvantaged producers from poor countries to receive a better deal, through encouraging support for the FAIRTRADE mark.
Edinburgh Fairtrade City Initiative
The Fairtrade Towns/Cities initiative is run by the Fairtrade Foundation in the UK. The purpose of a Fairtrade town is to contribute to the Fairtrade Foundation's aim of tackling poverty by helping disadvantaged producers from poor countries to receive a better deal, through encouraging support for the FAIRTRADE mark.
To become a Fairtrade City the following five goals must be realised:
:1. The local authority passes a resolution supporting Fairtrade and agrees to serve Fairtrade coffee and tea at its meetings and in its offices and canteens
:2. A range of at least two Fairtrade products are readily available in the area's shops and Fairtrade products are served in local cafes/eating establishments
:3. Fairtrade products are used by a number of local work places and community organisations (churches, schools, etc)
:4. Attract media coverage and popular support for the campaign
:5. A local Fairtrade steering group is convened to ensure continued commitment to its Fairtrade City status.
The Edinburgh Fairtrade City Initiative was launched in the City Chambers in December 2003 at a civic reception attended by the Lord Provost Cllr Lesley Hinds, Gareth Thomas MP, Mark Lazarowicz MP and Simeon Green, Windward bananas. Edinburgh received its Fairtrade City Status on the 12 March 2004. The steering group must monitor progress towards each of the Fairtrade City goals and report to the Fairtrade Foundation annually.
Fair trade is a growing international movement to guarantee that producers in poor countries receive a fair price for their goods. It means that workers benefit from a decent wage and working conditions and that the price they receive for their goods reflects the true cost of production. It also allows for investment in safe water supplies, sanitation, healthcare and education.
The Fairtrade Foundation was established to improve the position of the poor and marginalised producers in the developing world. The Foundation encourages UK industry and consumers to support fairer trade and to purchase fair trade products. Products that carry the FAIRTRADE Mark, the only independent consumer guarantee, ensure that producers in the developing world get a better deal.
There are over 3000 products with the certified Fairtrade logo available in the UK. This includes jams and preserves, chutneys and sauces, rice, wine and beers. Fair trade products are now offered by catering suppliers - just ask!
Category:City Governments
Category:Fair Trade
Category:Programs
Category:Scotland
Category:United Kingdom
Edmonds, WA Actively Coming Together Through the Arts

Type: Resolution
Status: Adopted on 1/20/04
Source File: http://www.ci.edmonds.wa.us/resolutions/2004/Reso1058.pdf
Text:
RESOLUTION NO. 1058
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON, ENDORSING AN INITIATIVE CALLED ACT (ACTIVELY COMING TOGETHER THROUGH ARTS, CULTURE AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT) TO SUPPORT A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT FOR BUILDING COMMUNITY THROUGH PARTICIPATION IN THE ARTS, CULTURE, AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT IN OUR REGION.
WHEREAS, programs in Arts, Culture, and Civic Engagement enrich the
lives of our citizens, build strong bonds within our community, nurture respect for
cultural differences, and lead to an involved and educated citizenry; and
WHEREAS, programs in arts, culture, and Civic Engagement have been
shown to have positive economic impact on our community; and
WHEREAS, working in coordination and collaboration with other
agencies, organizations, and jurisdictions that provide programs in Arts, Culture and
Civic Engagement can strengthen our efforts in creating and promoting those programs,
and can lead to more efficient use of our resources; and
WHEREAS, an alliance is being developed whereby the county,
community college, cities, schools, arts and cultural organizations, members of the
business community, and individual citizens can work together to increase access to
programs in Arts, Culture, and Civic Engagement in south Snohomish County and its
surrounding communities; and
WHEREAS, this alliance is called ACT, Actively Coming Together
through Arts, Culture and Civic Engagement, and
WHEREAS, this alliance is poised to begin a new phase of its work, and it
is appropriate for the parties involved to review and determine the extent of their future
involvement in this effort
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON, HEREBY RESOLVES that we endorse the cooperation and collaboration created by
ACT, and direct the members of our organization to commit the staff time and resources
necessary for the processes of sharing of information and comprehensive planning that
will lead to a better understanding of the opportunities and costs of expanded programs
and greater community participation in the arts and cultural programs of our region.
Category:City Governments
Category:Culture
Category:Resolutions
Category:Washington