Franklin Circle Christian Church
(Disciples of Christ)
Environmental Stewardship & Sustainability Page
Recycling Is Good Stewardship Of God's Creation!
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To read Pastor Allen's article connecting Resurrection and Sustainability, Click HERE!
What's New?
Cleveland's Office of Sustainability
1201 Lakeside Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
P: 216.664.2444
F: 216.664.2378
Weekdays 8 am to 5 pm
The Office of Sustainability was established in 2005 with the intention
of guiding the City to become more efficient and effective at delivering
quality services to residents, and in order to help shape Cleveland's
future. The office works with the City’s administration as well as its
departments to integrate sustainability principles into daily operations
and achieve the following goals:
-- Save the City of Cleveland money and reduce its ecological footprint,
or combination of resource consumption and waste generation
-- Use sustainability as a tool for economic development
-- Introduce a sustainability culture and its principles into the
community
Focusing on these goals will help to retain people,
businesses, and intellectual capital in the region by providing a
friendly and healthy place for people to live, visit, and work.
Sustainability: meeting the needs of the present without compromising
the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
From the September 2008 Messenger:
JAMer's go GREEN!!
Simple tips to
green your cleaning products!!
It's easy to make green cleaning products with ingredients you already
have in the kitchen.
Do you have any ideal how many chemicals are in our household cleaners?
And you have a cleaner for this and a cleaner for that…and they all
contain about the same chemicals!! So why so many choices? To confuse
the consumer and sell…sell…sell.
These chemicals are harmful to both people and the environment.
Here are a few easy recipes to make safer cleaners that will leave your
glass, bathroom and furniture spotless.
Glass Cleaner
: Mix 1-2 cups of white vinegar and 1 quart of water in a spray bottle.
No streaks!
Bathroom Cleaner:
Sprinkle baking soda on the sink, bathtub or in the toilet. Use a wet
rag to scrub the stains away. Do not use on surfaces that scratch
easily.
Furniture Polish:
Mix 1 ounce of lemon juice and 2 ounces of cooking oil (such as olive or
corn) in a plastic bottle. Pour a small amount on furniture and polish
with a soft cloth.
With the holidays around the bend next month--- Throwing a Green Party!
Be
Green…
Patty
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From The August 2008 Messenger:
JAMer's go GREEN!!
We know you're swamped for time. Between school, church, family
obligations and your social life, who has time to spare?
Believe it or not, there's a lot you can do even if a minute is all you
have.
Here's some things you may not have known about recycling that may just
make you get up and DO SOMETHING!
Fact 1
The average American used 650 pounds of paper each year. 100 MILLION
TONS of wood could be saved each year if all that paper was actually
recycled.
Fact 2
About 80% of what Americans throw away is recyclable, yet our recycling
rate is only 28%.
Fact 3
Americans use 2.5 MILLION plastic bottles every hour! Most of them are
thrown away ...
Fact 4
Every month Americans throw out enough glass bottles and jars to fill up
a giant skyscraper (think: Empire State Building). All these jars are
recyclable!
Fact 5
Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as
many as 1,000,000 sea creatures a year! Ever heard of the Great Pacific
Garbage Patch
? It's twice the size of Texas and is floating somewhere between San
Francisco and Hawaii. It's also 80 percent plastic, and weighs in at 3.5
million tons.
Fact 6
Recycling one ton (about 2,000 pounds) of paper saves 17 trees, 2
barrels of oil (enough to run the average car for 1,260 mile), 4,100
kilowatts of energy (enough power for the average home for six months),
3.2 cubic yards of landfill space, and 60 pounds of pollution.
Fact 7
The 17 trees saved by recycling a ton of paper can absorb a total of 250
pounds of carbon dioxide from the air each year.
Fact 8
If all our newspapers were recycled, we could save about 250 MILLION
trees each year! If every American recycled just one-tenth (that's one
out of ten) of their newspapers, we could save about 25 MILLION trees a
year.
Fact 9
More than 20,000,000 Hershey's Kisses are wrapped each day, using 133
square miles of aluminum foil. Believe it not, ALL that foil is
recyclable, but not may people realize it so most it goes in the trash!
Fact 10
Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three
hours - or the equivalent of a half a gallon of gasoline. In spite of
this, Americans throw away enough aluminum to rebuild our entire
commercial fleet of airplanes every three months!
Fact 11
A typical family consumes 182 gallons of pop (aka soda), 29 gallons of
juice, 104 gallosn of milk, and 26 gallons of bottled water a year.
That's a lot of containers - make sure they're recycled!
Next month…What can you do?
Go Green...
Patty
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JAMer's go GREEN!!
How green are you?
From the June 2008 Messenger
Simple tips to green your kitchen
You can save energy and water by simply using them more efficiently. We
shouldn't have to make large sacrifices to conserve, accomplishing less
with less. While there's a lot to be said for installing efficient
lighting, changing out old appliances for Energy Star models, replacing
drafty windows, or re-fitting your sinks with low-flow fixtures (which
will pay for themselves over time), what about when you don't have any
money to invest? Fortunately, you can still cut your energy and water
consumption by spending nothing at all. That's because a lot of your
energy and water use depends on how you use what you already have in
your house. Using your current appliances more efficiently, in other
words, can lower your consumption and your utility bills. If you're
looking to save energy, water, and money this spring, a good place to
start is your kitchen. By some estimates, kitchen appliances account for
26 percent of an average household's electricity use. And dish washing
is one of the more water-intensive activities in your home. Here's a
list of easy habits you can adopt to use your kitchen appliances more
efficiently:
Oven *Don't open the oven door to check on a dish — use the oven light
instead (20 percent of the heat can be lost each time you open the oven
door). *Keep preheating to a minimum. *Turn the oven off before cooking
is complete (depending on the dish, up to 15 minutes). The heat in the
oven will continue to cook the dish until finished. *If you need to
self-clean the oven, plan to do it after cooking a meal while the oven
is already hot, requiring less energy to raise the temperature to a
higher level.
Stove top *Match the pan size to the element size. *Use the least amount
of water and the smallest size pan possible. Otherwise you're wasting
energy to heat up excess metal or excess water.
Refrigerator *Let hot foods cool to room temperature before putting them
in the fridge. Otherwise the fridge works even harder to bring the
temperature down. *Keep the freezer full. The more air you displace with
food and beverages, the less cold air you lose when you open the freezer
door.
Dishwasher *Run the dishwasher when full; it requires the same amount of
energy for a full load as it does for a half load. *Use the "no heat"
drying option. *Don't wash dishes twice. Although it depends upon the
age of your dishwasher, most dishwashers can get your dishes clean
without rinsing them first by hand.
Other appliances *Plug counter top appliances into a power strip that
can be turned off after use, saving the energy that would be used by the
appliances when in "standby mode." (Depending upon how often you use
your microwave, the microwave's digital clock could use more energy than
the microwave oven itself.) *You can also simply unplug appliances when
you're done using them. *And paper where do we put the paper? In that
big beautiful GREEN and yellow bin in the FCCC parking lot. Rules for
the paper bin….No Phonebooks or cardboard. We want your magazines,
shopping catalogs, school or office papers, shredded paper (in a garbage
bag with holes punched in the bag), sales papers. Please DO NOT include:
plastic, glass, metal, or trash.
That's it for this month…next month…Ten Ways to be Green! Let's all take
a part in saving God's gift to us.
Patty
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Helpful & Fun Recycling Web Sites!
Cleveland Office of Sustainability
1201 Lakeside Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
P: 216.664.2444
F: 216.664.2378
Weekdays 8 am to 5 pm
The Office of Sustainability was established in 2005 with the intention
of guiding the City to become more efficient and effective at delivering
quality services to residents, and in order to help shape Cleveland's
future. The office works with the City’s administration as well as its
departments to integrate sustainability principles into daily operations
and achieve the following goals:
Save the City of Cleveland money and reduce its ecological footprint, or
combination of resource consumption and waste generation
Use sustainability as a tool for economic development
Introduce a sustainability culture and its principles into the community
Focusing on these goals will help to retain people, businesses, and
intellectual capital in the region by providing a friendly and healthy
place for people to live, visit, and work.
Sustainability: meeting the needs of the present without compromising
the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
Walk+Roll Cleveland
www.WalkRoll.com
Walk+Roll encourages people to walk and bicycle in
their daily lives by:
- Organizing human-powered neighborhood events that combine fun with
active living, learning and participating.
- Advocating with politicians and community leaders so that they
consider cyclists and pedestrians in public policy.
- Promoting and encouraging biking and walking through press releases
and outreach to the media.
Walking and cycling rather than driving - particularly for short
distances - saves money, improves physical and emotional health,
decreases smog which improves our living environment, improves
neighborhood safety and encourages social interaction which builds
community.
http://www.cuyahogaswd.org/default.asp
Computer Equipment Recycling
Cuyahoga County
http://www.ret3.org/services.htm
Computer Drop Off Site
With the support of Cuyahoga County
Solid Waste District, RET3 Job Corp operates the exclusive location for
recycling of both household and business computer equipment for Cuyahoga
County.
Pick Up Service - One skid or truck loads. (Call for prices)
A "No Landfill" Guarantee
Tax Deductible Contribution
Peace-of-mind that your computers are being handled in the most
sensitive, environmentally friendly way.
Residential Services:
Residential service is free - Drop offs from residents of Cuyahoga
County.
Drop off Location:
RET3 JOB CORP
1814 East 40th Street, Cleveland OH 44103
Hours of Operation:
8:00AM to 3:00PM Monday - Friday
For more information call
216 - 361 - 9991
Fax: 216 - 361 - 9989
Stop Phone Book Deliveries!
Sign up today!
You can now opt out of all phone book deliveries at
www.YellowPagesGoesGreen.org . The Yellow Pages Goes Green
Organization will notify all telephone directory organizations and
discontinue delivery for all future directories.
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