Food and fuel crises hit poorest families the hardest in Nepal

MUGU DISTRICT, Nepal, 18 May 2009 – Sitting in the smoke-blackened main room of her tiny house on a steep, parched hillside in Sawa Khola village, Nawa Dumchi Bikar is a worried woman.

Food and fuel crises hit poorest families the hardest in Nepal

Food and fuel crises hit poorest families the hardest in Nepal

MUGU DISTRICT, Nepal, 18 May 2009 – Sitting in the smoke-blackened main room of her tiny house on a steep, parched hillside in Sawa Khola village, Nawa Dumchi Bikar is a worried woman.

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Greenbeaver - Recycling Textbooks!

Greenbeaver will be working with Better World Books to recycle new and used textbooks, exam/desk/professional copies/instructor's edition textbooks, unmarked study guides, working papers, and course readers, published since 2005. These books will go to Better World Book's global literacy program, where books and funds will go to organizations such as Books for Africa, Invisible Children, National Center for Family Literacy, Room to Read, World Fund,and schools and libraries that are aligned with their mission of supporting global literacy.

This project will also support Greenbeaver's mission; and as a result of the recycling efforts, Greenbeaver will receive a donation for every book recycled. The money earned will be donated next fall. Faculty, staff, and students, please consider donating your new or used textbooks! Drop off locations: Information Desk, 8:00am-10:00pm daily. Hallway by the Cent Room, Friday, May 15 and Wednesday, May 20, 11:00am-1:00pm. Thank you!

The Wiiter Gallery- SL

The Witter Gallery is an EXHIBITING and EDUCATIONAL GALLERY. Its objective is to encourage the appreciation of fine arts; to support fine arts education, exhibits, lectures, and art workshops and classes for the benefit of the public; and to establish awards, grants, and scholarships to promote study in the area of fine arts.

Pilot Tribune writes about GREENBEAVER

Pilot Tribune wrote the story about GREENBEAVER and Earth day - http://www.stormlakepilottribune.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20305255&BRD=1304&PAG=461&dept_id=180485&rfi=6

Recycling Textbooks – the Gift That Keeps on Giving!

Greenbeaver just finished planting one tree for Earth Day – a beautiful Norway maple. It takes 75,000 trees to print a Sunday Edition of the New York Times! If all of our newspaper was recycled, it would save about 250,000,000 trees each year. If everyone in the U.S. recycled just 1/10 of their newsprint, we would save the estimated equivalent of about 25 million trees a year.

More disturbing facts:

• Every day, Americans buy 62 million newspapers and throw out 44 million. That’s the equivalent of dumping 500,000 trees into a landfill every week.
• The average office worker in the U.S. uses 10,000 sheets of copy paper each year. That’s 4 million tons of copy paper used annually. Office workers in the US generate approximately 2 pounds of paper and paperboard products every day.
• In the U.S. we use about 85 million tons of paper and paperboard annually.
• Each year, more than 2 billion books, 350 million magazines, and 24 billion newspapers are published.

Paper and paperboard products represent the largest portion of our municipal waste stream (e.g., trash). So what can we do? Recycle!

One ton of recycled paper:

• Saves enough energy to power the average American home for six months.
• Saves 7,000 gallons of water.
• Save 3.3 cubic yards of landfill space.
• Saves 17 trees (35’ tall)
• Reduces greenhouse gas emissions by one metric ton of carbon equivalent (MTCE).

Greenbeaver has the opportunity to work with a company that recycles used textbooks. They collect textbooks published in 2005 or later, and donate them to Books for Africa and the International Book Project. They also sell used textbooks and donate the money to these programs as well. They will pay college organizations (per book) that hold book drives.

Greenbeaver donates all money earned from recycling projects; think of the potential for continuous good this project can bring, particularly if Greenbeaver holds an annual book drive!

We can donate our used textbooks, and we can collect books from outside sources as well. This project truly supports the Greenbeaver mission! We will be working with Better World Books next fall, but we can start collecting books now. We encourage everyone to consider donating their used textbooks for this cause – watch for more information and details regarding drop off sites!