recycle your cell phone; save a gorilla
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Do you have an old cell phone that you're not using any more? Whatever you do, don't throw it in the trash! The Environmental Protection Agency estimates 130-million cell phones will go out of service this year, creating 65-thousand tons of garbage!
Health hazards
That would be bad enough if it were nice harmless garbage--but unfortunately that's not the case. Cell phones contain lots of hazardous substances known as Persistent Bioaccumulative and Toxic chemicals, known as BPT's. They can cause damage to the nervous system, as well as reproductive and development problems, cancer and genetic impacts.
And that's just the impact on humans! Cell phones are coated with an ore called Coltan, which is found in the Congo in the middle of endangered gorilla and elephant habitat. According to the United Nations, because of the mining and habitat destruction, the population of eastern lowland gorillas and forest elephants continues to decline and head toward extinction.
Recycle your old phone!
Here in Madison, you can donate your old cell phone to the Henry Vilas Zoo, and help raise needed funds for the zoo, and help the environment at the same time. Drop off your old cell phone at the main gift shop. The phones will be refurbished and re-sold, donated to groups who give them to individuals who can use them for emergency calls, or recycled. None will go into landfills.
Find out more about the zoo's cell phone recycling program here.
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win golf passes
Enter now for your chance to win golf passes to Argue-ment Golf Course!
About Argue-ment:"Can we translate a Scottish shepherds' pasture game to the upland pastures of a Wisconsin dairy farm?" Our answer? The Argue-ment Golf Course. Avid golfers draped it on the land like a favorite sweater on a golfer's shoulders. Maintained with loving attention to the land by the farm family whose cows graced the hills, Argue-ment will challenge your skill and lift your spirit, without reducing you to penury.
One mile south of State 69 on Argue Rd between Belleville and New Glarus.
Call 608-527-6366 to schedule your fun!
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become a triple mmmember
How do free tickets, exclusive eco-prizes & concert invites sound? You can get all this and more by joining today!
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green gifts for mom
Show two mothers how much you care this year...one of them being Mother Earth!
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Local treehugger Emily gives you the scoop on all things green, and our very own eco-queen Kitty Dunn has all the latest environews.
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the myanmar cyclone: world impacts + how you can help
The humanitarian crisis in Myanmar in the wake of Tropical Cyclone Nargis could expand into other nations as part of the widening food crisis. Just six months after Bangladesh lost 800,000 metric tons of rice to Cyclone Sidr, its neighbor has seen its second rice crop of the year decimated by Nargis. The extent of the damage isn't known, but Myanmar had been expected to be among the few nation exporting rice this year, and instead is likely to draw down world stocks of grain, which are at their...
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sewing up a cool award
Congratulations to Margaret Jankowski of Monona! She got to go out to Colorado to be on the radio show etown (heard right here on Triple M) and meet the Bodeans. It wasn't just luck that got her there. She was being recognized for the non-profit organization she founded called The Sewing Machine Project.
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