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The 3/50 Project promotes stronger local economies through support of independent retailers and the consumers who shop with them. As expected the Seattle City Council unanimously approved a resolution to urge Washington State Legislature to establish a Do Not Mail Registry. From the sounds of it they actually are America’s greenest cell phone company. Since 1985 Credo has donated over $60 million to nonprofits, including groups working to fight global warming and safegaurd the planet, like Greenpeace and Rainforest Action Network. Seattle does not need a CEO, it needs a community focused MAYOR. Mallahan is clearly out of his league with his attempt to enter the public service sector. The amount of influence that is pulling his puppet strings does not belong in city government. Seattle claims to be and frankly has been one of the greenest cities in the nation in recent years. But recently the green vote in Seattle has been disturbingly absent. The Stranger “Seattle’s Only Newspaper” announced its endorsement of Mike McGinn for Mayor as well as a list of Council Members, Commissioners, Judges and the endorsement of the bag tax. Green Sol Water is attempting to revolutionize the bottled water industry. They are providing high quality water bottles created from plant material rather than oil and bottling water locally instead of transporting water cross country. The citizens of Seattle will have an opportunity to support or reject a 20-cent plastic and paper bag fee. This bag fee was approved in July 2008 by the Seattle City Council with a 6 to 1 vote. Shortly after the bag fee was approved the American Chemistry Council started an all out media blitz portraying the bag fee as a tax and imposition on the residents of Seattle. Corporations that sell bottled water are rapidly depleting the natural resource that we need most…clean drinking water. They are buying up water rights at auctions for ridiculously low prices, sucking aquifers dry and selling that water back to us in bottles for an obscene profit. Much of this water is actually tap water. The bottled water industry and lobbyists have swayed our government to allow water rights to be auctioned off and the public right to drinkable water has been all but disregarded. Yesterday I peddled my bike in support of Earth Day. I live in the city and I work in the city so why not ride my bike? My first stop was the Jones Soda headquarters in downtown Seattle. There was a crowd of people outside and curiosity lured me to check it out. In support of Earth Day, Jones Soda decided to go off the grid for an day and generate their own electricity. |
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