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Take Care of Texas: Save Money. Save Water. Save Energy.

Tips to save up to $1,300 per year!

Interested in learning more about water conservation and rainwater harvesting for your home? Join the TCEQ and The Home Depot for an Earth Day consumer-education event on Saturday, April 18, 2009, 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., at 16 Home Depot stores across Texas.

Participants will learn tips to help save money, water, and energy, and will learn how to build a rain barrel for use at home.
For $50, participants may build their own rain barrels to take home. (optional)
The first 30 customers to pre-register will receive a FREE Take Care of Texas reusable bag, a faucet aerator, and a compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulb at the event.
Get tips to save up to $1,300 a year!
For more information and to find a location near you, visit www.takecareoftexas.org/partners.

For those greengirls who could not make it to the March meeting...Dr. Rhonda Steinke, ND presented a powerpoint on pollutants in our environment and their effects on health. The talk was extremely informative and also alarming in some ways! The unfortunate truth is that these chemicals and hazardous substances are an inseparable part of our daily lives...they are all around us.

Dr. Steinke covered solvents, pharmaceuticals, pesticides and heavy metals and what she called "terrible toxins" in our environment and explained what parts of our bodies they affect and what diseases they can cause. The good news is there is something we can do to help our bodies deal with and expel these toxins. We have the option to purify our water and air, eat more organic foods, buy farm-raised meats, and help our body's natural mechanisms to expel these harmful substances.

Dr. Steinke's presentation is available for download here. More info on natural health is available at Dr. Steinke's web site at http://www.healthtn.org.

I wanted to share with the group that I recently discovered that the City of Austin accepts cardboard in curbside recycling. They did not accept the pizza box I left in there, but they take cereal boxes, cookie boxes etc. Basically they will take any box that you get from the grocery store which has packaged foods. I collect these in a brown paper bag and leave curb side along w/ the other recycables! Less in the landfill :-) PLease spread the word.