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FROM THE EARTHPROTECT BLOG ROLLS
World and Nat’l Wetlands Day
The country joins in the global celebration of World Wetlands Day (WWD) today in commemoration of the day in 1971 when the Ramsar Convention, an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands, was adopted in Ramsar City, Iran.

We are thankful you are part of Earth Protect.

In 2011, people across the world took to the streets to voice their rights—from Tahrir Square to Arab Spring across the Middle East to Occupy Wall Street in the United States and Canada, it’s been an extraordinary year.

Earth Protect supports the definition of sustainability from our partner Earth Charter, which includes social justice, peace and relief from extreme poverty. That is to “promote the transition to a sustainable way of life founded on: respect and care for the community of life; ecological integrity; universal human rights; respect for diversity; economic justice; democracy; and a culture of peace.”

Robert Lilienfeld and William Rathje, authors of Use Less Stuff: Environmental Solutions for Who We Really Are, are also the founders of Use Less Stuff Day, celebrated since 1994 on the Thursday preceding Thanksgiving. Both efforts are an effort to convince consumers to think about how they consume – products, electricity, water and other daily routine resources.

The holidays are when Americans generate the most trash. Did you know:
•    Annual trash from gift-wrap and shopping bags totals about 4 million tons.
•    Third class mail adds another 4.4 million tons to mail bags and, ultimately, to garbage bags.
•    Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, Americans send out more than 2.3 billion cards. Laid end to end, that's almost 26,000 miles of cards, enough to circle the Earth and then some.

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I'm very pleased to present the new Earth Protect: www.earthprotect.com

After an extended period of deliberation, design, and development, the NEW Earth Protect website is finally ready, completing the shift from our old web site and design to a state of the art web site. The new site will be a tremendous resource for anyone interested in sharing information and becoming part of a community that is dedicated to protecting our planet’s natural resources.