How Recycling Categlogs Can Help Reduce Global Warming!

You can reduce waste and pollution, and free some space in your mailbox, with a minimum of effort.

How to stop or limit catalog mailings

To remove your name from most national catalog and other direct mailing lists:

• Sign up with Catalog Choice at catalogchoice.org, or

• Register with the Direct Marketing Association's Mail Preference Service (MPS) for a $1 fee. Fill out the form online at www.dmaconsumers.org/consumerassistance.html. Or send a written request, with your name as it appears on all catalog labels, to:

Mail Preference Service
c/o The DMA
P.O. Box 9008
Farmingdale, NY 11735-9008.

• The MPS remains in effect for five years, or until you place an order or request a catalog. Companies that subscribe to the MPS typically check their mailing lists against it a few times a year, so it may take a few months to see results. For more information, call the DMA at (212) 768-7277, or visit the group's web site.
• To continue receiving mailings from certain companies, notify them directly (through their customer service department). Ask them to put in your account record that your name is not to be shared with other marketers. If you get catalogs you don't want, ask those companies to remove you from their databases. A short telephone call will help curb the proliferation of unwanted catalogs.

Eliminate duplicate and undeliverable mailings

If you receive multiple mailings for the same household, call and ask the company to delete the extra listing. If you move, fill out the Postal Service's National Change of Address form so that mailers don't keep sending catalogs to your old address.

Reduce the frequency of mailings you receive

Many companies will honor consumers' requests to receive catalogs less frequently. The catalog's customer service or order department can tell you what options are available. Some catalogs may even allow you to switch from paper catalogs to e-mail notifications and product promotions, with links to the company's Web site.

Ask catalogers to use recycled paper

Next time you place an order, ask if the catalog is printed on recycled paper. If it's not, tell the company that this is important to you as a customer, and ask them to make the switch. (Our Paper Calculator can help.) Support catalog companies that use recycled paper and have demonstrated a commitment to reduce their overall impact on the environment.

Recycle catalogs

To find out more about recycling programs in your community, call your city government or 1 (800) CLEANUP, or visit www.cleanup.org. If your town does not yet recycle catalogs and other paper products, encourage municipal leaders to start.

As Always, Keep it Green

More Sqwabling Than A Pack Of Hen's!!!

Well it seems now there is a blame game going when it comes to political actions being put into effect in the white house. If you haven’t heard any of this before, here are a few things that will put you up to date on the matter.

The president's science adviser said Wednesday he recommended some changes in global warming testimony by the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention but denied he wanted entire pages cut.

Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., told John Marburger, head of the president's Office of Science and Technology, that the White House had blamed him for deleting all or part of eight pages of the 14-page draft. Boxer heads the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, which heard from CDC chief Julie Gerberding on Oct. 24.

"We were one of a number of commentators on the testimony and we did recommended changes," Marburger said when pressed by Boxer at a hearing. "We did not recommend wiping out eight pages of it."

Gerberding's original draft testimony showed that at least six pages, focusing on specific health impacts in detail, had been removed during a review by the White House's budget office.

White House press secretary Dana Perino said afterward that Marburger and his staff had raised concerns the testimony was out of line with a report by the U.N. panel of scientists studying global warming.

"Did you redact those pages," Boxer asked Marburger during a hearing Wednesday on global warming by the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. Marburger said he had not.

Boxer, citing Perino's comments, told Marburger that he, nevertheless, was being blamed.

"My office participated in a process that is run by the Office of Management and Budget," Marburger said.

He noted that at the time, "because of a sharp media reaction" to the changes made in Gerberding's testimony, he had issued a statement outlining some changes he had recommended.

"Those were small edits. Those could have been changed with one or two words," Boxer said. "Someone redacted six pages."

At the hearing Wednesday, Marburger acknowledged the seriousness of risks of the global warming. "I believe there is an urgency to begin to solve this problem," he said.

Boxer's committee has scheduled a vote in the first week of December on a bill that, for the first time, would establish limits on heat-trapping greenhouse gases being released into the atmosphere. The full Senate is expected to take up the legislation next year; prospects of passing Congress are uncertain.

President Bush has said that global warming needs to be addressed. He opposes mandatory limits on greenhouse gases, saying that voluntary measures and development of new technologies can lead to a reduction in carbon dioxide, a product of burning fossil fuels, and other greenhouse emissions.