Elgin Climate Change Organization

ECCO AWARENESS

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RECYCLING IN THE FOX VALLEY

Recycling – Elgin Area

Locations: CFL Bulbs can be recycled at Ace Hardware, Home Depot & others. Paint – Ace Hardware.

Recycling-Kane County

Location: Kane County Circuit Clerk, 540 S. Randall Road, St. Charles, Illinois (630) 208-3841
Now open on Fridays and Saturdays of each month from 8AM til Noon as follows:September 11 & 12,
October 9 & 10, November 13 & 14 and December 11 & 12, 2009.

Kane County items Accepted for Recycling:

DO NOT BRING Manuals, Packing Material, Air Conditioners or other appliances, orHousehold Hazardous Wastes. Computers and Peripherals: Personal Computers, Monitors, Printers, Scanners, Modems, Tape, Disk, CD Drives,Cables, Keyboards, Mice, Plotters (Limit of 25 pieces on Towers/CPU’s and Monitors) Entertainment Equipment: Televisions, Camcorders, Cameras, Stereo Equipment (no speakers), Game Players, Joysticks Office Equipment: Telephones, Cell Phones, Pagers, Answering Machines, Typewriters, Calculators, Adding Machines, Fax Machines, Shredders, Copiers, Postage Meters Other: Microwave Ovens Software: Electronic Media: Floppy Discs, Compact Discs (and cases), Videotapes, Audio Cassettes)

Please remove all paper and recycle it with your mixed paper at home.

Books: We also accept both hardbound and paperback books.

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BOOKS ON GLOBAL WARMING/CLIMATE CHANGE

The Solution is You – Laurie David An Inconvenient Truth -Al Gore
World Changing- Alex Steffen Global Warming Survival Handbook-David De Rothchild
True Green -Kim McKay and Jenny Bonnin Boiling Point -Rob Gelbspan
The Down To Earth Guide to Global Warming – Laurie David and Cambia Gordon
Heat – How to Stop the Planet from Burning – George Monbiot
365 Ways to Save the Earth – Philippe Bourseiller Earth in the Balance- Al Gore
Field Notes from a Catastrophe – Elizabeth Kolbert

The End of Nature- Bill McKibben

What We Know About Climate Change- Kerry Emanuel
Crimes Against Nature -Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Six Degrees -Mark Linas
Global Warning The Last Chance for Change -Paul Brown
As The World Burns : 50 Simple Things To Stay In Denial – Derrick Jensen , Stephanie McMillan
Plan B 3.0 Mobilizing to Save Civilization -Lester R. Brown

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INFORMATIONAL SITES

Short Video: www.leonardodicaprio.org
Information & 2 downloadable movies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nZjrPoAlbU (AAAS climate change video)
http://www.wakeupfreakout.org/film/tipping.html (Tipping Points video)
http://www.blueman.com/land/archive/earth (Global Warming video)

Kids Site:

www.hippoworks.com

Websites:

www.cityofelgin.org

www.elgin-ecn.org
www.350.org

www.globalgreen.org
www.lowimpactliving.com

www.greenhousenet.org
www.davidsuzuki.org

www.stopglobalwarming.org
www.cleanaircounts.org

www.1sky.org
www.greenroofs.com

www.thegreenguide

www.countdown2copenhagen.org

www.nccecojustice.org

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