While we didn’t quite get a ton of donations, our November media donation drive was a great success. In total, we counted 30 boxes of donations, more than 550 items (which we could sure use help listing, volunteers-to-be out there).
With this great outpour of support, and the COP15 talks yet over, we are sending the below letter to those who have a say in what the United States does in creating a better environment for our future.
We appreciate the support from everybody who donated in November, and hope you’ll remember the Eco Encore online store for the holidays.
To:
President Barack Obama
Susan Rice, United States Ambassador to the United Nations
Carol Browner, White House Office of Energy and Climate Change, Director
Lisa Jackson, EPA, Administrator
Gary Locke, United States Department of Commerce, Secretary
After decades of warnings from scientists and effort from activists, and as climate change-related extreme weather patterns and natural disasters become more common, COP15 is an opportunity for us as a nation to truly become global leaders toward a better environmental future. As boardmembers, staff, volunteers, and donors for the Seattle environmental non-profit Eco Encore, we ask that the United States use this conference as a means to take real action against global climate change.
Our mission at Eco Encore is to raise funds for Pacific Northwest environmental organizations through the online resale of books, CDs, DVDs and recent software donated by individuals and institutions across the country. In the process we have diverted tons of paper and plastics from landfills while increasing awareness of reuse as a vital practice for resource conservation.
For our annual November Ton of Books donation drive, we put the call out to climate-conscious individuals and organizations in Seattle and beyond to make a tangible statement about the seriousness of climate change by donating used media. In total, we collected 30 boxes of donations toward our cause. We timed the donation drive specifically to coincide with the COP15 conference in order to draw attention to this very real opportunity for United States leadership and cooperative action against climate change. The outpour of support we found made clear how important it is to all of us that we share responsibility for a better environmental future.
We appreciate your commitment to global cooperation at COP15 and hope the conference closes with a real United States contribution to real action in combating global climate change.
Sincerely,
Eco Encore
About Eco Encore
Eco Encore raises finds for environmental causes around the Pacific Northwest through online reselling of donated used books, CDs, DVDs and software. Since 2002 Eco Encore has shipped over 26,000 items to 51 countries, diverting about 25 tons of paper and plastic from local landfills.
It's easy to join the Eco Encore mission by donating or buying used media through our online bookstore.
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