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BLUE Pledges - Page 3IntroductionRead the BLUE Pledges below: "To make my mantra: "ReUse, ReCycle, ReClaim" then make sure I follow it and promote it." Steve Moore - Occupational Hygienist. Portsmouth, UK I do a lot of business travel, with more impact than I'd like. My pledge is to think twice about the need for travel, for myself and my team. Avoiding even one trip saves a lot of money and CO2 injection." Len Padilla - Internet Professional. Pamplona, SPAIN "Use public transportation more and walk more." Jim Kennedy - Software Engineer. Oregan, USA "I have already cut my vehicle usage by 50%, and I pledge to use public transportation more, until my vehicle usage is cut by 75%. I'm finding it easy to learn the routes, and I enjoy the 'regular' transit users' friendliness. Win Win." Steve L - Self Employeed. California, USA "I pledge to use re-usable grocery shopping bags from now on when I shop and to switch to earth friendly cleaning products." Staci - Stay at Home Mum. OR, USA "Keep our planet clean and respect it, for it is what gave us life! Why destroy something so beautiful and amazing that does so much for us? Would you want to destroy your friends and family? Some people might have different answers to that question but people who care know the correct answer. I also pledge for for world peace!" Kevin - Fitness Equipment Service Technician. OR, USA "Recycle, Recycle & Recycle. I pledge to use my own canvas bags when I go to the store and recycle & reuse as much waste as I can & to encourage others to do the same." Linda Carey Smith - Landscape Architect. San Diego, USA "I already get my dairy and fresh produce from my local farm vegbox and i recycle all household waste. I pledge to use reusable shopping bags. I pledge to pick up litter whenever possible, out on the trail or at the beach. I pledge to increase my cycling commute from 2 days, up to 3 days per week (car sharing whenever possible). I pledge to use bio-degradable board wax. < < < REDUCE - REUSE - RECYCLE > > >" Chris Angell - Student of life, Mountain Biker & Surfer. Devon, UK "To re-use personal shopping bags - To print on the back of scrap paper - To avoid using one time cups at the coffee shop - To switch off the stand-by indicators in electronic devices when not used - To turn off taps when it is not necessary to leave them on." Mario Veneziani - PhD Student. Essex, UK & Italy "I pledge to bring reusable bags to the grocery store every time I shop, to buy my produce at the Farmer's Market whenever possible and to start a compost bin for my garden." Megan L - Animal Shelter Volunteer. Chichago, USA "To use my Eco-kettle, and boil only the quantity of water that I need - and to drink more water, fewer hot drinks, so less kettle use altogether." Rita Savage - Mother of Roz Savage, BLUE Ambassador. Yorkshire, UK "will recycle all that i can. i will take my own shopping bags to the store. i will email all my friends & family & ask them to get involved in the blue project. i will conserve water.( that was instilled in me as a young girl by my mom.) i will help keep our world clean by picking up litter off the roadside. we are caretakers of this earth...we have to do our job!!! peace to all the world." Cyndia B Blake - Blachly, OR, USA "We will reduce our use of plastic bags in our home by 90%. I will live this pledge and teach about it to my students." Jacob Tanenbaum - Teacher. New York, USA "To recycle and reuse, to shop locally and grow as much of my own produce as possible." Alison Austin - Placements Officer. Devon, UK "To first and foremost vote for intelligent,wise,peace loving and environment protecting leaders and politicians in my country... To begin more earnestly and to continue to pick up litter and trash from our beaches and sea when I am walking the beaches/scubadiving or hopefully oneday sailing to other parts of the world... To oneday soon begin to use my photography interests and passions to help raise awareness through pictures and publications on environmental conditions in this country and possibly other parts of the world so that people from every country may be urged, that we must all do our parts to keep this world,air and water as clean as possible so that Nature will again be able to more easily put and bring the environment into proper balance again.... Dana Clark - Retail Tyre Technician, Scubadiver and Photographer from USA "I drink a lot of bottled water so I pledge to re-use and re-fill my water bottles as often as I can. It is awful seeing plastic bottles floating in the sea when I am surfing. If I ever see rubbish in the sea, or at the beach, I always pick it up and dispose of it properly." Oli Adams - Professional Surfer. Newquay, Cornwall "I pledge to use a 'bag for life' when I go shopping rather than use plastic bags that end up in the ocean. I'm also pledging to pick up any rubbish I see on the beach, or anywhere else, even if it's not my rubbish." Emma Skinner - Surfer. Newquay, Cornwall "When I'm at the beach I always pick up rubbish as it ends up in the sea which is where I kite but I know there's also a big problem with wax from surfboards, so my BLUE pledge is to buy only the biodegradable waxes as they don't contaminate the ocean." Jose Luengo - World Champion Kitesurfer. Tarifa, SPAIN |
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