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GLOBAL SCENE | Anywhere other than the Hawaiian Islands To recycle a wonderful quote, "May Peace be the Journey"
	"One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
	COLLAGES FOR CHARITY- "Visions of Hope and Beauty in Pink" Together We Will Make A Difference... 40% of the net profits from the sale of Pink collages will be donated to charity. Please join us to help raise money for breast cancer research and other women's health causes by purchasing our Pink collages or getting your charity involved in our fundraising partnerships.
	JOIN AL GORE'S FIGHT FOR OUR FUTURE AlGore.com has grown by more than 250,000, to an amazing 555,392+ members. However to ultimately succeed and convince our elected leaders to do what needs to be done, we have to grow much bigger still.
	The V-Day movement has worked to stop violence against women and girls worldwide. V-Day's model of 'empowerment philanthropy' has been a catalyst for activists, college students and anti-violence organizations to transform their communities in more than 112 countries to date. http://www.vday.org www.vday.org/contents/vday/aboutvday/eveensler http://www.randomhouse.com/features/ensler
	Out of the Darkness Overnight: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, theovernight.org, (888) NIGHT-05
	Out of the Darkness Overnight: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, theovernight.org, (888) NIGHT-05
	Walk for Hope to Cure Breast Cancer: cityofhope.org/walkforhope

	Avon Walk for Breast Cancer - avonwalk.org (800) 510-WALK
	Race for the Cure (Breast Cancer): komen.org, (800) IM-AWARE, various dates and locations

	Team in Training (Leukemia & Lymphoma): teamintraining.org (800) 955-4572, various dates and locations
EVERY DAY REMINDERS

	REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE! EVERYONE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. GET INVOLVED AND MAKE THE GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY TOW THE LINE! One quart of motor oil, improperly disposed of, can pollute 250,000 gallons of drinking water.
	Each year, consumers in the U.S. spread 300 million pounds of chemical insecticides, including compounds that the EPA says may impair the nervous system, disrupt hormones in the body, or cause cancer. YET PEOPLE WORRY ABOUT MSG IN CHINESE FOOD!
	Americans throw away about 50 billion aluminum cans each year. If you dug up all the cans discarded in the past 30 years, they'd be worth nearly $20 billion.
	In 2002 marine researcher Charles Moore surveyed 500 square miles of the North Pacific and found 10 pounds of floating plastic for every pound of living plankton in the water.
	Today Americans generate 472 billion pounds of trash/year and that's only 2% of the total waste system! The rest is industrial refuse, mine tailings, agricultural waste, construction debris, and exotics like "pickle liquor", an acid used to clean steel. Source: Discover Magazine, June 2006