Learn to reduce your carbon footprint
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October 23, 2009 - 10:00 AM

Skagit County is going on an energy diet.

The Skagit Cool Community Campaign will launch on Saturday, which is the International Day of Climate Action. If you want to save money, reduce our dependence on foreign oil and lower your carbon footprint, come to a Cool Climate Cafe for a community conversation about climate change and what we can do about it.

Cafes are 1-3 p.m. at the Senior Activity Center, 1701 22nd St., and 9:30-11:30 a.m. at the Skagit PUD Building, 1415 Freeway Drive, Mount Vernon. Come early to look at the displays and enjoy the food. Doors open a half hour before the cafes.

At the Climate Cafes, people will have the option to join with friends, neighbors or co-workers to form into teams that follow the “Low-Carbon Diet,” a proven peer-support method that has helped numerous people reduce their emissions by at least 5,000 pounds. Participants learn a variety of ways to lower their carbon footprints and reap benefits from neighbors helping neighbors to save money, find commute alternatives, share tools, weatherize and more.

Although the problem of climate change may seem overwhelming, individual efforts do matter. Our daily lifestyles represent half of America’s carbon footprint and our purchases influence the other half. Personal lifestyle changes not only help to lower energy emissions and costs, but also pave the path for policy initiatives, new technologies, green markets, public transportation and alternative energy. 

The Skagit Cool Community Campaign is co-organized by the Padilla Bay National Estuarine Reserve, Skagit Beat the Heat and the Skagit Climate Stewards. It is sponsored by Skagit County and the NW Clean Air Agency. For more information, call 293-4048 or (360) 428-1066.





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What is carbon footprint? Is this just again another big waste of carbon again?

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