Conscientious

Home Tissue Products: What You DON’T Know!

Did you know that: If every household in the United States replaced just one box of virgin fiber facial tissues (175 sheets) with 100% recycled ones, we could save 163,000 trees????
Here are some facts about facial tissues we use every day…
Forests are being destroyed to make toilet paper, facial tissues, paper towels and other disposable [...]

Homelessness in San Francisco - Article

Here’s a really interesting article that’s in the San Francisco Bay Guardian article. If you have a spare moment, go and read it!
Article
Here are some excerpts I thought were worth mentioning from the article..if you don’t have time to read the article (it is quite long), skim this…
Here’s what I learned: San Francisco has a [...]

Call on China to Take Action About the Genocide in Darfur

All nations share the responsibility to help bring an end to the genocide in Darfur but China has a special obligation to respond. China, more than any other government except Khartoum itself, has the ability to help bring peace to the people of Sudan.
The Save Darfur Coalition, ENOUGH Project, STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition, Genocide [...]

Fight Climate Change Every Monday

Below are some examples of what people across the U.S. — and maybe even the world — will be doing each Monday:

You could join USCEC director Mike Tidwell and myself in an every-Monday fast.
You could skip one meal each Monday.
You could bicycle to work.
If you eat meat, you could forego it on this day.
You could [...]

Defy Bush, Fund Public Broadcasting

This week brought the news that once again, President Bush has proposed deep budget cuts for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which supports public stations across the country. In previous years, Congress has heard overwhelmingly from their constituents and restored this funding.
From CREDO Action
Take action and tell Congress — reject Bush’s cuts to public [...]