The Great Yellow Woods Challenge
by Kenny Luna, North Babylon, NY on 12.27.06
Ever taken the time to race around your entire neighborhood, grab all the old copies of Yellow Pages when the new one rolls around, and then re-use the outdated copies to make giant sculptures out of them before recycling? Well, if you haven’t then check out what Yellow Pages and the Woodland Trust have teamed up to do in England. Essentially, kids are engaged in a fun, educational recycling program through their schools where they compete against other schools in their local area for cash prizes based on the most books collected and finest sculptures created.
The whole Yellow Woods Challenge was launched in 2002, and has doubled in size since its inception. This year they expect that up to 100 local authorities, 2,000 schools and 450,000 students will take part in the program to keep waste out of landfills, educate kids about recycling, and raise funds for the Woodland Trust, which is the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity. For every pound schools win in prizes, another pound will be donated by Yellow Pages to the Woodland Trust to help further its ongoing ‘Tree For All’ program which works to enable schoolchildren to plant 12 million native trees in the UK by 2009... An ambitious goal indeed!
Search engines have made Yellow Pages virtually useless. Not only are they seldom put to use because of the better alternative of using Internet resources, what is found in them is far less comprehensive than it once was. My guess would be is that businesses that formerly considered a yellow page listing as essential advertising have shifter their money to web site development. I would just a soon see the entire sector disappear.
OK my comments as follows it will probably cause hissey fits to the uninformed.
Politics will NEVER solve any major problems of the North American Continent.
I note the war on drudges has spent some $10,000,000,000 On this effort and are no closer solution now than when the so called war started..
Homes for the homeless there isn't enough money or time to solve this one.with present operations.
Our System is predicated on profit Recycling waste products can only proceed if it's profitable.
It is also necessary to constantly have expansion in order to make the system viable.
Elementary physic postulates nothing can expand for ever without collapsing.
I suggest investigating Technocracy Inc: Functional Scientific Governance. AT www.technocracyinc.org Not because it's desirable bet because it's necessary.