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Climate Solution from Braendli Monika, Switzerland
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Solution: Cell phone recycling in Denver/USA. On www.denverzoo.org I found the following article: January 11, 2007 DENVER ZOO RECYCLES MORE THAN 3,000 CELL PHONES - Program recycles cell phones to benefit the zoo, animals and the environment Since the founding of Denver Zoo?s Answer the Call of the Wild program in February of 2005 more than 3,000 cell phones have been recycled, resulting in more than $5,000 being donated to Denver Zoo. Denver Zoo recycled the third highest amount of cell phones of all the participating institutions during 2006, totaling 1,653! By donating old cell phones to Denver Zoo members of the community can help the zoo reach its goal of 5,000 phones being recycled by the end of the year. By recycling old cell phones Denver Zoo is helping to minimize the demand for an ore called coltan which is used in the production of cell phones. Currently, endangered animals such as elephants, gorillas and many primates in the Congo are being killed by miners of coltan. Mining of coltan is occurring illegally in the Congo?s national parks and has brought a surplus of miners who are hunting the park?s endangered species for food and destroying their habitat. Cell phones contain a number of hazardous substances that can have a serious impact on the environment. Donating a cell phone to the program ensures that phones will be reused or properly recycled. In return, Eco-Cell donates up to $10 for each working digital cell phone which will be used to help support the animals at Denver Zoo. Through the program, approximately 80 percent of the phones collected are refurbished and reused by first-time, low-income users in Latin America or by select local programs such as battered women?s organizations, senior citizen groups and emergency 911 calls. Anyone may bring their cell phones to a drop box in the guest services office in the entryway of Denver Zoo. Entry in the zoo is not required. For further information, contact Patrick Phelan at (303) 376-4846 or visit www.denverzoo.org. |
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Climate Solution from Buechler Annemarie, Switzerland
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Solution: From successful entrepreneurs to tireless environmentalists: Douglas and Kris Tompkins His interest and passion in land conservation have their roots in his childhood growing up in a rural upstate New York community and in his life of mountaineering and adventuring in wild places all around the world and his growing concern about the relentless expansion of the ?Human enterprise?. ?To oppose consumption and to change ones habits would be a way to conserve the treasures of nature not to find out new ways in technology to produce more and more energy, more and more new consumer goods for the endless growing consumer society.? The man is a phenomenon: He polarizes half of Chile since over 10 years and is more well-known as a lot of important politicians. From the proceeds of the sold of their interests of a large sportswear-and cloths firms the now 62 years old Douglas Tompkin and his wife Kris found two non profit foundations, the Foundation for deep Ecology (1990) and the conservation Land Trust (1992) plus moved out of the city environment of San Francisco to the isolated fjords and old growth temperate rainforest of southern Chile. The conservation Land Trust?s overarching goal is in the conservation of biodiversity. Important is also a good public access, trails, campgrounds, public educational and interpretive programs. With the same precision as in the area of Pinochet big pieces of land were sold to foreign firms for deforestation and to make chips of wood he buys old forests piece after piece in southern Chile and Argentina in the size of hundred thousands of hectares to conserve the thousands of year old Alercewood, Coihuetrees, Cipres, Araucarias, Ulmos, Arrayans. Considered and with a big concentration they fulfill their dreams, give work to a lot of Chilean people when they put up all these beautiful, in the same style constructed working centres for agronoms, forest engineers and volunteers from the university of Santiago. The agronoms set up examples on how to plant in a pure biological way vegetables, apples, berries and set up a huge fabrication (3t a year) of biological honey. The forest engineers set up a huge nursery to cultivate all these endangered species of trees and to reintroduce them in burned off or once over cultivated land by farmers. I wish that everybody who is interested in nature conservation would have the opportunity to sit a moment on the doorsteps of Tompkins house and get in contact with all these most interesting people passing by, invited to write a new book about forests or articles about these national parks in the most popular journals like Nat. Geographic- or Geomagazines. We got this chance of meeting Kris and Doug , of enjoying their outstanding hospitality, kindness and knowledge, to admire their endless commitment for the nature. Thank you so much, Kris and Doug!!!! Thank you Dario and Sabina to make this possible!!! We are setting sails towards Melinka, leaving this beautiful anchorage in the fjord of Re?ihue with the view of the snow covered volcano Michinmahuida, with the many Toninas (bottlenose dolphins, tursiops truncatus ), the many Southern sea lions (otaria flavescens), playing and hunting around the boat (the fjord is only shortly liberated by Tompkins from the salmon breeding stations. The ?salmoneras? needed antibiotics and tranquilizers to make the fish growing quicker and without illness, killed sea lions and dolphins which they considered as competitors). |
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