Block Leader

This past Tuesday, June 24th at 7pm, I attended my first meeting for the Town of Cary's Block Leader Program. This initiative, years in the running, allows the city's residents to take matters into their own hands by representing their neighborhoods and accepting responsibility. As a Block Leader (BL), I will receive materials dealing with recycling and water conservation that I will be responsible for distributing to 140 houses. I encourage more residents to join the program and serve their neighborhoods to help increase the number of households reached by this system.

If you are interested, email Srijana Guilford, the Conservation Education Specialist, at Srijana.Guilford@townofcary.org for more information. You should move quickly though as the last meeting is July 14th!

In the spirit

I have recently learned that some of the most valuable things you can do, can be accomplished in less than 1 minute. The "Hunger Site" is a website that has corporate sponsors who donate money to feed the poor each time you click a certain button on their home page. You can only click once a day but just imagine the impact we could have as a state, nation and world if every person with a computer made the effort to remind themselves to click this button daily? I ignored this site for a long time thinking it was phony and too good to be true but it seems (after some web searching) that this setup is effectively the most innovative idea on the web.

You might be wondering what this has to do with this water conservation blog. I happend to be searching for a good way to spend some money after a fundraiser with a club. I saw that the Hunger Site sold "products" that allowed you to pay for a teacher's salary in a developing country or buy children shoes for school. What is more is that I found a product called "Water Mercy Kit" for about $30. This kit would fund the Mercy Corps's building a reliable water source in a village in the world's most trouble regions.

I felt as though working together as Americans to raise money for such projects would help us realize the value of the water that seems so readily available to us. Thinking of how such a large portion of the world's population has no access to potable water will remind us of how priviledged we are and might possibly deter many from leaving that faucet, that too many around the globe do not even have, running.

Please visit the link posted to visit the "Hunger Site" to fulfill the menial responsibitly you owe by clicking the button.

Cary's Conservation Incentives

If you live in Cary, there are several new and easier ways you can step up your inolvement in the large group effort to save water. Below is a link to the city's most recent incentives being offered to residents interested in building rain barrels, installing high efficiency toilets and warm season grass!

http://www.townofcary.org/depts/pwdept/water/waterconservation/incentiveprograms/incentiveprograms.htm