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Sep 30, 2006

"The age of nations has passed. Now, unless we wish to perish, we must shake off our old prejudices and build the Earth. The more scientifically I regard the world, the less can I see any possible biological future for it except in the active consciousness of its unity." --Teilhard de Chardin

Dime A Day Keeps Junk Mail Away

Junk mail isn't just annoying: it has a detrimental environmental impact. To deliver 800 million pounds of annual junk mail, 100 million trees are cut down each year to produce the ads and non-profit solicitations that likely end up in the recycle bin, or, more often, the trash can. Enter Green Dimes. Greendimes is a company that offers to keep you off junk-mail lists while planting one tree every month for each of its subscribers at a cost of $3 per month. Their tagline -- our planet, do you give a dime?