To my faithful Green and Clean column readers,
I
wish to thank you for your readership and your shared interest in maintaining
a Green and Clean community as we progressed through 2013. Looking back over the
past twelve months, I find the sport of litter picking growing exponentially.
So many have recognized the immediate personal and social reward gained from picking
up litter regularly.
In addition, businesses are awakening to the value
of clean branding. I can no longer survey a storefront without a store
manager or employee racing to insure a clean image and perfect sanitation
scorecard report.
Moreover every
time a clean up coupon ( http://bit.ly/16FyCvF )
is redeemed at a local business the cash register of community pride rings
out.
I am embarrassed to guide a tourist onto a local
street that bears litter, robbing our community of its natural beauty and
replacing it with the scars of a big city’s uncaring and pride-less behavior.
I can’t walk past walk past a carelessly discarded
food wrapper without salivating at the opportunity to burn some calories by
stooping, collecting, and discarding the misplaced packaging.
I no longer have trouble shaking hands with anyone
after they grasp trash in gloved or ungloved hands and spirit it away. Clean
and responsible are those hands.
More and more I find residents enjoying the
natural outdoors within the footprint of their town or city. Nowhere does
litter appear more out of place than along the trails of our parks, wetlands,
streams, and beach areas.
Thankful am I for all those parents who, with
their children, partake in Green Up Day building a tradition and teaching the
lesson of civics.
Proud am I when folks cherish sense of place in
each neighborhood through Adopt a Block for year round litter clean up.
Your stories continue to come in, sharing how you
feel when you pick up litter- http://bit.ly/1ak6LBi , connecting you
to those from around the world who have the same desire to save the earth
beginning in their own neighborhood.
Thank You for telling me that you care about
keeping storefronts, parking lots, sidewalks, city streets, and public green spaces
clear of trash.
Thank you to businesses who have added outdoor
trash and cigarette butt receptacles, and implemented a regularly scheduled
storefront clean up procedure.
Thank You for picking up litter whenever and
wherever you find yourself. Thank You for sharing the vision that ours can be
the first community to maintain a completely litter free environment.
Together we share, one light, one sky, one moon,
and one home-One Earth. Earth is the only planet we know with life and litter.
Cleaning it up is easier than moving. Share the responsibility; Pick up
our home-pick up litter.
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Thursday, January 23, 2014
New years 2014 Green and Clean Review & Pledge. South Burlington, Vermont
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