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April 2014
In this issue:
plasticPlastic Bag Monster "Scares" Up Awareness on Earth Day
 
 
 
With its glowing yellow eyes, this angry plastic bag monster looks like he is in the middle of devouring the entire earth!

Great Forest recycling consultant and artist Sandra Robishaw designed and crafted this attention-getting display out of hundreds of used plastic bags for the lobby of UBS in Weehawken, New Jersey, for Earth Day. 
 
Why a plastic bag monster? There are 100 billion reasons.  >>Read some of them here, and see more photos of the monster
HappyHappy Earth Day 2014 Roundup 
 
This year, Great Forest held dozens of Earth Day events across the country to raise awareness about recycling and sustainability.
  • We built a plastic bag monster display for two buildings in New Jersey. 
  • Among the events in NYC was an Earth Day fair at Time Warner Center, which attracted over 1500 people in one afternoon. 
Last fall, while attending an Apartment and Office Building Association's (AOBA) community service committee meeting, Great Forest staff recognized an opportunity to tap into our network of reuse organizations to assist the Duckworth Regional School in Beltsville, Maryland.

AOBA has been partnering with the school for 20 years, helping them with a number of projects to improve the school's ability to serve its special needs students and beautify its campus.

At the meeting, we learned that the school needed furniture for its Independent Living classroom, where students learn household chores and tasks, such as making a bed.  >>Read more
Slumdog"Slumdog Millionaire" Dev Patel Helps Blacksmith Launch Pure Earth 
 
Actor/activist Dev Patel, artist Faith Ringgold and Pure Earth/Blacksmith Institute President Richard Fuller at the inaugural Pure Earth benefit gala on April 26 in NYC.
Actor/activist Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire, The Newsroom, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) has teamed up with our sister nonprofit Blacksmith Institute to help launch Pure Earth, a new campaign to raise awareness of the threat toxic pollution poses to poor children living in some of the world's worst polluted places.
 
Patel, who celebrated his birthday just days before the inaugural benefit gala, called Pure Earth "the single greatest present!"  
 
Making
Making A Difference: 15 Pollution Facts That Might Surprise You
As we mark another Earth Day - the 44th since 1970 - it is good to know that awareness of environmental issues has indeed grown over the years.

 

But beyond sustainability and climate change, there remains one other global environmental problem that just has not attracted as much attention, even though it affects the lives of more people currently, while proven, low-cost solutions exist. This underreported issue is toxic pollution.  Here are 15 facts about pollution that might surprise you.

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