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STaff editor/ writer Stevie Croisant Design John Jurmu Advertising Director Cindy Sease Advertising Manager Sylvia Drain

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Bozeman Clean Up Day........................................... 03 D.I.Y Spring Cleaners.............................................. 04 3 Weeks of Change.................................................. 06 Recycle .................................................................... 08 Each Little Change Adds Up ................................... 09 Activites .................................................................. 10

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bozeman CleAn Up DAy & SuSTainabiliTy fair

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hE CItY of BozEmAn InvItES YoU to A fREE “spring cleaning” event for community members of all ages. Help us clean up Bozeman by picking up trash, debris and recyclables from around the Bozeman area.

Start by signing up at Bogert Park Pavilion on Saturday, April 26 beginning at 8:30 a.m. No need to pre-register. We’ll give you gloves, vests and trash bags—along with ideas of where to pick up winter’s leftovers. Don’t forget your coffee mug. There will be coffee and baked goods from Clark’s Fork Restaurant for the first 100 volunteers.

When you’re done, come back to Bogert Pavilion for the Sustainability Fair. Learn what over 20 organizations are doing to help make our region a more sustainable place to

live. Volunteers will be treated to a free lunch from Island Noodles and live music by the Dirt Farmers. For each bag of trash you collect, you will be entered into a raffle prize drawing for a variety of goods donated by local businesses.

With roots dating back 67 years, Bozeman Clean Up Day is a fun community tradition you don’t want to miss.

Visit www.BozemanSolidWaste. com for more information.

SChEDULE of EvEntS 8:30 a.m. - Sign up for clean up day begins at Bogert Pavilion 8:30 a.m. -noon - Trash clean up around the community 10 a.m. -1 p.m. - Sustainability Fair at Bogert Pavilion Submitted by the City of Bozeman

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Dishwasher Detergent

Tubs and Showers

pure white vinegar in a spray bottle t get rid of mildew, spray the to vinegar on offending areas and let sit for 30 minutes and then rinse with warm water. if the rinsing isn’t working on its own, use a sponge to scrub away the tough areas.

1 c. liquid castile soap 1 c. water 2 tsp. lemon juice vinegar

Mix ingredients into a glass jar. Add mixture to one detergent compartment in the dishwasher and fill the other with white vinegar.

Disinfectant

2 c. Water 3 Tbs. liquid soap 20 drops of tea tree oil Mix ingredients and use towel to wipe on surfaces.

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Spring CleAnerS

Home maDe To Spruce up your Home

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ook under your kitchen sink; the cabinet is filled with pungent and toxic bottles of blue and green liquids, foams, gels and powders that can clean and scrub any surface in your home.

These chemicals can harm the environment and need to be kept far away from pets and children, but their convenience makes them so hard to give up.

It wasn’t until the early 1900s that commercial cleaning

products starting showing up in stores, and “The Naturally Clean Home” by Karyn SiegelMaier states that since 1915, over four million household chemicals have been created.

While it’s easy to grab the bottle of window solution from under the kitchen sink, it’s much safer to use products you already have in your home that are less toxic and do the job just as well.

Toilet Cleaner

1/2 c. of baking soda 10 drops of tea tree essential oil 1/4 c. vinegar pour baking soda and tea tree oil into the toilet. Add the vinegar and scrub while the mixture fizzes

Window Cleaner 1/4 c. vinegar 1/2 tsp. liquid soap 2 c. water

Mix ingredients in a spray bottle and shake to blend.

All-Purpose Cleaner 1 part vinegar 4 parts water a squirt of lemon juice

combine ingredients and use a sponge or towel to clean.

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Ovens

FREE Electronic Waste Recycling Event

pure white vinegar in a spray bottle Heat the oven to 125 degrees. once the oven is warm, spray vinegar onto the dirty areas with caked-on food until damp and pour salt onto the affected areas. turn off the oven, let it cool and then use a damp towel to rub away the mess. if that isn’t doing the trick, try baking soda instead of salt.

Unclogging Drains 2 c. water 1/2 c. baking soda 1/2 c. vinegar

boil the water. pour the baking soda into the drain and then add the water while it’s still hot. Follow by adding the vinegar and cover the drain (sink drains can easily be covered with a pot lid). when the fizzing slows down, finish by letting the faucet run with hot water.

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April 25, 2015 at Logan Landfill from 7:30 am - 4:30 pm

THIS EVENT IS ONLY FOR ELECTRONIC WASTE

Computer Towers, Laptops, Monitors, Printers, TV’s, Stereo Equipment, VCRs, Copiers, Keyboards, Mice, Cell Phones, Handheld Electronics & Rechargeable Batteries Questions on E-Waste event call 406.582.2493

WE WILL NOT BE ACCEPTING: Fluorescent Light Bulbs, PCB Ballasts, or Non Rechargeable Batteries. These items are accepted at our Household Hazardous Waste Collection. This event is the second Saturday of each month at the Bozeman Convenience Site. If you have questions on the HHW program please call 406.539.1161

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3 Weeks Of Change 21 Small ways to do you part

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22 Happy Earth Day! Celebrate by going to earthday.org and signing the largest petition in the world to save the planet.

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Americans throw away three billion

pizza boxes per year (they aren’t recyclable because of the stains).

Help cut down pizza box waste; stop into Red Tractor Pizza (1007 W. Main St.), and for all dine-in orders, receive 15 percent off your tab when you mention their Earth Day special (April 22-29).

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Donate old clothes. Either

donate to a charitable organization (try Sack’s of Bozeman at 138 W. Mendenhall St.) or sell on online sites like craiglist.com, freecycle.org or the Bozeman Garage Sales group on Facebook.

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Get a reusable coffee cup. Bring

your coffee cup to Sola Cafe (290 W. Kagy). They’ll donate 10 cents to a charitable organization.

Don’t like dishes?

Participate in Sola’s Swap a Mug program, and they’ll donate 20 cents and swap the mug out for a clean one.

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If every household in the U.S.A.

replaced a lightbulb with a compact fluorescent lightbulb, the pollution reduction would be equivalent to removing one million cars from the road.

If everyone switched, we would save enough to send every hs grad to a public university for one year.

Thursday

23 Celebrate Earth Day with MSU’s Earth Week

Celebration. Ending today at 7 p.m., the event is focused on their local food buying initiative

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Ask your bank how you can do automatic withdrawals for

bill pay and get e-statements (local banks like First Interstate Bank offer these services). The planet could save 18.5 million trees if everyone switched to paperless statements.

friday

24 Head to the Co-op on West Main Street at 4

p.m. for their “Meet your Rancher” series. Justin Scott of Trout Culture will talk about local smoked trout. Visit the Co-op’s website for a full schedule on the “Meet your Rancher” series.

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Starting at 8:30 a.m., make your way

to Bogert Park for the City of Bozeman’s annual Clean Up Day. If you have any electronic waste, be sure to bring it to the Logan Landfill from 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. for their free e-waste recycling annual event. (See page 3 for more details)

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In celebration of Arbor Day, the Bozeman Public Library will be hosting a free event

from 9:45 a.m.-4 p.m.

From talks by the director of Parks and Recreation to story time, tree planting parties, tree art and tree talks, it’s fun the whole family can enjoy.

Recycle your newspapers.

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Recycling even the Sunday edition of the Bozeman Daily Chronicle can help cut the waste, and if everyone nation-wide recycled their Sunday paper, half a million trees could be saved.

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Keep your lawn care eco-friendly.

If you water your lawn, do it in the early morning before moisture is lost to evaporation. If you have a few weeds, spot treat them with pure white vinegar.

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Now that nicer weather is upon us, skip the dryer

and hang your clothes outside to dry.

Clothes will maintain their fit and color longer this way too.

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Annually, the United States goes through over 84 billion plastic bags. Instead, grab a

reusable bag for your groceries (grocery stores like Rosauer’s will even give you a five cent discount per bag you bring).

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Participate in Give Big Gallatin County. Visit givebiggv.org and donate to your favorite local nonprofits and your gift will be stretched by a match pool of funds.

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You can conserve up to five gallons of water each day

if you stop running water while brushing your teeth-that’s 1.5 billion gallons if everyone in America stopped.

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At home and the office, print double-sided.

American businesses throw away 21 million tons of paper every year.

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When you eat out,

do you grab a handful of paper napkins for your family? During an average year, an American uses 2,200 paper napkins.

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Turn off your computer at night

instead of leaving it on sleep mode.

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Now that you’ve participated in 3 weeks of going green, the last step

is to share what you know! Changes are best made when you can get your family and friends to think about how their everyday choices effect our planet.

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Visit Cashman Nursery (2055

Springhill Rd.) at 9 a.m. for a talk from Bill Sutton entitled “Your Edible Landscape.” The talk will teach you how you can plant a beautiful landscape that also yields food for your family

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Head to the Co-op Almost 90 percent on West Main of plastic water Street for their “Meet bottles are not your Rancher” series recycled. Buy a where Bryan with Yellowstone Grassfed Beef will speak about grassfed beef jerky and summer sausage from 4-6 p.m.

reusable bottle and fill it with tap water. Plus the EPA’s standards for tap water are more stringent than the FDA’s standards for bottled water.

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Sunday, April 19 curbside recycling providers City of Bozeman 582-2332 gone green 855-9870 J&K recyclers 582-0243 republic Services 586-0606 Triple r recycling 388-9494

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collection Sites if you want to drop off your recycling for free, stop by these sites. They are operated by the gallatin Solid Waste Management District. glass items are not accepted at these sites. bozeman Sites Wal-Mart 1500 n. 7th Ave. Former K-Mart Building 1126 n. 7th Ave. Ballfields Highland Blvd. (Across from the hospital) MSU S. 13th and College St. Billion Auto 1 Auto plaza Dr. Safeway 1735 W. Main St. Home Depot 1771 n. 19th St. Bozeman Convenience Site 2143 Story Mill rd.

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ot sure what to do with your old soda cans and glass bottles? There are many curbside recycling services in Bozeman as well as community recycling bins for you to drop off your recyclable materials for free.

gallatin Motor group 31910 Frontage rd. other area Sites Amsterdam: Across from Amsterdam Market Belgrade: W. Madison Ave. and eileen pl.

Big Sky: Big Sky Town Center Four Corners: Mama Macs Gallatin Gateway: Gateway Community Center Livingston: City Transfer Station, 408 Bennett Logan Landfill: Last Change Recycling Manhattan: Valley Improvement Center Three Forks: 150 E. Railroad Ave. West Yellowstone: Transfer Station Glass recycling bins Glass to be recycled may be dropped off for free at a site located north of Target on N. 19th Ave. in Bozeman.

All-In-One Recycling.™ Environmental stewardship is easy with All-in-One curbside recycling from Republic Services of Montana.

Paper, newspapers, magazines, office paper, junk mail, catalogues, phone books Plastic containers #1-7 Cardboard For more information call: 406-586-0606 Visit us at RepublicServices.com

Aluminum & Steel cans NO GLASS

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Off The Charts According to the greater y yellowstone Coalition report, the decade of 2001-2010 was the hottest decade on record for the greater yellowstone y region, a region of which Bozeman is a part.

Clean Your Plate

Since their installation in 2012, the leD street lights in Bozeman have been using 47 percent less energy than the high pressure sodium lights they replaced. That means they are also 47 percent cheaper to run and leave a 47 percent smaller carbon footprint.

Twenty percent of the food purchased in the U.S. ends up right back in the trash.

iiff you look outside your window, you’re bound to see breath-taking views of at least one mountain range. if you take a fifteen minute drive outside of Bozeman, you’ll see a plethora or trails that lead to running streams, dense forests and rocky peaks. As beautiful as Bozeman and the surrounding areas are, the globe is changing. people are leaving carbon footprints that will leave an ever-lasting impact on our planet. We know already that glaciers in our state’s northern-most national park are melting.

What happens when the climate effects the area we call home? Bozeman may not seem like it’s in trouble from climate change and greenhouse gas emissions, but our whole planet is suffering and here are the facts that show just how much a beautiful area like Bozeman is in danger.

Changing Tides The average Bozeman resident uses 76 gallons of water each day on an annual basis, according to the integrated Water resource plan found on Bozeman Climate partner’s website.

Shocking Info Bozeman Climate partners estimates that in Bozeman, the energy used to power our homes and commercial buildings contributes to 72 percent of our greenhouse gas emissions.

Good For Business if every business in greater Bozeman reduced its electricity and natural gas use by just 10 percent, we would collectively save over $2.6 million annually, according to Bozeman Climate partners.

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Activites across 1. A county with fewer than 6 people. Montana has 46 of these.

2. Many people plant these on earth Day 3. To contaminate the environment with man-made waste 4. reduce, reuse, ____ (recycle) 5. earth is the 3rd ___ from the sun (planet) 8. power obtained by harnessing the energy of the sun’s rays Down 1. Founder of earth day 2. The first national park in the US 3. 8,000 of this animal is estimated to live in our state 4. State flower 5. Foods that are produced with fertilizers or pesticides that are strictly of animal or vegetable origin 6. The state animal 7. The elk, deer and antelope populations here outnumber this

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Earth Day Quiz Questions

1.) When was the first Earth Day celebrated?

7.) What is the cleanest fuel on the planet?

2.) Who was the founder of Earth Day?

8.) According to the Department of Energy, how many Americans drive electric cars?

3.) The first Earth Day led to the creation of what four things?

9.) What year did the U.S. EPA declare greenhouse gasses a threat to public health?

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4.) Which 1969 book helped launch the modern environmental movement and the widespread ban of DDT? 5.) Which American River caught fire in 1969, prompting pollution control measures?

6.) What 1997 global agreement that agreed to reduce greenhouse gases was signed by almost every country in the world except for the United States?

10.) What is the Superfund Program created by the federal government in 1980?

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1. Recycled papeR is the enviRonmental standaRd foR the newspapeR industRy. R Ry.

2. the chRonicle’s supplieRs use whole tRees to make papeR.

FAlsE. The process of removing ink has negative impacts from the amount of chemicals, water and energy it takes. Most North American paper mills have stopped producing it.

FAlsE. More than 80 percent of the manufacturing inputs are sawmill waste, or wood chips. Virgin fiber is produced from these “sawmill by-product residuals.”

3. on aveRage, moRe than 90 peRcent of a tRee that is haRvested in the u.s. oR canada is utilized to cReate a pRoduct.

4. about 200 tRees pRovide enough lumbeR foR a typical family home plus 10 metRic tons of Residual wood chips.

5. both of the chRonicle’s newspRint supplieRs aRe ceRtified by the sustainable foRestRy R initiative (sfi), the pRevailing Ry enviRonmental standaRd.

6. only foRests in the us and canada cuRRently meet the sfi standaRd.

truE. One of our newsprint vendors even uses tree bark and turns it into biomass electricity that fuels more than 60 percent of their energy needs and is 100 percent renewable.

truE. SFI’s chain-of-custody standard is a systematic process that tracks wood fiber through the different stages of production, from theforest floor to our door.

7. one chRonicle newspRint vendoR manages a foRest & haRvests tRees in addition to making papeR.

FAlsE. Only 45 trees are needed. And those 10 tons of chips translate to 10 tons of paper.

truE. 90 percent of the world’s forests are not certified due to controversial or illegal logging practices. In the U.S., sources of wood and fiber must comply with the Lacey Act, which prohibits trade in illegally procured plant materials.

8. pape p R is a Readily RecoveRable, sustainable & Renewable ResouRce.

truE. If one million trees are cut, 2.5 million are planted.

truE. They are certified by Forestcare, subject to another audit process ensuring environmental sustainability including reforestation levels, wildlife habitats and quality of

answers 1.) earth day was first observed on April 22, 1970. An estimated 20 million people nationwide attended the inaugural event.

2.) Gaylord nelson, a u.S. Senator from wisconsin. He thought of the idea after witnessing the aftermath of the 1969 oil spill in Santa barbara, calif.

3.) the first earth Day led to the creation of the environmental protection Agency and the creation and passage of the clean Air, clean water and endangered Species Acts.

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4.) Rachel carson’s imes bestseller “Silent Spring” inspired widespread public concern about pesticide usage and environmental pollution. the book also helped facilitate the ban of DDt in 1972 in the u.S.

7.) Hydrogen’s only waste product is water, but, as of now, there is only a small market for its fuel.

8.) less than 10,000 electric cars were on u.S. roadways in 2000.

5.) the 1969 cuyahoga River fire helped start many water pollution control activities, resulting in the Great lakes water Quality Agreement and the creation of the ohio environmental protection Agency.

9.) in 2009, the ep epA announced greenhouse gasses were a threat to public health and welfare after scientific evidence backed the decade-long claims.

6.) the kyoto k protocol was adopted on December 11, 1997. As of 2009, 187 states have signed and ratified the protocol. the u.S., a non-member of the protocol, was responsible for 36.1 percent of the world’s emission levels in 1990.

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10.) the Superfund created the Agency for toxic t Substances and Disease Registry to clean up toxic and hazardous waste sites. it provides federal authority to clean up hazardous substances that may endanger public health or the environment. the law also authorized the epA to identify responsible parties. ep

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