Garage Sales United States Fund Raisers and Planet Buzz
Mood:  energetic
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Topic: Green Planet
From early on in our  countries history the yard sale has been one of the best ways of raising funds for religious organizations, social clubs and schools. In the past they have made a lot of money.
 
In case you didn’t know,  a bake sale is a fundraising activity  where baked goods such as cakes and donuts are sold.  A bake sale is usually held by small, non-profit organizations, such as clubs, school groups and Churches.  A bake sale most often is set up around in a public area,  such as a church parking lot or at a busy intersection near a local business.

A garage sale is an informal, irregularly scheduled marketplace of pre-owned household goods, typically sold by a few families, church or charitable organization to raise  money. In some communities there are designated days every year in which block  sales are allowed, so that people don't have to get the  mandatory permits or collect sales tax. In some cities metropolitan areas like (Beverly Hills, California) they require that the churches and organizations apply and paid for a yard sale or rummage sale permit, even with that, churches or organization can only hold their rummage sale or yard sales in the back of their homes or offices.

Despite the inadequate money that can be made from rummage sales and bake sale, a garage sale or bake sale is hard work. I can remember years back, volunteering to contribute some cookies and man a table for my local churches bake sale to raised money for a office, to be added on to the main church building.

It cost about about half a bill for the ingredients to bake the cookies, it took us about an hour and a half to bake the goodies and we sat at the bake sale table for a good six hours.  The total take at my table for the day was $150.00. If you only look at the cost of the materials I tripled my money for my church.  But, the real story is, if you take into account the labor, the time it took to make the cookies and the time I spent sitting at the table selling them, it was a loss.  It was a blessing that I could bring about a little money for my church but I wish there was somthing different I could have done.
 
What if there was a different way to develop a lot of money for your Church or Non Profit Organization?
 
What if there was a way to gain Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars for your Church?

What if there was an organization who’s founder was strong Christian believer, who’s passion was to support  Organizations  around the world and help them grow and become self-supporting?

There is, the organization is PlanetBuzz.com. The Program is The Multiplied Giving Program, and the human being behind it all is Bernie Petrescue the Founder and President of PlanetBuzz, online directory that helps people find business at a local level.

World Report about Yellow Pages,Trees and What We Need To Do
Mood:  chillin'
Topic: Green Planet

It seems that all you hear lately in the World report is economic stimulus.  Well, according to the National Arbor Day Foundation - Trees can be a stimulus to economic development, attracting new business and tourism. Commercial retail areas are more attractive to shoppers, apartments rent more quickly, tenants stay longer, and space in a wooded setting is more valuable to sell or rent.

Forty trees remove 80 pounds of air pollutants annually.

Trees can keep us cooler in the summer and save us ten million dollars a year in energy costs. Trees also clean up air pollutants and save us millions in air pollution cleanup. Trees also can also save us millions of dollars annually in storm water runoff costs;  Four million trees save $14 million dollars in annual storm water runoff costs.
 
USDA Forest Service states, the planting of trees means improved water quality, resulting in less runoff and erosion. This allows more recharging of the ground water supply. Wooded areas help prevent the transport of sediment and chemicals into streams.

Here is a mind boggling fact.

We are cutting down 24 million metric tons of trees for paper production each Year. According to one estimate, the average tree weighs 680 kg, or 0.68 tons. So this means that an estimated 16.32 million trees are cut down for paper production in America each year.

The Second largest wasteful paper products is the yellow pages. It is reported that the Manhattan yellow pages alone passed the one million mark in 1921. Within five years, it grew six times bigger and required a host of 500 deliverymen, more than 500 rail-car loads of paper, and 100 tons of binding glue. And that's just in Manhattan.
 
In Portland, Ore., a company that produces telephone directories tipped the scales at 10.5 pounds per pair, used up the equivalent of 49,779 trees, and could be stacked nearly 12 miles high into the air. And that's just one of several yellowpages that Portlanders get. On a national level, the figures become astronomical. If we assign the not-terribly-scientific figure of three pounds to the average directory, then the 615 million volumes produced last year come out to 1 million tons of yellowpages.

Some estimates show that phone directories and yellow pages make up almost ten percent of trash at garbage dumps.
 
The impact would be Phenomenal if you and me stopped receiving phone directories and yellow pages.

What? Stop using the yellow pages! How am I suppose to find a number or address to my barber or beauty salon?  Not to worry, in today’s high tech, on-line environment there is a greener solution. I have discovered an ecologically helpful and user friendly online search directory called Planet Buzz. With over twenty million business listings and growing every day planetbuzz.com is unmistakeably the best interactive search directory online.
 
If you are concerned about our economy and our environment, one way to help is to not use and opt-out from receiving old out-dated and environmentally unfriendly  yellow pages.
 
For information on how to save a tree and opt-out from receiving the phone book and yellow pages call:

 AT&T/Yellow Pages (formerly SBC and Bell South): 1.800.792.2665

Verizon (Idearc): 1.800.888.8448

Dex: 1.877.243.8339

Yellow Book: 1.800.373.3280 or 1.800.373.2324

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