Keep Georgia Beautiful's(KGB) and Keep America Beautiful's(KAB) 2008 Annual Awards:

2nd Place for KGB Environmental Stewardship for a Business- Waste Management

Pre-registration is required to ensure adequate food, supplies and planting materials at KeepCobbBeautiful@cobbcounty.org. For more information, call 770-528-1135.

Event Information:

KOME AND KLEAN A TRAIL with Kennesaw Mountain Trail Club

Trail Workdays are the 2nd Saturday of every month which for the remainder of this year would be 11/8, and 12/10. We accept volunteers of all ages (they've been as young as 6 and as old as 86) The principle activity is trail construction and maintenance which can be fairly heavy work at times, but activities include everything from picking up trash and trimming back brush from the sides of the trails to building stone cribs and steps to ensure the safety and accessibility of the trails to the maximum number of visitors.

Youth groups require adequate adult supervision (we prefer a ratio of 2:8 adults to youth) and youth under the age of 18 require parental permission. The appropriate registration forms are available on our web site at kennesawmountaintrailclub.org . The web site is also the preferred place for volunteers to check for possible weather related cancellations before leaving for the park.

Keep Cobb Beautiful

Electronics Recycling Day

Saturday, November 8, 2008

9am – 1pm
Absolutely NO TELEVISIONS Accepted.

Piedmont Church

570 Piedmont Road

Marietta , GA 30066

Jim R. Miller Park

2245 Callaway Road

Marietta , GA 30008

For more information, go to kcb.cobbcountyga.gov/E-RecycleEvent.htm, or call
770-528-1135.

Order your Cobb Trees HOLIDAY CARDS today!

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The 2008 Holiday card covers were created by second grader, Juliette Calemine from Ford Elementary School and third grader, Regan O'Rear from Ford Elementary School .

DID YOU KNOW?

ENVIRO EXPO USA , is being held here in Atlanta on November 14-15, 2008 at the AmericaMart.This exiting new environmental event is the first of a kind for the Atlanta community. Enviro Expo USA will be FREE and open to the public. The mission of this event is to provide a qualified arena to promote the exchange of sustainable lifestyle and product information between consumers, manufacturers and others whose interest is "going green". Participating in this event will enable you to meet face to face with other concerned citizens and share ideas of how to build a better future. Many leaders in the gov-ernment and industry will lead the dialogue to educate concerned citizens on the latest technologies, initiatives on going green at home and at work. The most important issues that relate to Georgia 's conservation efforts to preserve our natural recourses will be well represented by the experts.

The Georgia Recycling Coalition has partnered with Enviro Expo USA to celebrate America Recycles Day , November 15th. America Recycles Day is a nationally promoted event that broadcast the impor-tant issues of recycling. We hope to show Metro Atlanta that "recycling" is more than just 3 boxes con-taining paper, cans and bottles to be picked up curbside. The Georgia Recycling Coalition has just been awarded the "Outstanding Recycling Organization of the Year" by the National Recycling Coalition. For more information please contact Enviro Expo USA at 770-517- 0447 www.enviroexpousa.org

Bring the family and learn ... Going Green ...What it means

House Approves Legislation to Strengthen Environmental Education for America's Schools

http://www.house.gov/apps/list/speech/edlabor_dem/091808NCLI.html

YOUR SCHOOL COULD WIN A "GREEN" COMPUTER LAB

INSPIRE your middle and high school students to be leaders in the Green Schools movement--and your school could win a state-of-the-art computer lab! The "Green Light Contest" essay competition, sponsored by PC Mall Gov, in partnership with HP, InFocus and T.H.E. Journal, is seeking entries from students in two categories: grades 5 - 8 and 9 - 12. In essays of 1,000 words or less students are asked to describe how they and their teachers can utilize technology to protect the environment, with the grand-prize-winning composition being awarded a 30-seat "green" computer lab for the author's school. Two additional first place winners (one from each grade-level category) will each receive a "green" laptop. Winning essays will be published in T.H.E. Journal and winners will be recognized at FETC, January 21 - 24, in Orlando, FL.

***APPLICATION DEADLINE is December 1, 2008. Winners will be announced at FETC, January 21 - 24, 2009, and notified by mail no later than January 31, 2009.

***Complete essay and submission criteria are available online at: www.pcmallgov.com/greenlightcontest/