FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 17, 2009 Contact: Sharon Berger at 607-592-4649 or [email protected]
Homeschool Group Makes Reusable Bags for Food Pantry ITHACA - A local homeschool group called Roots and Shoots has created and will donate 30 reusable cloth shopping bags made with recycled fabric to Immaculate Conception Food Pantry in Ithaca. Participants of the food pantry will be offered a bag when they pick up their groceries. The project is intended to raise awareness about the number of plastic bags in our landfills by encouraging people to use beautiful and functional cloth shopping bags. Roots and Shoots is part of a larger organization by the same name, started by Jane Goodall. It is a youth-driven, global network of more than 8,000 groups in almost 100 countries. Together, youth of all ages are taking action to improve our world through service projects that make a difference in our environment, and for the people and animals that live in it. To learn more about this organization, visit www.rootsandshoots.org. The Cloth Shopping Bag Project was the result of a collaboration between Roots and Shoots and Sew Green, an Ithaca-based program which teaches people about sustainable sewing and fashion. Sew Green donated all of the fabric to our group for the project. To learn more about Sew Green, visit www.sew-green.org. - end - _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins Questions about the list? ask [email protected] free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
