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Welcome to Delaware Audubon 2008 Annual Meeting and Luncheon May 18th at Schwartz Center in Dover Last Week to Register! Sign up by May 10! Support Delaware Audubon: Donate Online Incorporated in 1977, the Delaware Audubon Society is a statewide chapter of the National Audubon Society. Delaware Audubon is dedicated to developing a better appreciation of our natural environment and working for species and habitat conservation.  We advocate for environmental issues; and sponsor programs, field trips and school education. Our focus is on protection of the Delaware Bay and the Coastal Zone.  If you'd like information about a Delaware environmental issue or about Delaware Audubon, please email us. Teachers: Renew Audubon Adventures for the '08-'09 School Year!  The Spring 2008 issue of Delaware Audubon's Newsletter is Now Available for Download  From the Dover Post: "Local Conservationist has Lasting Impact in First State" – Profile of Grace Pierce-Beck National Audubon Advisory – April Issue  4-18-2008 Learn About Our Audubon Adventures School Program Learn About Our "Piping Plover Suite" Music and Environmental Education Project — and Download the MP3 File Support Delaware Audubon Activities With Your Online Donation! View our Calendar of Events Become an Audubon Member – Join Online or by Mail Learn About Our "Important Bird Areas" Program Join Our Birding Email Discussion List Join Our Conservation Email Discussion List Meet Our Board of Directors

News: · Register NOW for Our Annual Dinner Meeting and Award Presentation 5-4-08 · May: Annual Horseshoe Crab–Red Knot Migration 5-5-08 · Delaware's Audubon's letter to State Sen. Harris McDowell on Environmental Benefits of Offshore Wind Power [PDF] 3-13-08 · National Audubon Advisory 4-18-08 · In Support of Wind Power: An Open Letter to the Legislative Leaders of Delaware 12-12-07 · Donation from the Schell Family Foundation to Support Offshore Wind Energy Project 12-14-07 · 20-Year Court Battle Against Texaco Ends; Oil Giant Held Accountable · Birdline Delaware 5-2-2008 Position Statements: · Delaware Audubon Comments Regarding Wind Power, November 13, 2007 [PDF] · Our Official Statement Supporting Wind Power Proposal [PDF] · Our Statement Supporting Horseshoe Crab Harvest Moratorium [PDF] · More Position Statements on our Action Page Bookstore and More Orders placed through Amazon.com links help support the Delaware Audubon Society.  Bird Feeders and Accessories Regional Guides: Weekend Walks on the Delmarva Peninsula Birds of the Mid-Atlantic Region and Where to Find Them Audubon Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Eastern Region Birds Of Maryland & Delaware Field Guide Reviewed in the March-April Audubon Magazine: Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird New Environment and Nature Books: Birder's Conservation Handbook: 100 North American Birds at Risk Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, and the Environment Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming Is Changing the World Hell and High Water: Global Warming–the Solution and the Politics–and What We Should Do Coal River  More books... Search Amazon.com:

Grocery Bags

Many grocery stores have implemented bag recycling programs, but transportation of these bags to and from stores requires valuable resources. And 99% of the 100 billion plastic shopping bags used in the U.S. are never recycled, with a single bag taking up to 1,000 years to fully break down. What can you do?

Bring your own cloth or fabric bags when you shop!

If you grocery shop once a week, in five years you’ll have kept about 250 to 1,000 grocery bags out of our landfills. When one ton of plastic bags is reused or recycled, the energy equivalent of 11 barrels of oil is saved! Look for reusable bags in your local grocery store -- nearly all major chains now sell sturdy reusable bags, usally for less than a dollar a bag.

Re-use the plastic bags you already have:

• Old bags make great in-car trash containers.
• Re-use them to clean up kitty litter, or to pick up dog droppings when walking your pet.
• Use them in your smaller waste bins around the house.
• Fill a few with shredded paper and tie them off for cheap, reusable packing materials. They’re also a handy way to maintain the shape of your favorite tote.
• Cut a slit in your bags and use them to protect clothes from dust, moths, and other pests.
• Take them with you for easy disposal of diapers.

Earth Share, a federation of America's leading non-profit environmental and conservation charities, promotes environmental education and charitable giving in workplace employee campaigns. For more tips or to find out how your workplace can help the earth, visit www.earthshare.org or call 1-800-875-3863.

Have you found an injured bird?
Contact Tri-State Bird Rescue & Research
at www.tristatebird.org for help.

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