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Welcome to Corbett Cares!
Welcome to Corbett Cares 4-H Club! Corbett Cares 4-H Club focuses on learning and teaching sustainability topics as well as performing related community service projects. The hope for this site is to be a place to share what we are doing with our club, our community, our country and our world! If you would like to add our web site to your facebook page or twitter about us – feel free from...
Read MoreNon-Toxi Clean
Windows get dirty, but you don’t need to reach for chemical cleaners to return them to a sparkling shine. Use natural, nontoxic ingredients such as vinegar, baking soda and lemon juice to clean and polish windows. Chemical window-cleaning agents contribute to environmental damage and can contribute to indoor air pollution. Under the Federal Hazardous Substances Act, household cleaners are...
Read MoreOperation Lid Collection
You all probably already know that some plastics can be recycled. But some types of plastic are not as easy to recycle and are usually thrown away. For example, most single use plastic bottles ( like water, juice, milk and soda ) can be recycled but the bottle caps are a different kind of plastic, RIGID PLASTIC, and are usually just thrown away. Corbett Cares 4H Club will be collecting the listed...
Read MoreMovies
A few movies I recommend : … The Story of Stuff This online movie and any of the other short online movies found on this web site are very well done. ( Cap & Trade, the Story of Bottled Water, the Story of Electronics … ) Food Inc. The single most important thing you can do for your family’s health is spend your money wisely on healthy and sustainably raised food. No...
Read MoreWhere are the electric cars for us?
The EV-1 was the first modern production electric vehicle from a major automaker; it was introduced in late 1996 as a 1997 model. ( That’s right… these cars were on the road over 13 years ago… ) and yet my husband and I have been on waiting lists for over four years to buy a plug-in vehicle and each year it turns out they still aren’t quite ready…really annoying....
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