This change is in addition to my change "Help Plant 1000 Trees". I figure that in order to assure the health of the forest I want to plant, I need to help maintain the health of current local forest patches. My mission is to set out and pick up litter in the little neglected patches of forests that run through Nanaimo, areas that are littered by neighbours and nightly teenage strolls.

Bring any mobile phone, battery or accessory, irrespective of carrier, into your local Telus store, and they'll plant a tree for FREE!

Starting next week I will be advertising drop-off locations around Nanaimo for broken and unwanted phones. Help my campaign to plant a new forest in BC this year!

For those of you reading this outside the Regional District of Nanaimo and inspired to lend your support by dropping off your old phones at a Telus location, please drop a comment that you did so and I will add your donation to the total count.

Thanks and remember: know green, no waste!

For the next year, I will be working on sewing together hundreds of re-usable grocery bags, re-usable produce and bulk bags as well as re-usable sandwich bags. I will be salvaging as much material as possible from second-hand stores and garage sales, putting together different sized bags with my sewing machine and stitching on a "KGNW" as a reminder. Come "Environmental Week" of 2011, I plan to be handing them out for free at local malls and grocery stores. Promoting a plastic-free tomorrow.

The Great Bear Rainforest is the largest tract of intact coastal temperate rainforest left on Earth. It's 30,000 square miles--about the size of Austria. 2 years ago, the province of BC committed to protecting this region under a new conservancy. I'm helping to ensure the government keeps its promise.