{"id":319,"date":"2008-11-11T18:26:39","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T18:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2008\/11\/back-to-the-sack-exciting-news.html"},"modified":"2008-11-11T18:26:39","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T18:26:39","slug":"back-to-the-sack-exciting-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2008\/11\/back-to-the-sack-exciting-news.html","title":{"rendered":"Back to the Sack: Exciting news"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was a lot of excitement this past week in the Integral Activism<\/a>\/Back to the Sack<\/a> community!
\nWe had a great time at the OneCity walk<\/a> this past Saturday. Even though I walk around Manhattan and Brooklyn all the time, there was something special about walking with people from the IDP through the city and across the Brooklyn Bridge down to Flatbush Farms. I felt great energy and spirit from everyone even though we were wet, tired and hungry. Let’s hope that it becomes a regular fundraising event!
\nThere was big plastic bag news this week as Major Bloomberg announced that he is advocating for a 6-cent fee for plastic bags in NYC<\/a>.\u00a0 There are not a lot of details yet, but we are excited and looking forward to hearing more.
\nWe have also found a few website to share:
\nChange.org has a Pledge to Use Reusable Bags<\/a>.
\nLeanardo DiCaprio’s Ecosite has a No Plastic Bags Pledge<\/a>.
\nJunk: A Plastic Odyssey<\/a> which is about two eco-mariners who sailed a raft built of 15,000 plastic bottles and a Cessna 310 to help call attention to a major oceanic environmental problem \u2013 the accumulation of plastic trash in the seas:
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