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Dear friends and family -

Our school, PS 102, is going GREEN! Our www.greenraising.com web drive starts Friday November 14, 2008 and continues through November 28, 2008.

Here’s your chance to buy great eco-friendly and fair trade products, help the environment, and raise money for a great public school at the same time! All proceeds go to benefit the PS 102 PTA.

From November 14-28th our school will get 40% (usually 25%) of all sales made on-line or over the phone. Anyone who places an order of $100 or more will also receive a free blue greenraising.com logo foldable bag that is easy to tuck in your purse or pocket. Be sure to specific “PS 102 PTA” on the order page. Please forward this email to all those out-of-state friends and family members who would like to go green and help support us! Encourage them to forward it as well. It’s an interesting website with lots of good information as well as products you can’t find anywhere else. Profits from this web drive will be earmarked for PS 102's environmental education and recycling programs.

Be sure to check out the Wrap-n-Mat, a sandwich bag replacement that’s just ingenious. The aluminum water bottles are really great, too – who wants to spend money every day on plastic water bottles and then feel guilty throwing them away? There are certified lead-free lunch box options, attractive shopping bags (because city and state laws will outlaw plastic ones soon enough…you might as well get used to it!), fabulous smelling soy candles and yummy organic chocolate “Art Bars.”

To start shopping, link directly to www.greenraising.com. Thank you so much for helping PS 102 and our planet!

Sincerely,