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Your Challenge

Your Challenge. Protect and improve Austin’s Air, Water and Environment. Great Hills Neighborhood Association. Great Hills Neighborhood Association. Bull Creek Watershed Northern Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone. Water Quality Protection. Water Quality Protection. Water Quality Protection.

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Your Challenge

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  1. Your Challenge • Protect and improve Austin’s Air, Water and Environment

  2. Great Hills Neighborhood Association Great Hills Neighborhood Association • Bull Creek Watershed • Northern Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone

  3. Water Quality Protection Water Quality Protection

  4. Water Quality Protection A watershed is the area of land that drains to the same body of water

  5. Water Quality Protection Water Quality Protection • Environmentally • Sensitive • Edwards Aquifer • Recharge Zone

  6. How Does Green Neighbor Work? • Car Care • Energy Savings • Water Use • Green Gardening • Wildlife Habitat • Pet Care • Waste Reduction • Toxic Chemicals • Sediment

  7. Water Conservation

  8. Fast Facts • The oil from a single automobile can produce an 8-acre oil slick • If every American replaced one CFL, the reduction in greenhouse gases would equal the emissions from 800,000 cars • Plants and grass located in the shade take 25% less water than those in the sun • DDT and chlordane are still present in sediment in Lady Bird Lake

  9. Contact Information • Call 877-549-2774 toll free for a free, programmable thermostat • For all your earth-wise gardening needs, visit www.growgreen.org • To adopt a street or creek, call Keep Austin Beautiful at 391-0619

  10. How do you win?

  11. 50 credits needed or 30% of your neighborhood become Green Neighbors Green Neighborhood

  12. Green Neighbor T-shirt Passes to Barton Springs Pool Awards • Green Neighborhood • Council Proclamation • Website Recognition • Recognition in Austin Energy Newsletter • Green Neighborhood Sign • Scoop the Poop Box • Neighborhood Tree Giveaway • 2 hour landscape design for neighborhood common area

  13. For more information contact Kathy Shay 974-2446 or visit www.cityofaustin.org//environmental/

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