Earth Week 2008 inspires employees to conserve the environment
A
TI employee helped teach kids how
to recycle at a neighborhood Earth
Day event for more than 2,000 Richardson
ISD kids.
|
A TI volunteer
helps clean up Cottonwood Park. |
|
TI's Earth Week 2008, educated employees worldwide and inspired
them to do their part to reduce environmental impact
and leave the world a better place. The theme of this year's awareness
campaign was "R3," which
encompasses the foundation of environmental stewardship:
reduce, reuse and recycle.
Dallas-area employees helped kick off Earth Week events
by participating in TI's annual Cottonwood Park
Cleanup. Cottonwood Park is a valuable asset for TI's
neighboring Dallas and Richardson communities -- particularly
for the hundreds who visit it for after-school and
summertime programs designed especially for underprivileged
and at-risk kids.
More than 55 TI employees, family and friends, along
with residents and community leaders, took part in
the cleanup. Volunteers braved muddy conditions to
pull eight grocery carts from the park's creek
as well as many bags of debris. Volunteers also filled
bags with recyclable items, including glass bottles
and paper.
Six TI sites in Dallas and Plano hosted Earth Fest,
an educational lunchtime event featuring booths on
a variety of environmental subjects, including energy
conservation, organic food and recycling. It also included
games, presentations and giveaways for an estimated
2,000 employees and visitors who participated.
Additional activities
TI sites worldwide celebrated TI Earth Week 2008, including the Tsukuba Technology
Center in Japan, which organized a trash collection. TI's Philippines site
in Baguio scheduled a series of events in April, including a clean-up activity
in two water-shed areas of the city. Volunteers removed grasses that prevented
the growth of trees planted last year. Other activities included a road clean-up,
tree planting and a lecture on segregation and waste recycling at a local elementary
school for teachers and parents.
All U.S. sites participated in TI's first Earth Day Campaign fundraising goal,
which benefits the environment and helps fight poverty through a program called
Recycle to Eradicate Poverty. The program collects and recycles used cell phones
and ink-jet cartridges. The campaign ensures that all collected materials are
disposed of in an environmentally responsible manner, and campaign proceeds
benefit The Chiapas Project, which funds microfinance loans for impoverished
women in seven Latin American countries.
TI set and met a goal to raise $2,500 in donations. About $5 went toward that
goal for every ink-jet cartridge donated, with as much as $15 for every cell
phone.
|
