WHAT: Earth 2010

INTENTION: Let's plan a party. We have a lot to celebrate and plenty to share in Rush County where the soil is rich, the landscape is green, the environment is healthy, and most of all we have GREAT people. It is not too soon to begin. The idea is to create an awareness and help each other without a lot of rules. Make it FUN! Clean Green Rush will help wherever possible especially with publicity.

THEME: "Living Sustainably" Everyone chooses to use some aspect of sustainable living as the theme for their celebration. We can help each other and call attention to positive things in our community county-wide and regionally for that matter.

EPA Hosts Video Competition to Promote Three Rs of Consumer Waste The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is sponsoring a video contest that challenges filmmakers to produce short, creative videos that highlight the Three Rs of individual consumption:  reduce, reuse, and recycle. The agency is accepting submissions for the contest, called Our Planet, Our Stuff, Our Choice, through February 16, 2010.

  Keeping Rush County Clean and Green is more than one-day collection events, classroom programs and recycling plastic, paper, metal and glass. It is a lifestyle of caring about the place we live enough to do the little things daily that protect the environment and maintain the legacy of 205,000 acres of prime cropland and the communities it helps to support