Econosystems.com Celebrates its 2nd Annual Earth Week Event

Owner Anne Ramstetter Wenzel joins with other Internet business owners to promote awareness of Earth Day and environmental protection. Eighteen online businesses donated gifts and conservation ideas to help launch the 2nd Annual Earth Week event that starts on April 19, 2002.

Menlo Park, CA - Econosystems, an economics and research firm based in
Menlo Park, California, is sponsoring its second annual online Earth
Week celebration to promote awareness of Earth Day and environmental
conservation. The celebration takes place at http://www.econosystems.com
from April 19 through April 26, 2001 and will feature Every Day Ways We
can Save the Earth; Earth Links for kids and adults for more Earth Day
fun and education; a beautiful Inspiration from the Earth" slide show;
and a random drawing for donated prizes.

Anne Ramstetter Wenzel, principal with Econosystems, is hoping that the
Earth Day celebrations nationwide will make Americans aware of proposed
legislation in Congress to allow drilling Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge in Alaska (ANWR). The House of Representatives already passed a
bill last summer that would allow oil companies to lease the public
lands for oil drilling, but such legislation lacks support in the
Democratically controlled Senate. Still, Republican senators privately
have suggested scaling back lease sales to only the northwestern third
of the 1.5-million-acre ANWR coastal plain, in attempts to gain enough
support to pass the law allowing oil drilling. The Mellman Group (a
Washington, D.C. research firm) conducted a survey of American voters in
the fall of 2000 and found that a majority of Americans (56%) believe
drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is not worth the risk it
poses to the environment.

Econosystems' online Earth Day celebration focuses on having fun while
informing visitors about simple ways they can help preserve the
environment for future generations. It's also a chance for the 18
companies supporting the event to identify themselves as environmentally
friendly companies. A research brief released on April 15, 2002, by
Center for Women's Business Research reveals that three quarters (76%)
of women business owners feel that the environmental friendliness of a
product is either a moderate or major influence on their purchase
decisions. Similarly, 77% of working women said that environmental
friendliness is either a major or moderate influence on their purchasing
decisions.

Econosystems' Earth Week celebration begins on April 19 and is an online
event only. The week ends with a random drawing on April 27 for prizes
donated by environmentally friendly Internet companies, such as
Mossberry Hollow Natural Care Products, an Aromatherapy basket from
E-Scent-ials.com, hand-made natural soap from The Soap Box, a paperless
e-book from Wahmpreneur Publishing, Inc. and gift certificates for
various business services.

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