TGIF! Have an awesome weekend everyone! First off I have selected a winner for the bag of Dropps using random.org and it is comment #89, lovelilacs. Congrats!!! Here is a fun and crafty project that I have bookmarked for summer fun. Making gorgeous beads from newspaper! Also, I am sure you have seen those toy games you can buy at major toy stores with a plastic fishing rod and magnetic plastic fish....well here are instructions for making a game like this yourself with natural … [Read more...]
Vegetarians Please Stop Trying To Convert Me…
In my usual morning blog and email reading I came across a theme this morning. Several blogs I read contained posts about vegetarian eating and why it is healthier for body and planet. Mike Adams at News Target sent out emails about two of his new articles on why eating factory farmed meat is cruel and why animal activists and vegetarians are bashing Al Gore because he apparently supports a meat eating diet. I also received an email about a local vegan restaurant that just opened up. The tone … [Read more...]
The Globies
More than 20,000 voted in the first ever Global Warming Globie Awards and the totals are in. And the envelope please.... In the category of Best Performance by a State or Local Official, the winner is Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels for spearheading a national effort to organize America's cities to cut carbon dioxide pollution 7% below 1990 levels by 2012. In the category of Best Performance in the Corporate World, the clear winner is US-CAP. In the category of Best Film, Documentary, or Website … [Read more...]
Gore Gets an Oscar Nod
No one knows if former U.S. Vice President Al Gore will return to politics, but he's definitely headed for Hollywood's red carpet, thanks to his climate change documentary "An Inconvenient Truth." "Truth," a big-screen adaptation of Gore's slide-show lecture calling for urgent action to curb man-made greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming, was nominated for an Oscar on Tuesday as a best documentary feature. I am thrilled! I hope he wins. :) Read more … [Read more...]
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