this week's view
The holidays are a perfect time to start reducing, reusing and maybe we can recycle a little less. Think about it: we can reuse old newspaper into gift-wrap, use last year’s holiday cards as this year’s gift tags and every so often, we can turn unwanted holiday gifts into something useful. Call them doorstops or snow globes, so many of the gifts we give land as dust collectors or worse yet get filed in the trash, sometimes without a second thought.
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down on the urban farm - blog
According to Ecotality Life California has unveiled plans for a network of electric car charging stations. Continue reading >>>
Join us in saving one billion bags, bottles & bulbs!
You may not know it, but lurking behind the happy colors and cute images in your kids rooms are toxic avengers doing their dirty deeds. That just painted smell. That new carpet odor. They're signals that chemicals are invading your space. This is especially important in the spaces our children occupy because their smaller bodies can't fend off pollutants the way an adult body can.
Love is in the air as Valentine’s Day approaches and rose growers everywhere have geared up once again to help Cupid’s arrow fly. So let’s take a look at the pesticide content of conventional roses and see if they are really providing the kind of ‘I Love You’ message we are sending or receiving.
What you touch and what you breathe ends up in your blood stream. So just for a challenge, pick a day and count how many things in your home touch your skin from the time you get up until the time you go to bed. Then multiply that by 365 days a year!
