twoges's blog

I still would not buy one darn thing from the Neiman Marcus Christmas Catalog.  It takes pretentious to the next level.  How can anyone justify spending $73,000 on a cell phone studded with 7.2 carats of white and pink diamonds?  Or buying your own submarine for $1.44 Million.  Just because you can doesn't mean that you should!  So many people have truely lost sight of what is really important in life and are too absorbed with keeping up with the Jones'!  Knowing that there are people in this country without healthcare I could not walk around talking on my $73,000 cell phone!  What » read more

University of Vermont's Proctor Maple Research Center is researching how temperatures affect leaves changing color.  In Vermont fall foliage brings a lot of tourism and an estimated $364 million.  They are looking for a pattern in color pigments on leaves exposed to various temperatures. » read more

Have you ever thought about what you eat in your efforts of going green?  Besides going organic we should avoid or at least limit the amount of meat we consume.  A friend of mine shared the following:  (I will post the link and content because I hate having to navigate away from what I am doing)

http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/66075/

"People are drawn to vegetarianism by all sorts of motives. Some of us want to live longer, healthier lives or do our part to reduce pollution. » read more

Saturday I went to a wedding.  The dinner was sit down style with a ton of food on each plate.  I was shocked when the serves came around with to go boxes for the guests to take home the leftovers.  This was a very fancy wedding!  I have never seen such a thing.  When I said something to the wait staff they said it reduces the amount of food that goes to waste.  However, these were styrofoam boxes! » read more

I have seen some blogs about everyones efforts so I thought I would share mine as well.  I have been going green for some time.  I can't give you an exact date but it has been years. » read more

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