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Wandering About Nature Today-
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
I've been saying this for years! But I didn't have a pHD behind my name! Believe me NOW?
Wandering About Nature Today-If your are an Antibacterial Queen, or a Disinfectant Freak, Your not only making YOUR family sicker than they should be with average germs, you may be helping to KILL others with weak or compromised immune systems-or worse yet, anybody who catches one of these superbugs! READ THIS!!!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8427399.stm
Finally-Evolutionary Science has made progress in tracking down the LOGICAL path of diseases, and possibly why & how they changed and evolved to survive inside and alongside us!
http://www.livescience.com/health/evolution-causes-sickness-100111.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/01/15/fda.chemical.bpa/index.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8427399.stm
Finally-Evolutionary Science has made progress in tracking down the LOGICAL path of diseases, and possibly why & how they changed and evolved to survive inside and alongside us!
http://www.livescience.com/health/evolution-causes-sickness-100111.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/01/15/fda.chemical.bpa/index.html
Useful Websites
Wandering About Nature Today-
USEFUL WEBSITES:
THE LACEY ACT
http://www.eia-global.org/forests_for_the_world/lacey.html
ICUN-International Union for The Conservation of Nature & Natural Resources Red List
http://www.iucnredlist.org/
USDA
USDA.org
FEDERAL MIGRATORY TREATY ACT OF 1918 AND AMENDMENTS
http://www.fws.gov/laws/lawsdigest/migtrea.html
Official COP15 web address: http://en.cop15.dk/
http://unfccc.int/2860.php
Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change:
http://www.ipcc.ch/
Hopenhagen-Grassroots Movement On Climate Change:
http://www.hopenhagen.org/home/map
Wandering About Nature Today-
USEFUL WEBSITES:
THE LACEY ACT
http://www.eia-global.org/forests_for_the_world/lacey.html
ICUN-International Union for The Conservation of Nature & Natural Resources Red List
http://www.iucnredlist.org/
USDA
USDA.org
FEDERAL MIGRATORY TREATY ACT OF 1918 AND AMENDMENTS
http://www.fws.gov/laws/lawsdigest/migtrea.html
Official COP15 web address: http://en.cop15.dk/
http://unfccc.int/2860.php
Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change:
http://www.ipcc.ch/
Hopenhagen-Grassroots Movement On Climate Change:
http://www.hopenhagen.org/home/map
Wandering About Nature Today-
Going Green at Home. Getting to Know Mammals
Going Green At Home Starting Today
Going Green at home starting today can be fun, easy and just a simple re-thinking of HOW you live. Here are some simple, effective yet fun tips to get the whole family involved and educated at the same time! Children do WHAT YOU DO, regardless of what you say! Teach by doing.
1. Recycle. It’s the one most simple method you can start NOW. Get the kids involved. Give them each containers-that have been repurposed. Reuse plastic storage bins, lined milk crates., The trick is NOT to purchase to ‘make it happen’. Allow them to place in their room for their use. They can mingle it in the main containers as directed. The night before garbage pickup-weigh your garbage, then your recycled cans/bins. Make a chart or poster to track it. The goal is to make the recycled cans/bins outweigh the main garbage, and hopefully increase weekly as everybody gets into it. A bathroom scale is usually great!
2. Repurpose as many items as you can. Yogurt containers make great seed starters for kitchen herbs, decorate for pencil/paintbrush holders. Reuse butter tubs for game pieces, screws & bolts, wire ties, leftovers for lunch they have endless uses! Gallon milk containers make great bird food dispensers with the sides cut out and tiny holes punched out in the bottom for drainage-everybody wins! Maybe hold a contest see who has the best/most ideas-and reward them-by implementing the ideas in your household! Call or talk to your child’s teacher, many schools are very short on supplies, and could use things such a cardboard paper rollers from bathroom tissue and paper towels. Baby food jars, egg cartons, butter tubs etc. Place a box in your garage for these special items so they can be dropped off when full or needed.
3. Children need to learn the price of consumerism. Allow them to monitor their usage & YOURS! Assign a Watt Warden and a Water Warden. Get poster board, or cut a large section from a cardboard box chart your progress(stress reuse the box). Keep a little notebook for each. They should get up regularly about ½ hour check out the house for lights on or water over-usage. Write the offenders name down each time. The next week the offender with the most, must do the job! Purchase compact fluorescent bulbs one a week! Install digital thermostats and use nightlights with daylight sensors-so they’re not left on in the morning hustle! One of my favorites & my grandaughters is-A windup flashlight next to her bed, instead of a constantly burning bulb! Compare bills with the family each month-see your savings. Decide what preferably GREEN activity you can do with the savings, maybe rent a Canoe and go paddling? This way they can see the cost of ‘invisible’ consumerism. And will realize it isn’t free! Call FPL for FREE review! It’s helpful, and revealing. Enroll in a power saving program such as On-call, put the savings towards a Green outing or another green project!
4. While in the grocery store, purchase local foods. Explain why, such as the cost ‘Carbon Footprint’ and what that means, how far some of the foods have come. The chemicals used in other countries that are no longer legal to be used here and why. Use reusable bags, buy one for each child so they will learn to use them. If you do get plastic on those occasional purchases-keep them together and show the children where they can be recycled usually just outside your local grocery store! I even recycle expired coupons-all these ACTIONS build a great future for our children, and by doing them, they are learning a lot about economics as well as their Planet.
5. Wild-up your yard! If you do not have a pet patrolling you backyard, take the children to your local pet supply store such as PetSmart. Purchase a simple birdfeeder, start out simple and make it someone’s job to fill it daily. I do mine after sunset, as the birds arrive very early! Use a Wild Bird Seed mix. It has a big enough variety, that most birds will find something they like. You can add on suet and other special foods as you become familiar with you feathered fans! Pick a far away corner in your yard. Place cuttings in that corner for passerby’s in the night, such as Opossums. You can place fruit/potato peels, old salads etc., in that corner. It recycles the food scraps, as well as helps our wildlife that no longer have wild places to go to choose food sources from.
Mammals
Wandering About Nature Today-
Going Green at home starting today can be fun, easy and just a simple re-thinking of HOW you live. Here are some simple, effective yet fun tips to get the whole family involved and educated at the same time! Children do WHAT YOU DO, regardless of what you say! Teach by doing.
1. Recycle. It’s the one most simple method you can start NOW. Get the kids involved. Give them each containers-that have been repurposed. Reuse plastic storage bins, lined milk crates., The trick is NOT to purchase to ‘make it happen’. Allow them to place in their room for their use. They can mingle it in the main containers as directed. The night before garbage pickup-weigh your garbage, then your recycled cans/bins. Make a chart or poster to track it. The goal is to make the recycled cans/bins outweigh the main garbage, and hopefully increase weekly as everybody gets into it. A bathroom scale is usually great!
2. Repurpose as many items as you can. Yogurt containers make great seed starters for kitchen herbs, decorate for pencil/paintbrush holders. Reuse butter tubs for game pieces, screws & bolts, wire ties, leftovers for lunch they have endless uses! Gallon milk containers make great bird food dispensers with the sides cut out and tiny holes punched out in the bottom for drainage-everybody wins! Maybe hold a contest see who has the best/most ideas-and reward them-by implementing the ideas in your household! Call or talk to your child’s teacher, many schools are very short on supplies, and could use things such a cardboard paper rollers from bathroom tissue and paper towels. Baby food jars, egg cartons, butter tubs etc. Place a box in your garage for these special items so they can be dropped off when full or needed.
3. Children need to learn the price of consumerism. Allow them to monitor their usage & YOURS! Assign a Watt Warden and a Water Warden. Get poster board, or cut a large section from a cardboard box chart your progress(stress reuse the box). Keep a little notebook for each. They should get up regularly about ½ hour check out the house for lights on or water over-usage. Write the offenders name down each time. The next week the offender with the most, must do the job! Purchase compact fluorescent bulbs one a week! Install digital thermostats and use nightlights with daylight sensors-so they’re not left on in the morning hustle! One of my favorites & my grandaughters is-A windup flashlight next to her bed, instead of a constantly burning bulb! Compare bills with the family each month-see your savings. Decide what preferably GREEN activity you can do with the savings, maybe rent a Canoe and go paddling? This way they can see the cost of ‘invisible’ consumerism. And will realize it isn’t free! Call FPL for FREE review! It’s helpful, and revealing. Enroll in a power saving program such as On-call, put the savings towards a Green outing or another green project!
4. While in the grocery store, purchase local foods. Explain why, such as the cost ‘Carbon Footprint’ and what that means, how far some of the foods have come. The chemicals used in other countries that are no longer legal to be used here and why. Use reusable bags, buy one for each child so they will learn to use them. If you do get plastic on those occasional purchases-keep them together and show the children where they can be recycled usually just outside your local grocery store! I even recycle expired coupons-all these ACTIONS build a great future for our children, and by doing them, they are learning a lot about economics as well as their Planet.
5. Wild-up your yard! If you do not have a pet patrolling you backyard, take the children to your local pet supply store such as PetSmart. Purchase a simple birdfeeder, start out simple and make it someone’s job to fill it daily. I do mine after sunset, as the birds arrive very early! Use a Wild Bird Seed mix. It has a big enough variety, that most birds will find something they like. You can add on suet and other special foods as you become familiar with you feathered fans! Pick a far away corner in your yard. Place cuttings in that corner for passerby’s in the night, such as Opossums. You can place fruit/potato peels, old salads etc., in that corner. It recycles the food scraps, as well as helps our wildlife that no longer have wild places to go to choose food sources from.
Mammals
Wandering About Nature Today-
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
COP15: What's at Stake in Under 5 Minutes : Planet Green
Sunday, December 6, 2009
What Will Become Of Our Rainforests? WHEN will we learn?
Wandering About Nature Today-http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/12/06/indonesia.burning.rainforest/index.html
Friday, December 4, 2009
Migration Dilema. Stay & Eat? or Migrate & Eat? Bird feeding alters behavior.
Wandering About Nature Today-Migration Dilema. Stay & Eat? or Migrate & Eat? Bird feeding alters behavior.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34265267/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34265267/ns/technology_and_science-science/
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
UTalkNews Resources Oh Christmas Tree-Coniferous Forest : Mission: Biomes
Coniferous Forest : Mission: Biomes
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Experiments/Biome/bioconiferous.php
http://forestry.about.com/cs/treeid/a/con_type_us.htm
http://www.christmastree.org/trees/douglas.cfm
Wandering About Nature Today-Some info on Coniferous Forest...Your Christmas Tree's Homeland!
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Experiments/Biome/bioconiferous.php
http://forestry.about.com/cs/treeid/a/con_type_us.htm
http://www.christmastree.org/trees/douglas.cfm
Wandering About Nature Today-Some info on Coniferous Forest...Your Christmas Tree's Homeland!
Copenhagen Climate Summit Is Just Around The Corner..A WHO's Who
Wandering About Nature Today-
BLOG your way into climate real change-join 100's of others at:
http://www.blogactionday.org/en/blogs/
Interview United Nations on Summit:
http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=09-P13-00048&segmentID=1
BLOG your way into climate real change-join 100's of others at:
http://www.blogactionday.org/en/blogs/
Interview United Nations on Summit:
http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=09-P13-00048&segmentID=1
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