Growing your own food is exciting, not only because you get to see things grow from nothing into ready-to-eat fruits and veggies, but you also don’t have to worry about the pesticides they might contain, and you definitely cut down on the miles they and you have to travel. However, not everyone is lucky enough to have a garden. So, what can you grow in a pot? Tree fruits - apples, figs, pears. Citrus fruits - dwarf oranges, … [Read more...]
How Do You Deal With Technology and Your Teenager?
As parents, it’s nothing like how we thought it was going to be, and we’ve expressed concern for years about not receiving a “how to” manual. The hardest job in the world, and no formal training to be had. How can that be? The little training we did get came from our own parents. We learned how to communicate, how to show love, how to express emotions, how to follow through goals, and how to be a person, in general, by existing in our own … [Read more...]
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Five New Places Join List of World Heritage Sites
Five wild places have recently joined the list of 217 natural World Heritage Sites. They include a foggy desert, one of the world's most active volcanoes, and a national park sprinkled with gorges and glaciers, according to an article in National Geographic. The UNESCO World Heritage Committee selects places to inscribe as World Heritage Sites every year from a list of nominees. Guided by the World Heritage Convention—which was created in … [Read more...]
Quote of the Day: 7/11/13
“Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.” … [Read more...]
Is the 2030 Goal for Hunger Eradication Realistic?
With less than three years before a 2015 deadline, the developing world is largely expected to miss one of the U.N.'s key Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): halving the number of people living in extreme poverty and hunger. Despite limited progress, there are still more than 1.4 billion people - out of a total global population of over seven billion - who live below the poverty line of 1.25 dollars and on the razor edge of starvation. The Food … [Read more...]
Audi Opens Renewable Energy E-Gas Plant In Germany
Audi opened the e-gas plant in Werlte yesterday, making it the first automobile manufacturer to develop a chain of sustainable energy carriers. It begins with green electricity, water and carbon dioxide. The end products are hydrogen and the synthetic methane: Audi e-gas. Audi says it's the first automaker to "develop a chain of sustainable energy carriers." "The power-to-gas facility we built in Werlte can become a beacon project for the entire … [Read more...]
Quote of the Day: 7/9/13 – Leo Tolstoy
"If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only one thing: you can become better yourself." - Leo Tolstoy … [Read more...]
UK’s Green Tourism Tops List of Global Certification Schemes
An initiative launched 16 years ago to promote sustainable tourism and stop ordinary people being ripped off by 'greenwash' has been named the “most credible” certification program in the world. An investigation into the ethics and expertise of 158 schemes used by businesses to boost their environmentally-friendly credentials has named the Perth-based Green Tourism Business Scheme as the global leader in the fight against misleading marketing in … [Read more...]
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