Green Charity...

While we are not all wealthy enough to be thinking about giving some of our moolah to charities, I know there are people who have enough to work giving into the budget. Knowing who to support can sometimes be a difficult choice. Since this site is obviously environmentally friendly, I will recommend that you support green charities!

Clint Williams at the Mother Nature Network has done a bit of work to help us figure out how to get the most bang for your green charity buck! 8 Well Rated Green Charities (http://www.mnn.com/money/personal-finance/stories/8-well-rated-green-charities-to-kick-start-your-holiday-giving)

The Greener Me has quite a few postings on Squidoo and one of them is about Green Charities. Ten Green Charity Organizations (http://www.squidoo.com/green-charities)

So, if you can give this season, please consider one of the Green Charities listed at either of the links above.

Thanks,

-Joe

why not sign against Hydrofracking in NY?

Not gonna profit from Hydrofracking, why not sign against? http://www.dec.ny.gov/energy/76838.html choose sGEIS 2011 and select General Comment. Thank you!

NY can lead the way!

THE DECs sGEIS report is seriously flawed. There will be accidents and incidents if HVHF is allowed to occur in NY. There have been issues in EVERY other state where High Volume Hydraulic Fracturing is being performed. That means that all risk factors accounted for in this report are null, the risk is too high. Would NY not be better served as the state that really started the green energy movement instead of bowing to financial and political pressure? NY is big enough and strong enough to push back against the federal pressure exerted due to energy company financial input. Instead of falling down like the other states have already done; we can see the messes that have occurred there; stand against them and be the leader we can be! If NY leads the way against big energy, other states will follow suit. Maybe we can get this country going in the right direction.

Please share this message and send it to the agencies who need to hear it!

Comment directly to the DEC

http://www.dec.ny.gov/energy/76838.html

and

send a message to the Governor

http://www.governor.ny.gov/contact/GovernorContactForm.php

Thanks,

Joe

Who likes clean drinking water?

Here's a chance for you to tell someone other than the anonymous internet reader. You can put your name on the petition and we all know that the "bigger" and "louder" the voice, the more likely it is to be heard...

The National Resource Defense Council is advocating for support on maintaining the Clean Waters Act. Please follow the link below to add your voice to the masses...

Tell your senators not to weaken Clean Water Act protections for America's most vulnerable waters

https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2547&autologin=true&JServSessionIdr004=u0zddpsvs5.app306a

Thanks,

-Joe

Sustainability of all natural resources is the responsibility of the people who want to use those resources.

Food Waste Unnecessary (in many cases)...

Americans are conditioned by labels & signs and food manufacturers take advantage of that, significantly. If a manufacturer puts a date on a package containing food, we assume that date is when the product is no longer suitable for consumption or at least close to being spoiled. As it turns out, that is a sales ploy in many cases. If your package says that the contents are expired, you go buy a new package. The food is not really expired or spoiled and in most cases still the same as the day it was packaged.

The National Resource Defense Council did a little footwork at discovered all this and the fact that the dates on most packages are not even regulated by anyone. A manufacturer can put any date they want on their product. Check out the post "Use-By" Dates: a Myth that Needs Busting by Dana Gunder from the NRDC.

So, just because the printed date has passed does not mean you have to throw away your food.

Thanks for reading,

-Joe

Garden Prep for winter

Do you have a vegetable garden? Do you have trees in your yard too?  I bet you put your leaves out for city/town pickup. Instead, you can pile them onto the vegetable garden.  This will do two things: the garden soil will be insulated from the snow which will allow the worms to do their work closer to the surface and it will also provide easy mulch to be tilled into the soil in the spring.  Those two things will help to improve your garden soil for next season.  It will also reduce the work you have to do cleaning up the leaves.

Thanks,
-Joe

How much do you recycle?

There is a program I am taking part in right now that has to do with reducing the carbon footprint of an entire city/region. (coolrochester.org) One of the points brought up in the program is paying attention to how much you recycle. The goal of that portion is to see if you can reduce the amount of "garbage" you produce. Essentially, if you pay attention to what goes into the garbage can, you might find that you can put more into the recycle bin (or compost) instead. I used to think I did a pretty good job with it, but after reading this portion of the program and paying more attention myself I discovered that I could easily do more. Now I can often get by with only one kitchen garbage bag a week. More often than not, the recycle bin has more contents than the garbage can come collection day.

Do you recycle all that you can?

Thanks,

-Joe