Over several days I spring cleaned with some help ;) and at the end there was a small pile of clothes and books and...other.
This week the clothes and books were dispatched (a lot more than shown below!)... hopefully some good will become of it.
Friday, 25 July 2014
Week 10 clean out!
This is giving as much to myself as anyone else. Therapy!
Over several days I spring cleaned with some help ;) and at the end there was a small pile of clothes and books and...other.
This week the clothes and books were dispatched (a lot more than shown below!)... hopefully some good will become of it.
Still have to figure out what to do with the other stuff....free on sidewalk possibly.
Over several days I spring cleaned with some help ;) and at the end there was a small pile of clothes and books and...other.
This week the clothes and books were dispatched (a lot more than shown below!)... hopefully some good will become of it.
Saturday, 19 July 2014
Week 9 Earthjustice
Another environmental activist organization. Decided to make use of the match available up to July 15th.
Earthjustice http://earthjustice.org/about is essentially an organization made up of...wait for the oxymoron...a group of lawyers concerned about the environment.
What caught my attention is that earthjustice is taking on the EPA for approving he use of a certain pesticide - sulfoxaflor. Sulfoxaflor is a type of neonicotinoid pesticide which are connected to colony collapse in Bees (there are other factors too including other types of pesticides..however). These pesticides also harm butterflies and possibly songbirds. Neonicotinoids have been banned in Europe. Banning them in the US is not only the right thing to do it is the smart thing to do.
Earthjustice has been successful at getting the EPA to disallow other pesticides for example, vinclozolin, which in lab tests showed "sexual behaviors of the offspring of the male rats exposed in utero were impaired"...sometimes I wonder about the EPA....but I will continue to hope especially if carbon trading becomes a reality.
I'd love to see the end of synthetic pesticides. Perhaps I yearn for some utopia, perhaps I am naive. A CSA farmer I know commented that pests on crops is most often a sign of poor soil or imbalance in the ecology. Our current farming practices are scary. Small farms produce much more food per acre than large "mono crop" farms. The system seems so wrong.
People are waking up to this (wholefoods!), mostly from the concern of what we put in our bodies rather than what we are doing to the environment, but really these two things go hand in hand.
Earthjustice http://earthjustice.org/about is essentially an organization made up of...wait for the oxymoron...a group of lawyers concerned about the environment.
What caught my attention is that earthjustice is taking on the EPA for approving he use of a certain pesticide - sulfoxaflor. Sulfoxaflor is a type of neonicotinoid pesticide which are connected to colony collapse in Bees (there are other factors too including other types of pesticides..however). These pesticides also harm butterflies and possibly songbirds. Neonicotinoids have been banned in Europe. Banning them in the US is not only the right thing to do it is the smart thing to do.
Earthjustice has been successful at getting the EPA to disallow other pesticides for example, vinclozolin, which in lab tests showed "sexual behaviors of the offspring of the male rats exposed in utero were impaired"...sometimes I wonder about the EPA....but I will continue to hope especially if carbon trading becomes a reality.
I'd love to see the end of synthetic pesticides. Perhaps I yearn for some utopia, perhaps I am naive. A CSA farmer I know commented that pests on crops is most often a sign of poor soil or imbalance in the ecology. Our current farming practices are scary. Small farms produce much more food per acre than large "mono crop" farms. The system seems so wrong.
People are waking up to this (wholefoods!), mostly from the concern of what we put in our bodies rather than what we are doing to the environment, but really these two things go hand in hand.
Saturday, 12 July 2014
Week 8 World Food Program Quiz
Good news, we have enough food in the world to feed everyone. So to help out this week I took a quiz on the World Food Program, in return they will feed a hungry kid for one year.
https://quiz.wfp.org/
Hunger kills more people than AIDS+Malaria+TB, and is prevalent most countries including the US. Here is the comment at the end of the Quiz..
"...
There is enough food today for everyone to have the nourishment needed for a healthy and productive life. The problem is access.
Thanks for taking the quiz!
....
"
https://quiz.wfp.org/
Hunger kills more people than AIDS+Malaria+TB, and is prevalent most countries including the US. Here is the comment at the end of the Quiz..
"...
There is enough food today for everyone to have the nourishment needed for a healthy and productive life. The problem is access.
Thanks for taking the quiz!
....
"
Thursday, 3 July 2014
week 7 Enviromental Defense Fund
Back to the environment and virtual tree hugging. I've previously supported EDF http://www.edf.org/ in years past but I'm taking advantage of a 2 for 1 match available at the moment.
It's a charity run by proactive scientists. Among other initiatives they lobby congress, its nice to have folks like this in Washington DC rather than the usual Bankers, Oil industry, Big Pharm....etc. In addition to lobbying they work in commercial markets also.
Success stories include fighting AB32 which was a California proposition that would curb the state carbon cap and trade. They also collaborated with Wal-Mart for safer chemicals in their products.
When I'm wondering how well a non-profit handles its money I check out Charity Navigator. EDF scores well.
Proof for this week
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