Celebrate Earth Day

How are you celebrating Earth Day? We'd like to know....

Today my daughter wore her recycled paper t-shirt to school.

My littlest informed us that we must all wear either green or yellow.

The elementary school is having an Earth Day Rock Sale. The fourth grade class is raising funds for a field trip and has set up a semi-precious gem and rock store. Earlier this week the entire school walked through the store and made their wish list. My kids were extra helpful with chores this week, as they worked to earn enough dinero to purchase their favorites: an arrowhead, shark teeth, earrings and an onyx lion topped their wish lists.

I watched two movies this week that could be your Earth Day dinner and a movie flick:

No Impact Man
The Whole Truth About Milk: Raw vs Pasteurized

No Impact Man
Follow the Manhattan-based Beavan family as they abandon their high consumption 5th Avenue lifestyle and try to live a year while making no net environmental impact.


An interesting concept, if not arbitrary in implementation. The Beavens methods and view on environmental impact could be easily debated, but the idea to consume less and live more locally, in the end produces some great effects, that the Beaven family is hopeful to carry on indefinitely.


My one great beef, is that the goal, I believe, is not to have NO impact on the environment, but rather live in harmony. Just breathing  we have an impact on the life around us.  




The Whole Truth About Milk

Mark McAfee is the owner of this Organic Pastures who happens to be one of the top advocates of Raw Milk. David Gethoff is an internationally recognized Doctor of Naturalpathy who is also an expert on the relationship of natural foods and health.

Milk and milk products have been the food staple of mankind since the beginning of recorded history. they are truly the one food source that has allowed us to become civilzed and to develop societies as we know them today. But now, in 2007 milk has a bad name. Is it the milk itself or is it the way that it is being processed and delivered in this corporate farming world we now live in?? Are the problems we see a result of pasteurizing and homogenizing, which are relatively new developments in the history of milk?

This movie is an educational peak inside a healthy, happy dairy. My children even enjoyed parts, learning about how kefir, cheese, milk and butter really come to be. At times the movie is a bit shakey (I got stomach sick and had to close my eyes). But it makes a great case for Raw Milk.

Round-Up Ready Is NOT So Ready

The New York Times recently posted an article reviewing a study on the environmental impact of Genetically Modified crops. As many of use have suspected and promoted for years, Genetically Modified Crops aren't proving to be God's gift to the environment. Weeds are becoming resistant and so now even more toxic chemicals than RoundUp are being used to kill weeds and scare off bugs.

I once used round-up. I didn't have an edger and weeds were crawling out the edges of my lawn and invading the side walk, as only plants can do in the warm, humid, South. I decided to best them with the world's most powerful blast, RoundUp! I sprayed along the edges and waited.

Within a day the weeds shriveled and died away, but so did everything else, This left an eerie, almost fluorescent ring around my lawn. It was bizarre enough that my neighbors came asking what I did. The alien ring lasted for weeks and weeks, and became a far worse eye sore than the weeds had been. However, it taught me the power of RoundUp to KILL. Never again have I dared touch the chemical.

I shiver to think that so much of our crop land is sprayed with RoundUp, and now even that chemical killer is not assassinating because we have inadvertently spawned nature to genetically modify it own version of plants. When will we learn that in the MAN vs NATURE game, man will never win? Man needs to work with nature and not against, if he is to survive.

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