Nylons - Hair - and Boon-B-Ques

Who knew? But apparently hair is very good at soaking up oil. That's why some charities are collecting hair to make boons to help with the oil spill in the Gulf Coast. I heard one representative on NPR say the oil soaked water washes through the hair boon, which filters out the oil more effectively than many synthetic product.

Donate your discarded locks (or your pet's) and save the Gulf Coast from yet another tragedy.


Check it out at: http://matteroftrust.org/

Gardens That Hang On Walls

Check out these beautiful walls!

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RE-Use

This morning my kindergartener had a dry diaper! Whoopee! We were very excited. He said, "Since my diaper is dry we can recycle it and use it again tonight!" (Earth Day lessons making their way to the home front.) He continued, "We should make a box where we put things that we've used but we can use again. When you do that its called recycling and it helps the Earth be strong and beautiful when we recycle."

It's true, everything you ever needed to know, you learned in Kindergarten.

Those Damned Superweeds

Check out this NY Times Article....
Farmers killed all the good microbes in the ground with their chemical fertilzers, stripped the ground of nutrients, polluted water systems all to escape the weeds, but as anyone remotely educated in the principles of Ecology knows...nature is the Queen Bee of adaptation and has a stronger will to survive than we often give her credit for.

Revenge of the weeds! "Pigweed can grow three inches a day and reach seven feet or more, choking out crops; it is so sturdy that it can damage harvesting equipment"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/business/energy-environment/04weed.html