Archive for March, 2006

Simple Changes

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

In support of Earth Day the environmental group at my church put together the following list of things you can do to care for the earth. It was a pretty good list so I thought I would share it with you (with a few changes). Some of these are ideas I have shared with you [...]

Responsible Credit Cards

Monday, March 27th, 2006

I had never even heard of this before, but, apparently you can be more socially and environmentally friendly by what bank or credit card you choose to use. Banks and credit cards, in general, use your money via interest and fees to make more money. Many times the projects they fund may not be in [...]

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Friday, March 17th, 2006

In the next few days the Senate is going to be voting on whether or not to approve this year’s congressional budget. A provision has just been put in the budget to allow the oil industry to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Please Take Action now by sending the provided letter to your [...]

Al Gore and Global Warming

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States, made his movie debut, two months ago at the Sundance Film Festival in the documentry An Inconvenient Truth. The movie tells of Gore’s growing passion over the past 30 years for the environment and the need to reverse global warming. [At] the heart of Davis Guggenheim’s [...]

Save Our Forests

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

Dan Stafford told me about an online rally that his group Environmental Action kicked off today to try and stop President Bush’s plan to sell 300,000 acres of National Forest in order to raise money for the Federal Budget. Environmental Action is trying to get 1000 pictures submitted of people in their tree lovin’ environment [...]

My Birthday.

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

My husband and I love to travel and we (maybe more me than him) thought it would fun to travel a bunch this winter in order to get a break from the gloomy Chicago days. We have been traveling every weekend for over a month, visiting family and friends all over the U.S. We are [...]