This year why not get someone a holiday gift with a little more meaning behind it? The Alzheimer’s Foundation of America eStore is a great place to do just that very thing this holiday season. When you make a purchase from the eStore, all of the proceeds benefit the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America. The [...]
I’ve blogged before about BP doing good things for our environment with looking for green energy sources. Well, now they have partnered with the U.S. Department of Energy to sponsor the BP Solar Decathlon, which is where teams of people compete to form a solar village in the National Mall in Washington, D.C. this October [...]
As I have posted previously in this blog, my maternal grandfather suffers from dementia related to Alzheimer’s Disease. Sadly, my family doesn’t expect him to last until Christmas of next year (2008). My most fervent desire is that The Alzheimer’s Association will find a cure for Alzheimer’s very soon.
World Alzheimer’s Day was September twenty [...]
My maternal grandfather suffers from Alzheimer’s induced dementia & at now over eighty years of age, is ailing further every day. He started showing signs a few years ago & now the disease effects him so greatly that I am unsure he will remain in my life for very much longer. Sadly it has been [...]
9 August 2007: British Gas has announced it is launching two new green energy tariffs, Zero Carbon, which will be the greenest tariff available on the domestic market and Future Energy. British Gas has launched the tariffs, in response to the increasing demand for green energy products.
Householders signing up to the Zero Carbon tariff will:
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Many environmentalists are up in arms about the increase of ammonia & sludge that the BP Whiting Refinery has begun to dump into Lake Michigan. Now as an environmentalist myself, it is almost heartrending to hear about this increase of wastes. However, the increase of this waste still remains UNDER federal pollution guideline limit.
That [...]
Preventing Violence or Developing the Capacity to Love: Which Perspective? Which Investment?
“Of course, love and sexuality are not synonymous. Nobody can define love, nor can anyone analyze different forms of love with any precision. The ultimate form of love among humans may be the love of Nature, a great respect for Mother earth. The first [...]
I found a fantastic review by Jennifer Block on the movie, The Business of Being Born:
“The film has celebrity backing from Ricki Lake, whose bathtub home birth is one of several beautifully shot for the big screen. The women walk around nude or nearly so. They moan, groan, and sing through contractions. They hold on [...]
