There are some statistics regarding the Earth Day cleanup project that I was part of on April 17th, that I wanted to share.
over 3,300 volunteers came out to 25 state parks
volunteers planted 500 native trees
filled 329 trash bags, 12 truckloads and 2 dumpsters of trash
removed 10,000 weeds and cleared 3 acres
installed many interpretive [...]

There was a recent post on the green is sexy site about the eradication of all fish by our mouths and stomachs. Before I continue, a little bit about green is sexy. It’s a site co-founded by three ladies with one of them being Rachel McAdams of the Notebook and Sherlock Holmes. What I love [...]

I had no idea that this was in the works with all the attention going to health care reform; however, this impacts another right that we should be entitled to in this country, education.

I believe that health care, like education, is a right not a privilege.  Health care reform hasn’t happened in decades and it makes me wonder, why? Is it because the current health care system is meeting the needs of the people or is it because it’s the best we think that we can do? I [...]

I have been bombarded, through recent experiences and readings, with thoughts and ideas that have me believe that the most immediate change we can create is with the power of the dollar and not the vote. Despite a progressive, positive, ambitious plan of the current administration, it is business as usual with gridlock and the [...]