tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67954898373460009372024-02-20T15:01:06.768-08:00why we can't save the planetJoannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09826351841928279390noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6795489837346000937.post-48294393701150658782012-11-24T20:46:00.001-08:002012-11-24T20:46:08.706-08:00because we food shop at CVS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span id="goog_280458167"></span><span id="goog_280458168"></span><br />Joannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09826351841928279390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6795489837346000937.post-10030146812987208822012-10-12T07:16:00.002-07:002012-10-12T07:16:31.308-07:00becaue we love IKEA<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">
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<i>Few IKEA outlets in the US are accessible by public transportation
and since the company does not support a home delivery service,
customers willing and able to take public transport rarely do so. As a
result, the traffic jams surrounding IKEA stores are so gnarly that
customers are discouraged from shopping on weekends when lines of idling
cars can back up for miles. IKEA touts its 'green side' by lighting its
stores with low-wattage bulbs and charging extra for plastic bags while
its clientele burns through gallon after gallon of fuel to buy
disposable tables and lamps. Asked his assessment of company practices,
MIT-trained urban development expert Wig Zamore said: "IKEA is the least
sustainable retailer on the planet."</i></div>
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Joannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09826351841928279390noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6795489837346000937.post-8862385315901166362012-09-23T19:22:00.003-07:002012-09-23T19:26:30.261-07:00because the internet is ruining the planet<a g16a5406e910aff1="true" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/technology/data-centers-waste-vast-amounts-of-energy-belying-industry-image.html?ref=todayspaper&moc.semityn.www" target="_blank">because this blog post is ruining the planet.</a><br /><br />
<br />Joannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09826351841928279390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6795489837346000937.post-79700093465329566562012-09-12T06:42:00.001-07:002012-09-12T06:43:41.456-07:00because we didn't re-elect this guyIn the late 1970s then President Jimmy Carter warned Americans that "too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption," and that the "piling up of material goods" led to an "emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose."<br />
Can you believe it? Thirty five years ago we had a president who put on a sweater and admonished us to turn down our thermostats. Then he told us not to go out and buy stuff because it wouldn't make us happy.<br />
No wonder he didn't get re-elected.Joannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09826351841928279390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6795489837346000937.post-64508202252912351132012-09-08T13:44:00.000-07:002012-09-08T13:44:52.688-07:0040+ ingredientsEnriched wheat flour [flour, barley malt, ferrous sulfate (iron), "8" vitamins (niacin, Thiamine mononitrate (B1), riboflavin (B2), folic acid)], dextrose, vegetable shortening (soybean, palm and hydrogenated cottonseed oil), water, sugar. Contains 2% or less of: nonfat milk, soy flour, mono and diglycerides, tapioca dextrin, corn dextrin, guar gum, karaya gum, cornstarch, cellulose gum, enzymes, modified corn starch, citric acid, wheat starch, partially hydrogenated vegetable shortening (soybean and cottonseed oil), titanium dioxide (color), extracts of aninatto and turmeric (color), natural and artificial flavors, sorbic acid and sodium propionate and potassium sorbate and calcium propionate (to retain freshness). Contains wheat, milk, soybeans and egg.<br />
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These are the 40+ ingredients in mini-powdered doughnuts.<br />
Interesting that "8" vitamins seems to break down to only four ingredients. Guess that's why the number eight is in parenthesis.Joannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09826351841928279390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6795489837346000937.post-50697356450333773812012-09-05T15:49:00.000-07:002012-09-05T18:04:05.324-07:00ten minutesTen minutes. The amount of time that elapsed before we glimpsed trash floating in the Bay of Fundy from the deck of the Princess of Acadia.Joannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09826351841928279390noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6795489837346000937.post-71501755519865772522012-07-19T20:32:00.001-07:002012-07-19T20:35:58.808-07:00because we can't save the beachEntering something in the youth exhibit at the county fair was kind
of a requirement at our house this year so C and I went down the list
looking for a category we could pull something together in quickly.
Entering was a requirement you see but planning ahead not so much.<br />
Anyway, we found a category titled "10 Things that Do Not Belong on the Beach."<br />
"Easy," we agreed.<br />
"We could go down to Old Silver around 6 or 7 PM." I suggested. <br />
"I bet we could find ten things in ten minutes!"<br />
Alas we were wrong.<br />
We found ten things in less than two minutes.<br />
At the end of the day Old Silver was disgusting. There was trash
everywhere and what's worse - there were people still on the beach,
plenty of them, all navigating their way around the trash to get down to
the water.<br />
Ugh. Who cleans that up? The lifeguards? The DPW? I assume a fleet of
someones are out there at 6AM before the beach opens (no wonder we have
to close the beaches it at night), no way I'd pay $20 to park there and
sun myself among the remains of someone's upturned trash can.<br />
Here are some of our shots from the night. I have to assume every night
is more of the same. We did not photograph the dirty diaper, the
cigarette butt, or the used prophylactic (technically that was in the
beach parking lot).<br />
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I assume it was called litter before the advent of what we normally think of when we think of litter.<br />
That means that it's entirely possible and probably likely that there
are places in the woods where the litter is covered with litter.Joannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09826351841928279390noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6795489837346000937.post-54792225759489031912012-06-09T20:21:00.002-07:002012-06-09T20:21:50.485-07:00because we can't even get an apostrophe in our blog addresses.Joannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09826351841928279390noreply@blogger.com0