Some of the ideas on the website might be a little overboard, but a few are realistic, and easy to do. Grab some old decorations from the previous years and spice up your house! HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!!
About Me
- Elly@Elly Dreams Green
- I am a Junior at the University of Minnesota Duluth. I love love LOVE the crisp smell that Fall brings, but also need the vitamin D that summer brings. I thoroughly enjoy photography and watching movies. To anyone that likes the outdoors, I'm sure we will get along quite well-- I dig fresh air :) I have a cat named Kozmo, who is quite crazy, and If it were more convenient at this time in my life, i'd have a dog as well. As you might conclude, I am an animal junky.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Share & Voice: Go Green Halloween
So, with Halloween coming up here in a couple weeks, I thought it would be a good idea to give some ideas on what you can do to celebrate, but with little impact on the environment. This Top Halloween Tips website gave me a few ideas. Number one, instead of going out and buying a costume that is already pre-made, you should make your own! You can use material that is reused/recycled from a thrift store, or maybe just find old clothes that you or your friends own that you can create into something new! It is saving money, being environmentally friendly, and plus.. it is fun!!
Some of the ideas on the website might be a little overboard, but a few are realistic, and easy to do. Grab some old decorations from the previous years and spice up your house! HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!!
Some of the ideas on the website might be a little overboard, but a few are realistic, and easy to do. Grab some old decorations from the previous years and spice up your house! HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!!
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
read 'n' Seed 4: 3rd Quarter of "Harvest for Hope"
1. I read pages 158-217, chapters 10 thru 14
2. Most of the chapters I read had to do with organic farming, and how it can help our economy and environment. It explains the corruption of multinational corporate giants, and how their use of "organic" is misleading. Towards the end, it briefly goes into how damage to other parts of the world, affects every OTHER part of the world.
3. I learned that whatever consumers demand, is what we get! By going to the grocery stores and purchasing organic products, we are voicing what we prefer, which in turn will lower the price as more and more of organic is offered. If businesses start noticing that certain products are not selling, they will stop selling them and give the consumers what the want.
By organically farming, we can actually help the global warming issue, by reducing fossil fuel use. Organic farming uses 30% less fossil fuels than industrial and monoculture agriculture. An issue that has risen from a new motive to organically farm, is the multinational corporate giants, also known as organic factory farms. Though they are MUCH better than the industrial corporations, they are still forgetting about crop diversity, are taking over farmlands and burning many fossil fuels. These large-scale industrial organic farms and the small-scale sustainable farms are compared like shallow organic and deep organic are. Shallow organic is familiarity, limited selection, and sameness, while deep organic is committed to biodiversity, rotation of animals and plants, and replenished/respected water sources.
With our increasingly growing population, it is hard to keep up with the food demands. Forests and traditional farmlands are being destroyed to make room for more crops. This is the wrong way to go at this, because the soil needed to grow the food is being ruined and washed away. We are decreasing the amount of land able to grow, and the food that we do grow is not even being distributed properly. While some are suffering from starvation, others are dealing with obesity. This is an ongoing chain that will lead us nowhere.
4. We need to stop supporting these huge corporations that are only worsening our chances survival. We are ruining our nutrient-rich soil for growing crops, and in the doing we are consuming more than our earth can provide. Organic farming needs to be taken very seriously, because it will soon effect every single one of us, as it already has begun to do so.
2. Most of the chapters I read had to do with organic farming, and how it can help our economy and environment. It explains the corruption of multinational corporate giants, and how their use of "organic" is misleading. Towards the end, it briefly goes into how damage to other parts of the world, affects every OTHER part of the world.
3. I learned that whatever consumers demand, is what we get! By going to the grocery stores and purchasing organic products, we are voicing what we prefer, which in turn will lower the price as more and more of organic is offered. If businesses start noticing that certain products are not selling, they will stop selling them and give the consumers what the want.
By organically farming, we can actually help the global warming issue, by reducing fossil fuel use. Organic farming uses 30% less fossil fuels than industrial and monoculture agriculture. An issue that has risen from a new motive to organically farm, is the multinational corporate giants, also known as organic factory farms. Though they are MUCH better than the industrial corporations, they are still forgetting about crop diversity, are taking over farmlands and burning many fossil fuels. These large-scale industrial organic farms and the small-scale sustainable farms are compared like shallow organic and deep organic are. Shallow organic is familiarity, limited selection, and sameness, while deep organic is committed to biodiversity, rotation of animals and plants, and replenished/respected water sources.
With our increasingly growing population, it is hard to keep up with the food demands. Forests and traditional farmlands are being destroyed to make room for more crops. This is the wrong way to go at this, because the soil needed to grow the food is being ruined and washed away. We are decreasing the amount of land able to grow, and the food that we do grow is not even being distributed properly. While some are suffering from starvation, others are dealing with obesity. This is an ongoing chain that will lead us nowhere.
4. We need to stop supporting these huge corporations that are only worsening our chances survival. We are ruining our nutrient-rich soil for growing crops, and in the doing we are consuming more than our earth can provide. Organic farming needs to be taken very seriously, because it will soon effect every single one of us, as it already has begun to do so.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Share & Voice: Anemia
So, my sister recently found out that she was Anemic. For those of you that don't know what this is, Anemia is having a decrease in the number if red blood cells, or less hemoglobin in the blood. This is a condition that often happens to women, due to lack of iron. My sister found out that she had Anemia because she couldn't figure out why she was addicted to chewing on ice! I thought it'd be interesting to inform you on things you can do in order to reduce or to manage the onset of Anemia. It is important that we stay healthy and aware of our bodies.Here is the link!
How to manage anemia
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It is a picture of the crick near my cabin that I took. I chose it because it has to do with nature, the colors are bright with a beautiful sky, and this is how I picture a green, free of pollutant world
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