About Eco Child’s Play

Dear Jennifer,

I live in Ireland and I am not sure how great we are with recycling and keeping the Emerald Ireland green but for sure many people do their best. Our local green school is a brilliant school and the staff are doing their best to provide colorful education but funding is scarce, so for example if we want our children to be taught music, it is necessary raise funds. We will have a cake sale on Easter Sunday to raise funds for the School Development Fund and as part of that I will be selling a children’s book I wrote and illustrated. I am donating 50%of the profits to the school.

The book is teaching children how to use the plastic and other packaging that is already out there (unfortunately) and instead of merely binning it, UPCYCLE it into something useful. The book is called The Upcycling Adventures of Zack and Dot: Rockets and it has full instructions on how to turn a plastic bottle into a toy rocket. In the book children learn, first of all, that plastic and cardboard has to go to the recycle bin. But that is not the only thing to do with recyclables! We can reuse them or UPCYCLE into something else and thus reduce the amount of waste.

I am a fan of the work of Mr Michael Reynolds from New Mexico who is using what people refer to as “rubbish” to build houses (old tires, bottles etc.) and creates sustainable eco systems in homes. I hope my book series will inspire future generations to keep the planet clean and green using all methods and inventing new better ones!

I would like to introduce the book to the children whose parents visit your website. Children who make their own rockets following the instructions on our website and send the photos to our email can win a book.

The book is self published to cut the costs and to make that 50% that goes to the school significant. The website has othe projects to do with children as well as games and activities. Please do not dismiss it merely on the grounds of it being self-published, have a look at the illustrations yourself.
http://sites.google.com/site/zackanddot/books/rockets

You can contact me via email zackanddot@gmail.com

I’d appreciate any feedback if I may ask for a bit of your time.

Thank you kindly for your time
Best Regards
Zita

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I just have a few questions. First how do I find out how much the greenzy plush animals are and if the price is right how do I go about getting one?

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What is the incidence of autism in ‘non-developed’ parts of the world. It seems that autism had surfaced about the time plastics became widespread in America, and I wonder if developing countries with fewer plastic bottles, etc. have a lower rate.

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As a result of being circumcised at birth, I had a myth about uncircumcision since
I was 6 years old. Ten years ago, I got on one of those NOCIRC websites and saw a
list of the features lost due to circumcision. I had thought they left out something
on that list, so I e-mailed them to inform them they had forgotten something.
I told them they had neglected to mention the bulge like feature located toward
the rear (base) of the penis. Someone with the group replied that they didn’t know
what I was refering to. I explained to them again, this time in more detail. Later,
someone replied to me,” I’ve never been circumcised, and I still have no idea what
you are talking about.” Then He asked,” How do you know what all is normally
there if being circumcised is all you’ve known?” I e-mailed back,” I’ve seen it on
male dogs since I was a kid… You know?…It’s that bulge a couple of inches behind
the head that swells into a knot during an errection so a man can lock into his
woman. Your group left that one off of the list.” Needless to say, the folks had to
take some “time out” to explain to me that is not a part of human anatomy, and
never was. They told me,” You may have not had a way of knowing it untill now,
but that feature is found only on K-9 animals.” I was 47 years old at the time of
this conversation. When I was a kid, I never asked my mother about that because
my dad had a strict rule against talking about sex related matters. I had assumed
that if a male human baby is circumcised, that bulge will not develope. All the boys
I went to school with were circumcised and some of them also thought that bulge
should have been there. Some even thought we male humans have that bone in
the penis that carnivore animals have. Biologists and zoologists call that a baculum.
Another train of thought that had me convinced of the bulge myth was when I heard
of stories of men getting caught cheating with another man’s wife. Some men will
imeadiatly spring out of an open window and run away. And some men caught in
the act will still lay with the woman and try to explain things to the angry husband.
I had thought those were the uncircumcised men who were still locked into the
other man’s wife and can not pull free to run away.
What the nocirc group explained to me came with mixed emotion. I was relieved to
know that was not another thing I lost to circumcision. But after so many years of
thinking what I thought, I am to this day really dissapointed that we human men
and boys do not have that knot like bulge that male dogs, wolves, foxes and
cyotes all have.

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Hi Jamie, Jennifer, who ever else runs this activity.
I was looking up Clorox and found your site.
I came across the term in this material I am studying, so I thought you might want to have a look.
http://www.drclark.net
mention of bleach and clorox:
http://www.drclark.net/en/drclark_protocol/cancer/advanced_cancer.php
Best regards
Nat

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