The Pros and Cons of Owning an Environmentally Friendly Car Despite an overall slump in the automotive industry, hybrid sales are growing steadily, with diesel sales not far behind. In the United States, new hybrid registrations jumped up at a rate of 34% between 2010 and the … [Read more...]
EV Charging Stations | How to Charge Your Electric Car Away from Home
What You Need to Know About Charging Your Electric Car Away From Home According to some automotive experts, electric cars will replace gasoline-powered cars as the next dominant automobile. Electric vehicles hold many advantages over the gas-powered car: The motor is less … [Read more...]
Hank D and the Bee: More Eggs, Cheese, and Milk, Please.
More on Homesteading and Backyard Animals From Yes Magazine: Book Review: Urban Homesteading--Heirloom skills for sustainable living From Mother Earth News: COMPARING THE FIVE BEST BACKYARD ANIMALS Catch up on the rest of the Hank D and the Bee series at JoeMohrToons.com. … [Read more...]
Earth Week is for Mothers
by Rachel Sarnoff, Executive Director & CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org Happiest Babies Are Soothed by 5 S’s Can simple soothing take the place of sugar? That was the takeaway from a new study published this week in the journal Pediatrics. In a … [Read more...]
Lessons With the Lorax: You Don’t Need a Thneed
I still remember the first time I read The Lorax. I was not a child, but a teenager. The message of conservation and environmentalism fed my budding philosophy of life. When I became a parent, it was one of the first books I bought my own children. I … [Read more...]