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Trash or Treasure?

2012-05-19T15:39:44Z

More environmental poetry in my Word Art style, taken from Spoken Word or Slam Poetry. My hope is to inspire environmental action by sharing my reactions through poetry. Can you find ways to reduce your consumption so that you can reduce your trash generation, and without reducing your lifestyle? Then, can you find ways to recycle and repurpose your trash? I feel those two steps are possible, and are important ways of walking gently on the earth.

Untied Airlines: The Unlinked Trip

2012-03-24T23:00:00Z

The Continental/United Airlines merger seems to be off to a rough start (or is that a rough conclusion?) for customers. While I recognized United had problems before the merger, it was my airline of choice. My recent trip to China unveiled some problems that may make United/Continental air travel more stressful than it has been in years. Maybe I'll want to start flying another airline until the kinks and bugs can get worked out of their combined systems.

Water Relationships

2012-02-08T16:10:06Z

My eight water poem shares how I treat water like a partner in my life, how important it is to me. How important it is to you. "We ALL live downstream", as I was reminded by Garth Lenz in his TED talk about the devastation that projects like the Keystone Pipeline cause. We all deserve great relationships with water.

Watery Skies

2012-02-08T16:06:29Z

The seventh of my water poems, in the style of Spoken Word -- which I'm calling Word Art for my work -- shares how I wonder about life "out there", on other planets in other galaxies and universes. How will the water conditions on Earth impact life?

Water Abuse

2012-02-08T00:09:03Z

This sixth of my water poems covers my feelings about how we over use water. We have come to rely on water for so many diverse needs that we have interrupted its natural cycle. That interruption is causing us problems today.

Garden Water

2012-01-30T23:07:06Z

The fifth of my water poems covers how you can be waterwise in the garden. Landscaping and agriculture can consume huge amounts of water, unnecessarily. Grow beautiful flowers and delicious food without wasting water.

Household Water

2012-01-19T22:49:44Z

The fourth of my water poems covers how you can conserve water at home. Home is where most people consume most of their water, so this is an important place to reduce your use of water.

Water, The Sculptor

2012-01-11T05:54:43Z

Don't overlook the artistic talents water shares with us. National Parks in the US, tourist destinations in other countries like China and Hungary, are possible because of the interaction of water with geology.

My Hybrid Mercury Mariner SUV

2012-01-07T21:07:51Z

Rating the green-ness of cars is complex, and the conclusion is ultimately up to each person considering a new car purchase. But, going hybrid sure gives you environmentally friendly benefits standard cars may not.s

Water Holes

2011-11-26T21:19:48Z

The second in my collection of poems about water takes a personal look at one aspect of what water means to me.

Save Our Water

2011-11-04T03:06:40Z

The first of eight poems, in the spoken word style, about Water

I feel water is our most precious and endangered resource. My collection of eight poems is intended to inspire change in people's attitude about, and use of, water to preserve it as the treasure it is in our lives.

Rustic Pecan Bars

2011-06-24T12:00:00Z

This is a crowd pleaser every time. The original-style pecan pie recipe -- with no corn or Karo syrup! And gluten-free to boot.

Almond Meal Crust

2011-06-20T17:14:45Z

I'm honored to have a Cassingham family recipe for pecan pie that's heavenly. For starters it doesn't have any corn syrup. It's the best pie I've ever had, and I've had some really good pecan pies in my time.

Our Packaging Dilemma

2011-06-14T18:14:46Z

Plastic packaging is omnipresent, it seems. Ridding it from our lives sounds like a good idea, but how do we replace it's valuable qualities like being light weight, durable, translucent for easy identification of its contents, and good stackability. If we can't get rid of it, can a plastic be made that's not harmful to living creatures?

Yet Another Gotcha: Canned Food

2011-05-20T18:01:54Z

My Bigger Half and I are so clever! Yes, it's true, we are. We learned about the problems with using plastic for drinking water from, storing food in, and using in our toys and shopping bags, and quite, or at least greatly reduced, our use of plastic. I sat on my smug laurels, and my backside, gloating over how good we were, missing one area we'd missed. You have probably missed the same thing because it's not visible to you either.