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Comment by Sydni Moser 1 day ago

"It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so."
- Ernestine Rose

Comment by Sydni Moser on March 5, 2010 at 1:27am

Dirty Diapers Transformed into Diesel

Disposable diapers pile up in landfills fast, to the tune of 21 billion annually in the US alone. While many more parents are beginning to choose cloth and other alternatives, a Quebec company called AMEC has come up with an innovative way to deal with a good chunk of the disposables that would otherwise end up in the trash: turning them into diesel fuel. It can be done through a process called pyrolysis, which involves heating the diapers up in an enclosed, controlled environment. AMEC expects to gain about 11,000 tons of diesel fuel from the first 30,000 diapers converted. Due to the closed system, there are no emissions and experts say as the process improves, it could very well become an economically viable form of fuel.

http://webecoist.com/2009/01/06/creative-alternative-recycling-projects-art/

Comment by Sydni Moser on February 20, 2010 at 9:18pm

Uh Oh Cheerios Causes Rainforest Destruction


Cheerios may be good for your heart, but not so good for the world's rainforests, communities and the climate.

http://TheProblemWithPalmOil.org

Cheerios, and other favorite General Mills cereals like Trix, Lucky Charms and Wheaties, contain palm oil-derived ingredients grown on plantations that destroy rainforests in Southeast Asia.

The Facts

*Over 100 General Mills products contain palm oil or palm oil derivatives

*Approximately 85 percent of palm oil is grown on industrial plantations that eradicate the homes and livelihoods of local people

*Palm oil plantations threaten highly endangered species like orangutans, Sumatran tigers and elephants

*Deforestation causes climate change by producing 15 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions

*General Mills markets its products primarily to parents and children, dragging them unknowingly into this chain of destruction

Help General Mills make a change. Learn more at http://TheProblemWithPalmOil.org.

Comment by Sydni Moser on February 20, 2010 at 4:59pm

16-inch diameter EarthBall
Featuring the latest generation of NASA satellite imagery, EarthBalls are the most visually authentic world globes available anywhere. Each EarthBall displays 'NightGlow Cities', allowing you to see the world's cities glowing brightly at night. Every EarthBall comes with the 20 page Global Handbook, chock full of games, activities & informational resources for Earth adventurers of all ages. EarthBalls make a wonderful gift for children, teens, adults... just about anyone. Give them the world! **Earthball Requires Inflation*

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Comment by Sydni Moser on February 16, 2010 at 12:19pm

"I'm 60 Feet Underground"


The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child protects children. Only two nations in the world have yet to join the global community in ratifying this agreement: Somalia and the United States. Urge President Obama and Congress to ratify the convention without delay.

Sign the Petition:

Comment by Sydni Moser on January 29, 2010 at 9:27am

Dawoud Bey: Class Pictures

Product Description
For the past 15 years, Dawoud Bey has been making striking, large-scale color portraits of students at high schools across the United States. Depicting teenagers from a wide economic, social and ethnic spectrum--and intensely attentive to their poses and gestures--he has created a highly diverse group portrait of a generation that intentionally challenges teenage stereotypes.Bey spends two to three weeks in each school, taking formal portraits of individual students, each made in a classroom during one 45-minute period. At the start of the sitting, each subject writes a brief autobiographical statement. By turns poignant, funny or harrowing, these revealing words are an integral part of the project, and the subject's statement accompanies each photograph in the book. Together, the words and images in Class Pictures offer unusually respectful and perceptive portraits that establish Dawoud Bey as one of the best portraitists at work today.

http://www.amazon.com/Dawoud-Bey-Pictures-Jock-Reynolds/dp/1597110434/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264774573&sr=1-1

Simone
I've always been, like, the minority at my school so it doesn't bother me, unless it becomes an issue with other people, then it bothers me. I guess some people assume that I'm different when I'm not necessarily, because usually I'm the only white person in the class and I guess they think that I don't wanna talk to them or something. They assume that maybe I have something against them, but they really don't have any reason to think that. I don't know, they ask me if I would ever, like, be friends with black people and I'm like, I have black friends. You just don't know who I'm friends with. . .

Check out some ot his teen photos and bios HERE:

Comment by Sydni Moser on January 28, 2010 at 1:43pm

“Come here now, baby, let Grandmama Moo teach you a wise old thing or two.”

So says Maya the cow in “Wisdom,” the poem that opens “Our Farm: By the Animals of Farm Sanctuary” (Knopf, February 2010). As readers explore this book of poems for children (and adults, too!), they will meet not only the venerable and maternal Maya but also the chivalrous rooster Mayfly, the exuberant piglet J.D., the grateful sheep Hilda, and many other animals who live or have lived at Farm Sanctuary’s New York and California Shelters.

“I wanted to communicate the soulfulness of the [animals] so that children and their caretakers could relate to them as fellow sentient beings, with individual personalities, thoughts and feelings like their own,” says Maya Gottfried, who was inspired to write “Our Farm” after volunteering for Farm Sanctuary. Accompanied by the richly colored and detailed paintings of Robert Rahway Zakanitch, Gottfried’s poems vividly evoke the voices of pigs, goats, ducklings, chickens, and other farm animals, whom readers will want to revisit again and again.

Children and adults alike will be delighted by the humor, playfulness and empathy employed by Gottfried and Zakanitch to bring the world of Farm Sanctuary to life on the pages of this book, and to gently convey the importance of having love and respect for our fellow creatures. “We’re all different, but we’re still related,” says the bantam chicken Gabriella of her flockmates,

“and in some ways just like you.”

Everyone will fall in love with both the affectionate writing and irresistible animal illustrations found on the pages of “Our Farm.” As a classroom tool to inspire compassion, a gift for a special child in your life, or a keepsake of your own, this is one book you’ll definitely want to get your hands on.

“Our Farm” is coming soon! The official release date is February 9, but you can pre-order this beautiful book now. Farm Sanctuary Shop purchases support our lifesaving efforts, so help suffering farm animals by getting your copy of “Our Farm” through us today!

Comment by Philip Tillsley on January 24, 2010 at 12:16pm

Johnny's usual excellent Sunday Morning Service links to an excellent Forbes article on using caution when listening to celebrities speak on science. All parents should be aware of the risks of listening to people just because they're famous.

Comment by Sydni Moser on January 24, 2010 at 11:03am

A family in China made babies their business
The lucrative trade in newborns was fueled by an adoption frenzy that saw government-run orphanages paying for (female) children who they then made available to Westerners.

Reporting from Changning, China - The telephones kept ringing with more orders and although Duan Yuelin kept raising his prices, the demand was inexhaustible. Customers were so eager to buy more that they would ply him with expensive gifts and dinners in fancy restaurants.

His family-run business was racking up sales of as much as $3,000 a month, unimaginable riches for uneducated Chinese rice farmers from southern Hunan province.

Read More HERE:

Comment by Sydni Moser on January 24, 2010 at 10:45am

An Edible Schoolyard in Durham, NC: How Kids Grow
by Sami Grover

We're big fans of edible schoolyards. From Alice Waters' original edible schoolyard efforts in California to one school's garden in the arid deserts of Arizona the concept is reconnecting kids with their food and each other. Kids in my neck of the woods are getting their hands dirty too, and they've even created a great video to show the world the fruits of their labors.

The video of the George Watts Montessori edible schoolyard, created by Durham Public Schools Channel 4, shows how students have been learning how to plant seeds and grow their own food. The students have also teamed up with local chef Mark Day to transform their work into meals and teach them how to cook in their first "Seed to Table" event.

As Mark Day says, "if one kid out of the 400 here plants a tomato next summer, it will have been worth it."

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