Looking for Sustainability ideas

I thought I find a way to keep costs down while still trying to stay eco-friendly. Trying to keep striving for sustainability. This a record of that journey.

Sometimes blunt and straight forward then sometimes sarcastic

This frugal crunchy hipster single momma is doing what she can to save Mother Earth while not breaking the bank!

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Real Beauty.........

The model Isabella Caro dies at the age of 28.  She was the model for the ad in the No Anorexia campaign, showing her skeleton shaped body for all of Paris to see.  She also wrote a book to help with insight to her eating  disease.  
 It was titled _The Little Girl that didn't want to get Fat_  I believe is the title...
With more and more people mostly women being treated for eating disorders it seems that we should be doing something more!  Please the youngest girl to be treated for anorexia on record is 4! 4 Years old and she is worried about her weight........... this subject makes me crazy.... that the fact that many beauitful people don't see the beauty in themselves and find the need to hurt themselves........






But can we blame the fashion industry?  Marketing companies?

Just thinking out loud...

ivy

Thursday, January 6, 2011

I really Need IT!





ivy

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Wow more dead birds!

More animals are dying in mass numbers... seems so spooky...

After the birds in Arkansas now it is 500 dead blackbirds in Louisiana, yesterday. Today brought 50 dead birds in Sweden....
The study done on the birds from Arkansas showed signs of stress, meaning they think it was the firecrackers from the fireworks... which hummm a hour before the new year the birds just knew that there where going to be fireworks so they just dropped out of the sky stressing.... But add more birds falling from the sky....

And then if that isn't too weird, there has been more reports of fish floating to shore............ First was the 83,000 dead drum fish in Arkansas......... they believe it was because there was a bloom in population of this type of fish so they didn't have the ability to fight infections..... now there are reports of millions of fish floating to the shores of the Chesapeake Bay, that they blame cold water stress.... (but can't say climate change??? Really with warming come ice melting on Greenland icebergs...) Monday reports of tons of fish (sardine, croaker and catfish) have turned up dead since last Thursday off the coast of Parana. Today it is in New Zealand, 100's of snapper fish are floating to shore without eyes..........

SO is it climate change? Or over population of the air and sea? The signs to end of the world? Biblical? Mayan calender? Ok so I really don't usually follow the conspiracy theories... but you have say wow this is getting weird....  Hey if there are massive deaths of mammals I will really freak out! 


ivy

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ivy

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Now it is Fish!!

OMG now I see that fish in Arkansas is dying. After 5,000 blackbirds fell out of the sky we have 100,000 fish floating up to shore...... They don't think it is a poison because more than just one type of fish would have floated to shore...



Monday, January 3, 2011

What is happening in Arkansas??

Happy New Year!  Ok I am late but I hope it was good....

Wow it was not for the black birds in Arkansas. Where depending on what report you hear or read over 1,000 blackbirds fell from the sky.  The New York Post reports that they don't believe that the birds where poisoned.  Yahoo who I will not post a link to had a racist sound to the news blaming the fireworks of the Mexican population.... wow there is still some real problems that people can't get along!!!  

You might notice that many people are blaming the green house effect or better wording for the nay saysers of how can it be globial warming if I got snow in Atlanta????  would be climate change.


We wait for the reports from the National Wildlife Health Center for answers on this strange omen from Arkansas............ 


ivy

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Healthy Junk food!!

SO just so you know I love oxymorons!!  Healthy what??? Healthy food dressed up as Junk food is more like the truth!

Have you seen the new ad program for Baby Carrots? Where they have some very overt sexual innuendos and the fact is that is said during the video..... Don't watch around young ones:

Baby Carrots | Eat 'Em Like Junk Food | Indulge


But they have some cool new Junk food package that you can download and place your "boring" carrots into to get your young one to eat... Like Junk food....

So will changing the outer package to a junk food looking package make kids want it more?  Using stupid stints help sell the food? Or insulting the mother of little ones by using very overt sexual innuendos in a commercial help sell carrots??? Oh yes .... baby carrots....

Last I heard about baby carrots there was a group that wanted the labeling off baby carrots to be stopped for the fact was they are not baby carrots.  They used to be the carrots that where too short, crooked or broken carrots....... so a smart farmer decided to peel them down to a uniform smaller size.  OK so there is no truth to the rumor that they are soaked in chlorine.  Check out Snopes!

BUT the truth is now they are breed for the sweetness and size that kids love!! So the group trying to get the name changed was a mood point I believe cause they can be "baby" as in size.  Yea some of us farmers know the spring weeding vegetables are young and tender.  That is what they believe is baby carrots.  I say hey my girls love those carrots as young one so I love those carrots!! I used to tell her dad that hey it worth the extra money cause she eats the baby carrots but not the regular carrots! And still does!!  I thought that it had to be a mother trying to get her children interested in good food.... you know like the fact that pizza was a invention to get the kids lunch and use up the bread from the night before.

 So now we have a company or is that a group well they call themselves :a bunch of carrot farmers... really more like a very creative marketing person!! But hey I think that this might take off! Junk food packaging on healthy food?  Hey they started with cheese and drink boxes...  What can they do that to next???  What would you love if they junk food-ised packaging for? 

ivy

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