With Santa’s e.t.a. drawing ever nearer, little boys and girls are trying extra hard to be nice rather than naughty in order to get their holiday wishes filled. And many of them are not having visions of sugarplums. No, a great many children of all ages around the world are dreaming of new super-t...

Normal 0 false false false EN-MY X-NONE AR-SA MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 I managed to get a caring friend, Zheng Yi, to share her path as a preschool teacher with all of us.  She is a young graduate who venture into early childhood development instead of corporate working life.  I admire her enthu...

File under: the path to hell is paved with good intentions. A great report from the UK about disposable vs washable diapers. It basically states that disposables are, in the end, no worse than washable diapers. Our ecological footprints are so complicated that it is often impossible to tell what hel...

OK, this story could be as phony as that fake-ass Bigfoot “corpse” they discovered in Georgia recently, but if the Yeti footprints pictured below are for real, then, wow…this Yeti, for one, will be very pleased indeed! Discovered by the rocking Japanese team from the Yeti Project J...

Everybody wants to reduce their carbon footprint these days. But many companies have looked to the quick fix of buying carbon offsets. While this practice may slow down as the recession continues, the debate will continue to rage about what makes a quality offset, and there's the rub. Ideally, you w...

  Sometime back on National Public Radio, a panel discussed the high cost of gasoline and what the next president should do about it. When asked if we should be concerned about running out of oil, a panelist quipped that “President Obama” will create appropriate tax incentives for photo...

CONCLUSIONS. The original premise for this long series of posts was this. If the Kyoto Protocol is only in place to preserve the environment for future generations, then, surely, that can only be a good thing. So, why are there Countries holding out on implementing what is called for? In December th...

Filed under: Haute Home The best advice we ever heard from Ted on Queer Eye was to get inexpensive wine glasses from Ikea instead of paper or plastic cups. It doesn't cost that much more -- in fact, over time it's actually less expensive -- and it's about a million times nicer to sip from glass than...

“According to the latest research, species around the world are going extinct faster that previously thought, at a rate not seen since the extinction of the dinosaurs. The Living Planet index which was released today shows that due to destructive human activity, the diversity of all life on ea...

Some days the material writes itself. As reported by The Washington Post , Mary Stevenson’s son claims that as his mother penned the infamous poem, “Footprints in the Sand,” he seeks any royalties earned from said literary work. For those of you who tend to walk away from Christian kitsch, “...