Well, good news, I don’t have to worry about having candles in my room because I now have a battery powered lamp. However my candles worked very nicelu during our recent power outage. I was already used to the dark. When I was doing research on sustainable energy, I looked into wind turbines for homes. … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: March 2013
Journal: Slipping and sliding, trying to keep going!
Well for the most part, now that it is nearing a month, I’ve been keeping up with my goals. I am really struggling with candles only and it is very hard to do it in a house where most of it is lit and where I am it is not. This is because I still … Continue reading
Keeping low impact
Well, I’ve had a lot of stress recently in my life with work and have been finding myself waking up this week and just wanting to turn on the light in the morning. It is very difficult when I’m exhausted to keep up the energy to be carrying around a candle and fumbling with the … Continue reading
Why seahorses are important in our Aquatic worlds… and introducing Project Seahorse
“It is this high demand on wild stocks which has left seahorse on the endangered list, with seahorse fisheries reporting a minimum decline of 50% in fisheries over the last five years. Through our research we have discovered that seahorses will become extinct in the next 20 – 30 years. Are we going to sit … Continue reading
Gobla Energy Efficiency day ! / Día mundial de Eficiencia Energética
Originally posted on Beyond Sustainable:
We wish all our followers a happy global day for energy efficiency!! Let us follow the path to zero energy buildings!! ——————————————————————- Queremos desearles a todos nuestros seguidores un feliz día de la eficiencia energética!!!! Sigamos el camino hacia los edificios de energía cero!!!!
Originally posted on melanieglobalocean:
The latest data from the international scientific committee which monitors tuna in the Pacific showed bluefin tuna stocks were a small fraction of what they had been and were in danger of all but disappearing, according to the Pew Environmental Group as reported in The Guardian. Global Ocean has been following…
Tonight I am sitting in the candle light, wondering what I should talk about. Well I was at work today, where we have an organics, recycle and garbafe bin… yet when I put my organics into the coreect bin, I noticed it was empty and the garbage can was full of things that could have … Continue reading
Life With Candle Light – Old Electric Lighting habit BROKEN! Sustainability.
Well it turns out it wasn’t as hard as I thought to break the ‘turning on the light switch habit’. Today I didn’t automatically turn on lights at all. Not once! I’m used to dim light and candle light at night already and that makes life much easier because I’m not mad at myself for hitting … Continue reading
Write a Letter to Your Politician – Take action with something you care about!
Tonight I created a new page called “Write a Letter and Take Action“. I was inspired to do this when I saw so many organizations with form emails you can pop your name on and send. I was inspired to prevent spam and, upon further research, I learned that it is more effective to mail … Continue reading