8 Oct
‘If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.’ It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”
Steve Jobs
AMEN !
9 Sep
about Organics & Our Food
As my friend and colleague Mike Serant of San Jacinto Environmental Supply says:
“Organics has made great progress but many huge concerns still abound. There is now millionsagainstmonsanto.org, a very serious organization opposing the proliferation of Frankenstein Foods knows as GMO’s (How many of your friends know what GMO’s are?) It is worthy of support. Monsanto is also responsible for Round-Up which is now revealed to be a very serious threat to plant life and human health.
Second, from i-sis.org.uk (came) a very scary article
i-sis.org.uk/Cloned_Meat_and_Milk_Coming.php.
As you well know I believe there are many organizations that don’t care if we are sick as long as we are ‘revenue producers’ for them.
Having irresponsible organizations control our food supplies with their (pseudo) pharmaceutical productions is a direct threat against our personal freedoms.”
For an authoritarian source about Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO’s), which includes everything we eat: foods, fruits, vegetables, grains, meat, milk, etc., get the book “Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically engineered Foods” by Jeffrey M. Smith. Learn more at GeneticRoulette.com
Tommy Tolson of “Transition Texas” called to my attention a video and book by Lierre Keith (see below.) Along this same line of thought about our food supply and our health and that of our planet, this same book was also reviewed by Mother Earth News. It is about restoring our land and our health, along with everything else that factory and industrial farming has degraded. See the Transition Texas email below for the video about the book.
LaVerne
Transition Texas
For a resilient, desirable future
Lierre Keith says that if we stop doing industrial agriculture, we will be able to re-sequester all the carbon in the atmosphere in a decade or so. This is one of the most important books I’ve ever read. I’m about halfway through the eBook (available at Alibris.com as a Google book) and the level of thought that’s gone into this book still amazes me. If you don’t read another book this year, read The Vegetarian Myth. It’s that important. Here’s the video from Energy Bulletin.com in which Keith is interviewed. energybulletin.net/media/2011-03-17/peak-moment-191-vegetarian-myth
To read what Mother Earth News had to say about Keith’s book, go to:
motherearthnews.com/print-article.aspx?id=2147488860#ixzz1HC8il8f9
Transition Houston
For more on Transition Houston go to (please copy & paste into your browser):
transitiontexas.ning.com/group/transitionhouston
transitionhouston.wordpress.com/
5 Sep
get rid of excess lawns, water wasters! Add charm instead. See picasa albums on website for many more ideas and plants
5 Sep
xeriscape plants...Drift roses take heat and cold-1-2 ft tall /wide max/scented
5 Sep
No grass ,gravel and beds allow rainwater to soak into ground
5 Sep
large mulched beds with drought tolerant plants,eliminate waterwasting lawns/keep slab safer
5 Sep
shady porch 1 and hill covered in xeriscape plants
