Green Kitchens Are Happy Kitchens

Everyone’s doing it, going green that is.  It seems like living an eco-friendly lifestyle is becoming easier and easier, and everyone is certainly getting on board.  Many people have recently started recycling and even started to find options and ways to reduce their carbon footprint and energy usage.  Your kitchen can even get on the green train, and not just with your new energy saving appliances, but all of the tools and accessories in your kitchen too.  If you and your family are on a mission to help out mother earth, here are some things that will help you to get started. Energy saving cookware – When you are looking for cookware for the kitchen, then look into cast iron.  Cast iron will conduct heat and hold it longer therefore staying...

Volunteer Vacation: Have Fun and Help Out

Summer is coming, and that means that a lot of people are considering where to go for their vacations. If you are one of these people, and you would like to take a vacation that will afford you the chance to bring home something more meaningful and fulfilling than some overpriced gift shop item, you should consider taking a volunteer vacation to help the environment. A volunteer vacation is when a person takes their week or two vacations and puts it to good use to help a certain cause they believe in. With the busy day to day life of working, it is not always easy to volunteer and give back to the environment, but with a volunteer vacation, you can help in ways you normally aren’t able to. Volunteer vacations are becoming more popular with each passing year,...

How High’s the Water, Mama?

The Blue Suede Shoes are safe. Graceland is high and dry. Elvis won’t have to leave the building. But there are hundreds of homes in Memphis and elsewhere that are flooded. There’s an unprecendented drought in Texas, and the southeast just had the worst tornado outbreak in history. What’s going on? Much has been written about global warming, but global climate change is a more accurate term. topple track And man-made global climate change would be even better. Though it seems likely that the earth will continue to warm under the influence of greenhouse gases pumped into the atmosphere by everything from Pontiacs to power plants, the warming will not be uniform, and some areas might actually cool. Perhaps more important will be changes in...