Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Just one word ... plastics
As I bought my perennials and vegetables this past weekend I noticed that the prices have gone up a good bit since last year. I was complaining to a guy who works at the garden center and he said that part of it is that the cost of the plastic containers which are made with petroleum has gone up as well as the freight charges.
This got me thinking as I dumped non-recyclable container after container into the trash.
How stupid is this? Adding to the trash stream as I tend to mother earth.
Is this a good new product that someone should invent? These things do not need to be grown in plastic ... cardboard or those moss things are just as good. Isn't anyone thinking about this?
I feel sick about it and vow next year to find a place who does just this. Now of course I tried to start everything by seed last year and it was a monumental failure. Maybe a greenhouse is in my future instead of adding to the greenhouse effect.
And so it goes.
This got me thinking as I dumped non-recyclable container after container into the trash.
How stupid is this? Adding to the trash stream as I tend to mother earth.
Is this a good new product that someone should invent? These things do not need to be grown in plastic ... cardboard or those moss things are just as good. Isn't anyone thinking about this?
I feel sick about it and vow next year to find a place who does just this. Now of course I tried to start everything by seed last year and it was a monumental failure. Maybe a greenhouse is in my future instead of adding to the greenhouse effect.
And so it goes.
Labels: miscellany
Monday, May 14, 2007
breast cancer
Breast cancer linked to chemicals
Reduced exposure to common products may prevent disease
Headline of an article in the Baltimore Sun today.
Writing in a publication of the American Cancer Society, researchers said that reducing exposure to the compounds could prevent many women from developing the disease.
Um, excuse me but didn't we figure that out already?
The other day my father made fun of me buying organic milk and organics in general when I can. He said he didn't get the difference.
Well Dad, let's see. You have prostate cancer and mom had breast cancer. Don't you wonder where that comes from?
And so it goes.
Headline of an article in the Baltimore Sun today.
Writing in a publication of the American Cancer Society, researchers said that reducing exposure to the compounds could prevent many women from developing the disease.
Um, excuse me but didn't we figure that out already?
The other day my father made fun of me buying organic milk and organics in general when I can. He said he didn't get the difference.
Well Dad, let's see. You have prostate cancer and mom had breast cancer. Don't you wonder where that comes from?
And so it goes.
Labels: miscellany
