Proud to say I already do most of the things they suggest!

I’ve been buying CFLs for about 15 years. I Love led lights! I want to get that funky led “bulb” I saw on Mythbusters.

Sorry for making light of substances who’s half life and toxicity is so great.

Other things being equal, the longer the half-life, the lower the radiation toxicity. Thorium’s half-life is 14 billion years. As it comes from the ground, Thorium needs no processing to serve as reactor fuel, but there are (supposed to be) work rules against eating and/or inhaling it.

From what I’ve read, Thorium reactions produce from 1/1000 to 1/10,000 of the waste produced by traditional Uranium reactions, but the waste products have a relatively short half-life, i.e., are relatively radioactive.

Al Gore just infused this country with life again.
And hope.
No wonder Inhofe didn’t want him to play in Washington DC.

D i n g!

IIRC, San Francisco just outlawed plastic grocery bags.

((((((((((Mayor Gavin Newsom))))))))))

Al Gore just infused this country with life again.
And hope.
No wonder Inhofe didn’t want him to play in Washington DC.

Mare-
Do you want to join me and Loo Hoo to say thank you? We could start by holding hands and ask him to dance.
It is Saturday night.

Loo Hoo. @ 278

Good for you, Mary. Will you hire someone or do it yourself?

I’m going to learn to do it myself.

I’ve always wanted to keep bees, they’re such interesting critters. I’m just not a honey fan, and can’t justify it. Did you read the book about beekeeping by the woman who worked at the Library of Congress? I can’t remember her name–came out 18ish years ago, I think. What a delight. Something I think a poet like you, Mary, would enjoy, if you haven’t already read it.

Mary McCurnin @ 207

Next year I am going to start keeping bees. Tons of people are doing it in my area. Organic bees are not dying. And the honey is unbelievable.

Good for you, Mary. Will you hire someone or do it yourself?

I’m going to learn to do it myself.

greenwarrior @ 239

I’m smiling now remembering how my dad, once he broke some piece of clothing in, would NEVER part with it. My mother had to keep mending and mending – pajamas, underwear, flannel shirts, sweaters, everything. He liked the comfort of his familiar clothing.

My dad complained loudly when his Navy-issue boxer shorts finally fell apart after 30 years. :~)

Yes, exactly!

greenwarrior @ 248

Is this some kind of revenge-of-the-mom or do they also fall on her head when she opens the cabinet?

She is a child of the Depression and (somehow) her memories of the Depression enable her to put her hand up to contain the bags as she opens that cabinet. I, being a wasteful and overly-permitted child of the baby-boom, forget. So when I open the cabinet and rage about all the damn bags falling out, she can be quite sweetly self-righteous about “saving things.”

At least it’s not aluminum cans or, worse, glass jars.

Sweet!