Over the past few months, I’ve been hearing a few people talking about “clean coal.” From time to time I hear something about new technologies being developed to make coal a “clean” energy source. I’ve watched a lot of television news stories about how coal is removed from the earth, how dangerous coal mining is, [...]
I was surprised earlier today when my mother pulled out three “empty” bottles of Gold Bond hand lotion (the pump style) and cut them open with a knife. I asked “what in the world are you doing?” She replied “salvaging hand lotion. There’s a lot of lotion left in these bottles! She ended up getting [...]
I was reading an article on the Time.com website about how abandoned ships are damaging the environment. That article talked about how a lot of fishing vessels that were sunk (either on purpose or accident) still having fishing gear on board and the fishing gear (nets and traps) continue to “fish” forever. The article also [...]
Something has always fascinated me about things made out of wood. There is a warm feeling to wood that just cannot be replaced by the “modern look” of metal and concrete decorating. I especially treasure old things made of wood, and I love wood flooring.
There is a company in Scotland Neck North Carolina that specializes [...]
I was shocked to discover that Alaska encourages its citizens to cull their wolf population by allowing them to shoot the wolves from airplanes! I was reading an article about that today on a website that I discovered today called salon.com. The article was talking about the controversy surrounding that situation, and how Sarah Palin [...]
