Baskets of Flowers For Mommy

Mother’s day is approaching and I bet you still haven’t found that perfect gift for mom yet to show her how much you care. Why not show mom you love her in a more eco friendly fashion? Chica and Jo, from a popular crafting website (www.chicaandjo.com) have given me some great ideas! It’s a flower planter and its 100% eco friendly and biodegradable! You just have to plant it in the ground! This is possible using an empty Quaker Oats container, some mulberry paper, glue, scissors and most importantly some seeds and soil. This project works great for other occasions too, such as birthdays. Baby showers, Valentines Day, or to just so someone you care! To see full instructions please visit, http://bit.ly/kEHYjw



Another great way to show mom you care is to ditch the plastic! Many flowers come in wrapped plastic that is just thrown away and sits in a landfill for decades to come! Instead, try either picking your own flowers (NOT from a pubic place unless authorized, neighbors yard, or wild area such as a forest.) Or, you can try fake flowers, sure they aren’t as great smelling but they last a lot longer and add a little pizzazz to your home. Lastly you can but different fruits and arrange them on a centerpiece that is edible, and if not eaten, compostable!

Lastly, breakfast in bed. Paper plates are no good, and not very durable for things such as syrup or omelets. Try going with glass or plastic plates. This way you can just rinse them and reuse them! Now you may be thinking about the mess and the dishes that will vary upon what you cook. If you cook bacon, I suggest pouring your grease into an old or never used mug and place it in the fridge for two to three days. Then once it has gelled, scoop it out in a plastic sandwich baggie and simply throw out. If you throw this grease down your drain it may lead into streams, rivers, ponds and eventually the ocean. Do you really want to be swimming in bacon juice?!  Also, the bacon grease can gel in your pipes causing you a lot of money to have a professional come and clean your pipes. I suggest the most if you hand wash your dishes like my family, use cold water and dry manually. Or, if you have a dishwasher, hand dry your dishes instead of having the dishwasher dry them for you.

To all the moms out there, have a happy, wonderful and environmentally friendly Mother’s Day. We love you!

Stay Green Guys,

~*KRISTINA*~

Picture found on http://bit.ly/kEHYjw Thanks yo Chica and Jo
and be sure to check out thier bestite chicaandjo.com!





Plug It In.. Part Two!

If you weren't persuaded enough by the last post I had on the all new Chevy Volt or if you would like to persuade somebody to buy it, I have created a little persuasive essay on why the Chevy Volt is a great choice if someone is shopping for a new car. Enjoy.

Up and Up and UP! Gas prices these days! Aren’t you tired of it?! Everyday, no, every HOUR the gas prices are raised by a few cents. Sure you may think, “Oh what’s a few pennies gonna’ do?”  Here’s your answer... EVERYTHING! People are trying to avoid driving because of the cost of gasoline. Tell me now, WHY would you want to pay more for something you paid less for the day before? It makes absolutely NO sense at all! Gasoline is also one of the top reasons for pollution all across mother earth. Chevy car dealership saw these stats and got working. Thus, creating the new Chevy Volt, one of the first cars to run almost fully on electricity. Within the purchase of the new Chevy Volt you can receive phenomenal technology performances, save more money than ever before, as well as helping the environment, all at the same time!

The brand new Chevy Volt has won the "2011 Motor Trend Car of the Year®." award. As it states on their company's Chevy Volt web page, “The annual award is one of the most prestigious honors bestowed in the auto industry and further proof that it's a new day for Chevrolet, not to mention the entire auto industry. Powered by electricity without being tethered to electrical outlets, the Volt does everything a great car does and, according to Motor Trend, better than any other. It's further proof that today, tomorrow and on into the future, Chevy runs deep.”  This quote means that the Chevy Volt is the car of the future and can perform all the excelling tasks of a regular car while not polluting mother earth. Therefore, they have been presented with this unique award. This car will provide you with stellar technology performances both inside and out. The interior dashboard has been reinvented to fit technology needs of this 21st century world. The Chevy Volt has two LCD screens that display speed, battery power, range to recharge or re-fill as well as an efficiency gauge that gives you real-time feedback. Meaning, that there is a screen that tells you when its time to recharge your car. You can also check these stats on your mobile phone or on Apple touch products with the free application. The Chevy Volt definitely is twenty first century product while encountering twenty first century environmental issues.

                                                                                                        

The brand new Chevy Volt not only helps keep the environment out of harm it will also keep your life savings out of harm as well. Gas prices now a days range from $3.20 to about $3.95. With our economy these high prices are like rat poison, and guess what... we are the rats! Fathers being laid off means that there’s just isn’t enough money for everyday necessities like food and defiantly not enough money for wants, like new attire. This is where the Chevy Volt steps in to save the day once again. You see, the Volt runs on both battery and gas.  The Volt only uses about $1.50 worth of electricity to run and that lasts for two to three days. Gas prices last this long but it costs almost twice as much or more! By running on both electricity and gas your Volt can cut down your trips to the pump, and trust me, your wallet will thank you!

As I have been hinting, the Chevy Volt is one of the first Eco-friendly cars out for sale.  The Volt runs on electricity for an initial length of 35 miles on a single charge, before that gas starts to kick in as well adding 340 additional miles on a full tank of gas. This means you can go from Perth Amboy, New Jersey to Augusta, Maine (about 336 miles) in one trip without having to stop for gas! It’s truly amazing!  Making things simpler, electricity is a cleaner source of power and technology is improving in the generation of electricity. With the new Volt, we hope to continue to see reduced carbon outputs or Carbon Dioxide. With this kind of electricity and a greener way to travel long distances we can work to make our earth a greener and safer place to live.

Further most, why take a carbon making monster on your next vacation? When you purchase the new Chevy Volt you will receive phenomenal technology performances, save more money than ever before, as well as helping the environment, all at the same time! Why should we as Americans be paying double the amount for dirty fuel when we can acquire unsullied, or clean, energy for half the cost of normal gasoline? So I challenge you, if your someone who wants to make a change, or if your a technology fanatic, or even a little of both, then the new Chevy Volt is the perfect car for you!

Facts, information, and quotes found on http://www.chevrolet.com/volt/ 

Are you going to try and use these arguments to persuade someone to buy this car? Or, are you now tempted to buy this car yourself? Tell me what’s on your mind! I want to hear from YOU! So comment below and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.

Puffin Palooza!

When Stephen Kress saw these toys like creatures on the shoreline of the Canadian province of New Brunswick, he fell in love with them. These animals were called puffins. A puffin is a bird that is short, stocky, has black and white feathers and has orange feet; along with a triangular, red and orange beak. Puffins can live on land or at sea. On land, they scamper across rocks burrow in the ground like a groundhog. At sea, they can drink salt water with no harm and the ability to dive 200 feet down in the water allows them to live at sea for years at a time. The puffins’ diet consisted of mainly fish and in the winter, zooplankton, a crustacean or fish larvae. But, Kress noticed that many puffins were disappearing and becoming extinct due to hunting and being pushed out of their homes due to their rival… the seagulls! Kress could not stand this anymore and took action! Kress extracted puffin chicks from their burrows and safely secured them in soup cans until they reached the United States, where they were deposited. When these chicks finally fledged, or grew feathers and wing muscle, they did what young puffins naturally do and flew away towards to open sea. About five years went by and one July 4^th, 1981, Kress saw what he had longtime waited for! There, on Eastern Egg Rock, were two puffins, a pair, and their chick! His experiment was a success! By setting up wooden, broadcasting puffins and setting up mirrors to give an illusion of more birds, Kress was able to bring back more than 1000+ puffins. Now, using the same technique, people are bringing back other species of birds all across the globe!

Do you think that Kress's experiment was a sucess? How did you feel when they said they placed the young brood of puffins into soup cans before taking them to the United States? Do you think this movement will last or do you think people will just hunt them down again? I want to hear from YOU! Leave a comment below and I'll get back to you as soon as possible!

~*KRISTINA*~

Plug it in, Plug it in!

No, I'm not talking about the air freshener jingle, I'm talking about the new cars that run on battery power! For just $1.50 a day (less than the cost of gas that last fro only about 2 to 3 days) you can plug in your car! The car does not fully run on battery power it does still need gas, but it uses less gas then the regular car does! This mean less pollution and a greener earth! As stated on the chevrolet website (http://www.chevrolet.com/volt/) its a small, quiet on-board gas generator creates electricity that powers your Volt as you drive for hundreds of miles on battery and gas power. As said on the commercials '...only needs about a buck 50 worth of power each day and for longer car rides it can use gas.' You can check out the commercial below.

What do you think the commercial was trying to tell you? Do you think if we keep trying we can make a total green car ran on battery life and urine? (read 'urine the fuel of the future' below) If the car is using all this energy to charge is that really benificial to the environment? I want to hear from YOU post your comments, answeres, and questions below and I will get back to you as soon as possible! Untill then, STAY GREEN!

~*KRISTINA*~

Chevy Volt Commercial

Urine... The Fuel of The Future!

Yea, you read right, URINE is the fuel of the future as said by scientists at Ohio University. In mid 2010, students and scientists realized that one molecule of urea, a major component of urine, contains four atoms of hydrogen bonded to two atoms of nitrogen. Stick a special nickel electrode into a pool of urine, apply an electrical current, and hydrogen gas is released! As amazing as this is, we will soon be able to take our body's natural waste and put it towards the future! Imagine a world where we have cars, powered by our own body's waste! An average person/family flushes about 4 to 6 times a day. Now times that by 365. If you did your math correctly that comes out to about 1460 to 2190 flushes a YEAR! Also, about 6 gallons of water go down the pipes every flush! So that's about 8760 to 13140 GALLONS a YEAR!
"It is not a solution for all our cars," said Stickney, "but it is the kind of process which will find many applications and will make for a greener world." So as you can see, urine can be the start to something green and amazing!

I want to hear from you, what are your thoughts about urine powered cars? Do you think this will make for a better, greener world? Or will it just be a promise no one can keep? I want to hear form YOU! So leave a comment below and I will get back to you as soon as possible!

Until then, Stay green guys! ~*KRISTINA*~

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Enough Is Seriously Enough!

When are we going to say STOP, enough animals are forced onto the extinction list. Do you think they like having their friends die and have them worry that they are going to die to? How would you feel if you knew you might die tomorrow! I  know you have had this scared feeling because of all the talk of 2012, and this is what the animals fear everyday. Have you ever heard of the silky snail? I think NOT! That is just one of the THOUSANDS of animals on the list. Don’t you think it’s sad that our kids will know nothing more of a tiger, elephant, or polar bear than a picture in a text book? Don’t you ever think it is unfair that you never got to see a live dinosaur? Well it’s unfair that our kids wont see a graceful and beautiful Sea Turtle.

    What really bugs me, is the laziness that I see around me. On a Thursday afternoon over the summer, My friend and I went to the park near my house. I was playing Frisbee and I got really thirsty. Naturally, I look over at a man drinking an ice cold water. He was RIGHT next  to a recycling bin, and what does this big ball of sweating blubber do?!?! I will tell you! He looked behind him at the recycle bin, shrugged his shoulders making his neck double up with pimply  mess of  wrinkles and throws this bottle on the ground and stomps on it like it's a silly playground game! After he had moved aside I pick up the plastic death trap for  birds and recycle it. Oh, if I would have had the time I would have told this man to pick it up himself, but I have more respect for my elders then to do that.     

So you tell me, what are YOU going to do to stop this madness! I want your opinion, your answer, YOUR INPUT AND IDEAS! Leave a comment below and I will get back to you as soon as possible. ‘Till then, Stay Green, ~*KRISTINA*~

It's About Time!

Governor (of NJ)  Chris Christie Takes Action to Protect and Restore Barnegat Bay

It's about time someone has realized all the trash and more on Jersey's beaches.Executive Director of

Clean Ocean Action states st century.

“It is a good day for the Jersey Shore and a great start for the new year”, said Cindy Zipf, Executive Director of

Clean Ocean Action. “These laws are the first wave of bills to bring water quality protection into the 21

We commend Governor Christie, Senator Smith, and Assemblyman McKeon for their leadership in passing these

bills that in time will bring some long overdue relief to the beleaguered bays. Countless hours of citizen action has

Barnegat Bay package and his vow to oppose offshore drilling and liquefied natural gas facilities, are helping put

New Jersey back as the national ocean leader. We in New Jersey know that protecting our greatest natural resource,

the ocean, is the core of improving the economy”, she added.

I for one, is glad that this is happening, it's time pleople cleaned out the waxy build up in their ears and starting listening to the earth crying out to us like a newborn for it's mother!

With the Governor’s signature, New Jersey is now entering a new era of common-sense in environmental protection while ensuring a greener future!