Posted in Animal Advocacy, Conservation, Deals Around Town, Reduce-Reuse-Recycle, tagged back to school, Bill Belleville, Cat Protection Society, central florida authors, central Florida books, central florida cat protection society, central florida homeschool books, children's books, homeschool curriculum, Judge Hitt, Maya Books, Maya Bookstore, record albums, Sanford books, Sanford homeschool, Sanford used books, unique books, used books, used bookstore, used records, Yvette Comeau on August 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Has your child waited until the last minute to start looking for books on his summer reading list? Are you looking for books to fill out your homeschool curriculum for the beginning of the school year? Have you been looking for a favorite book, a book long out of print, or an old record [...]
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Most of you probably don’t know that right here in Central Florida a major water bottling company is wanting to tap into one of our aquifers. Why is this a problem? The water table is already low and they are approving California based Niagara Water Bottling Company to take 177 million gallons [...]
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Posted in Action Alerts, Conservation, Media, Organizations/Activism, tagged Cat Rigby, First Unitarian Church of Orlando, food for thought, Gary Przyborski, global warming, green team, letter writing, taking action, University Unitarian Univesalist Society on June 12, 2008 | No Comments »
I get interesting things across my Green Team desk sometimes. Today I offer you some food for thought on the topic of global warming’s impact in Florida and how to be heard and speak your green truth.
My “green team” counterpart and new friend over at University Unitarian Universalist Society, Gary Przyborski, was talking [...]
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This weekend, Progress Energy is giving away free trees at various Central FL locations. The types include Dalhoun Holly, Eastern Redbud, Firebush, Simon’s Stopper, and Wild Coffee.
Here’s the text from the email I received about the event:
Wind-blown trees and limbs are a leading cause of power outages. Pick up a native, low-growing tree — a [...]
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I just got a neat press release that sounds like some weekend fun:
Greetings from Seven Sisters Coffee!
I am inviting you to a special event I am calling
“Behind-The-Beans: A preview of Seven Sisters Coffee House.”
Highlights included:
A special photographic presentation of my life-changing tour of the amazing environmentally-sustainable & worker-rights focused Selva Negra Coffee Estate in [...]
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Walt Disney World recently hosted an Evironmental Products & Services Expo exclusively for Disney Cast Members and their families. The Expo welcomed over 1,500 attendees and featured 50 companies, related non-profits and internal Disney partners.
“The goal of the Expo is to have Cast walk away motivated to go out and do something new that benefits [...]
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My husband brought in the mail on Friday night, excited about what movie might be in the Netflix envelope. He seemed little disappointed that I had added yet another documentary to our rental list! I had read good reviews and figured he’d be interested since he’s an automotive technician.
After we got the kids in bed, we sat down [...]
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Posted in Conservation, Fun Stuff for Kids, Local "Green" Events, Natural Housekeeping, Reduce-Reuse-Recycle, tagged Christmas, Christmas tree, cut your own tree, eco-friendly Christmas, green, green Christmas, tree farm on November 30, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Our family has had the same fiber-optic Christmas tree since they first became popular nearly a decade ago. My husband is happy with keeping the same old tree for frugal and, believe it or not, nostalgic reasons, but I feel it is time to experience something new, and what I have found is an eco-friendly [...]
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We just visited the Chelonian Institute in Oviedo for the first time last week. It was a great experience for my little ones and absolutely free!
Dr. Peter Pritchard is much more than a world-reknowned turtle expert; he’s also great with kids. I can’t get over the fact that we were able to see so many [...]
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This video was made by the Friends of the 18th Street Park. If you’re not familiar with this green space, it’s the lot across the street from Sanford Middle School on 17-92 in Sanford. It’s currently used by amateur golfers, parents and kids playing games and flying kites, and most often by the Pop Warner [...]
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