away from my blog apparently! sorry to be mia for months, but life has taken me in all sorts of wonderful directions, and kept me too occupied with other things…
take for instance exhibit a: Laurel st. Gallery, Ventura CA
find out more info on facebook and http://atthelaurel.blogspot.com/
join us for the Dia De Los Muertes Celebration….
truth be told i am not a blogger.
however i am a believer in good people, becoming more aware of the person i am and the mark i make on the earth as well as the people around me.
i am also an artist, photographer, creator, organize queen…so its time to get off my computer and find order in and amongst all my art supplies and old photos…
God help me…
as you always do š
p.s. thank you!
Join individuals around the world in celebrating Earth Hour by turning off lights, appliances and other electronics for at least one hour this Saturday, March 28 at 8:30 p.m. Started by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the annual event helps to raise awareness about global warming and demonstrate the collective power of simple, energy-saving actions.
Earth Hour began in Sydney, Australia in 2007, with 2.2 million homes and businesses switching off their lights for one hour. In 2008, the event went global with over 50 million people switching off their lights world-wide. Even the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, the Coliseum in Rome, and the Coca-Cola Billboard in downtown New York City all flipped the switch. Some cities were able to cut electricity demand by 13% during those peak hours.
This year, over 2,000 cities, towns, and municipalities in 83 countries have already committed to turning off lights for Earth Hour 2009. Will you join the fight?
ā¦Electric Bill. Wait, thatās not how it goes. Anyways, what weāre trying to say is that you can still enjoy the sparkle of holiday lights this year without running up your electric bill. LEDs use over 80 percent less energy than traditional incandescents and can last for over 50,000 hours.
If youāre like Clark Griswold and spent a whole day meticulously stapling 25,000 imported Italian twinkle lights to your roof, only to find they wonāt turn on, we feel your pain. Maybe if you hadnāt run them 24/7 in holidays past, they would still work. How about picking up a light timer this year? It will save you money and extend the life of your product. If youāve already got too many āTo-Dosā on your list, use our holiday ornament as a festive reminder.
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Plastic bag recycling covers not only grocery bags, but also dry-cleaning bags, newspaper bags and some plastic wrap. So what are you doing with all the different types of recyclable plastic bags? Use Earth911.com to find plastic bag recycling locations.
Your old CDs and DVDs can be recycled into anything from office equipment to street lights. Keep this in mind before you throw electronic media in the garbage. Find out more about what’s in your CDs and where you can recycle them.
Magazines are accepted for recycling by all curbside programs that collect paper, yet only 20 percent are recycled from homes. The glossy paper can be recycled into paperboard or even tissues, as long as you remove scented inserts. Learn more about recycling magazines.
Keep pizza boxes out of your recycling bin. Oil from the pizza can’t be removed in the recycling process, and it may contaminate an entire batch of paper. Learn what other products can contaminate your paper recycling.
If your printer cartridges are out of ink, investigate refill options before you buy new ones. You might be able to refill the same cartridge up to 10 times before replacing. Check out other ways to green your office supplies.
Telephone directories are recyclable, but their accessories (magnets, plastic bags) will contaminate the recycling process. It’s best to remove these items prior to tossing phone books in the recycling bin. See more tips for recycling phone books.
Ever wonder how recyclables are handled once they’re out of your hands? Turning a recycling truck full of containers and paper into resellable products is an interesting process. Find out how it’s done with Earth911.com’s tour of a recycling center.
The idea of going green can be tough, especially if you don’t know where to start. Check out Earth911.com’s Curiously Green series, where people just like you experiment with various eco-friendly projects and write about the results.
No access to curbside recycling? That doesn’t mean you can’t recycle at home. Check out Earth911.com’s guide to starting a recycling program to help figure out what you want to recycle and how recyclables should be stored and maintained.
it was in july when my friend, sarah came from new york for her annual c.s. association in san luis opisbo. we had a fantastic time in ventura for her first visit and s.l.o. that weekend for our fourth vacation weekend together. then sunday morning when we woke at 5am i seemed to have the symptoms for pink eye. having to deal with this last summer i knew immediately what i had to do…start praying. i knew that this color in my eye was no part of me. i, as god’s perfect child am complete, whole. there is no-thing that could be added to me or taken away. i gave this discomfort absolutely NO power. i turned to god in my thought and knew that this could not be happening to me.
after sending sarah on her way home, i went back the hotel room. i almost started to read the christian science text book; science and health with key to the scriptures, yet i didn’t. i simply laid my head on the pillow, closed my eyes and said the lord’s prayer to myself. knowing that i will be well, because there is nothing else for me to be.
when i woke again a few hours later, all the symptoms had fallen away. no more watery pink eye, just as if it were never there earlier. i enjoyed swimming in the pool, relaxing in the hot tub and soaking up some sun before i was on my way home. oh my goodness. words hardly express the amount of gratitude i had for this healing. i am so very thankful for all that i have learned in my life while leaning on the truths and principles of this religion.
While traveling through CA via Highway 1o1 different scenes inspire me to exit the fwy and stop to take a moment to explore what could possibly make a great photograph, two if I am lucky. By constantly shooting wherever I go, my photography mimics the changing of time. I photograph architecture in nature and portray each location using my vintage medium format camera which produces the square prints. My camera sees oxymorons to focus on; light vs. shadows, design vs. shapes, saturated color vs. lack of color. Certain antiquities of forgotten structures interest me so that they cannot be unnoticed. By capturing these frames, I am grabbing a bit of time for myself and others to look back to in the future.
I thank you for your curiosity and encourage you to stop and take a moment to explore these images…as soon as they are up that is : P
its 420am and you have left me no choice but to just be myself. I cannot be anything besides this. I and me exist separately. If I am the material interpretation of the spiritual God than only the Great God and the true I may exist together. Bumps, bruises, aches and pains do not and cannot be called āmineā, if God Herself is not capable of having such things. Sleep is a human necessity, organization is my necessity in order to keep sane in this world. Someone once said cleanliness is next to Godliness. Do I agree? Well, I agree to some degree.Ā Honor, strength, courage, humility, truth __ these such attributes are next to Godliness. To hold these and other qualities of God we must possess the ability to see higher than what weāre expected to see. Look deeper into the meaning of your daily activities, think more thoroughly when driving in your car, acknowledge the small blessings instead of wishing for more. The best thing that God has given us is the Divine Love and security we need to move forward, progressively.
Over 37 percent of the fiber used to make new paper products in the U.S. comes from recycled sources. Recycling paper not only keeps it out of landfills, but it helps create new paper. You can often find out what percentage recycled content your paper is from the packaging.
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Stormwater pollution isn’t the result of rainfall; it comes from materials that get washed down storm drains. Some unlikely culprits include pet and yard waste. Learn more about how to properly dispose of these wastes at Earth911.com’s Stormwater page.
yesterday morning i didn’t plan on participating in this project. had no idea it was for the month of august when, gwen told me about it last semester. receiving her email made me happy to be part of something different, that i had not been included in.
the hour came and went. my alarm was too quiet for my body to want to respond. 130am was my bed time after watching punch drunk love. strange, colorful, sad, yet sincere are what i would describe it to be. this 315 project is weird, creative, hopefully enlightening! bob dylan is singing in my head….i could offer you a warm embrace to make you feel my love. i want to feel love, from dylan, from my family. of which i need to call and or send those cards. i do miss them, yet am so relieved to be home…to be in my home, sleep in my comfy bed and be surrounded by my world. when i wake up i’ll continue to clean house and declutter more. when i awake tomorrow, hopefully i’ll write a poem….not a to do list.
jessica l. emerson 