The Presidential Candidates’ Policies and Suggestions regarding Environmental Policy
Here is a link to the 2008 League of Conservation Voters’ Guide listing the energy policies of all the presidential candidates. See a chart comparing their policies on the environment and renewable energy side-by-side at the Solar Nation website, located at http://www.solar-nation.org/2008/01/04/how-green-was-my-candidate.
Knowledge is power, have and empowering day,
Diane Tegarden
Tonya Ramsey, Owner of Life By Design Site hosts an interactive, informational interview on Thursdays, called Journey to Self. On January 24th I had the pleasure of going on the show and speaking about divorce, relationships and my books “Getting OUT of Limbo- A Self Help Divorce Book for Women” and “Light Through Shuttered Window- A Compendium of My Poetry and Lyrics”.
From Tonya….
Thank you again for being on the show Diane, it was great!! Here is the link to our show http://www.blogtalkradio.com/journeytoself/2008/01/24/Journey-to-Self-Self-Help-Divorce-information-for-women
I am looking forward to working with you again!!!
With Empowering Regards, Tonya Ramsey, Self-Esteem Coach, Writer, Speaker and Educator.http://lifebydesignsite.com
since we are all intelligent people here, I think we’d all like to unravel the rhetoric and claims of the presidential candidate’s as we consider the serious responsibility of choosing our next president.
I found this fantastic website called “Project Vote Smart” where it lists the ACTUAL VOTING RECORDS of all the politicians in office.
This is not a political ad for any one candidate mind you, it simply lets the voting record be known of each politician on each issue. The bills are grouped by type of issue or problem, to let you know where a candidate stands on a certain issue.
You can go to http://www.vote-smart.org, once on the Home Page, you can choose the Tab for Candidates, then click on the person/s whom you are interested in researching.
This will tell you each of the bills that they voted for, whether it was a Y/N or NV, meaning they didn’t vote on that issue.
A politician can talk to me until they’re blue in the face, but I don’t care what they “say” they will do, I care about what they’ve done in the past. This website shows me what they stand for in very clear, easy to see terms.
There is also an extensive biography and background information for each candidate.
Knowledge is power, have an empowering day,
Diane Tegarden
Author of “Light Through Shuttered Window- A Compendium of My Poetry” available at http://www.firewalkerpublications.com/ORDER.htm
Did You Hear Whole Foods Market is eliminating plastic bags for their customers? They are choosing paper bags for you.
This isn’t more environmentally sound than using plastic bags, in my opinion. Lots of people find it easy to return plastic bags in the recycling bins provided by the stores, or have uses for plastic bags.
Making a paper bag uses more water, electricity and non-renewable raw materials (trees) than making a plastic bag, which comes from recycled plastic.
As a business owner who mails out a physical product, I use the bags as packaging material. I also use them as trash can liners, and other myriad uses. We rarely throw away a plastic bag, whereas we rarely have need of the paper from paper bags.
I personally use cloth bags for grocery shopping, but occasionally forget them and always choose plastic bags at the supermarket.
Would you prefer paper or plastic, and why? Do you recycle bags, or reuse bags? Do you use cloth bags?
Let’s weigh in on this issue, maybe the supermarkets can be convinced there’s a better way to be environmentally friendly than banning plastic bags from the markets.
I’m very excited to announce my upcoming podcast interview on the Life by Design’s Journey to Self Radio Show hosted by Tonya Ramsey. The show airs on Thursday Jan. 24th at 10am PST/ 11am MST/ 12noon CST/ 1pm EST. The Life by Design website is at: http://lifebydesignsite.com.
Click on the Radio Show button to listen is as we talk about marriage, divorce, and relationships that last. We’ll be discussing my book “Getting OUT of Limbo- A Self Help Divorce Book for Women”, which can be found at www.amazon.com, www.target.com and on my website at http://www.firewalkerpublications.com/ORDER.htm.
Hope to “see” you on the radio!
Diane Tegarden, Author
Being “tut” is the condition of being on top of the world, it is being fashionable, successful and replete with whatever you may desire at the moment.-Diane Tegarden
As a neologist (one who makes up new words and usages for words), I found my latest Word for the Day in my upcoming science fiction novel “Anti-Vigilante and the Rips in Time”. Read a synopsis of the novel at http://www.firewalkerpublications.com and click on the link for “Anti-Vigilante and the Rips in Time”.
I wanted to share a bit from my Native American culture, the Hopitu Shinumu, which means The Peaceful Ones (we are often referred to as the Hopi.) We call the entire calendar The Wheel of The Year, which is split into two halves; six months of dry hot weather, and six months of cold, sometimes rainy weather.
The Wheel of the Year begins on December 21st, Winter Solstice or Soyal, and the next cycle begins on June 21st, Summer Solstice, or Niman when the Kachinas return to their native homes in the mountains.
The full moon for January is called Soenpana, meaning Man Moon.
As the Hopitu Shinumu were primarily corn farmers, the agricultural cycles were very important, at this time of year the land lies fallow; it is time to allow the earth to regenerate, the seeds are quiet and nothing is growing, it is “waiting to become”.
At this time of year we find personal significance in shaking off the dust from our minds over the winter’s long perusals, enjoying our own experiences in life and using the solitude to know our inner selves.
In January we celebrate with a special dance called the Buffalo Dance, which is performed in order to call the buffalo back down from the winter hunting grounds, and to see when the winter weather will finally break.
Donaho Wei-Yo,
Esthana Thlehiya
Is Water Rationing in Our Future?How to get used to Living on Less Water Every Day
Many states in the US have already recorded historically low water levels for this year. According to the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center their most recent drought forecast indicates persisting drought conditions for the Southeast and Southern states, including; Florida, southeastern Georgia, Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas.
Drought relief is not expected in drought areas covering parts of the western plains from the Dakotas to Texas, and persistent drought areas in the western region have caused groundwater shortages of 60 feet below normal levels in the Southern California areas.
Cities are being forced to declare water shortages, and are even talking about water rationing as partial solutions to the lack of clean potable water. A study by the Pasadena Department of Water and Power determined that residential customers use approximately 112 gallons per day per person, much of which is being used ineffectively by wasteful outdoor watering methods and inefficient indoor water usage. Here are Eight Ways to Reduce Water Wasted on Your Yard:
Garden and landscape watering should be done before 10:00 a.m. and after 5:00 p.m., this way less water will be wasted through evaporation. This can save up to 25 gallons of water usage per day.
Install a “smart” irrigation controller that automatically waters your outdoor plants based on the weather conditions and soil moisture, or install a simple timer so you can keep the outdoor watering down to once every 3-4 days.
Mulching around trees and plants can save up to 30 gallons of water per day, because the mulch helps the earth to retain water, and you loose less through evaporation.
You can install a catch-water system on your roof top. Catch-water systems collect overnight moisture from the roof and funnels it into a basin, then after basic filtering it is used as water for your yard and garden.
Get creative in your garden, utilizing indigenous, drought-resistant plants; unusual rock or ornamental sand gardens.
As much as 29 percent of residential water wastage could be eliminated by using these five ways to reduce water wastage in your home.
You can save 20 gallons per leak per day of wasted water by fixing leaking faucets, shower heads and leaky/old indoor plumbing connections.
By washing full loads of laundry, instead of the smaller loads, you can save up to 50 gallons per load.
Replace your inefficient older model toilets with low flow or high-efficiency toilets that save up to 3.8 gallons per flush.
Many city utilities now offer commercial rebates on newer appliances like high efficiency clothes washers, ultra low water urinals, high efficiency toilets, and smart irrigation controllers, so you not only conserve water but are saving money as well.
With a minimum of investment, you can save yourself money on your water bill, plus help your city through a possibly serious drought.
To Steal One’s Thunder
Someone ’steals your thunder’ when they use your ideas or inventions to their own advantage. Origin: Devices that produce the sound of thunder have been called on in theatrical productions for centuries. The methods used include – rolling metal balls down troughs, grinding lead shot in bowls, shaking sheets of thin metal. The latter device, called a thunder sheet, is still in use today. The bowl method was referred to in Alexander Pope’s literary satire The Dunciad, published in 1728:
“With Shakespear’s nature, or with Johnson’s art,
Let others aim: ‘Tis yours to shake the soul
With Thunder rumbling from the mustard bowl.”
The story that lies behind ’stealing someone’s thunder’ is that of the literary critic and largely unsuccessful playwright, John Dennis. In 1704, Dennis’s play Appius and Virginia was produced at the Drury Lane Theatre, London and he invented a new method of creating the sound of thunder for the production. We don’t know now what this method was (some texts say it was a refinement of the mustard bowl referred to by Pope, in which metal balls were rolled around in a wooden bowl), but it is reported that after Appius and Virginia failed and was closed, the method was soon afterwards used in a production of Macbeth. Dennis was less than pleased at having his idea purloined and this account of his response was recorded by the literary scholar Joseph Spence (1699–1768) and later quoted in W. S. Walsh’s Literary Curiosities, 1893:
“Damn them! They will not let my play run, but they steal my thunder.”
The actual words are in doubt and are also reported as “That is my thunder, by God; the villains will play my thunder but not my play!”. What is clear is that Dennis’s experience was the source of this attractive little phrase.
Copyright © Gary Martin, 1996 – 2007
Source Cited= http://www.phrases.org.uk
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May You Never Thirst!
Diane Tegarden
the rosefire walker
