Drop A Brick!

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Hi Everyone!!!

Well this is a very creative marketing way to help conserve water! :-) Just be sure to put the brick in a double baggie so it does not disintegrate in the toilet! :-) 

Don Blankenship Indicited Coal Miners Deaths

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Check this out!!! Don Blankenship has been Indicted for the deaths of the coal miners in Virginia from the explosion at Massey Coal in 2010! You may recall the movie The Last Mountain movie was about Massey coal and what they did to the mountains. In this movie he discussed how workers could be replaced just like a screwdriver.

Here are some links to start with:

ABC has an interview with him.

NPR has an audio piece as well here.

West Virginia Public Broadcasting actually has a copy of the indictment!

AZ Floods Causing Orange Toxic Sludge

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If you have not viewed this Webinar of the Psychological Impacts of Climate Change you might want to look at it. In light of this recent news item you may find it VERY INTERESTING!!! The recent floods in AZ has caused ORANAGE TOXIC SLUDGE to ooze from the abandoned mines! The Webinar discusses that we need to discuss the psychological impacts to make them personal. This is personal to me!!! This is occurring about 50 miles south of where my folks spend the winter! What if this was happening where you lived? Your water was becoming contaminated? What will happen in the future?

Walrus Invasion

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Check out this short piece on 35,000 Walruses not having any ice so they came up on Alaska's beach!

Dr. Nichols Book Club 1st Vblog

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Dr. Nichols just did his first vblog for the Online Book Club of his book! Check it out! You are not too far behind to join now & you can use for Extra Credit. We have read the Foreward & Preface & tonight is page 3-8. Don't forget there are two copies in the library. One can be checked out & the other is on reserve so you can go in the library maybe between classes & read the few pages for the day. You can use it for Extra Credit.  Come join the fun & learn so much about the research on how Water effects you Cognitively & Behaviorally!

Blue Mind Online Open Book Club

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I'm so excited to tell you Blue Mind by Dr. Wallace J. Nichols is having a Global Online Open Book Club which begins TODAY (Sun 9/28) & runs through Thanksgiving! Just a few pages each day! Check out the Schedule!

Chapter 1 is online FREE!! You can buy the book here.

Blog/vblog posts will be made on the Schedule page & on the website.

You can go on Twitter with #bluemind, or join on the Global Online Open Book Club for Blue Mind Facebook page to discuss what you read each day!

I hope you will join me in exploring & discussing this AWESOME book with Dr. Wallace!

14 yr old Knows More About GMOs Than TV Host!

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Check out this 14 yr old Rachel Parent who certainly knows more about GMOs than this TV host!!! She has a website Kids Right To Know you can check out as well.