Archive for February, 2009
Healthy Planet, Healthy People
Our environment affects who we are, how we think, what we appreciate and how healthy we are. Chemicals—fertilizers, pesticides, preservatives, food colorants, artificial flavorings, cleaning products, exhaust—all contribute to the pollution on Earth.
Green Living: Green Your Coffee
More than half of Americans are daily coffee drinkers. That’s a lot of Joe, and a huge opportunity to get your morning buzz more sustainably.
Hillary Sweet
Hillary Sweet, of Commack, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1999. At the time she didn’t know anyone who had the disease. “There was a lot of fear involved,” she recalls. “I was very depressed and my support group was not a good experience, plus my kids had no one to talk to.”
My Plan To Save The Academy Awards
Did you watch the Academy Awards last Sunday? I hated it. The incredibly handsome Hugh Jackman had that desperate look of a Catskills hotel song-and-dance man who has to entertain a group of children with Attention Deficit Disorder.
Stimulate My Package
Before I oversimplify the stimulus package with a theory on how to better LI’s economy, let me briefly rant on something unrelated.
You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Till It’s Gone
“Let me be clear. Things are bad.”
When Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi stated this simple warning to propose massive layoffs and budget cuts earlier this month, we knew it wasn’t good. But, for many of us, that was all they were: some less-than-encouraging words, about a problem someone else would most likely fix.
