After yesterday’s car accident, Marc and I are returning to life as normal. Team Green Grounded is happy to report that no serious injuries impeded on either party. I only wish we could say the same for the vehicles. My Impala, Gina, took a blow she didn’t ask for or deserve.
Regardless, today, Marc has a [...]
In case you didn’t hear, many plastic drink containers contain a toxin that damages both human health and environmental safety. The toxin is bisphenol A (aka BPA), and this includes your eco-friendly multi-use drink bottles, like some Nalgene bottles.
What is sparking my rehashing of this issue, you ask?
Well, a couple nights ago, after seeing Lou [...]
For Car-Free Day, I will share with you a (partisan) photobucket pic I ran across about Obama and McCain and their transportation footprint:
On that note, I also mentioned that DATA and Wolfline Bus trips were free today. I saw over on David’s New Raleigh that Raleigh’s CAT busline was too, and tomorrow at the Moore’s [...]
It’s National Car-Free Day. Unfortunately I’ve already driven. I work, and as most American cities are not very walkable, I drove to a location to get some work done.
I hear, though, that Durham is allowing all riders to get on for free today. And in Raleigh, of course, the NC State Wolfline is always free [...]
Like Fergie, I choose to show off what I have, ooh the flossy flossy. I went to the dentist to show him my teeth. OK, so teeth cleanings and flossing aren’t so glamorous. C’est la vie.
He and his team are EXCELLENT, so if you need a dentist recommendation here in Raleigh, go to Dr. Benson on [...]
Let’s all hope we can appreciate our selves and our lives more with each year, and cherish the functions of each part of who we are, and radiating humanity and compassion for ourselves and others, just as Jane shares in her video…
:) Thank you, Jane.
Sustainably yours, Ashley Sue
For those of you who have not heard, Green Grounded and team are relocating to Asheville, NC.
This move has been nine years in the making, and once upon a day, I would have easily thought Asheville was too full of self-righteous granola types to want to move there. I may be veg, and I may [...]
So, channel surfing led me to an outraged Lou Dobbs on CNN talking about how ridiculous it is that the FDA is not erring on the side of human safety and halting including of bisphenol-A (BPA) in consumer goods until more studies are complete.
The studies that are complete show a direct correlation between BPA and estrogen [...]
Here in the Triangle, we finally got a few days of summer heat, though it pales in comparison to the month straight of 100 degrees that we faced August 2007.
Regardless, Marc and I have been so happy to leave windows open most of this summer. Worst case scenario, we would close the windows during the [...]
Back to the overfishing conundrum, I just received an email from Elizabeth Ouzts of Environment NC:
Hi ,
The Pacific leatherback turtle is on the brink of extinction.
There are only 350 northern right whales left off the Atlantic coast.
Red snapper populations in the Gulf of Mexico are down to 5 percent of the species’ historical numbers.
The list [...]
