10 Places to Safely Donate an Old Cell Phone | Phone Service

Since Apple's announcing the iPhone 5 next week (I hope), I will probably be donating my old iphone to one of my relatives in India or to charity. It's in perfectly good condition and works very well. Here's some places to donate an old cell phone if you're planning to switch to the iPhone 5 when it comes out.

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Rhino Day: Not much to celebrate because rhinos are being killed - GlobalPost

Rhino Day: Not much to celebrate because rhinos are being killed - GlobalPost:

Today's World Rhino day - never knew about this. Sad that so many species are becoming extinct because people are greedy.

Healthy food vs Expensive food

Was reading an article today at Get Rich Slowly about healthy food being too expensive. I don't think so.

Organic food is more expensive than regular food, that's a given. But in general, to eat healthy food, buying groceries at the store and making them at home is cheaper and healthier than going out.

Apart from the type of ingredients, the way of cooking makes a huge difference. Deep-Frying and Frying & adding lots of butter is not good for health. Oil & Butter is not cheap. Comparatively, steaming is a very inexpensive option. I was reading just yesterday that cooking vegetables by boiling them in water is not a good way to eat them since water-soluble vitamins are washed away in the water. It's better to steam the veggies - that way you don't lose the vitamins.

Tomato Hornworms

For the past few days, I noticed a couple of green worms in my tomato plants. They had white rice like bags hanging from them which is how I even noticed them.

After doing some research online, I found out that they were tomato hornworms and that they were attracted to tomato plants. While researching how to get rid of them, all of the places I read suggested that I should leave them alone since they had already been attached by the parasites which killed them - these were the white sacks that were hanging from them.

I left them as they are and harvested 5 of the tomatos which were red.

I hope I didn't do anything wrong and the tomatos are ok to eat. We already used a couple of them in cooking.

Much tougher than I thought...

Recently, I've started reading more about the environment and getting more and more concerned.

I started reading a few books about trying to be more green and reduce my impact on the environment. This is not easy and I can understand why so many people who want to do it give up and why so many people can't afford to be green. It's certainly the first impression you get.

After reading about the effects of SLS and parabens and the effect they have on us - reduced fertility, increased risk of ovarian and breast cancer and risk of birth defects in babies during pregnancy - I wanted to switch to greener products without these harmful chemicals. I started doing some research but it's so hard.

First, there's not a lot of information and it's very difficult to identify which information is correct and who to trust.

Second, what is the difference between green/organic/natural/sls-free?

Third, almost all the natural products are way more expensive than the products I use currently. Can  I afford to spend more money on this?

I was shopping the other day and bought a natural soap made of entirely natural ingredients like ground comfrey root, olive oil, etc. I started using it but after using it for a few days, I realized it leaves my skin extremely dry and I have to slather on body lotion to be moisturized and not itchy.

BPA-free plastics still harmful?

This is just scary...

THE GIST

• Just because a plastic product is labeled BPA-free doesn't mean its safe to put food or beverages in.
• It's possible to make plastics that don't contain hormone-disrupting chemicals, but it's impossible for consumers to tell which ones are which.
• People can protect themselves by not heating plastic containers that they're planning to eat or drink out of.

Go here to read more...

http://news.discovery.com/human/bpa-plastic-food-hormones-chemicals-110715.html

What's this blog about?

This blog is going to be mainly about my adventures living life in the suburbs and trying to handle everything. I want to try to be more green and live more eco-friendly.