From 2 minutes a day:

Use a pressure cooker where possible instead of conventional pots.

Not only do they save time, but also energy. Last night I had brown rice in 15 minutes!

Bonus: more vitamins per vegetable, delicious one-pot meals, last-minute suppers in a flash.

May I recommend this model?
- posted by Chuck Eesley @ 6:45 PM

 
Here are some facts with credible sources on both sides of the
political landscape

Fact 1: The State of the Union outlines the nations major issues and
political agenda for the upcoming year.

Fact 2: 37 minutes of Pres. Bush's 58 minute speech was devoted, in
some way, to the Adminstrations efforts to combat terrorism/ search
for weapons of mass destruction

Fact 3: The US has pledged $66,000,000,000 dollars on troops in Iraq
and $20,000,000,000 on reconstruction efforts. (source:
www.senate.gov)

Fact 4: Recently, the 500th US combat casualty occured (source:
www.foxnews.com)

Fact 5: Clearly, Terrorism is the Adminstrations #1 issue

Fact 6: Tragically, there were 3,034 lives lost in 9-11 WTC
attacks. In the last two years a grand total of less than 4000 lives
have been lost worldwide due to terrorism

Fact 7: In report published last month in Environmental Health
Perspectives, 170,000 American lives in 2004 alone with be lost to
environmentally related illness associated with particulate matter
(mostly from coal/diesel) less than 10 micrometers in diameter. AND
THIS IS ONLY 1 type of (REGULATED!!!!) pollutant.


I hope you all start seriously looking at how this Adminstration
effects you, your family, and friends, and how they value the average
American life. I focus on one type of issue, but there are many
other places that your money could be spent, etcc..

Please start thinking unbiasly about your 2004 vote!!

- posted by Chuck Eesley @ 11:13 AM

 
Are humans creating irreparable changes to the Earth?
- posted by Chuck Eesley @ 12:55 PM

 
From 2 minutes a day:

Take your own shopping bags to the grocery store. The co-op here in Durham is great about this, you can even bring your own containers.
- posted by Chuck Eesley @ 8:13 PM

 
"Someday, we are going to have ‘clean energy,'" states Mills. "Failure to achieve clean energy is human suicide. Ozone depletion, acid rain, global warming, and asthma-causing air pollution are killing people every day. It is only going to get worse in the future," Mills asserts.
- posted by Chuck Eesley @ 11:36 AM

 
From Two Minutes a Day for a Greener Planet.

Turn down the temperature on your water heater.

A setting of about 50 degrees C or 122 F is adequate. If you're going on holiday for a week or more, set it at low, or "vacation" (pilot light only) setting. Better yet, buy a solar powered water heater.
- posted by Chuck Eesley @ 6:07 PM