<
Water Tube™ at work in Tropical Queensland
This is a pretty cool product that has been around since 2000 but I thought it needs to be brought out to the forefront. With the droughts going on around the world, this would certainly help plants, some crops and trees that are dying under the conditions they are currently under. (more…)
Doug Bizell is the mad scientist of the South. Turning something no
one wants into something everyone needs. He makes a product called
Kudzunol, made from Kudzu. Kudzu is a weed that grows 12 inches a
day, every single day. It will reach 66 – 98 feet in trees.
Used for erosion control in the 1930s, it now covers anything and
everything in the southern U.S. Since Doug lives in Tennessee, he
has no problem finding it. It covers 7 million acres in the American
South.
You cannot kill it, highway departments are trying to control it
which is a neverending and often losing battle. It will grow out in (more…)
I would like to take this moment to personally recommend an advertising
solution to all bloggers. Yes, it really does work!
I am talking about Adgitize. Should you want to be part of an up and coming
community, this is it. It is free to join and you gather points that turn
into cold hard cash at the end of the month. There are 7 reasons you should
join Adgitize.
* Bloggers Like You Increase Their Daily Traffic
* Publisher Network Produces a Monthly Cash Revenue Stream
* Affiliate Network Helps You Earn On-Going Income
* Advertisers Can Reach Thousands of Potential Visitors Daily (more…)
Many Blessings to All
Ambrosia for Evergreens
If this seems a little early, some folks do have a tradition of buying their
Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving. So……
To prolong the green and beauty of Xmas trees and the freshness of natural evergreen
holiday decorations, mix a batch of this special holiday concoction.
* add 1/4 cup of Miconized Iron (available at garden centers) to
one gallon of hot water
* add 2 cups of light corn syrup
* add 4 tsps of chlorine bleach
This stuff is powerful and can stain carpets, so keep a plastic sheet spread underneath.
Trim an inch off of the tree trunk and add more as it evaporates. Using a
turkey baster would help in reducing spillage.
Your tree and natural evergreen decorations will remain fresh and beautiful right
through the holidays.
Alright, now hit me with your best family secret recipe for keeping your greens
fresh through the holidays. Come on, tell me…
About 40 percent of the trash you create that is put into the landfills is made up
of paper products.
Alot of us are doing our thing by recycling newspapers and plain paper, but there
is still more we can do including a couple of steps that you may not of thought
about.
30 percent of timber is being used to create paper, it is important to find ways
to conserve what we use by starting at the ATM. Many of us take the receipt from
the ATM, look at the balance, stuff it in our pockets or purses only to rip it up
later and throw it away. Did you know that approximately 8 billion transactions (more…)
Since Hurricane Ike, the City of Houston has been trying to figure out how
to recycle the wood debris. From Galveston to North of Houston, there is
plenty of wood debris to be collected but not sent to the local landfills.
So the City has come up with a nationwide contest in hopes of someone coming
up with a recycling idea that will get rid of 5.6 million cubic yards of
tree waste cleaned up from households and front yards. (more…)
The Forests of the Earth are the lungs of the planet. Today we need them more
than ever to breath in and absorb the excess emissions of carbon dioxide.
As CO2 levels in the atmosphere are rising, the forests of the world are falling.
20,000 square miles, the size of W. Virginia are lost every year due to
deforestation. Which accounts for a forth of all excess green house emissions.
We need to reverse the cycle. To replace the worlds disappearing forests, we
need to replant an area twice the size of Manhattan every single day. Today’s (more…)
Compression Plugin made by Web Hosting
