This is a couple days late....
Here's a taste: "...while I like being green, I’m not a green fanatic. I can’t get too excited about global warming when the earth hasn’t actually warmed since 1998. Personally, I’m much more concerned with the fact that we might all jump on the global warming bandwagon so much that we’ll wreck our economy in the process, and thus relegate the Third World to permanent abject poverty. And with the current rush to biofuels inflating food prices, many are already hovering on the brink of starvation. " She continues, "But the other reason I’m not a green fanatic is because so many who are green fanatics are hypocritical. I am sick of seeing rich actors and actresses jet all over the world and then preach to us about how they are saving the world by buying carbon offsets, unlike the rest of us plebes. Do you know whose carbon footprint is really mall? My mother-in-law’s. "
I was talking with a friend just the other day about how sometimes one is ecological simply because she is economical. In other words "green" could be interchangeable with "cheap."
While I do care about the earth (I cloth diaper, recycle, cook from scratch, use my own grocery bags, breastfeed, walk to anywhere within walking distance, etc.) my choices have the extra motivator of being good financially, too.
Like my switch to glass jars instead of plastic water bottles. I was inspired by the following
Hathor the CowGoddess cartoon a few months ago.
The drinking glasses we use are glass jars. But, the good thing is they all match. I buy the same
kind of jam every time, because it contains no high fructose corn syrup, artificial coloring or preservatives. The bonus is that it's a great jar! If a child doesn't finish his milk or juice, I just put the top on it and save it for later!
So, now I have about 20 of them. When we go on picnics or on long walks, I now pack these jars filled with water from our home, rather than buying water bottles!
Good for the environment? Yes! But, that's just gravy. Most of all it's good for this Mama's pocketbook. AND if they break or get lost, I really don't mind. It's just an old jelly jar anyway.
(Also good for storing homemade baby food, which by the way is also an economical choice that is also ecological. Score one more for the Mama!)
Depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes. More here.
kind of jam every time, because it contains no high fructose corn syrup, artificial coloring or preservatives. The bonus is that it's a great jar! If a child doesn't finish his milk or juice, I just put the top on it and save it for later! 
"We can hope that new generations of Christians will contribute to the storehouse of “compacted theology” by composing and singing new hymns, ones that preserve their own spiritual and theological experiences. But we can also hope that they will not ignore the riches that are readily available in the storehouses that record the memories of those who have walked the paths of discipleship in the past. For those who have come to faith in an age of screens and praise teams, we call those storehouses “hymnbooks”!"
"nice" and "likeable" Obama is I'm going lose my cool. It's a shame that nice does not equal moral and kindness does not necessarily mean someone is ethical.
