Notable Comments from July 2009

Inspired by the Small Footprints blog, which gathers notable comments at the end of the month and reposts them, I have decided to do the same.

Below are some of the best comments from July 2009.  This is a way to recognize people who make insightful contributions to this blog, thus encouraging traffic and making it easier for audience members to get to know each other.

From Container Gardening Photos, 2009/07/01 at 12:40 PM

Russ wrote:

I don’t have any photos of my garden handy, but I sure wish I had photos of whatever is eating all the fruits and veggies right when they are ready to be picked!  I have a jalapeno plant and just this morning I saw that every single pepper is gone!

I’ll be curious how the potato turns out.  I did something similar with a raw peanut, I sprouted it and potted it, but nothing came of it.  Is it possible to grow plants that grow underground like that in pots?

From Three Questions: Rainwater Catchment, 2009/07/02 at 1:51 PM

Russ wrote:

From News: “Harvest Time at Michelle Obama’s Garden”, 2009/07/04 at 3:08 AM

Wyld_Dandelyon wrote:

From Three Questions: “EPA gives California emissions waiver”, 2009/07/06 at 4:22 PM

Evita wrote:

I think it is so wonderful that regulations are going into place, but do find it a bit frustrating that everything seems to take “years” to take effect. This deals with not just cars and the environment, but BPA, toxic toys, animal cruelty in farming, etc.

So to answer your question number 2, I think people simply need to gather, join and speak up and out on these topics. Form petitions and get to governments to make changes and faster. After all, all the amazing changes that were brought about came forth because people spoke out. If we sit around and wait for the gov’ts to do things, we could be waiting a looooong time.

As for #1 I know the biggest downfall in any debate like this is the economy, well personally I see only pluses where things like this are concerned, b/c worrying about the economy has not seemed to save it and instead has wrecked the enviro in so many ways. So I think we need to start adapting for the earth and our health to do whatever it takes to make serious changes.

And 3, no the laws here in Ontario, Canada are not tight enough and not enough is being done. But again by talking about these things in various ways and other places setting an example, I am hopeful for change.

From Three Questions: “Balance”, 2009/07/12 at 7:57 AM

Janet Callahan wrote:

I know a number of small business owners who close their stores on, say,  Monday and Tuesday, rather than the somewhat typical Saturday and Sunday. The benefit to them is having a day when most “normal” people are working to get things done without interfering with their business - few doctors have weekend hours, few contractors do home repairs then either. And it still allows them to have weekend hours for customers who are working during the rest of the week.
I think there’s a balance to be had - yes, everyone should be able to take time off from work. But that also assumes that everyone makes enough money to pay their bills and buy groceries and so on.
I also wonder about the choice of days off - if the day off was, for example, Wednesday, would there be the same uproar? Or is it like the small country town I used to live in where people were horrified about businesses being open on Sunday, because it interfered with going to church (and the assumption was that everyone was Christian).

From Settle the Final Frontier, 2009/07/22 at 3:45 PM

Jake wrote:

Great summary of the major benefits! You’ve talked about facets of the one I’ll mention. By establishing settlements on the Moon and Mars, we give ourselves two additional platforms from which to intercept Near Earth Objects and alter their orbits to avoid collision. Once settlements are in place, they may be better jumping off points for such missions than Earth is.

From How to Use Affirmations, 2009/07/30 at 7:54 AM

Applying the Law of Attraction wrote:

Thanks for the wonderful post! There are a few more suggestions I’d like to offer. Affirmations should be exciting the added emotion helps considerably to bring our affirmations into our lives. I’ve also found that affirmations repeated when meditating and in alpha or theta brainwave state are more effective.