September 2009

In most of the United States, September-October is the best time for planting fall bulbs to produce spring flowers.  Tulips remain one of the most popular flowers.  Tulip bulbs are easy to find and plant.  (You may also enjoy my previous posts on fall bulbs and on planting crocus flowers.)

Assorted Tulips

Blog Action Day began in 2007 to unite bloggers in talking about important issues at the same time.  The first topic was the Environment, followed by Poverty.  This year’s topic is Climate Change.  On October 15, please join us in blogging about Climate Change.  Join the Bloggers Unite event page for more traffic.

Yesterday we talked about the current “Change the World Wednesdays” challenge.  Here is the second installment of my project.

This week’s “Change the World Wednesdays” challenge over on Reduce Footprints is about getting children involved in the environment.  For this project, I’m reviewing the first two books in the Gaia Girls series.

Apparently some schools have taken it upon themselves to prevent, forbid, or otherwise interfere with the decision of parents and young people for students to bike or walk to school.  A healthy activity that used to be routine has now somehow become a “problem” in the eyes of school officials.  With childhood obesity skyrocketing, you’d think that school officials would welcome anything that gets kids to exercise.  Apparently not…

The Obama family continues to do wonderful things for America’s food supply. Not only does the White House now have an organic garden, but President Obama recently wished for a farmer’s market nearby — and he’s getting his wish.

Thanks to Live Smart, Gaiatribe has received a Superior Scribbler Award. Thank you so much!

There are two bills up for consideration that deal with water rights for native peoples: S. 375: Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2009 and S. 313: White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2009.  Most of the time, when there’s any kind of choice between native people and the descendents of European invaders, the natives lose.  Let’s hope that these bills will respect the rights and needs of the indigenous nations.