At Avery Point the Earthday celebrations were yesterday (tree planting, drum circle, giveaways of CFL lights, recycled reusable water bottles, speeches, ice cream, CT DEP demonstrations, hybrid car showings – not bad for a campus of only 500 or so people.
Since today is the more widely recognized day though… a few quick quotes / links
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfully committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
Margaret Mead
Rick MacPherson of Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice & Sunsets will be joining Kevin Zelnio of The Other 95% and Deep Sea News, Jason Robertshaw of Cephalopodcast and Karen James of The Beagle Project Blog for part of a 24 hour long conversation about the health of our planet. Their segment starts at 2200 GMT (that’s 6pm EST).
Thanks Rick for the book. Arrived safe and sound! Very beautiful too!
Highly recommended for all!
A few other links for your perusal this morning:
EcoDaredevil
The Times Magazine Green Issue
Hattips go out to Rick, Kevin and Sheril
Update: Johann was sorta captured at the event playing football with some of the undergrads from school
Saturday, January 19, 2008
It’s definitely getting cold around here! Right now it’s 32˚ with a 15mph wind, so it feels like 20°. Johann had to break out the hat, booties and wristwarmers for Ring, the latest addition to his animal menagerie. Ring was inspired by Mike Lee’s Club Thievery. We missed the original offer, but we made a donation to the Madigascar Fauna Group on our own and bought Ring Tailed Lemur
from Amazon.
It’s great since we could help one of Johann’s absolute favorite animals and get him a new stuffed animal at the same time (which naturally he loves).
People laughed when Eric said he loved Belize so much, that if it wasn’t for the fact that Johann and I were waiting for him at home, he wouldn’t have come back. They don’t realize how serious he was. They didn’t hear how flat his voice sounded on the phone when he called me from the Miami airport to let me know he was back in the U.S. He was lovesick over Belize.
That state of mind lasted for the first week Eric was home. He wanted to keep wearing shorts and sandals like he did in Belize, never mind that snow was on the ground. He went out to the grocery store to buy coconuts, bananas, and tropical fruit juices. He’s only wanted to listen to the reggae and Caribbean music we have. The funny thing is that I understand. I’ve traveled to places that have affected me the same way.
Johann has enjoyed fresh coconut and coconut water. He now has more coconut shells to play with as instruments or boats in the bathtub. He and Eric have been floating them in the water while shining the underwater flashlight through the ripples in the bathwater, creating water reflections on the walls and ceiling. Johann is going around the house singing Bob Marley songs. We hung up the wooden tropical saltwater fish mobile with chimes that Eric bought. Eric lamented that since he can’t buy Belikins here, he had to go out and buy some Coronas to drink. Johann piped up and said, “What? You’re going to drink some PELICANS, Daddy?”, followed by his infectious laugh. So Eric is slowly readjusting to the reality of our life in Connecticut and we’ve reached a new state of abnormal with Belizean flare. Don’t worry, be happy, man!
Each night now we can hear the pipers practicing at the Harp and Hound for Sunday’s parade. Although this image is not from last years parade, I thought it appropriate — especially considering the forecast for Sunday includes snow! We may all be bundled like this Leprechaun, but we will be there!
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Monday, February 28, 2005
Winter’s not through with us yet!
Snow started falling lightly around 4:30pm. Just a very light dusting.
Looked out the window at 6:30 and it was coming down at a rate of 1–2″ per hour. It still hasn’t let up. The foreasts are conflicting. Anything from 4–6″ by morning to 12–18″ by morning depends on who you believe. Considering the way it’s coming down though I think we’re in for the bigger amount. Continued forecasts are also mixed, although all seem to agree that we have continued chance of snow through Thursday morning.
Johann has been shouting “Three feet of snow! Three feet of snow!” of course his big plan is to get snowed in and then build snow tunnels to the toy store, the yarn store and the park.
Update: 3/1 07:30am
Looks like we got about 5–6″ last night, but guess what…here it comes again! Got to love these Nor’Easters. This band of snow they are predicting another 2–3″ for Groton and Mystic.
