Don’t waste that water your fish have enriched with nutrients. When cleaning the fish tank, use the water on your plants and trees. You think it’s scummy; they think it’s yummy.
[For more easy, money-saving, Earth-friendly tips, download a FREE copy of Green Riches: Help the Earth & Your Budget. Go to www.Smashwords.com/books/view/7000 or your favorite e-book seller and download to your computer or e-book device. Totally free, with no strings attached.]
If you don’t own a pet, maybe you should get one. A pet offers a whole bunch of health benefits to you:
And to your children:
You can read why pet ownership gives you these benefits by reading this Ohio State University Veterinary Medical Center’s short article Health Benefits of Pet Ownership.
By the way, Feb. 20 is National Love Your Pet Day. So, love your pet…or get one.
When in a restaurant or at the store, choose fish that is delicious yet friendly to our environment. Download Seafood Watch, the free app designed by the Monterey Bay Aquarium that helps you at restaurants and markets so you can choose sustainable seafood and sushi. Download at https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/seafood-watch/id301269738?mt=8.
[For more easy, money-saving, Earth-friendly tips, download a FREE copy of Green Riches: Help the Earth & Your Budget. Go to www.Smashwords.com/books/view/7000 or your favorite e-book seller and download to your computer or e-book device. Totally free, with no strings attached.]
You don’t have to be a Bible-reader to appreciate this cartoon about modern times.
Are you a fisherman? A Bible student? Or neither. This is just a cute cartoon to begin our week on a much-needed lighter note.
Finally–I can enjoy my fish dinner knowing that it wasn’t provided by slaves. This week Pres. Obama will sign legislation that stops that fish from making it to U.S. dinner plates.
The Port State Measure Agreement gives officials the power to deny docking or receiving of services by boats that are suspected of illegal fishing. We are the twentieth country to enact these regulations.
Illegal vessels from Southeast Asia use forced labor for fishing, people locked up in cages and factories to do the work.
But that’s not all. The legislation will close a loophole in an 85-year-old tariff law that solves the slave-fishing issue AND stops U.S. importing gold mined by children in Africa and garments sewn by abused women in Bangladesh. It will regulate some 350+ items being produced by child and forced labor that are currently on our retail shelves.
It’s about time!
40,000 garbage trucks filled with plastic = 270,000 tons of it floating around our oceans. That’s what the current estimate is. And that’s a conservative guess, since fish, birds, and other species eat a good amount of it. It’s unsightly and deadly for the critters who eat it or get hopelessly entangled in it. It’s not healthy for humans, either.
This is something to think about next time we’re about to toss a plastic bottle cap, bag, food wrapper, or other item onto the roadway or gutter, where it can wash into the waterways leading to the ocean. Or tossing those items off of a boat or bridge.
The item can’t be that heavy to hold onto until you see the next recycling container.