Hi Friends, Some of these things I gave up long ago when I first learned about pollution and that forests, and the living beings who lived in them were becoming endangered, some going extinct because of human sprawl and hogging of resources that meant destruction for all living creatures – even ourselves. I started making some adjustments, and I'm continuing to make them. ·          I never bought into the propaganda that I needed to be a good little consumer. I never threw away last year's clothing because it was 'not the thing' anymore. Mainly because I never bought fads. Never bought any piece of clothing for the name on the label. Same with technology and machinery. Buy a new car every other year? Why? For that 'new car smell'? Basically that 'new car smell' is toxic fumes from tanning of leather, or plastic parts of the car. New phone every couple of years? No way. I am an old proponent of the adage 'if it ain't broke don't fix (or r...

  Painting by Vi Huntley-Franck In addition to my articles about pollution, I’ll be adding many Climate Change facts to my Living Green series. Everything is interconnected. One affects the other. I’ll be showing that as I move along. Approximately 97% of scientific consensus on climate change agrees that humans are responsible for the global warming going on today. Who are the other 3%? It is possible for some who believe in human-made global warming to fail to come to terms with it. Many use their denial for their own purposes or for those they work for. Yes, I’m talking about those with industrial, ideological, or political interests. Supposedly scientific studies arrive on the scene showing that people have been duped by the majority of scientists in the field. These propaganda machines are meant to sow confusion within the populace. After all, who wants to believe that if we don’t do what we can to stop global warming that we’ll have to learn the lost art of treading water for...