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JEWELRY FOR HOSPICE: Donate your unused jewelry making supplies
Do you have lots of jewelry making supplies that you no longer use? Would you like to give them a good home where they will be reused for charitable purposes? If so, you can donate them to Kansas City Hospice and Palliative Care (kchospice.org). Visit our website to see all of the services that we…
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Are people like me considered to be a “Scrooge”?
As I become more eco-friendly and realize the effects that all of our behaviors have on our planet, I have become less enamored with holidays. But I am not a “Scrooge”. My heart is with saving our environment and not with participating in excess consumerism. I love our wildlife more than I love “stuff”. I…
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Whatever should we do with all those fallen leaves?
Leaves have their own ecosystem! You would be amazed at the number of animal and insect species that use the leaf layer as their primary habitat. Frogs and toads, chipmunks, lizards, earthworms, butterfly and moth caterpillars and larvae can be found among the leaves. Birds forage in the leaves searching for insects to eat and…
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I gave up dairy and here’s why!
I gave up dairy for two main reasons. First, I believe animals have a right to a happy and humane life. I always believed this but, until the last few years, I had not educated myself on the brutality of animal agriculture. Now I know the truth. Second, animal agriculture has a huge negative impact…
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Plastic Nurdles ?????
Yep. We now have another plastic pollutant to worry about! NURDLES ! Billions of these tiny plastic pellets (microplastics) are floating in the oceans, causing huge environmental destruction. Nurdles are the small plastic pellets less than 5mm in size that are used in the plastics industry to manufacture all kinds of plastic products. These pellets…
KATHLEEN CORBIN 