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Growing Bolder Radio Show guest Ciji Ware is challenging us to get rid of our lead-filled toys and stuff that's been collecting in our homes for years. She suggests some questions we should ask ourselves before buying a gift just for the sake of buying.

Why did the American government decline to accept Dutch expertise? They changed their minds later on! The BP disaster after the explosion of Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico was reason for the Dutch government to offer help, three days after the disaster took place. The Netherlands has ships with oil-skimming booms, they did a proposal for a plan to build sand barriers to...

RADICAL RIGHTSIZING FOR TOYS Now here’s a novel idea: don’t give potentially dangerous toys for Christmas. "Why I'd NEVER do that!" you say? Since some 80-90% of all toys come from China—this isn't going to be as easy as you think. You’ll be looking elsewhere for gifts whose origins and safety you can confirm with more certainty--and that might present a problem unless you can...

World Energy Crisis The Equation Energy Freedom ------------------------------ *equals* ------------------------------ Conservation Politics (Note: the above should read "Energy over Conservation *EQUALS* Freedom over Politics.) What we have is a failure to communicate on a Global scale. The Planet Earth is finite; a...

This picture was made in a Danish port, about 1927 I think. The little girl is my mother, born...

I hate to admit it, but I know very few of my neighbors. Despite the fact that we live in a great neighborhood with a small-town feel, my husband and I haven't gotten to know too many of our neighbors during the five years that we've lived here. Sure, we know the names of some of them and we've even exchanged keys with our immediate next-door neighbors, but that's about it. I guess it's a sign...

The last thing I want to do is brand myself as a political blogger or self-appointed expert because I am neither. But I keep hearing a repeated theme, parroted from the likes of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, coming from the conservative people who follow and engage me. I often engage conservatives in conversation, and watch conservative programs for the simple reason that I cannot turn away. It's...