Environmental Defense Fund Seafood Selector
Just thought I'd pass along some important information regarding your selection of fish next time you eat or buy fish. I know that fish populations have been stressed for quite some time but it's worse than I imagined. The populations of everyone's favorite sushi fish, the bluefin tuna, are in serious trouble. I think my biggest surprise was the high levels of PCB's in farm-raised salmon.
It's worth a look. Check your local chemical levels as I'm sure that these numbers differ from region to region.
Update: I found all the previous info while showing my daughter the Monterey Bay Aquarium webcams, which I highly recommend. Shortly after publishing the post, I came across this great diary on Daily Kos from bob zimway regarding the pitfalls of fish farming. I highly recommend taking a few minutes to read this post.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Pride
I'm not one to get overly emotional or patriotic but my love and devotion to my country equals that of anyone displaying 10 flags on their car. However, I am honestly humbled, awed, and swollen with pride today as I cast my vote for Barack Obama. After I finished, I sat down to wait for my wife to cast her ballot and I almost came to tears watching my fellow citizens complete their civic duty. I also learned that my neighbors shared my candidate, which made me feel much better as I live in an homogenous section of Atlanta mostly populated by persons of European descent (Although Decatur is pretty liberal by Georgia standards). I've never been this emotional in any prior election.
I've pondered the signifiance of this election on many occasions but last week the full impact hit me like a ton of bricks. I didn't move from my couch as I stared off into space feeling like a tiny yet powerful speck in this whole process. I'm only a single person in a nation of hundreds of millions but I can get Obama one step closer and that we, as a nation, are on the brink of electing an African-American as the leader of the free world. This is something that I can recall to my grandchildren as I tell the story of Obama's fight to gain the White House.
Moreover, Obama is a superior game-changing candidate regardless of the color of his skin. He's a rare combination of intelligence, charimsa, open-mindedness, and political skill. I see many of Bill Clinton's finest attributes in Barack Obama. I also feel he could be at least as successful achievement-wise and I'm confident he'll keep his pants zipped.
It's a great day!
I've pondered the signifiance of this election on many occasions but last week the full impact hit me like a ton of bricks. I didn't move from my couch as I stared off into space feeling like a tiny yet powerful speck in this whole process. I'm only a single person in a nation of hundreds of millions but I can get Obama one step closer and that we, as a nation, are on the brink of electing an African-American as the leader of the free world. This is something that I can recall to my grandchildren as I tell the story of Obama's fight to gain the White House.
Moreover, Obama is a superior game-changing candidate regardless of the color of his skin. He's a rare combination of intelligence, charimsa, open-mindedness, and political skill. I see many of Bill Clinton's finest attributes in Barack Obama. I also feel he could be at least as successful achievement-wise and I'm confident he'll keep his pants zipped.
It's a great day!
Today's the day we finally get to vote!!!!
Yayyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's been a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGG year.
But no matter who you choose or where you live, today is a celebration of one of our great American events: the Presidential Election. Make sure you place your vote as to who should lead our country over the next four years. Of course, if you voted already then you celebrated early (Kind of like opening your Christmas presents on Christmas Eve rather than Christmas Day).
I would tell you that I'm live vote-blogging at my Sagamore Hills Elementary School poling place but, in all honesty and humility to me as an author, that's just not good theater. I expect the experience to resemble peeling paint in terms of the play-by-play. Plus, I don't expect too many irregularities from my particular district.
If I'm involved in or am witness to any curiosities or interesting voting anecdotes, I'll be sure to pass them along to you, my eager readers, so that you may use them as ice-breakers at cocktail parties or pickup lines at your favorite partisan watering hole.
God Bless America!
Update: Nothing to report from my polling place as of 11:30 AM EST. Standard stuff. I was in line for less than 15 minutes and actually spent more time talking with my neighbors than voting.
It's been a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGG year.
But no matter who you choose or where you live, today is a celebration of one of our great American events: the Presidential Election. Make sure you place your vote as to who should lead our country over the next four years. Of course, if you voted already then you celebrated early (Kind of like opening your Christmas presents on Christmas Eve rather than Christmas Day).
I would tell you that I'm live vote-blogging at my Sagamore Hills Elementary School poling place but, in all honesty and humility to me as an author, that's just not good theater. I expect the experience to resemble peeling paint in terms of the play-by-play. Plus, I don't expect too many irregularities from my particular district.
If I'm involved in or am witness to any curiosities or interesting voting anecdotes, I'll be sure to pass them along to you, my eager readers, so that you may use them as ice-breakers at cocktail parties or pickup lines at your favorite partisan watering hole.
God Bless America!
Update: Nothing to report from my polling place as of 11:30 AM EST. Standard stuff. I was in line for less than 15 minutes and actually spent more time talking with my neighbors than voting.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
