Category Archives: In the News

Reading through the dailies and finding articles of interest.

Veggies and Our Nation’s Kids

By kimba | Published: February 26, 2010
OK, so these kids aren’t representative of the entire nation … I’m not one for promoting prime time television shows, but I have to admit that this is one show that I’m glad will be on a national network in prime time rather than hidden on cable or on PBS. I was raised by a [...]
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Water On The Moon

By kimba | Published: November 13, 2009
NASA announced last night that the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, had successfully discovered water in a permanently shadowed lunar crater on the moon. The LCROSS spacecraft and a companion rocket stage made twin impacts in the Cabeus crater October 9 that created a plume of material from the bottom of a [...]
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Buy Local, Buy Organic, It’s Important!

By kimba | Published: July 17, 2009
I was inspired to write a post about looking for, and buying, local produce and food by this article I spied yesterday on Alternet.org about the soybeans used for making Silk soy milk. Few Silk products are certified organic anymore, and some are processed with hexane, a neurotoxin. The use of hexane poses risks to [...]
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