December 31, 2009 – 8:40 pm
We want to wish our readers a wonderful 2010 – Happy New Year!!
December 26, 2009 – 1:59 pm
7:00 AM…Christmas Eve…Capitol Hill…Washington D.C….The Obama-era Health Care Reform stands its final test.
The 92-year-old Senator Robert Byrd, squinted his eyes and straightened his tie. “Mr. President,” he said, pointing his raises right hand at the dome ceiling, “This is for my friend Ted Kennedy. Aye!”
And so the $871 billion bill passed brilliantly through Senate on [...]
December 24, 2009 – 5:56 pm
It is becoming more and more clear, as the winter drudge rolls on, that Senate Republicans, amidst the endless days of health care reform fracas, will be able to deliver a knockout blow to another top Democratic agenda priority – that is the passing of a climate change bill in 2010.
Vindictive? Clearly. Though, not [...]
December 14, 2009 – 5:54 pm
Besides for the obvious: being just short of “What About Bob” germ-o-phobia, I cannot tell you how to avoid altogether becoming stricken with H1N1 – and while I cannot prevent you from being among the 5%-20% of the population who come down with regular influenza every winter, accept by suggesting that you get vaccinated – [...]
December 10, 2009 – 6:55 pm
Sometimes it takes a little retro-active research to complete the picture. I do not know how we here at NaturalBuy.com missed this, but as a note for next year, we’ll stick it in now. November 19th was World Toilet Day.
On this day we remind ourselves that 2.5 billion people around the globe do not have [...]
December 9, 2009 – 12:05 am
On Wednesday, Google Inc. launched a new feature in its Google Earth Web site, which is designed to let Californians see the risks of climate change. The feature is called CalAdapt and it illustrates the workings of warming temperatures, rising sea levels, precipitation shifts and the impact which intense wildfires have on the environment.
The [...]
November 28, 2009 – 1:35 pm
26-year-old John Jones died last Thursday after being stuck for nearly 28 hours in Nutty Putty Cave, a popular spelunking site to the south of Salt Lake City. Jones was a medical student, husband and the father of a 13-month-old girl.
Nutty Putty Cave is a formidable 1,500 foot cave which outdoor enthusiasts began exploring in [...]
November 27, 2009 – 4:43 pm
In 2008 Vladimir Putin shot a five-year-old female tiger with a tranquilizer gun and helped put a transmitter around her neck. The transmitter allowed people to follow the animal’s perusing through Russia’s Far East.
On Wednesday Vladimir Krever of the World Wildlife Fund said that the satellite tracking devise has been silent since mid-September; which [...]
October 9, 2009 – 3:21 pm
Trying to rebloom the deserts? Try Permaculture.
A quick overview: The method, invented in the 1970’s, involves analyzing the environment you are trying to build and jumpstarting the system. Think of it as trying to get a dough to rise with a starter kit. For example, if you’re trying to grow chickens, you take into account [...]
August 10, 2009 – 12:41 am
This may make you think twice about whether you want to be forever young. Brook Greenberg is 16 years old, but she’s basically a baby. Her aging gene is essentially turned off. Either that, or she never had it. And doctors are still searching for whatever it is she doesn’t have. While there’s no hope [...]