Mama gnome lives in an old gnome house shaded by ancient Sumac trees...surrounded by plants and trees that thrive because of Daddy gnome's green thumbs.
Once in a while the old mother gnome ventures out of her burrow...past the brambles...past the jagged dusty cliffs and...
she looks up...
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Once in a while, if you're feeling out of sorts...lost..or down...just look up...and go green.
Mama gnome went to Gnomeco to buy ecofriendly toilet paper.
But when she rounded the corner, Mama gnome almost dropped her pointy hat.
She saw the usual pallet where they stored super green toilet paper was now stacked with firewood!
Was it not enough to take away the good toilet paper, but they had to replace it with more cut down trees for future burning and releasing of more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere?
Did Gnomeco intend for Mama gnome to... as young gnomelet would put it... "freak out" in the middle of the household stuff aisle?
Mama gnome stood and stared at the pallet of firewood.
She rubbed her eyes and blinked a few times but the firewood remained.
She trudged around the next few aisles as fast as her gnome legs could trudge...but saw no sign of the super ecofriendly toilet paper.
Mama gnome made a mental note to head to Trader Gnome's to buy green toilet paper since Gnomeco declared super green toilet paper... toilet paper ingrata.
If you wonder why Mama gnome was upset with Gnomeco it's because not all toilet paper are created equal.
The most bought toilet paper and readily available toilet paper are made from virgin fiber which means from chopped down trees.
The least bought toilet paper and hard to find toilet paper are made from recycled paper, and the best toilet paper would be made from recycled paper with high postconsumer paper waste content.
This quiet unassuming toilet paper saves trees because it's made from recycled paper instead of virgin tree fiber.
According to this post, American humans use "about 50 pounds of tissue products per person every year. This is 50% more than the consumption rate in Western Europe and Japan."
"The pulp and paper industry may contribute to more global and local environmental problems than any other industry in the world. Paper manufacturers reach deep into species-rich forests for virgin timber, razing trees, polluting waterways and destroying precious wildlife habitat. Pulp and paper mills that use virgin timber are major generators of hazardous air pollutants, including dioxins and other cancer-causing chemicals. And the industry is the third largest industrial emitter of global warming pollution."
"The virgin timber-based pulp and paper industry is the third greatest industrial emitter of global warming pollution. Its carbon dioxide emissions are projected to double by 2020."
350 parts per million is what many scientists, climate experts, and progressive national governments are now saying is the safe upper limit for CO2 in our atmosphere.Accelerating arctic warming and other early climate impacts have led scientists to conclude that we are already above the safe zone at our current 392ppm, and that unless we are able to rapidly return to below 350 ppm this century, we risk reaching tipping points and irreversible impacts such as the melting of the Greenland ice sheet and major methane releases from increased permafrost melt.
Please help reduce our carbon emissions.
On 10-10-10...walk, use reusable bags, plant trees, plant vegetables, turn off unnecessary lights and appliances, eat vegetables...make everyday meaningful and Go Green...
Of its three species, two are listed as endangered and vulnerable because of threats from hunters and habitat destruction, climate change, and farming.
If you guessed the Mystery Animal of the Day is the ZEBRA... Mama gnome wants to invite you to the International Coastal Cleanup Day on Saturday, September 25, 2010.
Please visit Ocean Conservancy to see where you can participate or you can start your own cleanup project and register it at their website.
Zebras are found in Africa. Their habitats vary from Africa's mountains, grasslands and savannas, woodlands, coastal hill, and thorny scrublands.
Zebras "are very adaptable grazers." Their diet include: short or long grasses, shrubs, bark and leaves.
The Grevy's zebra is the largest species of zebra. It has large ears and narrower stripes. It is listed endangered by IUCN. The Grevy's zebras are threatened by: hunters who profit from the zebras' skins, habitat destruction and by climate change causing severe drought and the disappearance of their watering holes.
Increased farming land and fencing threaten all zebras, limiting or restricting their access to watering holes.
Here is a picture of a mountain zebra resting in the sun in Louisville Zoo:
Mama gnome would like to don her striped camouflage, hide behind tall grasses and stun poachers and hunters who hunt down these beautiful animals with wild braying, neighing and whinnying.
Please help save our Mystery Animal of the Day, the endangered zebras, and go green. (c) 2010, Jenaelha, Friendly gnome's blog
Please visit Ocean Conservancy and sign up wherever you are in the world and participate in International Coastal Cleanup Day on September 25, Saturday. And it doesn't have to be at the beach. You can help cleanup a park, a river, a waterway. Anywhere you can make a difference.
If there is no cleanup action close to you, you can start your own and register it with Ocean Conservancy through this site.
Mama gnome and the gnome family will be heading out to help clean up and take tally of how many of Plastic Bag Monster minions are lurking in the sand.
Please help defeat Plastic Bag Monster everyday, walk with Mama gnome...and go green.
But Plastic Bag Monster lived and survived because humans continue to use flimsy plastic bags, take out styrofoam containers, disposable plastic forks, spoons, cups. All minions and allies of Plastic Bag Monster.
On September 25, 2010 Mama gnome and the gnome family will battle against Plastic Bag Monster and his minions on the 25th International Coastal Cleanup Day.
During the 2009 Cleanup, volunteers found 18,000 derelict fishing nets in the United Kingdom alone, and 70,000 plastic bottles in Nicaragua. In 2009, 60 percent of all debris items found on just one day were "disposable."
To find out how you can participate please visit Ocean Conservancy's site where you can look for locations all over the world participating in this cause.
If there isn't one close to you, you can sign up your own clean up cause and location for that day.
And this Friday, the bill must be approved or it will die and Plastic Bag Monster triumphs.
If the bill is approved and is signed by the governor, supermarkets and other large retailers are prohibited from using single use plastic bags starting in 2012.
In 2013, that ban would extend to smaller grocers and convenience stores using plastic bag minions as well.
Plastic Bag Monster is the bane of Mama gnome's existence. She has battled against this monster time and time again.
Perhaps one of the most memorable was the battle of 2009 when Mama gnome succored by her gnome family battled against the Plastic Bag Monster on a sandy beach.
The gnome family was overwhelmed by cigarette butt monster and other plastic bag minions including styrofoam cups and little pieces of unrecognizable plastic scrap minions.
And if we were thinking they were getting recycled, Plastic Bag Monster has pulled the plastic over our eyes, because only a small fraction of that 19 billion gets recycled.
Only 5 percent of those bags get recycled.
So 95 percent of 19 billion bags end up where?
In our waterways, in landfills, in our deserts, our rivers, our forests, inside marine animals, in our oceans, disintegrating...NOT BIODEGRADING. They've taken up to creating their own evil lairs. One of the more notorious one is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Plastic bag monster and his minions become tiny plastic pieces mistaken for food by birds and marine animals.
And guess who eats the marine animals? Humans.
Mama gnome's blog has a running counter of how many plastic bags are used every second in the world.
It's a scary counter. Think of how much plastic the fish eat. Think of how much plastic we eat.
Here's a video of a Plastic Bag Monster trying to weasel his way out of the ban.
Thanks to continuing CO2 emissions, coal and power plants, unmitigated use of oil, continued slashing and burning of forests because of human demands and consumerism,
Earth Warming Machine 2010 is even more powerful.
Earth Warming Machine 2010 created these mind boggling climate change products:
"Petermann Glacier in northern Greenland has lost an iceberg of 87 square kilometers in size. For scale, the ice sheet is said to be 4 times the size of Manhattan. A University of Delaware researcher has been tracking the Petermann Glacier, and in a news release he says that the ice chunk is the largest since 1962."
Mama gnome did not list all climate change products currently wreaking havoc, killing humans, animals, destroying homes and habitat.
Mama gnome doesn't have enough room to list all in this post.
What is fueling Earth Warming Machine to become stronger and bigger every year?
Humans of course.
We are at the cross roads of cross roads.
Mama gnome cannot believe humans continue to fail to come together.
Humans continue to disagree about the Earth Warming Machine.
What further proof do humans need?
Earth Warming Machine 2011?
Mama gnome is afraid. Aren't you?
Please be strong, be brave, help fight against the evil Earth Warming Machine and Go Green!
photo from 350.org
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