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State to mom: Stop baby-sitting neighbors' kids
Each day before the school bus comes to pick up the neighborhood's children, Lisa Snyder did a favor for three of her fellow moms, welcoming their children into her home for about an hour before they left for school. Regulators who oversee child care, however, don't see it as charity. Days after the start of the new school year, Snyder received a letter from the Michigan Department of Human Services warning her that if she continued, she'd be violating a law aimed at the operators of unlicensed day care centers.How the World's Biggest Corporations, From Starbucks to Wal-Mart to Barnes & Noble, Claim to Be 'Local'
HSBC, one of the biggest banks on the planet, has taken to calling itself "the world's local bank." Starbucks is un-branding at least three of its Seattle outlets, the first of which just reopened as "15th Avenue Coffee and Tea." Winn-Dixie, a 500-outlet supermarket chain, recently launched a new ad campaign under the tagline, "Local flavor since 1956."A Locally Grown Diet With Fuss but No Muss
A Locally Grown Diet With Fuss but No Muss By KIM SEVERSON, NY Times Published: July 22, 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/dining/22local.html?th&emc=th Eating locally raised food is a growing trend. But who has time to get to the farmer’s market, let alone plant a garden? That is where Trevor Paque comes in.Summer Reading 2.0
Source: Science News - June 30, 2007 http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070630/bob8.asp The Heat Is On Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate William F. Ruddiman Princeton University Press, 2005 An explosion of human population and burgeoning technology use are causing planet-warming greenhouse gases to build up in Earth's atmosphere. That statement is true today, was true at the beginning of the industrial revolution nearly 2 centuries ago, and—in what probably is a surprise to most people—was true thousands of years ago.
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