Something Green!

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MyFarmsf.com

Tell the Kids that Jack & His Beanstalk are Moving In!

It’s about time we got a dose of self-sufficiency! And unlike grandma’s red cough syrup, this dose is delicious! We stumbled across a really nifty team of people doing something really quite nifty . . .

Okay, have you ever wished that Farmer Joe would just show up at your doorstep every week and pluck scrumpdiddlyumptious veggies from your own backyard? Well spare yourself the hankering. Joe is expanding his business prospects and raking up a buzz all across the San Francisco area and that buzz is about MyFarmsf.com.

That’s right, Farmer Joe has partnered with a spectacular green-team and they’re planting vegetable gardens in private backyards all over town. Gee whiz—who’da think the day would come when you could have your entire recommended daily dose of veggies in a most splendid 8’ by 8’ geometrical square!

So you’re thinking: ‘Ok, we all like Martha Stewart and veggie gardens—but why the sudden notion to plant them in everyone’s backyard?’ Because, believe it or not, it saves oodles of energy!

Here’s a little Bill Nye f.y.i.—apparently, “Twenty percent of energy is lost in transmission between the power plants from where it is produced to the consumer where it is used.” That means you save energy when you chow down on food at the site where it is produced.

And it gets better when you think about it…

You spare the environment from the unnecessary wastes of food packaging, the grocery bags, and the gasoline it takes to drive to and from the market; plus you save yourself the extra trip to fetch the head of lettuce you forgot to purchase for your BLT sandwich.

I’m for it!

Check out MyFarmsf.com and if you feel up to it, email us your thoughts.


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Beat that—Poseidon! Ocean Energy Council boots that scallywag merman in his royal derriere.

You’re at the beach with the whole fam. Lathered in spf 284, you scuttle across the scalding hot sand to the seashore and plunge your body into the largest, untapped resource of renewable energy. Ah, splendid revitalization! Whilst you bob and bloat about, you have not the slightest inkling of a notion that somewhere amidst the vast and deep murky abyss are series of turbulent underwater windmills generating energy fluxes of 280 trillion watts per hour! Sweet. So who’s responsible for all this shenanigans? Well it ain’t the little mermaid! Readers, its time to meet a super duper cool, eco-fab-tastic organization. . . drum roles please, hello-- Ocean Energy Council!  So what’s all this turbulent commotion about? Well, generating energy of course. As the term ‘oil’ these days has become synonymous with curses, a limited and depleting resource, harder and harder to come by, and costing us oodles of money we don’t have—we should probably consider other potential options. The Ocean Energy Council is doing this for us. How? They have innovatively tapped into an alternate energy resource, and it happens to be the largest powerhouse in the world! That’s right kids, water, good old aqua! With ocean water constituting 70% of the earth. . . we have in our hands the potential resource to harness tremendous energy. Say bye-bye oil! Well—sort of.
 
Ocean Energy Council | Green Wave Energy Sources - The Ocean Energy Council is a non-profit organization advocating the development and implimentation of ocean energy. Read more about them on their website - www.oceanenergycouncil.com