In celebration of Earth Day I thought it would be appropriate to spotlight a website for an organization that focuses it’s efforts on preserving our world and the nature around us. My family has had a new appreciation for the outdoors recently with our venturs into camping together as a family. I hope to instill in my kids an even greater appreciation and love for the outdoors, which includes taking care of what we’ve got.
Here’s a little bit from The Nature Conservancy website about their Earth Day efforts and general efforts of their organization.
Welcome to The Nature Conservancy — the …read more

Image: Screen capture from World Clock
My preferred background and theme for iGoogle is the world sunlight clock. This World Clock gives the time and so much more information as well.
Time, Population, Death, Illnesses, Environmental information, energy consumption, crimes, food use and much, much more.

I’m an on-again-off-again fan of John C. Dvorak. I regularly listen to TWiT and CrankyGeeks and Tech5 podcasts that he’s on regularly. Sometimes he offends me, but every time he at least makes me think a little harder about a topic.
I came across this recent column, Turn Off the Lights! of his in PC Magazine where he shares his opinion on the “green” movement. I’m all for saving the environment as much as we can, but I’m also for intelligent understanding of what our real impact is, not just what the popular movement of the minute seems to be.
What …read more