So have you seen this story yet? Mike Huckabee gets philosophical about gay marriage. I’m impressed with the profundity of his comments: Children aren’t puppies. Wow. Impressive Mike. Let’s all think about that one for a minute… Yeah I know, it’s a ridiculous statement and doesn’t need much reflection at all. So lets move on [...]
Posts Tagged ‘environment’
It’s Time For Mike Huckabee to Retire
Posted in Flora, gay rights, tagged election, environment, Flora, gay lesbian rights, government, hate, Huckabee, ignorance, politics on April 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Resource Consumption
Posted in environment, Flora, tagged environment, Flora, global warming, opinions, statistics on March 12, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Reading some of the comments on the recent recycling post made us think more about consuming resources and our habits as a society. It scares me a little the way we consume resources and generate waste. … Science is telling us we’re facing dwindling resources, especially if we continue to consume at the rate we [...]
Organic Coffee Getting Scarce?
Posted in Flora, Organic Coffee, tagged coffee, coffee growing, current events, environment, fertilizer, Flora, Latin America, Organic, pesticide, Starbucks on March 9, 2010 | 8 Comments »
We came across an article today that made us a little sad. Hundreds of thousands of pounds of organic coffee are sitting in warehouses in Latin America, waiting silently and no one is coming. Growers all over Latin America are taking losses in sales because they can’t fetch the higher price needed to cover the [...]
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! Remember?
Posted in Flora, Recycling, Uncategorized, tagged environment, Flora, garbage day, neighbors, recycle, statistics on March 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Today is garbage day here at Coffee and Controversy. Both garbage and recycling pick up on Fridays and as I look out my window, I see two recycle cans and seven garbage cans. There are eight houses in this circle and two that appear to use their recycle cans at all. Interestingly, those two houses [...]
Snow Day???
Posted in Flora, telecommuting, tagged ebay, environment, government, Obama, snow day, taxes, telecommute, work on February 11, 2010 | 3 Comments »
How do we feel about wasting $100M each day to pay government employees for sitting at home in the snow? Well not great. Especially when President Obama advised all government offices, last year, to implement strategies for teleworking in these exact situations, and an alarmingly low percentage have complied. The president is working right now [...]
