1. Friday Favorites: Caves Reveal Climate, Amazon Sighting, Eco-Tourism, Soaring Solar and More (A perennial favorite)
2. Those Kicks Aren’t Done Kicking – Reuse Those Shoes! (mentioned in BestHealthMag.ca. Nice!)
3. Five Reasons Being Green Is Good for My Mental Health (by guest blogger Alicia from Mental Health Notes)
4. Is $4 Gas a Good Thing?
5. How is My Green Sunscreen Holding Up?
6. Green Giveaway – Learn to Create a Healthy Home CD (check here for the winner)
7. How Does Your Garden Grow?
8. Do You Know What You’re Putting on Your Face?
9. Why There is an Environmental Blog on the Health and Wellness Channel
10. Seems $4 Gas Might Be a Good Thing in NYC

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Top Ten Posts at Daily Tomorrow This Month

You won this week’s Green Giveaway – “Learn to Create a Healthy Home!” CD by Lisa and Ron Beres. Hopefully, this will help you set up your new home.

Email me at polchic@hotmail.com to let me know where to send the CD. I’m hoping not too too far from my part of the globe.

Thanks to all who entered. There are Green Giveaways almost every Friday here at Daily Tomorrow. Check back often for more chances to win.

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Green Giveaway – Who Won a Healthy Home CD?

After a short summer break, the weekly Green Giveaway is back at Daily Tomorrow. This week’s prize is my last “Learn to Create a Healthy Home!” CD by Lisa and Ron Beres, founders of www.GreenNest.com (a $19.99 value!)  You may have seen Lisa and Ron on the Today Show talking about whether or not your home (and the toxins within it) can make you sick, and what kinds of things you can do about it.  They also offer healthy home tips and a healthy home quiz on their website.

How to enter? Just leave a comment on this post between now and midnight, Thursday, July 24th. Winners will be chosen randomly from the entries received.

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Green Giveaway – Win a “Learn to Create a Healthy Home!” CD

The winner of a “Learn to Create a Healthy Home!” CD by Lisa and Ron Beres is…

Michelle from Gotcha Baby. I’d love to say that winning a CD is the most exciting thing that Michelle has going on right now, but go check out her blog and see what other great events are lined up for her and her fam this month.

Congratulations! As you can see, I used the most scientific method of selection I could manage. And not to worry – scrap paper from work was used to create the entries and those little numbers will be recycled for every giveaway.

Gosh, that was fun. I wonder what’s next…

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Green Giveaway – Who Won a Healthy Home CD?

I’m not sure.

And that’s why I am really looking forward to listening to my “Learn to Create a Healthy Home!” CD by Lisa and Ron Beres, founders of www.GreenNest.com. You may have seen Lisa and Ron on the Today Show talking about whether or not your home (and the toxins within it) can make you sick, and what kinds of things you can do about it.  They also offer healthy home tips and a healthy home quiz on their website.

It just so happens that I have some extra copies of the Learn to Create a Healthy Home CD (a $19.99 value!) that I would love to share with some lucky readers.  How to enter? Just leave a comment on this post between now and midnight, Thursday, June 5th. Winners will be chosen randomly from the entries received.

And….if you, like me, are trying to conceive, you may also want to check out the current contest at Fertility Notes, which gives you the chance to win Fertility Blend diet supplements. You have until June 5th to enter there as well.

So many prizes! So little time!

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Green Giveaway – Win a “Learn to Create a Healthy Home!” CD

About 25,000 head of cattle and sheep are at imminent risk of dying, eating plants and drinking water contaminated by volcanic ash. The navy has shipped feed, and the government is beginning to evacuate some cattle from the area, but many are expected to die. Some civil engineers said they believed that the soil and plant life in the area may not recover for several decades, if at all.

“The soil in the area covered by this volume of ash deposits will be practically lost,” said Wilfredo Vera, engineer from the University of Chile. He told a Chilean radio station that “agricultural production will be virtually nil.”

When I lived in Santiago, residents were always hyper-aware of early signs of a natural occurrence of a different nature: earthquakes. Sure volcanoes were all around us, but like the article said, they were more a part of the static, not active, landscape.

If I were Colin Flaherty and had “ecophobia” as he calls it, I might be tempted to somehow pin this event on environmentalists. In a guest article in the Hernando Today (thanks, Heather, for the heads up) Flaherty explains his new disease:

I imagine environmentalists creating catastrophes all the time all over the world. I see great floods, famine, disease and death and behind each is the same thing: A grinning environmentalist reveling in the mayhem as if it were magic.

I read the entire article and honestly couldn’t decide if Flaherty’s tongue was in his cheek or not. Since he then uses the term “eco-freaks,” I’m guessing not. What do you think of Flaherty’s assessment?

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Chaiten Volcano Begins to Spew Ash (But Don’t Blame Environmentalists)

I can certainly think of suckier trends. And I really hope this one lasts long enough to make an impact. It has to.

What makes me a little nutty is when someone’s “going green” logo is right over a story/fact/issue that contradicts it. Say, for example, my boss’s bad habit of wanting priority emails printed out so she won’t forget to address them, or, something on a much larger scale like, oh, I dunno, Matt Lauer jetting around the world in the midst of NBC and its Today Show’s claiming they are “Going Green.”

Now on his ninth Where in the World trip, Fox reports:

Lauer has logged 210,721 miles on his trips, turning up at the base of Mount Everest, by the Pyramids in Egypt, at the casinos of Monte Carlo and at the Taj Mahal in India.

Taking trains, plains, boats, helicopters, you name it, to get around while he is wherever he is. Holy carbon footprint, Carmen!

Wondering what Matt’s latest jaunt equals in terms of a carbon footprint and environmental impact? Put away your calculators, Kevin at Pundit Review has done the math for us:

In the first two days of his five day tour, Matt has used up 9.196 tons of CO2. The average American emits 9.44 tons of CO2 PER YEAR.

So, with this in mind, is there any end in sight for our intrepid traveler? He says no:

“There will be a time when I say it’s a nice time to draw it to a close, but at the moment I’m not going to do it,” he said. “The nice thing is I have a lot of say over where I get to go.”

How do you feel about The Today’s Show’s travels? Do the potential economic benefits of the tourism it hopes to promote outweigh the environmental impact?

Image: Newscom

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Where in the World is the Green in That?