Posts Tagged "water conservation"

Fall Back…into Darkness!

Posted by on Nov 2, 2009 in Blog | 2 comments

I still don’t know why most states adhere to the Day Light Savings time change. I understand that it once had to do with either the agrarian economy, meaning farmers having more daylight to harvest, or maybe something to do with the trains. I may be a bit confused on the train thing, I think that had more to do with the different time zones. However, most people I know and talk to, fret over the time change twice a year. In the Spring, when it’s time to spring forward, most happy...

Read More

Research and Ramblings

Posted by on Oct 16, 2009 in Blog | 2 comments

I’m currently working on a research paper for school, so my mind is a little cluttered at the moment. The class is teaching diversity in the classroom, and my topic I’ve chosen to research is environmental racism. So far, I have read a couple of books by Jonathan Kozol, a prominent author  in detailing segregation in our schools, that describe instances of environmental racism. I chose this topic because 1) I am an advocate of cleaning up our environment, 2) our cities are very...

Read More

Could it be rain?

Posted by on Oct 13, 2009 in Blog | 2 comments

I’m quite excited over the weather predictions for this week. According to three weather websites, they are predicting rain 2 or 3 days this week. It is very exciting. We haven’t had rain this early in the fall season in about 4 years. I’m really hoping that this means we will have a very wet autumn and winter, and these next few months will pull us out of our terrible drought. Lately, I’ve been thinking that we were going in the direction of Australia, which has been in...

Read More

Rain, Rain, are you coming again?

Posted by on Oct 3, 2009 in Blog, personal finance | 2 comments

Most of my life I’ve lived in Southern California, a fairly arid region. We hardly ever experience thunderstorms, or summer rain showers. From June through late November or December, our precipitation is minimal to none. Over the past few years, however, we have experience prolonged periods of dryness (prolonged meaning it stops raining in March and doesn’t rain again until the following January!), so that officially puts us in a state of drought. Our municipal department of water...

Read More
Site Meter