Earth Day action

For Earth Day, I decided not to add my printer to the landfill and try to fix it again.  I have an HP Deskjet 6540 and one wee piece of plastic that holds the spring that holds the black ink cartridge is broken.  The spring, therefore, doesn't stay in its slot and the printer doesn't register that the ink cartridge is there.  What do I get when I try to print?  Flashing lights, not even a helpful error message.  I fixed this once before when I first discovered the problem about a year ago but my fix (wire wrapped around in just the right spot) is now broken.  Bugger.
  But then my friend Tammi showed me this Bondic welding plastic.


Will this do the trick?  Quite possibly!  If I can recreate the missing plastic piece and further add braces so the spring can move but stay in its track it could be awesome!  

Happy Earth Day everyone!  Be creative and leave a smaller mess behind you!  We are ALL responsible for the future of our planet so use your brain and be you, only better!

An environmental spill: small scale revelations

Dear Friends,

I wanted to share these two pieces with you. 

First, the article on the left is extremely important in that it highlights the reality of oil spills:  the damage is extreme and long lasting and there is no way to effectively clean it up.  This relatively small spill is an excellent case study and has allowed experts to examine the effects of oil in a stream in a very controlled fashion.  Please read, discuss and share!

Then below is a picture that appeared in our local paper after a protest.  I have not verified if the information on the placards, but given the Harper government and Canada's slow support of solar energy I imagine both are true. 

Scaredy cat

I don't mean to be a nag, but we're going past the point of no return, basically:

CO2 in atmosphere poised to blow past 400 ppm mark

   http://grist.org/news/carbon-dioxide-levels-break-400-parts-per-million-barrier/

(In case you didn't know, 350 ppm was considered the highest concentration that was still okay.)

I don't know how people continue to have children when we're leaving them this incredible mess...