Today's blog carnival is postponed until next week. I forgot (again!) to update the blogcarnival.com listing until the end of last week, so we got fewer entries than we should have. The entries started coming in afte…

August 8th's Tip

Books: According to Eco-Libris, 4.15 billion books are produced in the US every year (2006 figures), which results in more than 20 million trees being cut down. If these numbers disturb you, there ar…

July 18th's Tip

Greeting Cards: In the U.S. alone, about 7 billion greeting cards are purchased each year. Wonder how many trees go into making those cards? I'm not sure I want to know! Why not forgo the traditional car…

Since we moved here (here being the St. Louis area) about 6 years ago, I have always said there are far too few trees. I love trees and figure you can't really have too many. From an about.com article on why trees are impor…