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Blissful · 2M ago

About 2 to 3 out of every 1,000

About 2 to 3 out of every 1,000 children in the United States are born deaf or hard of hearing.   I am the lucky mama who has one of each! Over 90% of these children are born to parents who can hear.   The Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind offers ASL classes to the public, you can contact them
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Blissful · 2M ago

Pesticide Action Network

Pesticide Action Network At Pesticide Action Network (PAN) we know one thing: Pesticides are the linchpin of industrialized agriculture.Their mass introduction into farming 70 years ago, along with petrochemically-derived fertilizers, set U.S. farming down a costly and unsustainable path. Along the
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Blissful · 5M ago

Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy

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Blissful · 6M ago

Cake Duchess Maple Pumpkin Pie for the win!

Cake Duchess Vegan Maple Pumpkin PieI don't usually bother with pumpkin pies because we have so much food and the hubby makes a fruit (this year it's blueberry) pie. It is typically more than we can handle. But this year, my friend Phae Rae sent this recipe to me and it inspired me to bake! This rec
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Blissful · 6M ago

More Turkeys, Animal Emotions

Do animals think and feel?by Marc BekoffThe Thanksgiving Day Massacre: A House of HorrorsWhy give thanks by slaughtering sentient beings?Published on November 17, 2011 by Marc Bekoff in 
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Blissful · 6M ago

Turkeys!!

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/my-life-as-a-turkey/introduction/7268/“Had I known what was in store—the difficult nature of the study and the time I was about to invest—I would have been hard pressed to justify such an intense involvement. But, fortunately, I naively allowed myself to blund
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Blissful · 6M ago

Bruce Friedrich: Top 10 Reasons to Pardon a Turkey this Thanksgiving

Are you sure you want to delete this post? This action is permanent. Yes, delete postNo, keep postOriginally posted on The Huggington PostDid Sarah Palin's recent interview in front of a turkey slaughter operation cause you to almost lose your lunch? If so, you're not alone. Even conservative pundit
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Blissful · 7M ago

You know you live in the Rocky Mountains when...a photo essay

Not all seasons are created equal.Fall really gets the short end of the stick.It's definitely the shortest season we have. Winter is the longest.The yellow season. Then the white season. With a blip of the green season in the mix.It takes more than an hour to make the round trip to the nearest "conv
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Blissful · 7M ago

Cruelty Free Shopping

Leaping BunnyBy 1996, ‘cruelty-free’ shopping had become popular, but it was also confusing, sometimes misleading, and ultimately frustrating. Companies had begun designing their own bunny logos, abiding by their own definition of ‘cruelty-free’ or ‘animal friendly’ without the participation of anim
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