Join millions of people reducing their plastic waste. “Every year, we produce four hundred million tons of plastic waste and less than 8 percent is recycled. Every minute, every day, we buy one million plastic bottles, and each year we use five trillion plastic bags, almost all of which end up in our rivers, oceans,…
Month: June 2023
Get Ready for Plastic Free July
Plastic Free July® is a global movement that helps millions of people be part of the solution to plastic pollution – so we can have cleaner streets, oceans, and beautiful communities. Will you be part of Plastic Free July by choosing to refuse single-use plastics? Why should you care? Disposable plastic items don’t biodegrade. They just…
Miranda James – Three Questions & a Cover
Three Questions and a Cover — a short interview with one of my favorite authors, along with one of the author’s covers.
b.read.crumbs : Submitting
If you read Julie’s b.read.crumbs post for June, you probably think I’m a really interesting and high-energy person. You only think that because Julie is such a good writer she can make anything believable. Thank goodness she’s an honest person and not a cult leader or a politician! Her post isn’t about me, though. Not…
Review: The Mysteries of Tarot: A Work of the Imagination by Kirsten Weiss
Learn to read the Tarot and get caught up in an intriguing, thoroughly non-conventional mystery at the same time. Kirsten Weiss—via her character Hyperion Night—doles out Tarot wisdom chapter by chapter in this delightfully creative and thoroughly captivating novel! It starts off like most any Learn to Read Tarot book; each card, whether Major Arcana…
Making use of kinetic energy
Dear EarthTalk: Can we harness kinetic energy to reduce our carbon footprint? – J.B., via email Harnessing kinetic energy as a means to reduce our carbon footprint is indeed a promising avenue for a sustainable future. Kinetic energy is the energy possessed by an object due to its motion, and finding innovative ways to capture…
Carolyn Hart - Three Questions & a Cover
Three Questions and a Cover — a short interview with one of my favorite authors, along with one of the author’s covers.
The Pryce of Conceit
An Historical Ghost Cozy Mystery by Kari Bovee Someone’s trying to frame this ambitious theater performer for murder. Can she get back to her adoring public and escape the noose? 1885. Arabella Pryce is struggling with heartbreak. And with her recently deceased husband’s will demanding she leave her celebrity behind and refurbish her namesake hotel in…
Julie E. Bloemeke ~ 3 Questions & a Poem
3 Questions and a Poem–in which one of my favorite poets is interviewed and shares a poem. QUESTION 1 What do you consider the three most important elements of a poem? Vibrational buoyancy. A poem must have a sense of urgency, an irrefutable tension. As both a poet and an editor, I am endlessly curious…
b.read.crumbs: Julie Wray Herman is Jumping Off Cliffs
This month’s b.read.crumbs post by Julie Herman, which you may find in the original on her website. Deb told me yesterday that she has something to tell me, but I have to wait until I see her in person. With Deb this could be anything from, “Glad to see you,” to, “I have a whole new…
