Earth Day 2007

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"Take the Next Step"
Find out about Events, Action Guides, School Kits, Merchandise, Tree Planting Festivals and how to get involved.

They have coffee :)

"Help the Environment: One Cup at a Time"
Earth Day Canada and Merchants of Green Coffee have teamed up to bring you Earth Day Coffee, a medium-dark blend of three distinctive Fair Trade and organic Arabica beans from Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America. Buying Earth Day Coffee guarantees you the freshest, best-tasting coffee, while at the same time supporting organic agriculture.

The Measure of a Man

When I get a chance I'd love to read this...

The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
by Sidney Poitier (Paperback)

Recommended by Oprah's Book Club

About the Author:
Born in Miami 1927 and raised in the Bahamas, Poitier began acting after the war, and soon made his debut in Hollywood with No Way Out. He became the first black actor to win an Academy Award for Best Actor. In 1968 he was knighted by H.M. Queen Elizabeth II and is the recipient of four honorary doctorate degrees, the last from New York University. He has starred in over forty films, directed nine, and written four. He has received three Golden Globe Awards; an American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award; the Kennedy Center Lifetime Achievement Award; and the Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award, among many other awards and honors. In April 1997 Poitier was named the Ambassador to Japan from the Bahamas. Sir Poitier is currently president and CEO of Verdon Cedric Productions. He is married, has six daughters, four grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.

The book description can be read at the link above.

I recommend this book already - the book description alone inspired me. I have no doubts Sidney Poitier is a very special man.

Planet Earth: The Entire Collection 2007 (DVD)

Planet Earth: The Complete Collection 2007 (DVD)

Pre-order Now: Releases on April 24, 2007

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Janice Harayda - Novelist, Journalist, Editor, Speaker

One-Minute Book Reviews - One-Minute Book Reviews is an independent blog created by Janice Harayda, an award-winning journalist and critic. It consists exclusively of brief reviews of new and classic fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for adults and children. One-Minute Book Reviews does not cover literary or publishing news, trends, or gossip. Janice Harayda writes all the one-minute book reviews. She is an award-winning journalist and author of the comedies of manners The Accidental Bride (St. Martin’s, 1999) and Manhattan on the Rocks (Sourcebooks, 2004). She has been the book columnist for Glamour, book editor and critic for The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, and vice-president for awards of the National Book Critics Circle.

Planet Peschel by Bill Peschel - Mystery writer, Editor and Book Reviewer. He's been a newspaper copy editor, a bread truck driver, a shipping clerk, a magazine editor, a computer developer and a role-playing game designer. He won second prize in the Mark Twain Writing Competition for the continuation of Mark Twain's "A Murder, A Mystery and a Marriage." He lives with his family in Hershey, PA. You MUST READ his short story comic "Groundhog Day"... "about a man, a woman and a dead groundhog." It will make you laugh if you haven't yet today! I love it! I'm hoping he creates a continuation for Carmelita! Read it, you'll see what I'm referring to!

Guy Gets Married by GuyGM - A 35-year old Guy's Dating Quest To Get Married

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Accordion Crimes

Accordion Crimes
by E. Annie Proulx
Pulitzer Prize Winning Author of
The Shipping News
and New York Times Bestseller

For every persons dreams, struggles and difficulties...

Accordion Crimes follows the travels of an accordion over a century concentrating on the surrounding events of people's dreams, struggles and difficulties. About torn families and lost homes; roads many people encounter in a lifetime. And at one point, it becomes involved in a most scrupulous drug scandal.

This book begins at a time when people of different countries were looking for their freedom; on a journey to a land they desperately believed would give them hope. Author E. Annie Proulx, captures the unsympathetic shouts of racism in a country where a people must survive and during a time in the late eighteenth century when illnesses were inescapable and detriment.

Her ability to sketch words of a people who are rough on the edges but inside have the souls of an unworn book - displays such power of orthodoxy in her scriptures that you are forced to realize: Though we are all of a different people - we are still all God's people.

I am truly amazed by the boldness of E. Annie Proulx's writing style and precise use of different languages and attitudes... a literary journey that moves with the essence of those living and lost. I greatly admired her courage to explore the realms of such an epoch in time. She has this uncanny ability to create believable, individual characters of different races and cultures and, as well, draws out such poignant scenes of turmoil and separation.

Through different chapters, E. Annie Proulx reintroduces you to the accordion, and at one point it becomes involved in a most scrupulous drug scandal. And from that scandal, the rewards of many a thousand become hidden, and soon lost, as the accordion once again must fold its secrets and pass through; yet, another moment of discord.

Accordion Crimes is about ignorance, destruction and ploy. However, it is also about strength, survival and acceptance.

Racism was very much a part of what immigrants had to adjust to and they had to give up a part of themselves to pass by. But as we follow a little green accordion that encounters much corruption in its own path, we discover how it is able to save lives and bring much fortune.

So, like the accordion in E. Annie Proulx's book, we not only follow its path, but we follow the path of many people; genuinely fighting for a distinct place in society, and in a community where they must learn to save their own lives, and make their own fortune.

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