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Some notes on climate change and the IPCC
ysmad.com statistics collection
08/28/2010 -- Animal abuse and neglect - large scale
08/07/2010 -- Summing up, BP has taken responsibility
07/31/2010 -- Monarch butterfly day!
07/10/2010 -- Veggie Burger and Local Beer
06/13/2010 -- BP, out of control
06/07/2010 -- Finally, pictures from the gulf
05/22/2010 -- Biodiversity vs. Pacman, and Oil update
04/29/2010 -- We did not miss Earth Day - "Die Welt" did!
03/04/2010 -- A thought about perceived danger
01/31/2010 -- Fighting Spam and Greenwashing
12/29/2009 -- Renaming ysmad - does your share make a difference?
11/26/2009 -- Black Friday quote
11/7/2009 -- Backyard news: a Mantis
11/3/2009 -- (Ir)relevant issues in politics and bill 1176
10/24/2009 -- Sea turtles and helium balloons
10/2/2009 -- Movie tip: The Cove
9/29/2009 -- We feed the world - with plastic
9/26/2009 -- We f*** the world
9/20/2009 -- Is insanity destroying this planet?
9/18/2009 -- A Burger King Experience
7/24/2009 -- Abwrack... uhm ... Umweltprämie!
6/25/2009 -- A song section only
6/19/2009 -- Of ducks and chicks
5/22/2009 -- And the winner is ...
5/9/2009 -- Backyard Biodiversity
4/20/2009 -- Earth Day Donation Call
4/8/2009 -- Eremozoic Era, Global Warming
3/13/2009 -- Spread the word! (another restaurant experience)
2/27/2009 -- Veggie burger makes fingers smell
2/24/2009 -- Consumers dictate packaging - Tropicana
2/14/2009 -- Happy Valentines Day
2/8/2009 -- To feed or not to feed
1/27/2009 -- Better than the biggest loser! :)
1/17/2009 -- Something completely unrelated
1/13/2009 -- Tapirs instead of bluebirds
12/14/2008 -- Clean coal, greenwashing
12/11/2008 -- 6.7 billion and counting
10/25/2008 -- Drill, baby, drill?
9/30/2008 -- Commonplace on credit payback
8/13/2008 -- Final bluebird report
8/8/2008 -- Number one preachy site!!
8/1/2008 -- Banning the bagging
7/19/2008 -- Even more about birds
7/18/2008 -- More bird numbers
7/14/2008 -- Bluebirds - well ... birds in general
7/9/2008 -- Major breakthrough at G8! :-D
7/6/2008 -- Beetle invasion, part II
6/24/2008 -- Attention Environmentalists!
5/31/2008 -- South Bend events
5/25/2008 -- Happy anniversary!
4/26/2008 -- The world without us
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ysmad.com green tips and "green images" :)
green tip: Buy less (new) stuff
green tip: Keep your lawn cut a bit higher
green tip: Be gentle on your heating and cooling system
green tip: Avoid one-time plastic articles like plastic bags and plastic dishes
green tip: Boycott restaurants which crank up the AC to the max
green tip: Put an energy-saving bulb in your frontyard's lamp
green tip: Don't participate in frequent traveler "mileage runs"
green tip: Remind your hotel to not change bed linens and towels
green tip: Meet virtually instead of physically
green tip: Install a thermostat
green tip: Buy local wine and beer
green tip: Repair instead of replace
green tip: Buy her more flowers for Valentines than ever!
green tip: Donate for rainforest protection
green tip: Send back unsolicited mail
green tip: Sell stuff you no longer use (or about to throw away) on ebay
green tip: Plan your refrigerator turnover
green tip: Don't use hotel soap, shampoo and lotions
green tip: Minimize water softener runs
green tip: Let common sense rule!
green tip: Pay your bills online
green tip: Carry an empty bottle to the airport
green tip: Have your own Starbuck's cup
green tip: Rechannel your golf ambitions
green tip: Defrost frozen food in the fridge
green tip: Buy products with less packaging
green tip: Don't buy things that you will find in the attic in a year
green tip: Print only what you really need printed, e.g. when printing e-mails
green tip: Avoid restaurants which serve food on disposable dishes
green tip: Sweep fertilizer from your driveway
green tip: Choose products by ecological aspects, not only look and price
green tip: Use less of everything
green tip: Set your printer's default settings
green tip: Wrap presents in old newspaper
green tip: Connect your TV, DVD, stereo etc. to an extension cord with switch
green tip: Keep a stack of old paper as scratch paper
green tip: Rake, sweep, shovel
green tip: Recognize greenwash
green tip: Make your own detergents
green tip: Clear clogged drains physically, not chemically
green tip: Make your drapes save energy
green tip: Substitute some fossil fuel with warm clothes
green tip: Lower the water heater's setting
green tip: Use half of the washer detergents
green tip: Optimize your dishwashing
green tip: Save water with a bathroom-makeover
green tip: Don't let water pass unused
green tip: Switch off the lights when you leave a room
green tip: Share what you have, borrow what you need
green tip: Accept higher gas prices
green tip: Participate in yard sales - sell and buy
green tip: Support speed limits
green tip: Turn off the air conditioners
green tip: Don't keep up with the Jones
green tip: Let life live where it belongs
green tip: Distinguish needs from luxury
green tip: Don't worry about clover on your lawn
green tip: Put pressure on your grocery store
green tip: Think about a smaller television
green tip: Spend your XMas money in something really necessary!
green tip: Pack less on your flights (save weight)
green tip: Have a pond along with your pool
green tip: Drink tea instead of coffee and beer instead of apple juice ;-)
green tip: While supporting your (domestic) pet, also support wild animals
green tip: Pack in a box when you eat out for dinner
green tip: Don't leave your car idling
green tip: Bundle up your water heater
green tip: Invest in veggie patties
green tip: Thermostats: 66/88 60/off!
green tip: Library instead of bookstore
green tip: Insulate your place
green tip: For 2 miles or less: Go by bike
green tip: Once a week, go to work by bike
green tip: Choose eggs with 100% post consumer carton packaging
green tip: Rethink packaging already packaged packages
green tip: Make Mondays meat-free (Paul McCartney campaign)
green tip: Care where your jewelery gold comes from
green tip: Leave your backyard easement unmowed
green tip: Put the squeezed lemon in the kettle
green tip: Keep your cat inside
green tip: Keep your tires properly inflated
green tip: Choose draft beer over bottled beer (over cans)
green tip: Don't release helium balloons
green tip: Watch a video before your next seafood dine-out
green tip: Write your favorite news station
ysmad.com nature pictures
image: Frog, Fernwood Botanical Garden
image: Cucumber beetle on sunflower
image: Cucumber beetle on sunflower, detail
image: Plant growing out of soaked wood
image: A *very* young tree ...
image: Shell of Purple Sea Urchin
image: Small white (unidentified) flowers
image: small purple (unidentified) wildflower
image: Small green (unidentifed) caterpillar
image: bumblebee on wildflowers
image: bumblebee on wildflowers
image: butterfly on purple flower
image: Big hoverfly on daisy mum
image: Big hoverfly on daisy mum
image: White crane, Everglades
image: small brown (unidentifed) lizard
image: A true bug on green leaves
image: unidentified plant/tree/flower
image: red and yellow bromelia
image: rainforest tree, costa rica
image: rainforest ferns, costa rica
image: rainforest tree and palms, costa rica
image: spider sunbathing on a log
image: A fiddler crab on untouched beach
image: gold ass ant - inofficial naming ...
image: bumblebee on purple flowers
image: mother duck with chicks
image: big green beetle - calosoma scrutator
image: big green beetle - calosoma scrutator
image: big green beetle - calosoma scrutator
image: swallowtail on mountain laurel
image: white flower mountain laurel
image: white flowers of mountain laurel
image: Lonely tree, Shenandoah Big Meadows
image: plant growing out of tree trunk
image: Gypsy moth caterpillar from top
image: shenandoah tree covered hills
image: butterfly on mountain laurel
image: Great Spangled Fritillary
image: sun shining through leaves
image: Tiny caterpillar, on shirt
image: Green bottle fly on marguerite
image: Green bottle fly on marguerite
image: Detail of lightning bug
image: Gray Hairstreak butterfly
image: Gray Hairstreak butterfly
image: unidentified wildflower
image: unidentified wildflower
image: Unidentified fluffy something
image: Uh it's .. eh .. PLASTIC! - beware! :)
image: unidentified wildflower
image: Feathers of an (yet) unidentified bird
image: Horse fly coloured eyes
image: Unidentified caterpillar
image: Yellow bellied sapsucker
image: Yellow bellied sapsucker
image: Tufted titmouse, singing
image: Male red-bellied wookpecker
image: Osprey, a rather poor picture of an Osprey - 06/2010 in Potato Creek State Park, IN
image: big lizard, canyon in utah
image: western tiger swallowtail
image: sea anemones, tide pool
image: moss and growth on cut tree
image: A perfect shit - eh - shot
image: Two unidentified species
image: Compound eyes of dragonfly
image: tounge of butterfly, detail
image: Monarch butterfly chrysalis
image: Young monarch butterfly
image: Young monarch butterfly
image: Young monarch butterfly
image: Young monarch butterfly