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Archive for May, 2010

Week 21: Our Adoption

Posted in Animal Conservation & Welfare, Environment, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on May 27, 2010 | 5 Comments »

Ugo Blanco was born on February 12, 2007, in Bukit Lawang, on Indonesia’s Northern island of Sumatra, a popular tourist destination known for its easy-going pace and jungle treks. Tragically, Ugo’s mother, Fifri, died while giving birth, leaving Ugo without known family. Luckily, he was found and moved to the Batu Mbelin Centre where he [...]

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WWTT: Chickens have breasts too!

Posted in breast Cancer, reproductive health, women's health, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »

What Were They Thinking? If you haven’t already heard, KFC (whose name, I’m sorry, still stands for Kentucky FRIED Chicken, to me) has teamed up with Susan G. Komen for the Cure (you know, that organization that’s building breast cancer awareness?). 5,000 KFC restaurants (and I use the term “restaurants” loosely), will be serving up their [...]

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Week 20: Retrospective

Posted in Children - Chronically Ill, click-to-donate, Eco-Friendly, Education, Energy-Efficiency, Environment, Homeless, Micro-financing, Random Acts of Kindness, Search-to-donate, Water conservation on May 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »

I admit it. There have been times when we’ve said, “what have we gotten ourselves into?!!” “Life Happens,” and not always at moments when it’s convenient. Twice during the first 20 weeks we’ve had to scale back our expectations due to illness, household “disaster” or just plain fatigue. But, we’re proud to say that we [...]

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Week 19: Stop Junk Mail

Posted in carbon footprint, Eco-Friendly, Environment, Junk Mail, tagged , on May 14, 2010 |

Despite the challenges that recently rained upon us, Week 18 wasn’t a complete wash (Ha ha!). We did, indeed, send a small donation to the National Wildlife Federation to help protect the wildlife and environment impacted by the Gulf oil spill; we also sent off a letter to President Obama asking him to reinstate the ban [...]

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The Road to Hell

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on May 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Beginning of Week 18, we were filled with our usual weekly good intentions and high hopes! We’ve since decided to just be happy that we made it through 17 weeks with few hitches. You see, mid-Week 18, Nils shuffled into the apartment, in slo-mo removed his suit jacket, and dragged himself down the hallway to [...]

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Week 18: Helping Wildlife Here and There

Posted in Eco-Friendly, Environment, tagged , , on May 4, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Initially, this week’s Impact Effort was simple and local. No grand intentions, no politics or philosophy. We were just going to do our small part in our community. But reading about and watching this environmental disaster in the Gulf Coast has made “simple” difficult. Since April 20, the oil spill has been growing like a cancer, killing [...]

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Week 17: Impacting Kids, Follow-up

Posted in Children, Education, tagged , , , on May 3, 2010 |

Choosing DonorsChoose.org last week as our avenue for Impact made for another “can’t beat” kind of Impact Effort. Much like in Week 8: Brighten a Child’s Day when we sent cards to ill or hospitalized children, choosing children to give to was no simple task. Though a few of the projects we found on the [...]

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May MIC: Random Acts of Kindness

Posted in Monthly Impact Challenges (MIC), Random Acts of Kindness, tagged , , , , on May 3, 2010 | 8 Comments »

Whether your life or those around you are touched, whether you read or watch the news or not, you can’t help but know that worldwide, the economy is less than stellar. It’s causing anxiety for many and, sadly, even hopelessness and depression. And, we believe that the disturbing initiatives in some States in the U.S. [...]

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