Amy Currioman

I was reading an article on a friend’s blog about an article she read on Time.com’s website that the PETA organization wrote a letter to Ben & Jerry’s telling them that they should stop using milk from cows to make their ice cream, and instead use human breast milk to make their ice cream! Knowing that you can get gallons of milk from a cow in only a few minutes of milking, and knowing that you can only get about four ounces of milk from a human in about twenty minutes, the feasibility of the logistics of such an endeavor is really absurd! I’ve been to a dairy farm and watched the cows get milked with the milk machines, and there is nothing cruel about milking a cow! I think someone has a little bit too much time on their hands!

Over the years I’ve learned some interesting things about tricks restaurants use on their customers. A long time ago I read some literature about how different colors effect different moods. For example, red, yellow and orange are “high energy” colors and are often used in fast food restaurants because the restaurants know that those colors will encourage the customers to eat quickly and leave (making room for more customers) and the “high end” restaurants will often use “calming” colors such as blues and greens to encourage their customers to linger longer (perhaps order more alcohol which is their big money maker) and order dessert, relaxing and enjoying their meal and the company they are keeping.

I was just reading an article on the Time.com website about “what makes you eat more food” and was surprised to read that one of the things that makes you eat more food in restaurants is that most restaurants turn their thermometers to cooler temperatures. When the body is cold, a natural reaction to warm up is to eat more food. So the restaurants are trying to get you to eat more food by making their customers cold!

I’ve made a point lately of trying to find ways to save the environment as much as possible.  I try to research the companies that I do business with and try to pick the ones that are the most environmentally responsible.  That’s why I was so interested to find out that there are some web hosting service companies that make a real effort to “go green.”  I found out about these green web hosting companies when I visited the webhostinggeeks.com website.  I was looking for reviews and ratings on web hosting companies, and found exactly what I needed on their website.

I also was very pleased to see that at the bottom of their website they have links to a lot of helpful articles about web hosting.  I liked that because I could learn a lot about web hosting without having to search a lot of different places.  The articles are written in “layman’s terms” so that made it a lot easier to understand.  If you are interested in learning more about web hosting, or are thinking about finding a new web hosting service, this website is a good place to check out.

I was reading an article in The Washington Times newspaper today about how a lot of companies that claim to be “green” are not actually “green.” It was a very informative article, but very disturbing too. I get very disturbed when I learn how so many unscrupulous companies are trying to jump on the bandwagon of saying they are green when they are not. I don’t like being deceived – not one bit! So I am going to be more vigilant in finding out what products I buy are really “green” or not. And if I find out that they are claiming to be “green” when they are not I plan to write some letters of complaint.

Over the past year, I’ve been trying to buy a few CFL bulbs every week.  I’ve been doing it slowly because they are pretty expensive and my budget can’t accommodate the shock of buying a whole lot of them at once.  So, I’ve been slowly replacing my standard incandescent light bulbs with the new CFL bulbs.  I had a hard time finding 3-way bulbs.  In fact, I didn’t even realize that they made them until a friend told me that she had some!  So, I started searching everywhere in town that sells light bulbs and finally found them at Ace Hardware.  I bought enough of them to put in all of our 3-way lamps.  I hope that these will save as much energy as they claim they will!