Take Action!: How to Help After Hurricane Harvey

Educate, Advocate, & Donate! In an emergency, donations & volunteers are always needed. But donate & volunteer responsibly. Always research a charity before supporting it. Ask them what their needs are first. There are many ways your skills can help. My favorite source for evaluations is Charity Navigator… Charities Providing Assistance in the Wake of

An Inconvenient Sequel Needs More Convenient Solutions, Especially Before the Flood

I waited for “An Inconvenient Sequel” to show us solutions, but instead it spends too much time showing us how much worse the problem has gotten since the first movie. I did download Gore’s Truth in 10 slideshow because it has useful, concise information. But honestly, this would get him a decent grade in a

Think Before You Share & Post!

The “Think Before You Donate” chart is a hoax! Apparently this awful hoax email/meme has been circulated since 2005! http://www.goodwill.org/…/think-before-you-donate-and…/ http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/charities.asp http://skepdic.com/charitieshoaxemail.html Below is my initial response to the chart, before a quick search yielded the above info on the hoax. I still hope we can track down the original source, since who knows why