We’re green…

that is to say we’re naive about this whole environmental awareness, save the world, go ‘green’ thing. My daughter’s 4th grade class has been spending the last month becoming aware of the global effects of pollution on the environment as they get ready for ‘Focus the Nation’ day - today. Our family has been in the process of changing the way we get to school, how we pack lunches and what we set the table with.Of course we’ve used the web as a resource to find out things - lots of things that we didn’t know about. For example, the students have been told to replace plastic snack bags by using plastic containers - but that sure makes for a very large lunch box. We thought about wax paper bags - except we didn’t know if they were biodegradable and neither did the teachers.That is how our research began. We then looked into replacing plastic water bottles with those colorful water bottles that you can re-use. From what we could find out, they could be potentially toxic, too. Looks like we might have to go back to those old thermos bottles we used to use - the ones with the glass inside that always shattered and made funny noises in your lunch- remember those?Its pretty interesting stuff wondering what is better for the environment and balancing that with what is healthy or convenient for you. You can’t just assume that the popular method is the way to go.If you’d like to find out if wax paper bags are an alternative or what types of plastic are safe for your kids - click on the livebinder below:

Green efforts

The Dreaded Mission Project

If you have a child in the California public school system, you will someday face the dreaded mission project. This is a project where the child needs to build a scale model of one of the California missions. My daughter recently embarked on this project so she, of course, started with a Google search.I need to learn to not let her search on Google! Spam sites popped up - trying to load spyware and there was even a porn site in the results! I told her I would do the broad searches for her and put them in a binder. Then she could delete things from the binder and organize it into tabs that will be useful for her. Too bad she can’t turn in her digital binder for her report!

Click on the binders below to see sites for the different missions.

Mission Dolores

Mission San Diego de Alcala

Mission Santa Barbara

Mission San Carlos Borromeo d…

Mission San Luis Obispo de To…

Welcome to the LiveBinders Blog

Tina and I are embarking on an adventure to find the 1000s of lost bookmarks in the world. Our website already houses many of these lost bookmarks in lovely little homes called LiveBinders. Come take a look. Here is one of my most recent finds…

Every year I go to an academy awards party, even though I have never seen most of the movies. I normally frantically search the web for trailers, but this time I’m ahead of the game. I have all the trailers rounded up into this handy livebinder so I can study before the party!

Academy Award Nominations