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Eco-Cooking

As you may know, I am a Vegetarian. But You don't have to be Vegetarian to eat naturally. Many of you probably live near a Farmer's market. Farmer's Markets are great places to find fresh, organic vegetables that will add tons of nutritional value to your meals. By cutting down on traveling foods, and adding more local salads and a lot of Quinoa (A mix between rice and pasta) to your diet, you can help the environment without being totally Vegetarian or Vegan. Traveling foods are foods that come from far away places, like Asia, or even Mexico. These foods use up tons of gasses, labor and energy to get to your plate.

Phosphates

Phosphates are a big problem in the world. They kill off fish, and cause Algal blooms. Phosphates are chemicals, often found in fertilizers, Phosphates are now getting into protected waters, and killing of endangered sea life. The phosphates are becoming one of the largest fish-consumed chemicals.  An Algal bloom is when phosphates leak into a body of water and the Algae decides to stock up on the nutrients in the phosphates, which are actually good for the Algae. The Algae takes up all of the oxygen and the fish and other inhabitants of the lake, stream, etc. die off from lack of air in the water. There is a limited amount of space for the Algae, so they soon die. 

WWF Earth Hour

Please join earth hour, it starts tonight at 8:30pm your time. I am doing it, so please sign up! Earth Hour is a whole hour where people all over the world turn of all lights. The Eiffel Tower in France is participating, so is the Empire State building! Please do it to save the Earth and energy! Please join here! Thanks!

Unlikely Friends

In Kenya, Africa innumerable pods of hippos roam along the Sabaki River. Massive rains come every December and flood the nearby rivers. On December 26, 2004 high waves from the ocean washed a small one-year old hippo out to sea. Villagers in the area tried to pull the baby hippo on to their fishing boats to save him from drowning. A man named Owen Sobien finally tackled the hippo and go him to a safe area. The villagers thought that since Owen Sobien saved the hippo Owen was a good name for him. After the hippo had settled down they needed to find a good home. The villagers didn't know where Owen's pod was so they could not return him to his family. The villagers called Haller Park, an animal sanctuary in Mombasa. Dr. Paula Kahumbu, who is the manager welcomed Owen and gave him a place to live in Haller Park. The area chosen for Owen was a very large enclosure, which was already home to a variety of animals including vervet monkeys, bushbucks and a 130 year-old Aldabra tortoise named Mzee. Mzee preferred to be alone, and no one expected what would happen next. When the staff at Haller Park put Owen in his enclosure Mzee didn't like all of the attention that Owen was getting so he walked away. Then Owen started to follow him. That night they were found sleeping next to each other. With Mzee's help Owen began to eat and drink. Some people think that Owen sees Mzee as a father or mother. Some think Owen sees Mzee as another hippo. Some think that they are just good friends.

This article was based off of Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff and Dr. Paula Kahumbu's book, Owen and Mzee

Komodo Dragons

Far off in the country of Indonesia, only 3,000-6,000 Komodo Dragons survive. They live high up in the trees when they are young and eat insects or other small lizards. If one comes down, a full grown Komodo Dragon snaps it up. They are its own kind, but are a tasty snack. Not many young Komodo Dragons survive and humans are killing adult Komodo Dragons for their skin. Now, it is illegal to kill a Komodo Dragon. You can also help, adopt a Komodo Dragon on Smithsonian national zoological park! http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Support/AdoptSpecies/AnimalInfo/KDragon/default.cfm

Written by Julia Acton

Newsletter-1/18/12

Here is the link to the first Ecological Cupcake Newsletter. I hope you enjoy the stories and maybe even enter a contest! Thank You so much and enjoy the rest of the week! Download Newsletter

Contest of the week

This week's contest is to enter your best picture of snow, this can be anything from your cousin as a snowman or your favorite pet playing in the snow! Please post your entrees as comments until I get an email for you to send them to, and remember that this contest is running from now to January 23rd 2012. Have fun taking those snow pictures!

WELCOME!

Hi, welcome to my blog the Ecological Cupcake! I hope you enjoy finding tips and tricks on making your life a little more Eco-friendly one step at a time. Soon we will have our first newsletter coming out and a new site! Thanks for all of your support and I hope to be hearing from you soon!