Author Archives: mcoltezo

Gifts Not Garbage

We’re nearly through the biggest shopping season of the year. I wrote some thoughts about this a couple years ago but I thought they may be useful again this year. Please let me know what you think in the comments. … Continue reading

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Bird-Window Collisions Taking Their Toll

Ten years ago this August, I began a short documentary film project in Toronto, Canada, which I finished the following spring. With my camera, I followed people I’d only just met, down streets and around corners. They were scanning, listening, … Continue reading

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Pin Pricks

Happy Earth Month!  I’ve been thinking about easy things we can do to help our planet.  They may seem small but if we all do them, the effect will be incredible.  Thus I have written this for your consideration: If … Continue reading

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Chemical Scents: They’re Everywhere!

I’ve written about chemical scents and health impacts in posts such as “Snake Oil?” but not recently. When I read Dr. Molot’s post recently, I just knew I wanted to share it and now was as good a time as … Continue reading

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Is Your Java for the Birds?

What does your morning java have to do with birds? Possibly a whole lot. And if you are like many who love birds and love seeing them in your yard and hearing them in the forests and meadows, you may … Continue reading

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Corn Gave My Son Depression

I came across this blog article recently and was stunned by her story. I thought that perhaps others might benefit from her sharing of how corn affects her son. Corn is everywhere. You have to go to great lengths to … Continue reading

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Pipe Dreams and Foolish Experiments

Recently I attended a presentation and consultation meeting about a pipeline that is being proposed north of where I live.  The proposal is to connect the Alberta Tar Sands to the east coast of Canada in order to ship the … Continue reading

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A Plethora of Possibilities

The good news about so many bad things happening to our environment is there are so many options to pick from for jumping in and adding your voice and energy to help. I’m an optimist and I like to find … Continue reading

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Knowledge is power

I saw this post about chemicals in our lives by the co-author of a compelling book and I wanted to share it with you. Chemicals have severely invaded our everyday life. Some have said we’re living an experiment and we’re … Continue reading

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Conflicting values

I live in conflict and only just realized it!  I live in a wee bit of clutter but I’m always working at tidying it up.  I move things here.  Tidy things there.  Organize shelves.  Re-organize closets.  It goes on and … Continue reading

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