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July Solar Sipper Sense newsletter

Solar Sipper Sense July 2010. Since 1985, originally Puddles newsletter, blog copy at puddlesweblog.com. Dedicated to clean drinking water resources for animals.. Published by Happy Bird Corporation, solarsippers.com. Comment, cancel, to Tom Hollyday, editor, at tomah@solarsippers.com or by mail at PO Box 86, Weston, MA 02493.
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The big warning to all us humans: Natural gas may not be the answer to our energy prayers after all. See, to get a lot of it requires a process called fracking. That process is essentially pumping chemicals and water deep underground to fracture rock and release gas. Trouble is, the chemicals used are unregulated most places and may poison our drinking water supply in the big gas reservoir sites in the Rockies and in a belt from West Virginia through Maryland up to New York. If you want to learn about this, check out Congressweb.com and the Izaak Walton League. Don’t forget to read the current article in Popular Mechanics about energy sources. You’ll have your eyes opened, that is, if we can still rely on good old Popular Mechanics information.

Applause please! The confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes strongly opposed the plan in Montana to expand route 93 into a four lane highway believing it would harm their land and its diverse animal population. Finally the legislature gave in and set up 40 strategic wildlife crossings and cut the length of the highway expansion 75 percent.

Kudos to us. Our new Solar Sipper Model 10003 Garden Blue Wild Bird unit just hit the front cover of Birding Business. Not bad for a little veteran owned solar company in this world of oil energy. Non-profits-Take advantage of our 2010 government and non-profit discount program. Clean water is a right for animals and let’s make it happen, whether you use a Solar Sipper all season non-electric covered water station or whether you use a tin pan, as long as it is cleaned and filled daily. We’re becoming popular in farming too. For free ranging poultry, farmers are buying safe Solar Sippers because the units have no electrical wires.

Happy Bird Publishing news by Virginia: We write “green themes.” We’re very interested in the soon to be announced Google Editions program. Our books will be soon be available to you in a fully green way- no special readers to buy-you can download our books to any software and even read them on your smart phone. We’ll print on paper as long as folks want it but we look to ebooks as the energy future. Welcome to new vendors of our Powerboat Racer at library.com, drivethrupg.com and ereadable.com. Our upcoming novel Gold will be on ebook sites and on Amazon paperback. Enjoy Animal Viewpoint cartoons.

Interesting upcoming events:
Birdfair 2010, Eagleton, Rutland, UK, August 20-22, 2010
Commerce Trade show, Baltimore, MD, September 21-23, 2010
Goldcrest Distributing Open House, Mexico, MO October 5-7, 2010
American Birding Association, Providence, RI October 3-8, 2010
Independent Garden Center Show, Navy Pier, Chicago, August 17-19, 2010
Backer Christmas Pet Show, Chicago, October 2010
Poultry –Ohio National Meet November 13-14 2010 www.ohionational.org
2010 World Water Week, Stockholm, September 5-11, 2010
ISAR International Homeless Animals’ Day, August 21, 2010

dhh on 07.11.10 @ 01:26 PM EST [link] [1 Comment]

Solar Sipper Sense June 2010 newsletter

Solar Sipper Sense June 2010. Since 1985, originally Puddles newsletter, blog copy at puddlesweblog.com. Dedicated to clean drinking water resources for animals.. Published by Happy Bird Corporation, solarsippers.com. Comment, cancel, to Tom Hollyday, editor, at tomah@solarsippers.com or by mail at PO Box 86, Weston, MA 02493.

The big warning to us humans: This month we all learned once again just how close we are to destroying life on our planet. In this little newsletter we concentrate on water resources for animals but the Gulf oil spill affects all living things, not only water supplies but food too. Here’s some ideas on oil pollution paraphrased from Mark Jeantheau’s article at “grinning planet.com” When oil gets in water some of the components are degraded by evaporation, photochemical reactions or bacterial degradation. Others are persistent and may last for years especially in muddy sediments in shallows. Exposure to oil can alter the ecology of aquatic habitats and the physiology of marine organisms. Oil can hide in sediments, away from sunlight needed to break it down, for decades and affect marsh grasses and marine worms. The components called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) persist and are toxic, affecting development, susceptibility to disease and reproductive cycles of many marine species. In the Valdez spill marine mammals, seas ducks and some fish species suffered high mortality for years after the spill because they ate invertebrates contaminated by the hidden oil. Ed. Maybe we will all end up swallowing some of the poison.

Applause please! We just found out from our ASPCA newsletter that the New York City horse drawn carriages have been proposed to be phased out and the horses might be eventually spared from working in and breathing the noxious fumes of New York traffic. We love horse drawn carriages but keep the animals away from engine fumes please.

Non-profits-Take advantage of the 2010 government and non-profit discount program. Clean water is a right for animals and let’s make it happen, whether you use a Solar Sipper all season non-electric covered water station or whether you use a tin pan, as long as it is cleaned and filled daily. Remember that Solar Sippers can also be used to water your free ranging poultry.

Happy Bird Publishing news by Virginia: We print “green themes.” If you are not getting your monthly The Animal Viewpoint cartoon, don’t be left out of good humor. Send along your email to receive them free. Check out our fan pages at Facebook under “solar sipper” and under “hollyday mystery romances”. In addition all our “green” books are listed on their own fan pages as Slave Graves, Magnolia Gods and Powerboat Racer. Don’t forget each book can be easily downloaded in ebook form on your smart phone or Blackberry with the pdf app. Our newest novel Gold will be on eBook sites and on Amazon as a paperback.

Interesting upcoming shows:
Birdfair 2010, Eagleton, Rutland, UK, August 20-22, 2010
Goldcrest Distributing Open House, Mexico, MO October 5-7, 2010
Commerce Trade show, Baltimore, MD, September 21-23, 2010
American Birding Association, Providence, RI October 3-8, 2010
Independent Garden Center Show, Navy Pier, Chicago, August 17-19, 2010
Backer Christmas Pet Show, Chicago, October 2010
Poultry –Ohio National Meet November 13-14 2010 www.ohionational.org

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