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At Balanced Life Skills we teach self-defense, it's true, but it's self-defense from a global perspective.

It's art, it's peace, it's life!

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Entries in environmental (3)

Thursday
Feb182010

Sea of Plastics

DateThursday, February 18, 2010 at 5:12AM

The sea of plastics and garbage was discovered by Captain Moore. His discovery is a reminder of our responsibility to the planet and of the connection between self defense and the environment. What is our challenge and what can we do? First we must educate ourselves and then act on what we find. After that the question is what can we do to assist in the bigger picture? I look forward to hearing your ideas.

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Thursday
Nov132008

Rain Barrel awareness at Leadership AA

DateThursday, November 13, 2008 at 5:35AM
Yesterday afternoon I had the privilege of sharing a few minutes with Leadership Anne Arundel Flagship class of 2009 at their Environmental Day.  It was being held at Arlington Echo with the wonderful staff there helping out and some great speakers.  One of the artist who has participated in our Rain Barrel event from the very beginning had provided us with a beautiful painted barrel that we auctioned off. We were able to announce the following:

  • In 2009 we are expanding our program to involve more schools including Rolling Knolls Elementary.

  • Our auction and awareness day will be held at Arlington Echo.

  • All of the proceeds of the auction will benefit Arlington Echo and their education efforts.

One more note on this project.  Recently we were able to assist the Children's Museum of Washington DC to do some painted barrels that were part of the Green Expo on November 8,9 at the convention center in DC.   They have offered to partner with us on creating barrels in 2009 and we will be working together on bringing this program to Prince George's County Schools.
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Wednesday
Jul022008

Least toxic mosquito spray

DateWednesday, July 2, 2008 at 5:49PM
Today one of our student's mom brought this information to my attention and I think it is well worth sharing. As I am sure you can imagine the only time I get to spend in the garden and working on the lawn is in the early morning and evening, when the mosquito's seem to really like to go after me. So I have tried a number of items to help prevent bites. Here are some suggestions to how to do this without hurting yourself even more with toxic ingredients. How to repel Mosquitoes Safely If you have more ideas please let me know.
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