Humans have a huge impact on the life of this planet! How can we minimize the impact? What are you doing to help?
Just living our everyday lives of work, family and play, most of us don't even realize the true impact we are having on our beautiful planet! Just to get started and to set the mood for the information within this site, we would like for you to watch this video of Michael Jackson's Earth Song, a good mood setter for the topics on our Crying Earth and what we can do to help stop the pain!
There is a lot of information on the web about buying local to keep the money near home and boost the local economy. Keeping money flowing is what ignites the economy, but if that money leaves it just ignites someone else’s economy. In other words, the money flows away instead of flowing within the community. [...]
Sunday 4/22/2012 was Earth Day and there were all sorts of activities, exhibits and festive events taking place to promote earth friendly living. My wife and I attended an event as well at the pier in Fairhope, Alabama and it was a great day. We went to the Earth Day event and checked out all [...]
Here in South Alabama we have abundant wildlife. There are many different species of birds, mammals and reptiles. This area is especially well known for the american alligator. There is one area that the alligators come in from Mobile Bay up into a stream in a very public area with busy streets over the stream. [...]
I consider myself to be more of an optimist than a pessimist, but there are times when it becomes hard to maintain that positive outlook, especially when I take a hard look at the direction humanity is headed. It appears to me that as technology advances the human race digresses in common sense. Why would [...]
Hello folks! Last week I posted an article about the imported fire ants and no one commented. What’s up? Didn’t like the article? Please, post a comment whether it is positive or negative, we need the feedback so we can give you what you want. In regards to last week’s article, the fire ants are [...]
During my college experience one class that left a lasting impression on me was “People, Earth and the Environment.” Sounds boring to many, but I found it extremely interesting. Although I have always been interested in being kind to this planet, this class was a real eye opener. One of the topics that really caught [...]
Are solar powered homes something many of us may see in our near future? Not likely unless the prices drop drastically! Currently Americans pay anywhere from $800-$1000/year or more for electricity depending on the size of the home, electrical devices the home has in it, cost per kwh (kilowatt hour = 10000 watts of power [...]
I love to watch National Geographic (video on media page), since they not only show great wildlife shows, but they are also great supporters of living green. Recently they had a show that truly displayed how we contribute to the deaths of many animals without realizing the harm we are doing. Lake Griffin in central [...]
When we began research on the condition of our planet what we quickly discovered truly opened our eyes to how the mere existence of humans was severely impacting this condition. We cannot deny that we are included in those that have contributed to the decline of the planet. How we were polluting our most needed [...]
The idea of Crying Earth began with a concern that the idea of living an earth friendly lifestyle is not real high on the priority list for most. With the United States current financial status and the global economy in it’s poor state, living green does not seem to some to be important at this [...]
