what are you doing localy to make this world a better place?

Answer 1

I garden organically, I have an old-fashioned reel lawn mower (no gas engine, uses your muscles for energy), I never litter, I recycle everything that can be (and it is a lot!), all errands are grouped together and I go out once a week to do them. I plant lots & lots of trees! and flowers.

Answer 2

Weekend plans.
I'm planning on finishing the bedroom renovations for a ten year old autistic kid who eats the plaster off the walls and smears his feces every night. We tore out the remaining 1/3 of the plaster and lath and installed 5/8 OSB then glued down 4x8 sheets of fiberglass to the walls. Before my five foster sons and I got home, the mom called to say that her son had ripped the fiberglass panels off the wall and tore them up. So we went back the next day and it was no more pretty walls, now it was bullet proof walls. The kid taught us our engineering was inadequate. So we cut more Fiberglas panels but this time, after we glued them in place, we screwed 3 inch molding to the top, 8 inch baseboard (painted white) to the bottom, THEN we installed inch and a half aluminum strips over the seams between panels. We also put beads of caulk under each strip and piece of wood to make them water and poop proof.
This weekend my sons and I are going to install a subdued light green vinyl floor over quarter inch under layment then caulk the seams and install quarter round trim on the floor. We are also going to build a low platform covered with vinyl flooring on top and fiberglass on the side as a bed frame to support the vinyl covered detention center grade mattress.
Anybody know of a good solution for cleaning human feces prior to installing the underlayment?

Answer 3

Wow, I gotta follow the silence of the lambs? Try bleach and iron bars.

Everywhere in California I go, I hear people speaking a foreign language. I remind them that every time a country has two languages, civil war follows. In this way I attempt to bing unity, harmony, the gorgeous mosiac, while attempting to avoid the horrors of war at home.

I also counsel rude drivers, as necessary. I'm getting quite good at it but my voice is getting scratchy from all the yelling.

:-)

Answer 4

I am teaching my kids to show others respect, not to judge others, and not to stand by when someone is being mistreated.