by Susan | Dec 13, 2009 | Climate change and frogs, Environmental Health, Frog Conservation, frog gifts, Frog People, FrogBlogRoll, How You Can Help, Learn about Frogs, Literary Amphibians, Living a Frog-Friendly Life
At this time of year, we’d like to stop and say thank you to all the visitors we’ve had, and to those who’ve joined our cause. While you’re shopping for loved ones in the next week or so, we hope you’ll remember all the great...
by Susan | Nov 16, 2009 | Environmental Health, How You Can Help, Living a Frog-Friendly Life, People Helping Frogs and Toads
The falling leaves drift by the window The autumn leaves of red and gold —from the song Autumn Leaves Recently we had a post about how “messy backyards” help wildlife. Since I wrote that post, I came across a wonderful article, “Leaf litter is...
by Susan | Nov 10, 2009 | Chemicals in the Environment, Environmental Books, Environmental Health, How You Can Help
This review is part of the Green Books campaign. Today 100 bloggers are reviewing 100 great books printed in an environmentally friendly way. Our goal is to encourage publishers to get greener and readers to take the environment into consideration when purchasing...
by Susan | Nov 7, 2009 | Deforestation and frogs, Environmental Health, Frogs and the Rainforest, Rainforest Frogs, Uncategorized
In early September, we wrote a post about The Prince’s Rainforest Project contest to name its rainforest frog mascot. I’ve just learned that they picked a name: Orifiel, which means angel of the forest. I did a little research because I had never heard of...
by Susan | Jul 20, 2009 | Chemicals in the Environment, Environmental Health, Living a Frog-Friendly Life
Last week I wrote about Atrazine, an endocrine disruptor used widely in pesticides. These chemicals, which mimic human hormones, have been connected with genital deformities in fish, frogs, and possibly newborn baby boys. This week I’m writing about endocrine...
by Susan | Jul 16, 2009 | Chemicals in the Environment, Environmental Health, Frog People
In my post Rachel Carson’s Legacy, I wrote about widely-used chemicals called endocrine disruptors that are causing deformities in fish and frogs, and are linked to an increase in genital deformities in newborn baby boys. When reading about endocrine disruptors,...
