today's roundup

 The Christian Science Monitor reports on global warming becoming a "Hotter Issue in Red States"

Tel Shemesh is adopting a salt marsh in Jamaica Bay, Queens to help in its restoration, which protects the New York shoreline and hosts many kinds of animals and plants. The salty marsh has been damaged in recent years and a large-scale effort is underway to repair it. Our task will be to remove the marsh straw that has collected in a fence placed to protect plant growth, so that the new plants can grow. We will also be learning about the salt marsh, sharing lunch, and singing. Our intention will be to heal the earth in our community and to welcome the rebirth of spring.

BZ reports on ridiculous English spellings of Tu Bishvat.

BJ announces their annual women's retreat which will be at by second home, the beautiful Isabella Freedman Retreat Center in Falls Village, CT (which has a lake, 400 acres of beautiful hiking AND a hot tub).

Read here and here about my friend JR's ridiculous way of celebrating V-day: beautifying Toronto's Queen Street with "love, love, love in the form of pink painted hearts all over the sidewalks."