The Gnome Home

06/24/2023

If you are interested in the yard sale, the address is 95 Breakheart Hill Rd. West Greenwich.

06/22/2023

06/22/2023

Gnome Home yard sale this Saturday 12-2. Here are some items for sale and there will be more.

03/04/2022

A little bit from the last few weeks. Have a great weekend.

03/02/2022

Kim John Payne Joins Ginny Yurich of the 1000 Hours Outside podcast to discuss The Undeclared War On Childhood. Direct links to list or watch can be found below.

Apple Podcast: https://rb.gy/dwvzlw

Spotify Podcast: https://rb.gy/iyrjgt

YouTube Video: https://rb.gy/dlf0ak

02/26/2022

We met the rescue transport bus from Mississippi last night in Danbury, CT. Meet Basin!!! The Gnomies have a new playmate.

02/11/2022

Beautiful morning

02/11/2022

A long-term study of a statewide preschool program tracked students through the sixth grade and found those who attended prekindergarten falling behind.

02/07/2022

Be Like France!!!

That’s a wrap! As of New Year's Day in France, a law banning supermarkets and other shops from selling plastic-wrapped fruits and vegetables went into effect. A total of 30 types of fruit and vegetables will be banned from having any plastic wrapping, including bananas, pears, lemons, oranges and kiwis. Packs over 1.5kg will be exempt, as will chopped or processed fruit. Some varieties, including cherry tomatoes or soft fruits such as raspberries and blueberries, will be given longer for producers to find alternatives to plastic, but plastic packaging will be gradually phased out for all whole fruits and vegetables by 2026. France is taking the lead globally with its law to gradually phase out all single-use plastics by 2040. Spain will introduce a ban on plastic packaging of fruit and vegetables from 2023. For years, international campaigners have said unnecessary plastic packaging is causing environmental damage and pollution at sea.

This is a great step in reducing the unnecessary use of plastics and plastic pollution. And since plastics are produced from fossil fuels, it's a step in the right direction in the fight against climate change. Despite all the talk about the environmental hazards of plastics in the U.S., it just been that: a lot of hot air. There is no reason to be wrapping everything under the sun in plastics. It's just stupid and we need to stop it in the U.S. too.

READ: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/31/thats-a-wrap-french-plastic-packaging-ban-for-fruit-and-veg-begins