New category on The Canary Report “Resources” page: Environmental Health
October 21, 2008 by Susie Collins · Leave a Comment
I’ve developed a new category on the Resources page: Environmental Health. Let me know if you’d like to see something added to this new category or any other!
Environmental Health
Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation: Your Home & Your Health
Enviroblog
Environmental Health NewsEnvironmental Health Perspectives
Switchboard: Jennifer Sass’s Blog (National Resources Defense Council)
The Center for School Mold Help
The Collaborative on Health and the Environment
U.S. Air Now (Current air quality in United States)
Thanks, Linda, for suggesting CMHC!
The canary is taking a one day break
September 7, 2008 by Susie Collins · Leave a Comment
No posts today, I’m kicking back, off to bed early. If you want to amuse yourselves, check out the comment section on this Aug 10 post. It’ll make you WILD. Would love to hear your thoughts!
My apologies to my loyal readers
August 26, 2008 by Susie Collins · 2 Comments
My bad.
Early this morning at 2 a.m., bleary and exhausted, while trying to figure out how to control the massive amounts of spam comments that were flooding the site, I accidentally deleted ALL the comments of the past few weeks. MAJOR BUMMERS. I got so mad at myself because there was so much information in the comments that loyal visitors had left: info about air filters and kitty litter and childhood trauma from chemical cleansers. I know the commentors took time and thought to write these comments and as host it’s my responsibility to protect and honor your input, a bloggers creed. I’m so sorry!
There’s a possibility that the comments are hiding somewhere in a cache that I don’t know how to access. But I have a bad feeling that the cache function wasn’t activated. The loss of your thoughts is especially annoying because, with the help of a member of the Canary flock, I had improved the comments a bit yesterday by fixing the avatar function so that people with Gravatar accounts have their photo show up with their comments– I was so happy about that.
Anywho, thanks everybody for your patience while I learn how to do this. Thank you so much for your support and encouragement, it means a lot to me. I’m not very geeky, so it’s a steep learning curve. I look at the pages of code and settings and have immediate brain freeze. So please continue leaving comments and I promise not to accidentally check that stupid little box that marks a whole chunk of good comments as spam and sends them to to the ether.
PS I hope to have a link to the comments function under each post on the blog page soon (right now you have to click on the individual post to access the comments). And I have lots of other plans for more user-friendly widgets and information… stay tuned!
The canary is taking a break
July 18, 2008 by Susie Collins · Leave a Comment
The canary is taking some time off from the website this week to regroup and reconnect with family. Please sign up for email updates (at right, below featured video), and you’ll be notified when the next post is made. Meanwhile you can explore the archives, and check out the new “Resources” page — see tab at the top menu bar — for oodles and oodles of links. More soon!
The canary is taking a break
July 10, 2008 by Susie Collins · Leave a Comment
07/11/08 I’m taking some time away from keyboard, much needed.
Meanwhile, you might have some fun exploring:
- A high fizz blog about living healthy at Eco-Chick
- Some tips on choosing the right water bottle at Enviroblog
- Fresh handmade cosmetics at Lush
- A blog I absolutely adore that has nothing at all to do with MCS (yes, I do have other interests besides my health)
- A total gross out report on Sleep Number beds
- And if that isn’t enough, here’s a vid of a Falling Water Cocktail Making Machine that I snitched from Laughing Squid (also nothing to do with MCS, it’s just a warm up for time off..):
More soon!