Great Love Songs #8 to #14 for February Facebook Meme

Happy Valentine’s Day!

In late January, I proposed a Facebook meme to share a love song a day for February that contains Valentine’s Day.

The first seven songs I had shared can be found through this link.

Below is the second set of seven great love songs of my list and some short commentary with each.

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Earth Day Pledge Goals #3 and #4 Update – Food Miles Calculations Revised

For Earth Day 2010, I made a pledge to eat better.

I then defined “better” with four specific goals.

This is an update on goals #3 and #4.

The old Goal #3 was to take a food miles inventory in fall, winter and spring.

The old Goal #4 was improve upon my food miles average from (late) fall to spring when the abundance of local produce might be similar. This was to show I had incorporated more local food and fresh food into my diet.

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Earth Day Pledge Update #2 – My Farmers’ Market Experience

For Earth Day 2010, I made a pledge to eat better.

I then defined “better” with four specific goals.

This is an update on goal #1, which was to spend more money on groceries at the farmers’ markets than in the grocery and other stores. That’s without having to go to extremes of not eating what I want or paying unreasonable prices for similar products in the grocery stores.

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