New Moon Risings

Thanks to income from Helikas, donations were made to the following charitable organization in the first quarter of 2007:

Natural Resources Defense Council
National Wildlife Federation
Arizona Humane Society’s Spring Spay & Neuter Drive

We look forward to continuing to make donations to improve the world we live in and we sincerely thank all Helikas customers for their support.

Beginning April 1, Activ8 will be updated on the first of each month.
New articles, links and completely new features will grace each issue. Previous features will be moved to an archive section sorted by date of issue.

Shop Consciously links seem to be of greatest interest to readers and buying green is a great way to send the message that the Green Movement isn’t just a passing fad, so look for those links to be more efficiently categorized in the future.

Incidentally, the color scheme will revert to orange. Green is ecology but orange is action!

Now and then I find a bit of information interesting enough to add to the BoL. These are just that, interesting tidbits.

Info added to Chapter XII Magic & Ritual Quarters, Elements and Watchers :: Elementals

Marie Laveau, a country song performed by Bobby Bare, tells a tale of the famous voodoo queen of New Orleans. The lyrics can be found in Chapter IX History under Prominent Pagans :: Past

Our latest headline was both difficult and hopeful.

Hopeful in that I do sincerely thank DA Howard for seeking harsher pentalties in cases of animal abuse and in this case in particular. His actions and those who stop for 30 seconds to sign the peition may just influence the laws in other jurisdictions around the country.

Difficult in that I can’t begin to fathom the mental process that brought these two teenage boys to torture then bake a puppy to death. I hope that during their prison time, these two feel 100% of the pure terror and pain that that poor creature felt at their hands.

Does any of that sound harsh? I don’t care. Should I not judge their behaviour because “it is not my place to judge” Bullshit!

Ghandi said that a society can be judged by the way it treats its animals (paraphrasing). If that is the case, what does this incident say about the society and parents that raised these two monsters? That there needs to be more severe pentalties in the slim hope of preventing future incidents of animal cruelty says something to me about the mentality of people in this country, about those who commit the acts and those who sit quietly by and do nothing when they witness incidents of abuse.

After you sign the petition, and I do hope everyone who visits A8 does sign, check out the link on the left to The BioDaVersity Code, an entertaining take on the DaVinci Code that explores how interdependant nature really is.

Links have been added to A8’s Link Library. Eco-conscious brides and grooms might like to check out the three new links in Shop Consciously.

With the weather warming, I’ve been poking around in my garden, which inspired me to add a how to about Container Composting. Even those of us in apartments or with little space to spare can create our own deep, rich, organic compost that our gardens will just love!