by Michael Smith (Veshengro) May 1st to May 9th, 2010 is National Real Bread Maker Week in Britain. If so, the first ever National Real Bread Maker Week is the time to dig it out and use it to bake Real Bread or pass it on to someone who will. Tags: bread machine real bread National Real Bread Maker Week MORE >>

Colusa National Wildlife Refuge is part of the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex in California’s Central Valley. This complex consists of five national wildlife refuges (NWR) and three wildlife management areas (WMA) that comprise over 35,000 acres of wetlands and uplands. There www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYPyMs3_v88 MORE >>

The national bird of Sweden is the Blackbird Turdus merula , otherwise known as the Common Blackbird or Eurasian Blackbird , though, of course, in Sweden it is not known by any of those names but as Koltrast.* The Blackbird became the Swedish national bird as a result of a newspaper poll in 1962. MORE >>

NATIONAL TREE WEEK 2011 (26th November – 4th December) Planting one tree may seem but a tiny step on the road to ameliorating local climate change, but The Tree Council says that every tree matters. The 37th annual National Tree Week will run from 26th November to 4th December 2011 and marks the launch of the tree planting season. MORE >>

While this is an exciting prospect, wind power executives have stated that they would need a long-term government commitment to helping make that happen in the form of a national renewable electricity standard (RES). The U.S. Department of Energy published a study in 2008 that showed that the U.S. MORE >>