The Birthday Party Project Is Making A Difference

It’s easy to take presents, a cake, and loads of friends and family singing happy birthday for granted. If that was your childhood, perhaps you just assume it’s everyone’s childhood. But that’s simply not the case. For many children growing up in difficult financial situations, a grand birthday party just isn’t in the cards.

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Smog Alert Level Raised To Red In Beijing

smog in Beijing, China

After my trip through the Great American West last month, I’m seeing the environment through fresh eyes. The air in the plains of Nevada just felt fresher in my lungs than it does in our cities. Sure, some of that could have been the placebo effect. I was standing in the middle of flat land, without a building for 10 miles in any direction. Nothing but nature and natural, clean air in my lungs.

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