Source: My photoblog from Northern Norway.

Want to become a chef? Then you have to find the right chef school for you.
A way to find the correct school is to use a site called Culinary-School-Finder.com where you can search for culinary schools in USA.
You can find lots of different careers and not just chef schools at the website. It should be easy to find a nice culinary school if you want to get a job where you can cook.

Some really worrying news from Britain. According to an article by The Telegraph some of Britain’s well known birds are in danger of dieing out. The species that have seen a dramatic fall in their populations are cuckoo, turtle dove, grey partidge and corn bunting, but there are reports saying that bird species all over the world are threatened.
The main reasons for this is believed to be agriculture, logging (habitat destruction) and invasive species.
Birds can also be seen on as barometer of how the state if the nature really is. Declining bird populations is a really bad sign about the state of the nature in general.

I hope we are able to stop this decline as birds are a very important part of the nature. Just think about going for a walk in the woods without hearing any bird chirps. That would be a very sad day.

I just moved into a new house in southeastern part of Norway and I must say that is really lovely to live in a brand new home. We are just renting the house right now, but some day we hope to buy a house or a small farm to live in.

If you live in the region of New Jersey in USA and are looking to buy real estate there you should check out a website called Real Estate New Jersey. New Jersey has seen a population growth the last years and that means there is an increasing demand for real estate. The reason for the population growth in New Jersey is because it is located pretty close to New York and Philadelphia making some parts of New Jersey within the metropolitan areas of the big cities. The state also have a lot of tourism that makes the real estate marked even more attractive.

At the Real Estate New Jersey website you can find homes for sale all over New Jersey. You select what city you are interested to buy real estate in and then you get an oversight over what kind of homes that are available. Each piece of real estate is listed with price, size and how many rooms there are in it.
The homes are also photographed so you get a good view of how they look and if the home suits you.

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I’m starting a new weekly post on “Musings from an eco-friendly male knitter” where I link to a crafting sites that I enjoy.
If you have a crafting site or know someone with talents, please let me know by using my contact form and I will check out the site.

The first site I want to mention is Lizzy T Designs. Lizzy T makes some really awesome crotched animals. Think I will have to try to make some myself, but I really wish I had such crocheting skills right now!
She also make some nice stuff out of beads and does some knitting. She is very talented so it is worth checking out her site.
Check out her Etsy store to see more of her cool products.

I love making food and in our home I am often the one who cooks dinner or at least take part in making it. Our household experiments with dishes and tastes from all over the world and we rarely have a meal with “boring” food.
When I decided what kind of career I wanted for myself I considered going to some kind of school where they teach cooking, but I selected a different path for my career. It is never too late to change your occupation so maybe some day I will get myself an official education in cooking and then cook for a living.

A website that offer information and where you can search for culinary schools in USA is Culinary-Schools.us. At their site you can find all the information you need to get an education in culinary art. You can get information about all the different types of careers you can get within the culinary world and how you can get that type of education. You can find what type of cooking you want to learn too, from baking to pastry to food management.

The website also has a nice section where they have listed different culinary schools all over USA so you can find a school close to you. Another nice feature on the site is the “School Review” section where Culinary-Schools.us has reviewed some of the culinary schools so you can be certain that the schools reviewed are of high quality.

If I were to attend a culinary school in USA I would definitely check out Culinary-Schools.us to find a cooking school that suited my needs.

Back in June I wrote about Germany banning pesticides that are believed to be linked to the worrying mass deaths of bees that we have seen the last few years. Now Italy is going down the same road and realizing that pesticides can be very bad for the environment. The Italian government has decided that several pesticides that are used to “treat” seeds will be banned. These pesticides are believed to be a part of the reason why million of bees (colony collapse disorder) has died.
Slovenia has also banned the substances that is believed to kill the bees and France banned one of the substances already in 1999.
A German company called Bayer CropScience produce these chemicals and they are known for producing lots of bad stuff. Maybe they are trying to compete with Monsanto about who are the most evil agriculture company in the world?
I really don’t understand how a company can produce such things when they know that they are toxic to the nature. How can these guys live with themselves? It is all about the money, I guess..

Anyway, this is a great step in the right direction of more organic agriculture. You can’t fight nature, you have to work with it.