Tag: Environment
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National Battery Day: Revamp Your Battery Use
National Battery Day is February 18 and it is all about celebrating and becoming aware how important the simple battery is to our way of life. Battery use is evolving due to our planets condition and making small lifestyle adjustments such as switching batteries can benefit our planet tremendously. It is a simple and easy…
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Dolphins: Dying to Entertain You
Throughout Playa Del Carmen and Cancun, the streets are lined with pushy vendors promising tourists an amazing swim-with-the-dolphins (SWTD) experience. A decent looking woman smiles on a sign behind a dealer, and appears as though she is making a connection with the grey-skinned creature swimming close to her. Vacationers are quick to hand over their…
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202 Magazine presents AZ StRUT Students Produce Born Again Hardware
This article was written for non-profit, AZ StRUT to be published in the January 2013 issue of 202 Magazine in Phoenix on page 38. They’re taking up space and collecting dust in your home, office or garage. They can’t handle today’s applications, peripherals or operating systems. But tossing your old tech gear into the garbage would…
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Gobble A Green Thanksgiving for 2014
[edit November 24, 2014] Before I begin an article on Thanksgiving let me clear up any confusion about what you may have been told about the gut-filling holiday that began in 1621. Poor documentation of the first holiday allows for people to speculate its meaning and traditions. I prefer to accept a more modern explanation…
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Is China-made Becoming the American Way?
Thanks to powerful marketing strategies, material items are popular among Americans, especially at a cheap price. But who is paying the price for our consuming ways? Targeted consumers are victims of American corporations that wish to maximize their profit margins by outsourcing higher-paying jobs. Corporations like Procter & Gamble and Wal-Mart, in nearly every city…
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Petition Brings Down The Enemy: Styrofoam
Like it or not Styrofoam is a part of American culture. The stark white material can be seen in the majority of restaurants and grocery stores from coast to coast. Generally, when eating out I‘m mindlessly handed Styrofoam in the form of a cup or doggie-bag. It amazes me how clueless businesses are that continue…
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The Truth About Water Bottles & Tap Water
Living in the Arizona desert makes bottled water an exceedingly popular and convenient product, but while plastic water bottles offer convenience, they also create unnecessary waste within our environment and landfills. I recently completed a state-wide brochure informing Arizonians why water bottles are killing our planet. I am so passionate about the subject that I…
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Down To Yurt
A family vacation turns out to be quite the experience. We drove up the snake-like road that hugged the fuzzy mountainside toward the Rattle Snake Canyon wildlife reservation. The soft, rolling hills stood like grassy ant piles around us in varies shades of green. The brush was thin and the wind constantly robust. A large…
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