Food is a central focus of all of our lives. What we are going to eat, who we are going to eat with, it dictates the schedule of a lot of our days. It also makes up a large portion of what we throw away. Approximately 14.5% of the trash we throw away each day…
Plastics are a material that is used in our everyday life. It is hard to fathom that this material was not widely used until 60 years ago, a blip of time in the life of the Earth. Currently plastics make up approximately 13% of the municipal waste stream in the US (this excludes the commercial…
Most of us have experienced a blackout, if for no other reason from a transmission line going down. These unexpected losses of power from broken transmission lines can’t be prevented (for the most part). However, there are rolling blackouts (also called load shedding) that are coordinated by the electric utilities. Electricity is created at power…
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