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6 Green Useful Things To Do With Beer
After water and tea, beer is the most popular alcoholic beverage in the world, not to mention the oldest amongst them all. You have probably drunk your share of beer and wasted yourself. And in the process of being wasted, you have also wasted a good portion of your beer. Fortunately, you can still put to good use the leftovers of your beer on many applications around the house. That is, as soon as you get out of your hangover.
1- Snail and Slug Killer
Did you know that your un-friendly snails and slugs in the garden love beer as much as you do? Just lay a series of traps made from wide-mouth containers and fill them with beer up to one-third of their rims. Then bury said containers in soil at night, let the snails and slugs drink from them, and give the pests an honorable burial the morning after.
2- Fruit Flies
If you have a worm farm or compost heap in your backyard, you can use beer as bait. Just pour a little beer into a cup. ...
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Help Your School Go Green
Nowadays, everybody must do their share of protecting and conserving Mother Nature, most especially school children of all ages. After all, the Earth is your greatest inheritance and, as such, you have a great responsibility and an even greater right to protect it. Plus, there is also the matter of schools being one of the front liners for educating the present and future generations of environmental advocates. With that said, here are ways that you, elementary pupils and high school students, can help your school go green. After all, even students can teach their teachers a thing or two. Create Awareness The first step towards a greener school is to create an awareness of the urgent need for adopting eco-friendly measures in the school. To use an analogy from nature, you must sow an acorn, nurture it, and watch it grow to become a great oak. You may adopt the following steps in creating environmental awareness. Don't worry because these are little steps that can achieve big things through your persistence, passion and patience. First, you can gather your friends to form an eco-friendly group. In most instances, you don't need school permission so you don't need to worry about organizational details like by-laws and ...- Bookmark :
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Energy Detective Monitors
You can save money and prevent yourself from having to deal with rising energy bills at the same time you slash your carbon footprint. Want to know how? Energy monitoring devices make it much easier to find out what you're using and when, so you can figure out where to make changes. The Energy Detective is one popular model, costing about a hundred and forty dollars, and can really make a difference in your energy bills.
This small display tells you your home electrical usage in real time, and projects your monthly bill without the need for costly batteries. Having real time feedback will encourage you to modify your consumption. Many people do it without even thinking about it! The company that makes the Energy Detective says you'll save around fifteen to twenty percent on each bill, or hundreds of dollars each year.
The basic principle really is very simple. Anything you can measure, you can manage. Just making small adjustments through the day will allow you to see the savings add up. You can look at your monitor and decide to turn off a light or unplug your appliances. ...
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Why Should I Avoid Antibacterial Soaps?
When you were a child, you were probably told to wash your hands very well, and if you have children yourself, you probably tell them to do the same. These days, washing with antibacterial soap has become so ubiquitous that most people never even question it, but there are plenty of good reasons just to stick to old-fashioned soap and water!
If you are in charge of the soap buying needs in your household, you may want to reconsider the next time that you go to pick up some antibacterial soap. Check out some of the reasons below and you'll soon be thinking twice.
1. It’s not as effective as you might think.
One reason that lots of people use antibacterial soap is because they believe it keeps them healthier. While it is true that antibacterial soap does kill off bacteria, the majority of the diseases that we routinely pick up are from viral infections, which are not hampered by antibacterial soap at all.
2. It creates stronger bacteria
There is some indication that the growing use of antibacterial soap is leading to bacteria that is significantly stronger and that is ...
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Healing Yourself Naturally
Walk down the aisles of the pharmacy section of your local superstore, and you’ll see row upon row of bottles of analgesics and aspirin, painkillers, drugs to lose weight, drugs to keep you awake at night, cold and flu medicines, and so on. Most of them made out of chemicals, all of them with side-effects of some kind – if not apparent immediately they apparent after long term use.
Instead of investing in a cabinet of chemicals and drugs that you may not need, try healing yourself naturally.
For over-all health help, work on giving up various types of foods and drink. Coffee may not contribute to weight loss like soda pop does, but it has just as much caffeine which can cause you to become nervy or have insomnia. Caffeine is addictive and you may feel pangs for it as you wean yourself off, but in the long run you will feel better.
Fried and deep fried foods, such as French fries, chicken nuggets, and fried potatoes, are not healthy for you at all. Take a look at the left-over grease you pour away into a glass jar and store, ...
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