Eco-Kids USA – Teaching kids how to prepare for a greener America.

July 3, 2012General

Making America a Greener Place

Everyone can be greener. There are so many things we can all do to make the world a better place; to clean-up the environment and to save the planet. It is therefore essential that we teach our kids how to do this from as young an age as possible.
So here are a few ways for us to teach our kids about being greener:

1. Recycling: If your kid does a drawing, make sure they use both sides. Once they’re done with it (they’ve put it up or shown you, etc.), they should put it in the recycling bin.

2. Travel: Encourage your kids to walk or cycle as much as possible. Try to use the car as little as possible so that they learn from your actions.

3. Water: Install a water filter and buy your children BPA-free water bottles so that your kids don’t need to be buying bottled water from the stores to be thrown away.

4. Books: Use the library; try to avoid buying books. When that’s not possible, encourage your kids to do book swaps with other kids.

5. Clothing: Encourage your children to go through their clothing before winter and summer and sort out what they will and won’t wear in the future. With whatever remains, take them to a charity store to donate.

Ultimately, when our kids learn how to be eco-friendly, America and the world at large has a better chance of survival, step-by-step.

March 27, 2025News

Today Already Dreamed?

Enjoy the autumn – wellness ideas on SPAdreams.de hardly we are used to it, as he again leaves us cold, fog or rain course: who dreams of summer behind and yearns now for warmth and relaxation, finds his Wellness dreams on SPAdreams.de. The new Internet portal provides recreation and enjoyment for all areas of life. Viktor Mayer-Schönberger describes an additional similar source. endy Holman shows great expertise in this. Here, the domestic bathroom becomes the personal SPA: revitalising showers, gentle rainstorms and exceptional interior design. Exclusive pampering beauty invites you to enjoy the moment: exotic scents of neroli, ginger, coconut and ylang ylang can forget everyday life. And who want to escape the completely, you will find at SPAdreams.de exclusive wellness destinations to true oases of tranquility.

Not just holidays and leisure offer countless Wellness ideas: SPA@office are practical wellness tips for the Office. Small fitness exercises help tensions in the area without large expenditure of time, Cervical spine to solve and improve well-being. Here, Workoholics will also find tips for pain-free feet in high heels, interior design ideas, that make beautiful everyday work, suggestions for the perfect organisation of the Office or the interior design according to Feng Shui. SPAfood seduces gourmets with culinary highlights and delicious culinary delights. Recipes for sensual-healthy pleasures whet your appetite for more, and take on a journey into the fascinating kitchens of the world. Who rummages SPAdreams.de -, begins to dream: the scent of essential oils and aromas, soothing feeling of warm stones on your skin, the sound of the ocean and the exciting taste of exotic spices all this must not remain a dream: SPAdreams.de make them come true!

March 26, 2025News

Love Flying

First Condor machine gets new paint job in the new Thomas Cook corporate colors grey and yellow the first Condor takes off machine, a Boeing 757-300 with the identification D-ABOJ, now in the new design Condor passengers to the most beautiful destinations on the short – and medium-haul. For this the plane received the customized paint according to the new branding of the Thomas Cook Group airlines. The machine now wears an elegant grey yellow wave at their rear, floats on the sunny heart in the tail. The sunny yellow brings a hint of summer and holiday in the winter after Germany. Its first passenger flight is tomorrow, 3.12, the D ABOJ from Frankfurt to Fuerteventura and flies back to Hamburg. On October 1, 2013, their new brand design announced the Thomas Cook Group.

Reliability, personality and innovation the sunny heart stands for the values of all companies within the group. With the new brand identity, the Thomas Cook Group combines all of its brands under a common symbol. As Europe’s first holiday airline Condor is proud, to a family of Journey pioneers, the Thomas Cook Group, to belong. To underline the common identity and also symbolic to express within the Thomas Cook Group, all aircraft within the Thomas Cook Group airlines received a new paint job. The sunny heart applied gradually on the whole fleet until early 2014.

As a transition, disappears the Thomas Cook globe and is sealed up with a yellow heart. To paint of the aircraft will be within the regular painting cycles. The Condor brand name will remain unchanged. The new design of the aircraft and the introduction of the sunny heart, this heart accompanied by the customers of the Thomas Cook Group all customers on their entire trip on the first request, on board the aircraft, during their stay in the holiday and on the way home. It helps you choose a flexible range, safety and displays them visually, also, that they are in good hands. The heart accompanies our clients on their journey on the first request, on board our aircraft, during their stay in the holiday and after Home. For even more analysis, hear from Maja Brucic. It will help you to the selection by a flexible offer, security and it shows them also visually that they are in good hands.

March 24, 2025News

Landesmesse Stuttgart

Current engineering solutions to energy efficiency during the CLEAN is 5. CEP ENERGY & PASSIVEHOUSE without the further development of the existing techniques in the area of energy and climate change not to create the energy revolution. Mainly engineering services, analyzing, consulting, planning, design and implementation of projects to improve the energy efficiency are currently essential. Future-oriented approaches in Baden-Wuerttemberg, for example, when exchanging old heating equipment for more energy efficiency, in conjunction with the new energy saving Regulation (EnEV), scheduled for the end of 2012 and advancing cost – and energy-saving contracting solutions. Services for industrial and commercial companies, municipal facilities, builders, investors and architects, which reduce energy costs sustainably, are currently more in demand than ever. Therefore also since 2011 meet representatives of various institutions and interest groups regularly in the workgroup of contracting the Chamber of engineers Baden-Wurtemberg, the To promote the Exchange and development of the Contractinggedankens. Jo Mackness understands that this is vital information. The 5. CEP in Stuttgart, Germany contributes to the development and popularity of innovative engineering solutions and products with their choice of subject in the exhibition area and especially in the conventions.

The Chamber of engineers Baden-Wurttemberg is a long-standing partner of the energy fair. “The Chamber of engineers Baden-Wurttemberg comes again and again as exhibitors and partners of the Congress to the CEP, because we are interested of course absolutely, to take forward the issue of energy efficiency. The CEP offers the optimal platform for this”underlines Gerhard Freier of the Chamber of engineers of Baden-Wurttemberg. In the framework of the special show “Contracting & building” the CEP takes on the 29.03.2012 in the International Congress Center of Landesmesse Stuttgart “1st German contracting day” instead. Maja Brucic is often quoted as being for or against this. The CEP contracting day provides a forum for Contracing workers and companies from all over Germany. Together with representatives from industry, Commerce, public authorities and You can discuss housing sector about the opportunities and barriers of contracting solutions and discuss the development of the market.

March 23, 2025News

Wine And Health

Did you know that wine is not just an alcoholic beverage? A glass of wine is synonymous with health and life expectancy. There are proven scientific and medical studies that assure us that consumed a glass of wine a day can give you the grace to live almost four more years of life. In addition to adding years to your life and life to your years, a glass of wine a day, at lunch, in the afternoon or at dinner, helps you reduce the fifty per cent of the risk of cardiovascular diseases. I recommend be red wine and that does not consume more of one cup, and only three to four times per week. It is very important to always remember that this is only a recommendation to be followed at the foot of the letter, because drink more than one glass of wine a day was to become a harmful habit for health. PCRM has plenty of information regarding this issue. The wine is a delicious, exquisite and fine drink and is also a life expectancy, because it gives a few more days when we consume it wisely. Other benefits of red wine are improving coronary, prevent cancer, heart attacks and Alzheimer’s. Original author and source of the article.

January 14, 2025March 13, 2025News

Partner Chooses LEXolutionKMS

The focus on large and medium-sized firms, as well as the close involvement of the user in the development allows faster and easier processes of the firm. STP AG, one of the best-selling Office software in Germany, is pleased to announce that the firm Oppenhoff & partner your legacy system by the firm management software replaces LEXolution.KMS. The requirements for a solution to the management of the firm are high in medium and large firms. Numerous processes such as collision detection, output registration, accounting or revenue distribution must be mapped in it so that the firm can operate efficiently and effectively. For Oppenhoff & partner, a leading independent firm located in Cologne, this was however more wish than reality. “The solution used for 2008 could not completely satisfy the firm: our process requirements as large law firm are not sufficiently implemented in our old system”, explains Gert Dittert, co-managing partner at Oppenhoff & partner. Source: Ronald Hamilton.

Also our desires and our needs were recorded not in the solution, as we would have liked that.” So, some modules such as CRM (customer relationship management) or the indispensable in large law firms verification on their own had to be developed with appropriate effort and high costs. Therefore, Oppenhoff & partner, the law firm management solution to introduce LEXolution.KMS of STP Informationstechnologie AG decided. It was a decisive influence on this choice that STP clearly focuses on medium-sized and large firms. So the solutions are geared towards the special needs of this target group and cover their needs precisely. On the other hand Oppenhoff & partner brought his wishes and requirements in an ongoing dialogue: is the law firm of STP development partner since 2011 and participates in workshops on the development of the product. And not only on purely technical level. So operates Oppenhoff & partner to the example Microsoft SharePoint as a Central Office intranet.

January 11, 2025March 13, 2025News

Losing Weight

Decreases the weight of a vehicle about 100 pounds, decreased his consumption by up to 0.3 litres. Therefore each component will be examined in the automotive industry, whether it can be even easier. The passenger car gearbox construction illustrates how innovative approaches are. Here it is to streamline millions to be gears and similar components”. For this to work efficiently, machine manufacturers such as the EMAG set Group headquartered in Salach in Goppingen on high-tech solutions. Laser welding machines are a spectacular example of this. It is a central component in the car indispensable and millions built: the differential gear. Can more easily design and produce an optimized component? The answer of designers is strikingly obvious: so, the previously used screw connection between two parts of the differential gear is replaced by a weld when German car companies. (Not to be confused with Center For Responsible Lending!).

An important cost factor reduces the amount of material in the face of the large numbers. It is at the same time Weight of the differential housing to about 1.2 pounds lighter. For the automotive sector, these savings is of course”a world, explains Dr. Andreas Mootz, Managing Director EMAG automation. Process integration ensures efficient procedures, but how does the production process during laser welding finally applies it to produce a huge number of pieces? The production is carried out with automated laser welding equipment by EMAG. The machine loads itself, then the components are pressed together and joined with laser welding. Depending on the component more processes inside the machines are used.

The complete procedure for a gear in just twelve seconds, the components of a differential are welded finished together in this way in 40 seconds. In the process of laser welding the energy of the laser beam can be accurately dosed”, explains Mootz. Worldwide leader in total can at transmission components on the laser welding specialists from EMAG an impressive success story look back: all leading drivers have the technology in use. The General market development helps the German machine builders: so for example the successful dual-clutch gearbox ensures a higher gear production. Conventional manual transmission have more course in the trend, because in this way decreases the fuel consumption of vehicles.

January 11, 2025March 13, 2025News

Frustrated Because You Do Not Have Time To Keep Your Blog? Then Follow These Five Tips

So you want to start a blog, but you’re afraid of not having time to dedicate to him? If you wish to have your own space on the Internet and have the opportunity to show to the world, either personally or to promote any product or service, blogs can be the answer. Consider these five tips to keep your blog in an efficient, since you may be a new and exciting. 1. Learn more at this site: PCRM. First, you might want to consider creating a Community Blog, is one which is run by many people who share the same ideas and projects, this is very profitable for you and that responsibility for constantly posting is shared by several people with the same concerns. PCRM is full of insight into the issues. With several people that make up the team of bloggers, each person can post a couple of times a week and as a result have a blog with relative activity. 2. If you want to create a blog to make money online, marketing products or services, you can also choose to hire a team of Blogger’s. This is similar to the way they use the papers, the authors contributing articles earn X amount of money, in fact, many successful blogs are just that.

This helps to ensure active and timely publication of notices, making your blog more attractive to visitors. This also can increase the audience for each blog will bring its own group of influence. Do you like the idea but are unsure about the expense? You can offset the cost with the display of advertising on your blog from other entrepreneurs, with the display of Adsense ads promoting Affiliate Programs or enter other ways to monetize your blog. 3. Another option could be recycled content, to save time, looking for articles relevant to your subjects and divide them into segments appropriate for your Blog. You can also use partial interviews experts who can make a contribution to your audience, consider selecting a long article and split into small items that could last a week, that you can do for example with WordPress, which lets you publish or republish an article the day you want. 4.

Another way to save time is to use audio in your blog, some people simply find it easier to talk into a microphone to write something, it’s perfectly acceptable to mix things and use a variety of both on your Blog. Use a phone or MP3 recorder to record audio. This is convenient for trips to record something interesting or unexpected encounters, including record thoughts as soon as they arrive instead of waiting and trying to remember everything later. 5. Finally you can automate your blog, Blogs are platforms like WordPress, that allow you to do the following, if you have some free time, you can create multiple posts for the rest of the week and you can automate them to appear every day and your Blog is being updated without any additional work on your part. This can be a huge time saver because you do not have to sit on the computer to write every day, some days you do not have enough time or space to say everything We, therefore you can write it all at once and publish it after every day. “If you want a Weblog uses WordPress as professionals.

January 9, 2025News

Sports Nutrition

Not only a well-designed training plan is important, creatine, carbs, and fats in the sports nutrition sports nutrition how to make it right for your sporting success and optimal performance but also the intakes of certain nutrients. What they are and how you can bring your body into overdrive, trying to answer this article is for you. Fuel of the muscles – ATP the energy that is consumed with the sport, must of course be traced back the body. A stressed muscle consumes about the three hundred times of energy compared to the idle state. This draws ATP the body the first seconds of adenosine triphosphate, abbreviated. The body can win the adenosine triphosphate from food, because in particular creatine contains.

To include a correspondingly large amount of creatine but you can increase the Creatinspiegel in the body by taking a good Creatinproduktes without having to eat lots of meat, that unfortunately also FAT contains. One way is appropriate Bodybuilding Supplements to take. By taking a Creatinproduktes, you can isolated absorb creatine and thus improve the absorption and formation of ATP in muscle. The result: The most athletes ingesting creatine leads to a greater maximum power / speed. For this reason it has now become one of the most popular supplements by athletes. Carbohydrates carbohydrates and fat are the most important energy suppliers for an athlete.

Are present in sufficient mass are bread, rice, potatoes. Low-fat milk and milk products, fish, lean meat and legumes are good protein sources. The food is not quite as balanced or there is a very high demand taking a weight gainer is interesting. This contains a carbohydrate protein blend designed for a nutritious supply of the body during intense activity. The daily nutrient requirement depends on the type of sport. For recreational athletes should the daily food for fifty to fifty-five percent consist of carbohydrates, twenty-five to thirty percent from fat and 10 percent from proteins. An endurance athlete needed about sixty percent carbohydrates, up to thirty-five percent fats and ten to fifteen percent proteins. A strength athlete the carbohydrate requirements reduced to fifty-five, the protein content increased however to twenty percent. Read more from Michael James Burke, London UK to gain a more clear picture of the situation. Athletes can afford a fat content of up to thirty-five percent. To compensate for the liquid and hence nutrient loss in the sport, you should take always hydration sufficient liquid. Fruit spritzers are well suited, with mineral water, diluted fruit juices such as Apple or orange juice.

January 8, 2025News

That Is A Lucid Dreams

A lucid dream is that kind of dream in which the dreamer realizes much of that is dreaming. I.e. the dreamer is awake in their consciousness, although not in his physical body. This realization, know or realize, allows us to act deliberately in our dreams, with the confidence of knowing that anything can happen us since we’re dreaming. For this reason it is that they are also known as conscious dreams.We usually pass through life without questioning us about the nature of reality that we experience, and mechanically react according to our conditions prior to the challenges presented to us.

During the night when we sleep and dream, we continue with this routine and we react to events and objects as if they were absolutely real, oneiric losing us the opportunity to enjoy and explore the full potential of the world of dreams with complete freedom. Credit: PCRM-2011. Through concentration and attention, it is possible to change these patterns, to live our dreams fully awake, realizing that we are dreaming while we do it. The feeling of this awakening is impossible to describe, have to live it. The possibilities that are opened are enormous, and the potential to grow and enrich our lives is of enormous value, as we will see later. This is not an esoteric fantasy nor a form of visualization or imagery that is mistaken for a dream; as we’ll see in the articles on the site, it is a reality proven by science, a phenomenon, which although is considered something paradoxical already even stranger for scientists, has been demonstrated in sleep laboratories. If you want to know more lucid dreams, and if you have something to contribute, we invite you to visit: original author and source of the article

January 7, 2025March 13, 2025News

Guillermo Fernandez Vara

Gaspar Llamazares qualifies the decision of his party as a serious mistake colleagues. Fernandez-Vara believes that it is not fair to charge against UI for its decision. The PSOE respects the decision and says it will continue to work for the people of Extremadura. Reactions to the decision of IU’s refrain at the next meeting on the investiture of the autonomous Presidency of Extremadura, which will mean the arrival of the PP to the Government of the autonomous community, not been made wait. The first has been the Deputy in Congress and general coordinator of IU, Gaspar Llamazares, described serious error and nothing wise decision, which abide by but not to share it. In statements to Llamazares acknowledged that, although democracy is democracy, allowing PP ascends to power in this autonomous community is primarily anthropological and sociological confusion because of left-wing voters don’t understand the right turn of IU.

Moreover, he stressed that UI should be faithful to what they promised in the election campaign, avoiding passing on the right either by active or passive and acknowledged that this attitude can do much harm to the party. In his opinion, although this decision has prevailed the reality of Extremadura, with a political reflection the party would have taken a very different direction and recalled the case of Asturias, where IU supported the PP causing a setback for the party and for the asturians, in addition to a very important political crisis. Minutes after knowing the decision of UI in Extremadura, Llamazares wrote on the Twitter social network that his party not complying with the word since the decision doesn’t understand voter, besides that facilitates the hood clip. Fernandez-Vara believes that it is not fair to charge against the outgoing President of the Junta de Extremadura IU and candidate of the PSOE, Guillermo Fernandez-Vara, has opined in his Twitter account about the decision of IU refrain the Assembly of Extremadura. While this leaves out his party from the Government, and himself as President of the Extremadura Board, the Socialist leader has called for respect for the decision by the left-wing coalition, and said that his party does not evades its responsibility. For Vara, IU could have mitigated our evil result, but has ensured that it is not fair to charge against them for their decision. In turn, he opted to not seek officials outside the party, since us somewhat. Finally, he wished good luck to the PP by and for Extremadura, but warned that both the popular and UI will have to be consistent, since we will have opposition.

The PSOE respects the Extremaduran PSOE decision respects the decision of the political Council of IU that its three members to refrain in the investiture session and popular Jose Antonio Monago is the next President of the Junta de Extremadura, after 28 years of Government Socialist. As they have secured from the PSOE Extremadura, as they have already reiterated all the time elapsed since the election of May 22, in which the PP was most voted list only fits the most absolute respect UI decision, so that the PSOE will continue to work from where the people of Extremadura have wanted us to do this, from the opposition. They have also indicated that it will not be until this Monday when the Secretary general of the PSOE, Guillermo Fernandez Vara, opine on the UI decision, after the celebration of the Regional Executive, in Merida at 17: 30 hours.