January 2012
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According to wikipedia, this is what Global Warming is:
Global warming refers to the rising average of Earth’s atmosphere and oceans and its projected continuation. In the last 100 years, Earth’s average surface temperature increased by about 0.8 °C (1.4 °F) with about two thirds of the increase occurring over just the last three decades. Warming of the...
October 2011
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May 2011
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It is freezing outside
The last week or so it has been freezing in Cape Town. Everybody walks around in warm jackets and boots. In the house, we are all cuddled up in blankets with thick socks on. It’s even funny how some people stay warm. There were a few days that one moment it’s sunny and the next it’s cloudy, but both sunny and cloudy was cold. The best place in your house was a warm bath.
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April 2011
5 posts
Stay active even in the winter
In the winter, we all would rather cuddle in bed rather than get up and do exercise. We all get lazy, but we need to exercise, for it is unhealthy not to exercise. If you think about it, exercise makes your body heat up, so you are warmer when you exercise.
We all eat more during the winter cause our bodies use the energy from the food to make us warm. If we exercise rather than eating to...
Coffee is Very addicting
Coffee is nice to drink on a cold day, a day you feel tired, and just a plain day you want something to drink. What most people don’t realize is that coffee is very addicting. Some people drink it just to stay awake! This is not just unhealthy, it is hazardous to health!
Coffee is very addicting because of the caffeine in it. Caffeine is also the content in coffee that gives you...
Smoke
Smoke is polluting our air! Some big companies pollute our air, we know this, and yet we allow this. Smoke is hazardous to us, it can cause a number of diseases.
Smoking also causes air pollution, but more than that, it is hazardous to your health! It can cause lung cancer as well as many other diseases that can be fatal. So if you do smoke, now is the time to stop!
Please help stop air...
Littering
I don’t know about you, but i always see people littering. It is polluting our planet! It all starts with throwing a little sweet paper on the ground, the you start throwing a chocolate paper on the ground, and then a coke can. Stop! You are do not realize what you are doing to our planet!
This is what you highways look like thanks to littering. The worst thing of all is, WE ARE...
Music
We all love music, don’t we? But what effect does music have on us? You’de we surprised how much of an effect it has on us, that’s why we need to be careful to what we listen to. If you listen to music that has swear words in, you are going to think swearing is ok. If you listen to music that is just plain way dirty, you are going to become like that. It’s really...
March 2011
8 posts
Saving water = Saving the planet
We honestly don’t really notice how much water we use until we have a drought in our area, do we? Think about how much water do we waste. We keep the tap open for so much longer than necessary, we take baths with the water almost tipping over the bath, and we waste water in so many other ways. We need to think about how much water we use. Think about it, we all waste water.
We need to...
Earth Hour
March 26, 2011 at 8:30pm is Earth Hour. Please show your support. It starts with just one hour of using no electricity, that all.
For more information, visit http://www.earthhour.org/.
Thank-you for making a difference.
Are you fat or just feel fat?
It is scientifically proven that some women look into the mirror and they see a reflection of them that is fat when they are actually really thin. Whereas men, look into the mirror and see a thin reflection of themselves when they are fat. This is actually really scary.
Most women that see themselves fat have low self-steam, and the guys that see themselves thin have high self-steam. Women...
The advantages of going vegan
Vegan diets have proved to be very effective. Many people go on vegan diets to lose weight, others because they care for animals, and some cause they are athletes. Vegan diets help protect against diseases like obesity, heart and renal diseases, cancer, diabetes, and rheumatoid arthritis.
I’m a runner, so I know that a vegan diet every once in a while really helps. Some athletes are...
Organic Foods
We all see organic foods in our stores, but do we know what they are? Organic foods did not have pesticides or chemical fertilizers sprayed over it, does not contain genetically modifies organisms, and are not processed using irradiation, industrial solvents, or chemical food additives. This means it is not only healthier, but also safer for everyone to eat.
Having no pesticides strayed over...
Do you know how important trees are?
Do you know how important trees are? Trees give us oxygen, they give us fruit, and they give us shade. On a hot day you would like your car to be under a shade, fruit has nutrients we need to stay healthy, and what would we do without oxygen? Shortly put, DIE! So we all agree, we NEED trees! Did you know that approximately 100 million trees get cut down every year? We need to help make...
Eco-Friendly cleaning products
We all use chemicals to clean our houses, but what we don’t know is that these chemicals are not only hazardous to us, but can also cause air pollution. Chemicals can cause blood diseases and it is made of products that is not environmental friendly. Chemicals that have heavy toxins can pollute the air. Don’t you ever ask yourself the question: ”What can I do to...
How you can help save the planet.
Before I start let just tell you, I’m no hippy chaining myself to a thousand year old tree, but do care for our planet. If we don’t care about our planet, the planet is going to be a mess. We must all do our part in saving the planet.
One way of doing this is using solar energy instead of electricity. Solar energy cost no money, therefore it is also a cheaper option. There are...