Waste Watchers WorksheetEvery day, every person in Georgia gen.docxmelbruce90096
Waste Watchers Worksheet
Every day, every person in Georgia generates an average of 8 pounds of waste. This is all the stuff we throw away, recycle, or compost – like paper, plastic and glass bottles, soda cans, wrappers and other packaging, food scraps, etc. Think about it: 8 lbs a day – that’s nearly 3000 lbs a year! Sounds like a good time to start watching our waste and finding ways to cut back how much trash we create.
Out of sight, out of mind?
Once all that stuff is thrown away or recycled, it’s easy to not think about it anymore. But no matter where it came from, or where it eventually ends up, waste impacts our environment in a number of ways. The garbage truck that picks up our trash and takes it to the dump is most likely fueled by diesel or gasoline, which means it emits carbon dioxide, soot and other pollution as it travels on its way. After being dumped at the landfill, garbage decomposes and releases methane, a greenhouse gas 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Incinerating garbage also generates carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas 310 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Also consider what it took to manufacture that item in the first place – from harvesting, extracting, and processing raw materials, packaging and transporting the goods, etc. Making “stuff” can be a very energy-intensive activity.
Waste not, want not
So what can be done? Clearly not buying or using stuff is the easiest solution –but sometimes that’s not always possible. The next best practice is to reduce, reuse, and recycle items or products.
Reduce. Buying and using less when you can reduces the amount of stuff you acquire in the first place, which in turn reduces the waste you produce. Ways to reduce might include bringing your own shopping bag to the store, so you use one less paper or plastic bag. Printing on both sides of paper reduces how much paper you need to print the same document.
Reuse. Reusing items as often as you can also helps. Borrow books, CDs, or DVDs from the library – or a friend! – rather than buy new ones. Turn ripped jeans into shorts, buttons into jewelry, and old newspaper into wrapping paper. Or donate items such as clothes, books, furniture and household items, to local charities, so that others can re-use your stuff.
Recycle. A third option is recycling, and buying things that are made from recycled materials. Materials such as paper, plastic, aluminum and glass, for example, can be recycled into new products, which reduces the need to extract new raw materials, as well as the amount of energy needed to create brand new products. For example making an aluminum beer can from recycled material uses 95% less energy than making one from virgin materials. Decreased energy use translates into fewer greenhouse gas emissions.
Surprisingly, however, a lot of recyclable materials still find their way into the waste stream. Consider paper: paper can be recycled almost everywhere, yet paper accounts for more th.
This is great powerpoint presentation on all facets of "going green". It was originally developed for students in conjuction with some Earth Day activities in 2009. Please feel free to share this with your group.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Waste Watchers WorksheetEvery day, every person in Georgia gen.docxmelbruce90096
Waste Watchers Worksheet
Every day, every person in Georgia generates an average of 8 pounds of waste. This is all the stuff we throw away, recycle, or compost – like paper, plastic and glass bottles, soda cans, wrappers and other packaging, food scraps, etc. Think about it: 8 lbs a day – that’s nearly 3000 lbs a year! Sounds like a good time to start watching our waste and finding ways to cut back how much trash we create.
Out of sight, out of mind?
Once all that stuff is thrown away or recycled, it’s easy to not think about it anymore. But no matter where it came from, or where it eventually ends up, waste impacts our environment in a number of ways. The garbage truck that picks up our trash and takes it to the dump is most likely fueled by diesel or gasoline, which means it emits carbon dioxide, soot and other pollution as it travels on its way. After being dumped at the landfill, garbage decomposes and releases methane, a greenhouse gas 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Incinerating garbage also generates carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas 310 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Also consider what it took to manufacture that item in the first place – from harvesting, extracting, and processing raw materials, packaging and transporting the goods, etc. Making “stuff” can be a very energy-intensive activity.
Waste not, want not
So what can be done? Clearly not buying or using stuff is the easiest solution –but sometimes that’s not always possible. The next best practice is to reduce, reuse, and recycle items or products.
Reduce. Buying and using less when you can reduces the amount of stuff you acquire in the first place, which in turn reduces the waste you produce. Ways to reduce might include bringing your own shopping bag to the store, so you use one less paper or plastic bag. Printing on both sides of paper reduces how much paper you need to print the same document.
Reuse. Reusing items as often as you can also helps. Borrow books, CDs, or DVDs from the library – or a friend! – rather than buy new ones. Turn ripped jeans into shorts, buttons into jewelry, and old newspaper into wrapping paper. Or donate items such as clothes, books, furniture and household items, to local charities, so that others can re-use your stuff.
Recycle. A third option is recycling, and buying things that are made from recycled materials. Materials such as paper, plastic, aluminum and glass, for example, can be recycled into new products, which reduces the need to extract new raw materials, as well as the amount of energy needed to create brand new products. For example making an aluminum beer can from recycled material uses 95% less energy than making one from virgin materials. Decreased energy use translates into fewer greenhouse gas emissions.
Surprisingly, however, a lot of recyclable materials still find their way into the waste stream. Consider paper: paper can be recycled almost everywhere, yet paper accounts for more th.
This is great powerpoint presentation on all facets of "going green". It was originally developed for students in conjuction with some Earth Day activities in 2009. Please feel free to share this with your group.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
This presentation includes basic of PCOS their pathology and treatment and also Ayurveda correlation of PCOS and Ayurvedic line of treatment mentioned in classics.
Safalta Digital marketing institute in Noida, provide complete applications that encompass a huge range of virtual advertising and marketing additives, which includes search engine optimization, virtual communication advertising, pay-per-click on marketing, content material advertising, internet analytics, and greater. These university courses are designed for students who possess a comprehensive understanding of virtual marketing strategies and attributes.Safalta Digital Marketing Institute in Noida is a first choice for young individuals or students who are looking to start their careers in the field of digital advertising. The institute gives specialized courses designed and certification.
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Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
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Acetabularia Information For Class 9 .docxvaibhavrinwa19
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A workshop hosted by the South African Journal of Science aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers with little or no experience in writing and publishing journal articles.
The simplified electron and muon model, Oscillating Spacetime: The Foundation...RitikBhardwaj56
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A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
A review of the growth of the Israel Genealogy Research Association Database Collection for the last 12 months. Our collection is now passed the 3 million mark and still growing. See which archives have contributed the most. See the different types of records we have, and which years have had records added. You can also see what we have for the future.
How to Build a Module in Odoo 17 Using the Scaffold MethodCeline George
Odoo provides an option for creating a module by using a single line command. By using this command the user can make a whole structure of a module. It is very easy for a beginner to make a module. There is no need to make each file manually. This slide will show how to create a module using the scaffold method.
How to Build a Module in Odoo 17 Using the Scaffold Method
The Mistery of the 4R's
1. The Mistery of the Four R’s
Once upon the time there was a boy
named Jimmy. Jimmy was about your
age and he lived in a rural area in
Costa Rica. It turned out that the
principal from Jimmy’s
school decided to enroll his
school in a competition
about the “4R’s”.
2. Jimmy and his friends wanted
to win the contest, but they did
not have a clue about what did
the “4R’s” stand for. They
decided to investigate more
about this mysterious subject,
so they interviewed people in their school and their
neighborhoods.
The first person to help them was Jimmy’s mom. She told him
that one of the R’s was for Recycling. –"What is recycling?”,
Jimmy asked.
-“Recycling is when you take a
material, for example a plastic
bottle, and regain its material
to make something new, let’s
say barrettes for your sister’s
3. hair. You can recycle plastic, metal, paper, glass and a whole
bunch of things…”
-Thank you mom! I got it!
Daniel, who is Jimmy’s best
friend, asked his grandmother
about the “4R’s” and she told him
that one of the R’s was for
4. Reusing. -“Reusing is when you continue to use the same
material over and over. I use the same bottle to carry water,
instead of buying a new one every time I’m thirsty. You could
use the same plastic bag every time you go shopping.”
Having “recycling” and
“reusing” on their
minds, Jimmy and
Daniel asked Carlos to
help them research
about the other two R’s.
Carlos told the guys that they should ask their teachers, so
they did it. Their Social Studies teacher told them that the
third R was for reducing. -“What kind of thing can you
reduce?” the three of them asked at the same time. –“Several”,
the teacher said. “”When you are giving a small present, you
can wrap it in a small piece of paper instead of putting it in a
big box. Also, when you go to the supermarket you can buy
your groceries in bags instead of buying them on plastic
5. container.” Carlos responded to the teacher and the boys –
“That’s true. My mom buys a bag of liquid soap and pours it
into a bottle we have at home.”
“Now we just need
to find out what is
the meaning of the
last R”, Jimmy
said. They asked
other teachers, but
they did not know
the answer. At last, they asked their Science teacher and he
told them “That’s an easy question. The answer is rejecting.
When you bring your own bags to the supermarket, you are
rejecting other plastic bags. When you reuse the boxes and
bags they give you at the grocery store, you are rejecting to
produce more garbage. When you carry your own bottle, you
are rejecting to buy another bottle that may end up in a river.
As you see, you can help the environment by rejecting.”
6. In that way, Jimmy, Daniel,
and Carlos solved the mystery
of the “4R’s”. Recycling¸
reusing, reducing, and rejecting
were the keys, not only to solve this enigma, but to help the
environment and win the contest. They told this information
to their classmates, and together they won the contest by
implementing the 4Rs.
Would you implement them too? It is easier than you think…
First, you can reduce the amount of garbage you produce by
carrying your own bag when you go shopping, and rejecting to
use another plastic bag. You can reuse your juice bottle to
7. carry your beverages to school. You can recycle the paper from
your old notebooks and school projects, as well as the
groceries containers you use at home. It takes everybody’s
effort to help our world.
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television/
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peques-yo-me-lo-guiso-yo-me-lo-como/