1 in 8 bird species face extinction due to habitat loss. You can help protect them simply by hanging or giving birdhouses. How big is the problem? In just 50 years, there are 2.9 billion fewer birds! Loss of habitats can be from human land development or from natural causes such as the many hurricanes …
With statistics showing only 9% of plastic is recycled, more needs to be done. Recycling is an ideal method of keeping plastics out of landfills and eleswhere in the environment, but many other options are equally beneficial methods of reducing the amount of plastics in landfill or in the ocean. The variety of plastic types …
Making eye contact is difficult for autistic children, but it is a critical developmental step. Studies indicate that learning to make eye contact is a key precursor to learning verbal skills for these children. Easily distracted, a key challenge is how to keep the autistic child’s attention focused on the other person’s face. The students …
Like the SETI at home project before it, Folding at home is a free, safe way for home computer users to provide additional computing cycles to solve difficult problems. Folding@home (FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing project run by Stanford University that spreads computations over many computers to shorten the timeframe needed to complete the …
HELP FEED AND CARE FOR SHELTER PETS! As of late March, Freekibble.com has served over 26,913,201 nutritious meals to hungry dogs and cats and vaccinated over 227,000 shelter pets! You can help – with just a click. Answer a trivia question on the website and kibble will be donated – whether you got the answer right or …
Americans dispose of some 10 million metric tons of glass annually. Most of it ends up in the trash. Although glass is 100% recyclable, only about one-third gets recycled in the US. (Compared to 90% in Switzerland).
An estimated 18 billion pounds of plastic enters the ocean each year. Find out how you can limit your plastic footprint.
I’ve written before about the excellent work done by the GreaterGood organization. Lately in addition to their ongoing click-based fundraisers, they have been holding special topic fundraisers a week at a time. This week is for Aged Care Employees Day. from the GreaterGood website, “Alzheimer’s disease is tough on both patients and caregivers, and the …
We’ve come to expect cyber crimminels to target giant companies like Facebook, Experian and Marriott International. But many individuals assume their assets are too small for hackers to bother with. This kind of thinking leads to sloppy security practices and opens you to even more risk. What the average person forgets is what is actually …
The Greater Good network reports that over 1/2 million are homeless in the United States. 15% of these homeless are our Veteran’s. To many people – homeless our not – pets are our truest friends. Unfortunately, homesless shelters rarely accomodate animals – keeping homeless veteran’s with pets out of shelters that provide safety, shelter and …