Author: Morgen Henderson

Morgen grew up near Salt Lake City, Utah. When she's not writing, you can find her baking, traveling, and binge-watching documentaries on every subject imaginable.

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Environment Energy

How Home Maintenance Helps You Conserve

Home Maintenance - Screwdrivers
Photo by KJ Styles on Unsplash

When we think “home maintenance,” we often dread the tedious work and costly repairs that come with these tasks. There are many times when we have old things in our homes, and some of these can cause major problems down the line. We often look at these things and end up deciding to scrap it all and get something new instead. When it comes to items like refrigerators or furnaces, some objects are just too far in disrepair to save.

However, there are ways you can prolong the life of these items before they’re too far gone and we can even upgrade our homes to be more efficient than we ever imagined. This can ultimately save you money and keep bulky items out of landfills. These tips can help you get on track to saving your time, money, and the planet.

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Environment Energy

13 Ways You Can Save the Planet from Home

E-Learning
Blackboard education and learning is now a thing of the past. Ever since technology has entered the realm of education and learning, the scenario has completely changed and brought forth certain innovations that the world has happily embraced. As posted on statista.com, the global e-learning market is forecasted to surpass the mark of 243 Billion U.S. dollars by the year 2022. The report and prediction clearly indicate the fact that technology is certainly playing a major role in the segment of worldwide education and learning. Hadn't been technology a beneficial element for the educators and learners across the world, such noteworthy prediction wouldn't have appeared before us. Talking of technology and education, a significant group of students across the globe has already been introduced to the concept of smart classrooms. Image: Pikwizard

It turns out that when it comes to saving the planet, you don’t have to trade in your gas-powered car or even shell out a bunch of cash – you can do it right from the comfort of your own home. In fact, making a few small upgrades to your home and tweaking your everyday behaviors around the house can leave a bigger impact over time than you realize.

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Environment People

Sustainability After Death? 5 Eco-Friendly Burial Methods

Eco-Friendly Burial Methods
As our personal habits adjust to include carpooling, recycling, and energy conservation, so too are social traditions like burial rites changing.

Adaptation to climate change will be the most significant disruption to our personal and social lives since the last Ice Age. Green living decisions are already affecting the way we construct our homes, get to work, and travel abroad. As our personal habits adjust to include carpooling, recycling, and energy conservation, so too are social traditions like burial rites changing.

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Artificial Intelligence Technology

Why We Need to Overcome Our Fear of AI

NASA's Robonaut 2
Robonaut 2, the latest generation of the Robonaut astronaut helpers, launched to the space station aboard space shuttle Discovery on the STS-133 mission. Robonaut 2 is the first humanoid robot in space. Although its primary job for now is teaching engineers how dexterous robots behave in space, the hope is that through upgrades and advancements Robonaut 2 could venture outside the station one day to help spacewalkers make repairs or additions to the station or perform scientific work. R2, as the robot is called, launched inside the Leonardo Permanent Multipurpose Module, which was packed with supplies and equipment for the station and then installed permanently on the Unity node. Once R2 is unpacked -- probably several months after it arrives -- it will be operated initially inside the Destiny laboratory for operational testing. But over time, both its territory and its applications could expand. There are no plans to return R2 to Earth. Image: NASA

Futurists and technology advocates, including Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates, often warn about the imminent dangers artificial intelligence poses to humanity. Many of these soothsayers ask we harken their cries of existential risk unless we wish to change an intelligence explosion. They claim such an event, often dubbed the Singularity, could create a superintelligent computer, leading to human enslavement via the likes of Skynet, from the Terminator franchise, or HAL 9000, from Space Odyssey.

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Global Warming Climate Environment Technology

Why We Need to Trust Technology to Fight Climate Change

OCO-2
Artist's depiction of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO-2) environmental science satellite which launched on 2 July 2014. The spacecraft is being used to study carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations and distributions in the atmosphere. CO2 is the greenhouse gas that is the largest human-generated contributor to global warming. Image: NASA

Based on the Paris Climate Agreement, more than 6,000 cities, states, and provinces in dozens of countries must drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 to save life as we know it. The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report foretells an inhospitable Earth unless we achieve this monumental undertaking.

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