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Save the Planet in Style: Your Guide to Sustainable Home Design

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Save the Planet in Style: Your Guide to Sustainable Home Design

A 2020 study by PEW Research Center found that 63% of Americans believe that climate change affects their local communities. If you’re among eco-minded homeowners, you should know that investing in sustainable home design is one of the most powerful ways to reduce your environmental footprint. “Green building isn’t just chic — the benefits reach into every aspect of our lives,” shares Cassy Aoyagi, board member of the Los Angeles Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC-LA) and president of FormLA Landscaping. “The same building strategies that protect the environment improve our physical and mental health. They make us...

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Does the word schedule make you break out in hives? Do you picture yourself harried and deflated at the end of a day on a homeschool daily schedule? Maybe for you, like me, that’s a vivid memory, not a theoretical picture.

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Does the word schedule make you break out in hives? Do you picture yourself harried and deflated at the end of a day on a homeschool daily schedule? Maybe for you, like me, that’s a vivid memory, not a theoretical picture.

Schedules get a negative reaction in the homeschool world, and I totally get why. I mean, can I schedule diaper blowouts and my doorbell ringing and the toddler pulling an open bag of powdered sugar onto herself? Where does that go in the schedule? One thing we learn as soon as we try to live by a written schedule is that we are not actually in control. Guess what? That’s a good thing. If you hate the thought of schedules, if you’ve tried a homeschool daily schedule and it didn’t work, I have three secrets that I hope will cause...

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Evaluating Resources with an Anti-Bias, Anti-Racist Lens with LaNesha Tabb, Ep

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Evaluating Resources with an Anti-Bias, Anti-Racist Lens with LaNesha Tabb, Ep

56 Buzzing with Ms. B: The Coaching Podcast How can we evaluate classroom materials to ensure they accurately reflect history and our students?  LaNesha Tabb, author and educator, joins us to talk about how to look at classroom resources using an anti-bias, anti-racist lens.  She takes us through the process she uses to find more inclusive social studies books. We talk about why it is important to do this work early and how to bring big content down to the level of little minds. Learn the reasons teachers don't teach true history and what you can do to help. You...

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To mark Earth Day, we've rounded up seven materials that designers are using to replace more polluting mainstays such as plastic, concrete and leather in a bid to limit the impacts of climate change.

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To mark Earth Day, we've rounded up seven materials that designers are using to replace more polluting mainstays such as plastic, concrete and leather in a bid to limit the impacts of climate change.

With a recent study finding that human-made materials now outweigh the total mass of Earth's living biomass, designers are becoming increasingly aware of how the products they design impact the planet. From using renewable, carbon capturing materials such as cork, algae and latex to turning reclaimed food waste into food packaging, the focus is now on the entire lifecycle of a product. This includes how raw ingredients are sourced and how they can ultimately be reused, recycled or returned to nature once the product reaches the end of its life. Read on for the seven key materials designers are reaching...

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Overspending continually even by small amounts over time will dent your net worth.

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Overspending continually even by small amounts over time will dent your net worth.

According to an RBC Economics report, Canadians will be borrowing and spending more in 2021. I don’t know if you check your net worth monthly as we do but that’s our motivation. How many of you have those moments of making a purchase out of curiosity? It looks good on the model, maybe it will look even better on me. Those Nike runners are cool, I need to buy them. When shopping online perhaps customer reviews make the decision for you? Twelve thousand reviews and a 4.8 star rating you can’t go wrong, right? Whether shopping brick and mortar or...

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