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What is Green Energy?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

During the course of the last elections both in Canada and the USA, there was a substantial amount of talk surrounding energy: renewable energy, green energy, and fossil fuel emissions. What are fossil fuels? Traditionally, we have powered cars, planes, plants and a host of other things by burning fossil fuels.

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Hexbug Review and Giveaway

Nicoles Nickels

Description of Product: “By leveraging our robotics expertise, we entered the toy industry in 2007 with the launch of the HEXBUG Micro Robotic Creatures product line. Our passion for robotics, as demonstrated by our VEX Robotics program, was the main catalyst fueling HEXBUG’s inception. Hence, the brand was born!

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Meet a Reader | Mary from Reflections Around the Campfire

The Frugal Girl

Box are some of my favorite authors) and I use the library to borrow both regular books and electronic resources. I can see the appeal of international travel, but neither one of us ever had that particular itch. In 2007, when the kids were 8 and 13, we recreated that trip – with a travel trailer and bunks instead of a miniscule tent.