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Stock Market Sectors: 11 Official GICS Groups

Savings Corner

Image source: The Motley Fool Investing in stock sectors At a glance, the 11 GICS stock market sectors are: Energy Materials Industrials Utilities Healthcare Financials Consumer Discretionary Consumer Staples Information Technology Communication Services Real Estate 1. Communication services 10. Consumer staples 8. Real estate 11.

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Repair, Don’t Replace

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

He fixed his own car. Remember when high school kids were required to take shop and/or home economics? In his world, if you couldn’t fix it yourself, you were pretty worthless – because you just couldn’t throw something out and get a new one. He made his own electric lawnmower. He built his own garage.

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Is Self-Sufficiency Possible in the 21st Century?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

It has just never been economically justifiable. How would we deal with the sewage; lack of water; lack of heat; and interrupted supply of food, coffee, light, entertainment, communication ability? We have plenty cut already and also already have the tools and trees to cut more. A bike to get around without using a car.

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Calendar of Environmental Events Around the World

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Recyclemania – First week of February – RecycleMania is a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to their campus communities.