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Enriching Education: 4-H Tech Changemakers

Motherhood Moments

particularly women and people of color, lack the basic digital skills that would help them to communicate, collaborate, and connect with the world around them. One in six working-age Americans are unable to use email, web search, or other basic online tools. Thanks for reading!

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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

Remember when high school kids were required to take shop and/or home economics? Typically, the sponsoring organization arranges for a place to gather, a set of experts to be on hand, tools available for fixing things as well as the publicity and communication to the community to bring folks in with their items to be repaired.

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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.