Pets Part 1: Why Spay or Neuter Pets?

Everyone loves animals and more so baby animals, in the U.S alone about 40 percent of Americans own a pet dog and about 33 percent of Americans own a pet cat. With these statistics it would be very wise for pet owners to spay and neuter their pets, but why?

Pets who are not spayed or neutered go about reproducing more and more so there are many animals left who are homeless and without a loving family to care for them, many of these poor animals are killed or go starving. According to the humanesociety.org some states have up to 300,000 homeless animals which end up euthanized in animal shelters each year. Many of these pets who are euthanized aren't just muts but purebreds who become euthanized.

It would be very beneficial to decide to get our pets spayed or neutered. It's the loving thing to do.

We all love baby animals, decided to have your pets spayed or neutered

Be kind to your pets, make the right choice for them

Choose to spay or neuter your pets.

Ozone Hole Reaches Peak

The Antarctic ozone hole has reached a peak September 12, 2011 according to sciencedaily.com. The hole stretched 10.5 million square miles which is the ninth largest in record.

The ozone layer helps protect the planets surface from many things such as harmful rays from the sun or ultraviolet radiation. Environmentalist have been monitoring the Antarctic ozone hole for a while and have found "The upper part of the atmosphere over the South Pole was colder than average this season and that cold air is one of the key ingredients for ozone destruction," said James Butler, director of NOAA's Global Monitoring Division in Boulder.

Many instruments are made to track the hole and its size. According to sciencedaily.com,
"researchers do not expect a smooth, steady recovery of Antarctic ozone, because of natural ups and downs in temperatures and other factors that affect depletion, noted NOAA ESRL scientist Bryan Johnson. Johnson helped co-author a recent NOAA paper that concluded it could take another decade to begin discerning changes in the rates of ozone depletion."

The Antarctic ozone hole.

Think Twice, Recycle! Topic: Newspapers

We come across them everyday, either we get the bargain book every Wednesday, we pick up the college paper, or we get the local newspaper everyday or weekend. Either way, we all come across newspapers sometime or another.

Rather we decided to use them for the dog's corner or clean our cars with them, there are many ways to reuse and recycle newspapers. Most cities have local recycling centers specifically for newspapers, some might even turn in your old papers into cash. Pile up your newspapers till you have enough and them turn them into your local recycling center.

If you have kids of your own it is good to teach them at a small age how to recycle.

Think twice! recycle

These shoes were made out of nenewspaper

There are even decorative ways to recycle newspaper

Rethink! Reuse! Topic: Guitar Strings!

There are many items around our house that we would not think could be reused or recycled, well just think if it could be used once, it can be used again. Many guitarist go through strings very often usually just throwing away the old ones while replacing the new ones.

But there are many ways to reuse guitar stings. According to planetgreen.discovery.com guitar stings can be reused by using them to:
1. Hang pictures on the wall
2. Turn them into jewelry, bracelets, necklaces etc
3. Donations, there are many guitarist in need of stings
4. Arts and crafts
5. to cut fine slices of cheese

So before your guitar strings away, think twice and you might think of more ways to reuse them!

These decorative flowers were once guitar stings

These beautiful bracelets were created by guitar stings

Endangered Species

There have been species that have gone extinct and endangered even before humans knew of their existence. That is a very sad fact that we can destroy something even before we know it existed. By cutting down and destroying these creatures habitats we leave them in much danger and even possibly giving them their death sentence. Many animals live in the trees and forests humans like to cut down.

It is very important we recycle, reuse and reduce our materials being used in order that new ones won't have to  be created and more of our environment in danger. Here is a video of species in which are endangered.

Think Twice, Recycle! Topic: Batteries

Think about it, they are everywhere! Batteries are in our phones, our remote controls, and even our cars! There are proper ways of disposing of them rather than throwing them away in your trashcan. You should make the choice to recycle of these batteries so they may be renewed for someone else to use.

50 percent of the lead supply in the US comes from recycled batteries according to batteryuniversity.com. That is a high percentage. It will only be so if we keep continuing to recycle our old batteries.

There are many places in Brownsville alone that have recycling services for batteries. Some of these places are: Best Buy, Battery Solutions Inc., Staples Corp. and many more. If you want to reach out and make the difference it is not that hard to do.

Never go this far. Always chose to recycle!

Make the choice go green! recycle!

To Reduce or Not to Reduce?

If everyone thought why should I be the one to reduce my waste I'm sure enough people do it anyway it will not matter if I do or don't, then we would have no one reducing their waist and the earth would be in even more of a mess than it is now.

There are very simple easy ways that anyone do to reduce waste and even save some green. Some easy ways to do so according to reduce.org are as simple as packing your own waste-free lunch to school or work with by putting your food into a reusable container that you can always use. Another thing to remember is to only take enough food that you know you will eat.

More ways according to reduce.org that can help us reduce waste for school is by buying school supplies that we can reuse each school year and semester, things such as refillable pens and pencils a durable backpack and lunchbox and binders that we can use over again.

One of the most effective ways to reduce waste and help the trees is by cutting down on paper usage.
 Teachers should start by trying to go green and have students e-mail their work to them if possible. If not teachers and students should always try to recycle paper rather than throwing it away. So many trees don't have to but cut down for paper usage. Always try to buy recycled paper as well.

Using reusable food containers helps reduce waste

Always remember where your paper comes from before you decide to waste it

Go green! Go smart!