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How to Cool your Home Naturally

Our climate change reality means that the earth's temperature is rising. Basically, our environment is getting warmer.  Greenhouse gases like Carbon dioxide, methane, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are some of the leading causes of ozone layer depletion and global warming. In trying to cool ourselves and our homes, we resort to technologies like air-conditioning systems. Air-conditioners are sadly one of the biggest sources of CFCs.  So while it's cooling us, it is releasing ozone layer depleting substances, which leads to more warming, then us trying to cool ourselves again - as you can see, it's a vicious heating cycle. Now, most ACs have stopped running on CFCs and now use halogenated CFCs which are supposed to be safer. However, they are not completely safe and production of ACs with halogenated CFCs are expected to stop by 2030. But, there's still the issue of energy conservation. According to the US department of energy , air conditioners use about 6% of all the elec

How to Workout During your Period

    Image: Shutterstock Should you even workout during your period? Especially when PMS seems to be working against you. Bringing with it: Cramps Weakness Nausea and Dizziness Let's not forget the fact that as women, our bodies are so different that working out may be therapeutic for some, while to others it's torture. If exercising during your period sounds like torture to you, you probably think it's a bad idea. Pause! Before you rule out working out during your period, read on for how best to do it. What to consider before working out during your period Before you workout, it's important to consider the kind of symptoms you experience during your period. Cramps With cramps, working out may either reduce or aggravate them. This depends on the kind of workout you do though. In my experience and for some other women I know, ab workouts tend to worsen period cramps. Weakness Exercising requires energy and working out during periods is no different. If you find that you&#

How to get the most out of online learning

Online learning is here to stay.  And if you ever doubted its effectiveness, the closure of schools(as a result of covid-19) and migration to virtual classrooms by schools all over the world should have cleared it. Now if you were observant, you may have noticed two kinds of people this period: People  who complained about online learning : For this ones, they probably thrive in the classroom or enjoy face to face learning. So adapting to virtual classrooms isn't the easiest for them. People who were sharing multiple certificates - sometimes up to 3, 4, 5 e-learning certificates. On LinkedIn, I saw someone upload 12 certificates and I was wondering how he did it. Not because I think it's such a rare feat. No. I was wondering, did he actually learn? This, in fact is the crux of the matter and exactly why I'm writing this blog post. How can you get the most out of online learning? There are steps you must take for this to happen. Each of those steps will be in phases: Before