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Keeping Up with The Environment

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Do you care about the environment? Although you may want the best for your planet, keeping up with the right ways to do so isn’t always easy. Reporters from El Nuevo Sol have discovered tips on how you can help with keeping your community clean. With stories on how to make recycling an easy part of your daily routine, the truths about global warming, how having a barbeque can put your health at risk, and the future wheels that can save you from gas guzzling, El Nuevo Sol is here to help!

Recycle and help the Earth
Photo by Amelia Favela

GLOBAL WARMING: Take Action!

By JAZZMYNE BOGARD
It is time to recognize that global warming is real. California Senator Barbara Boxer says that without efforts to reduce climate-warming activities, global warming will soon put humans and the environment in significant danger.

RECYCLING: Simple Steps to Save Your Community

By TRENE TODD
Save energy, limit pollution, and conserve natural resources by doing something as simple as throwing away your trash. Buying products that can be recycled when thrown away can help your planet be a better place. Trene Todd reveals more easy tips on how you can make recycling a part of your life.

BBQ SMOKE: Planning a Barbeque?

By ALICE ZAKARYAN
With summer right around the corner, many friends and families often find themselves gathered around a Barbeque enjoying the smells of a sizzling steak, but what they’re inhaling can be doing a lot more than just entertaining their taste buds. Alice Zakaryan reveals what the director of the Air Quality Research Center at UC Davis is saying about what charcoal smoke is doing to the air and your health.

E-WASTE: The Effects of Electronics

By TRENE TODD
Does one hundred and thirty thousand computers sound like a lot? Well that’s only a portion of the amount of E-waste the United States throws away each day. E-waste when burned, poisons the air we breathe causing significant damage to our internal organs. Trene Todd reveals solutions to the e-waste problem.

REDUCED GAS CONSUMPTION: New Standards, Cleaner Air

By ALICE ZAKARYAN
The world’s lightest electric vehicle has arrived. Saving 20 times less energy for every kilometer you travel, the Boosted Board is fast to charge and cheap to build. Engineer Sanjay Dastoor says these electric skateboards can run 500 miles on about a dollar of electricity.