Lesson Plan: Water Conservation
The amount of water you use in your household can have a big impact on the total amount of energy used by your home. Heating water for showers, baths, laundry and dishes accounts for more than 15 percent of a home’s utility expenses.
How Smart Home Upgrades Can Help You Sell Your House
Smart home upgrades can help you sell your house faster and for a higher price. While there are no guarantees, upgrading home technology can increase the perceived value and desirability of your property, making it more marketable.
Lesson Plan: Hydropower
Water can be a very powerful, clean source of energy. Water has been used for centuries to carry cargo, grind grain, and you guessed it, generate electricity, otherwise known as hydropower!
Lesson Plan: Biomass
This lesson aims to introduce students to one of our earliest forms of energy – biomass, which has been used to heat and cook for longer than most energy sources. How you ask – WOOD you care to make a guess?
Meal Prepping: Energy-Efficient Cooking to Save You Time and Money
After a day spent juggling a hectic work schedule, family duties or both, many of us would love to save time cooking weeknight meals. Who wouldn’t want to have more free time with the family or just relaxing?
How to Recruit Employees for Your Small Business
Whether you’re taking on new work, dealing with high staff turnover or just looking to bring some fresh ideas to the table, knowing how to recruit employees for your small business is essential. Attracting qualified employees can be a challenge, especially when larger, more established companies are competing for the same talent.
How to Automate Your Home Appliances That Use the Most Energy
Lowering your household’s electricity consumption has a positive impact on the environment as well as your monthly energy bill. The tricky part is figuring out what uses the most electricity in your home and controlling it.
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11 Small-Business Marketing Tips for a Summer Slowdown
Slow summer sales are common for many small businesses. But even though revenue may be down, there are ways to take advantage of this time.
Which Way Should a Ceiling Fan Turn in the Summer & Winter?
When temperatures go up, often so does air conditioning usage. But A/C can use a lot of electricity, which may be expensive.
Who Is My Gas and Electricity Provider?
If you’re responsible for paying the bills in your home, you’re familiar with utilities like electricity, natural gas and water. But if you’re moving into a new place, for instance, you may not know the utility companies for your address yet.
Making Marshmallow Molecules
Our friends at the Fort Bend Children’s Discovery Center and the Children’s Museum Houston have shared an activity with us that can help your children answer the question, “How do particles combine into new substances?” Through the building of models with marshmallows and toothpicks, kids will make elements, molecules, compounds, and mixtures to develop molecular
