Last night I was watching television. Almost everything was reruns, so I decided to watch the History Channel. It was a show about how so many different people/cultures have predicted the end of the world. Supposedly that will be happening right around the Winter Solstice in 2012. I think it is fascinating that so many predictions revolve around that date. I wonder if it has something to do with the numbers – for example the date will be 12/21/2012. So many 1s and 2s. The show certainly was quite convincing that the end of the world really might be coming! I’m starting to wish I had just gone to bed!
Have you ever had a calculator that gave you the wrong answers from time to time? I have a solar-powered calculator that seems to have “lost it” somehow. When I was given this calculator, I was thrilled – no more replacing batteries! But lately I’ve been getting a lot of wrong answers from it. I’m certain that I entered the correct data, so maybe one of the key pads has died. So I guess it’s time to throw it away, but I hate to throw away an electronic gadget. It’s bad for the environment, you know? But I can’t keep on collecting dead electronic junk either! I wonder if there is a local place that I can take this to….. I’ll have to do a little research on that. If you know of anyplace that takes dead calculators, let me know!
In our attempts to keep our electric bill as low as possible, we have been thinking about installing ceiling fans throughout the house. I’d like to have one in every room except for the bathrooms. Keeping the air circulating will allow us to raise the temperature on the thermostat but still be comfortable. And of course, using less electricity helps the environment! It might also help my wife’s dry skin problem I mentioned in my previous post – less air conditioning will lessen the dryness of the air.
Last month I installed two Hunter ceiling fans in our living room. I chose them because they have the reputation of being quiet, and I don’t want to have to turn up the television any higher to hear it over the noise of anything mechanical!
I’d also like to install a couple of outdoor Minka aire fans on our porch. Having the air moving out there while we are sitting outside would make the porch a much more pleasant spot to sit and socialize. Especially for my wife, who loves to sit outside and look at the flower bed and watch the dogs playing with each other.
When we first moved into this house I went up into the attic and saw that we had an attic fan. I couldn’t figure out how it was supposed to work; everything that I tried to make it run didn’t seem to have any effect. Well, finally I got around to having a handyman service come out to the house and take a look at it. I hated to admit defeat, but my wife was reminding me frequently that we really should be running it to help keep the costs of cooling the house low. Well, it turns out that the motor was burnt out. No wonder it wouldn’t run! We determined that it was cheaper to replace the motor than to replace the entire fan, which was surprising, but good news. So we replaced the motor and now it runs just fine. I hope we will see a difference on our electric bill next month!
I was reading that the Golivemobile is expanding their overseas operations in the upcoming months. I’m sure that those countries will be thrilled to have Golivemobile over there. For the most part, it is a technology company, which doesn’t usually have a large negative impact on the environment. So for those countries that is a good thing because so many other American companies do a lot of polluting. And I’m sure that the jobs that will be going over there will be high paying jobs by their country’s standards. Low by American standards, but that is the whole point of sending jobs overseas, isn’t it?
Education and Personal Growth, Environment and green, General life | Dean | 
January 7, 2010 11:05 am | 
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