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T-shirts are a common clothing item to wear. Often you'd have one hanging in your closet, crumpled in the basket or folded in your dresser. What many don't know is that making T-shirts are very bad for the environment. Thousands of liters of water are used to make just one, dyes pollute water ways and formaldehyde is still used today in screen printing. Marci Zaroff saw the fashion industries statistics on T-shirts and met up Cas Silver, owner of a tye-dye business. The result was a new idea called MetaWear. MetaWear uses dyes made from seaweed, to help protect the environment, and uses screen printing without formaldehyde. This is one of the only clothing businesses that have an environment-friendly dye, which has big potentials with large T-shirt producers. The seaweed dye, called SeaInk, could be the next step toward us becoming a treehugger. I feel that as issues like global-warming become more prominent, we need to find ways to utilise our plants in better ways to help s...

Poverty is an issue in our world. However, it's not something that we can just stop; in fact, we've struggled with it for generations. In social studies, we are concluding our poverty unit, but that doesn't mean I have to stop there. After donating to a real NGO, I want to continue helping those in poverty. In this unit, here are two things that had a huge impact on me. One of the most impactful lessons was when I found my family's connection to poverty. It really gave me insight into what poverty really was: it's not just some faraway land; it hovers over all of us.  My personal connection to poverty taught me truly how fortunate I am. My grandfather himself had to work his way out of poverty, and it really shocked me to know how different my life could have been. It really matters to me, because it shows how close poverty is to me; just two generations up. This experience has changed me. I now know that I am not above any of these people, that I, in fact, could...

Orange Cranberry Muffin Recipe 1 tablespoon orange zest 1/2 cup orange juice 1 large egg 1/4 cup olive oil 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 cup honey 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon kosher salt 1/2 cup dried cranberries, chopped Preheat the oven to 375°F Mix the orange zest, orange juice, egg, oil and honey. Add in the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt; whisk to incorporate. Stir in the cranberries. Divide the mixture among the muffin tins, filling the tins about 3/4 full, and bake until the muffins are golden and push back when gently pressed, 20 to 25 minutes. Makes 12 muffins. 1. I thought that my snack was pretty healthy, because I swapped out sugar for honey, had lots of Vitamin C, and checked all ingredient labels. I had no processed sugar, just natural. However, I could have improved the recipe by using whole wheat or almond flour instead of all-purpose flour. Also, it didn't have...