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This site focuses on sustainability on a state-wide level. It has an abundance of information on sustainable programs and issues. It talks about sustainability in many areas and gives solutions and ideas for ways in which people can and are being sustainable everyday.

Arizona is a good state to be considered a sustainable state. Becuase of the sun and how it provides power with solar engery. Arizona is in the best position and hits the brightest spot of the sun, that's why it's so bright here. Thus leading to a lot of solar pannels being put up.

This site was a good pick because it has a lot of information which will help Arizona.

This article talks about the myth of having your appliances plugged in and still sucking up your energy, especially older appliances. So it turns out that even though your appliance is turned off, it's still wasting energy because it's plugged in.

this artile goes into more detail about what we have read so far in the book. it explains how landfills are releasing large quanties of methane.

In this article statistics compare how much food is wasted between countries all over the world. Also, methane is a greenhouse gas that is much more dangerous than carbon dioxide.

Food is biodegradable so whats the problem? This article explains the danger in food littering.

This article talks about how much it costs the US to get rid of the food waste. It also talks about how food waste releases methane, which is more harmful than carbon dioxide. 

This website has several different options for people depending on their own specific needs.First and formost it gives a lot of general information on food wast and why it is so serious. There are suggestions on how to create the right portion sizes for meals as well as recipies, as well as ways to save your personal time and money. Suggestions as to proper ways to save and store your extra food.

Food waste is the largest component of discarded waste. The Arizona Garbage project estimates that the average person throws out 1.3 pound of food a day roughly 475 pounds a year. Over 60 million homes and 500,000 businesses have disposals to get rid of food waste so it wouldn't end up in the landfill, why don't they use them?

There are ten simple thing that everyone can do to help make sure that we can really be sustainable for the future decades to come. In order to do so we need to understand where our food is really coming from, and what power we really do have as a consumer.

"Sustainability is based on a simple principle: Everything that we need for our survival and well-being depends, either directly or indirectly, on our natural environment." This site s full of information on sustainability and more. Great links are attached to this site. Want to know how to help? Read more....

This is a very informative website. It explains what sustainability is, and what is being done to preserve it. Also, it explains what we can do to help.

This is great article to grasp what exactly sustainability is. I like how it really goes it to depth about what exactly it is instead of just giving a general defining statement, it helps with the comprehension of what it really means. It also shows what can be done to help this also helped with the comprehension because it gave examples so also an opportunity to reflect as well.

This article explains a group of people that take food from stores that is getting thrown away and hand it out to the hunger. I find this very important because instead of the food being wasted someone is taking a stand and giving to the need instead of the dump. So we are killing two birds with one stone in this process.

This paper talks about how so many kids take a packed lunch to school but almost all of it ends up in the trash. This because kids want to eat the foods that are bad for you or look cool compared to healthy boring stuff that ends up in the trash. What kid wants to eat healthy.

This page is about vermicomposting which is composting using worms. On this page you will find which the different names of the Red worm is. What type of box to buy and use, the type of bedding to use and what you can feed the red worms so they can compost.

This article is about the sustainability need in the food waste area. This article explain that we should recycle our food by composting and also explain two types of ways to compost.

To achieve a sustainable society then food waste must be recycled as opposed to being sent to landfill sites around the country. We all know the problems that our planet is suffering through global warming that is partly aided by the greenhouse gasses that are produced when food waste is sent to landfill and the ensuing fluctuations in temperature that is suffered around the globe.

I really like your comment Norma i Read the same thing but saw it in a different light. But then after reading about your going green comment i thought about how ironic it is that color is being considered a sustainability method. It is great when you can see something from someone else point of view and get more from something you already agreed with.

We use energy for everything. We use energy to treat our water , grow our food, produces and to go to place to place. In general we want our community to develop more diverse, reliable, and cleaner sources of energy; to reduce energy usage; and to improve efficiency.

I tried to see what was important on this article but it wasn't very easy for me personally to grasp. I see that you 3 did find the point of the sustainability with electricity. I find it funny that we are always leaving lights on when we leave a room and think nothing of it until we are told it will save us money or that we are wasting something we really take for granted.

This article states that sustainability and energy interconnect in many ways. I agree with Dominique we use energy for everything we do, but hopefully we don't take advantage of the resources we have now and end up leaving are future heirs high and dry.

This article talks about how sustainable energy meets the needs for the present, but does not effect the sustainable energy for the future. It also talks about how researchers are exploring different ways to produce cleaner more efficient ways to produce better energy sources instead of relying on fossil fuel.

this website was easy to understand and interesting all at the same time. It gives a run down on the technology that is being applied now to help the the sustainability within our environment. This is also gives a sneak peek into what technology that they plan to improve on and introduce hopefully within the near future.

This article was easy for me to understand, I really like how the article explained "sustainable energy" with terms that I know and isn't too far complex for the readers.

To begin, this website supports and funds stability for cities across the nation. The overall goal is to benefit urban communities. This includes jobs, homes, food, ect. The CNT supports and takes care of the urban cities that demand help.

This site is on how urban cities depend on stability, to maintain sustainability. Sustainability creates the jobs, builds homes for the community as well. The website helps to fund the urban cities so that they can maintain there community.