Hey hey! Today I’m here to talk about three awesome articles that i read on Treehugger.com, which you can check out here. The first one is about luring customers to spend more cash. You know how a place looks nice inside, or plays comforting music? It lures you in. However, this method is more subtle – it’s the scent that draws you in. Researchers conducted an experiment to see if this was true. Customers would go into a store, and the store would either have the simple scent of orange, a more complicated scent of orange, green tea, and basil, or no scent. The experiment showed that customers spent 20% more money when the orange aroma was in the store versus the complicated scent and no scent, which had no effects on shoppers. Take it into mind and avoid stores with nice scents! The second article is about the pros and cons of tablets. Today, 25% of adults own a tablet, while only 4% owned a tablet in 2010. Of that 25%, 79% of those people say that the main benefit of a tablet is reducing the need to print books, thus saving lots of trees. It is a little more harmful to nature to make an iPad than a book, but tablets are better for saving water. Publishing a printed book takes 7 gallons of water, whereas a publishing a book on a tablet takes only two cups of water. It is estimated that by 2025, e-waste will balloon up to 25,000,000 tons. However, using a tablet only puts out 2.5 grams of CO2 per hour, so that’s another bonus. Tablets certainly have some benefits! The last article was the “photo of the day” for the website, which you can check out here. It’s a picture of Dufferin Street in Toronto, Canada. The photographer says that it was taken during a one mile walk from a mall to a car service place. He says that its a terrible photo because of all the cars, and he says that people don’t drive because a mile is such a long distance (said sarcastically), but because walking is basically a guillotine meets iron maiden for them. it’s torture for those people. This is terrible! We need to get out and move!

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Hey! Today I’m showing you all some pictures of what I saw on the way from my house walking to Your Theater (which is a theater inside a church) for a play. Enjoy!

Intersection of Water Street and Union Street. There’s a bit of construction going on there right now.

Intersection of Union Street and Johnny Cake Hill. This intersection is close to the YMCA and the Whaling Museum.

Union Street and Second Street. If you look closely at this one, you can see a painting of different colored heads. It’s a pretty cool work of art, if you ask me!

And here we come to the part of town where I don’t know the street names, so I apologize in advance. This place is an apartment building.

Just a street shot. I wonder if the guy on the headstone fought in a war?

This is the Bay Village, an apartment complex. There was a lot of sun in that area, so the solar panels that you see on the roof were a nice idea, don’t you think?

You can see a park with a playground in this shot, and apparently it’s “one of the most dangerous parks in the city”. Yeah right!

This place is a club, but you probably already guessed that.

A grocery store, but again, you probably knew that.

A convenience store, but again…you know what I was going to say.

Another street shot. The recycling bin is just a recycling bin, not a sign for a recycling center or anything else.

A view of a massive church. Catholic, I believe.

Street shot. The flag that you can see reminds us all that it’s Thanksgiving, and that we have to cook yet another huge meal.

Just a small park. I always found it interesting how the leaves pile up in the corners and thin near the middle. Is there a scientific equation for this? If you know about it, please let me know in the comments!

Our last stop before the play, to get snacks. Minnie Mart instead of Mini Mart is odd and hilarious at the same time.

Well, that’s it for this post. I’ll have plenty more, but for now, don’t forget to comment and subscribe!

Hey everyone, and happy new President! Obama has won the 2012 election, entitling him to another four years in office. After the election, I read an article on huffingtonpost.com about new religious unity for America. Check it out here. The article talks about how even though we may disagree on theology, we should all follow the same principles to respect each other. The fact that marriage rights were legalized in Maine, Minnesota, Maryland, and Washington shows how far we’ve come in that category. Also the fact that the first Hindu is in congress and the first Buddhist in senate shows the new religious diversity in America. This article was, to me, extremely moving, and i agree with the message, which is loud and clear: If we want America to be more religiously healthy, we need to join together as one, no matter what our religion.

what did you think of this article? Let me know in the comments!