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Sharp Solutions for Home Medicine has collected 15,000 pounds of medical waste since 2007
Santa Cruz Sentinel, February 18, 2010.
WATSONVILLE — Those pills may dissolve when you flush them, but their chemicals ghost along in our water.
The medicines that help heal may wreak havoc on our ecosystem. Medicines tossed into the trash can leech into ground water and “sharps”.. →
Learn more about sharks and their relatives during “Shark Days” at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
Santa Cruz Sentinel, February 17, 2010.
MONTEREY — “Shark Days” at the Monterey Bay Aquarium on Saturday and Sunday aims to set your brain swimming with shark facts.
The celebration will include activities, videos and presentations about the aquarium”s seven sharks and their.. →
UC Santa Cruz astronomy professor discusses the music he has created from stellar movements
Santa Cruz Sentinel, February 11, 2010.
The silent sterility of space mutes even the most destructive astronomical events.
But Gregory Laughlin is translating — “sonifying” — stellar movements into sound, allowing the public to listen in on thousands of years of gravitational.. →
The Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz County held their Kick-off breakfast Wednesday, marking the start of fundraising season for the 30th annual Human Race, to be held on May 8.
Santa Cruz Sentinel, February 4, 2010.
APTOS — Attention Santa Cruz County nonprofits and volunteers: Start your donation-gathering engines.
The Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz County kicked off the 30th annual Human Race fundraising drive during a breakfast event Wednesday.
The.. →
Santa Cruz expecting a mild, drizzly week before storms predicted for next weekend
Santa Cruz Sentinel, January 30, 2010.
Friday’s rain will linger through this morning, but give way to a relatively dry and only partly cloudy weekend.
But don’t put your rain gear away just yet.
Cloudiness is predicted to increase on Monday leading to light showers.. →
UCSC grad walks the Pacific Crest Trail
Santa Cruz Sentinel, January 24th, 2010.
SANTA CRUZ — Sage Clegg-Haman’s shoes are made for walking and that’s just what they did — seven pairs of them, to be exact.
“I had one pair of shoes that lasted around 900 miles. Those were incredible. I miss them,” she said.
On.. →
Compost tubs at Second Harvest Food Bank keep 7,000 pounds of waste from landfills, so far
Santa cruz Sentinel, January 22, 2010.
WATSONVILLE — The Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Cruz County not only helps the hungry, but is taking strides to help the environment, too.
Funding from Watsonville and Santa Cruz County has helped install tubs to convert the Food Bank”s.. →
Santa Cruz duo aims to make a difference in Nigeria
Santa Cruz Sentinel, January 17th, 2010.
Complications kill or maim up to 30 percent of pregnant women in Nigeria, one of the highest rates in the world.
That statistic is what drew Evelyn Castle and Adam Thompson to Nigeria last summer, working with UC Santa Cruz’s Global Information.. →
Grant to aid in fight against childhood obesity in the Pajaro Valley
Santa Cruz Sentinel, January 12th, 2010.
WATSONVILLE — The battle against childhood obesity in the Pajaro Valley is getting some help.
The United Way of Santa Cruz County announced Monday its Go For Health! program has received $360,000 to work on the problem during the next four years.
The.. →
Jupiter’s Moons Have Many Earth-Like Features
American Geophysical Union, GeoSpace Blog, December 18th, 2009.
I can imagine Galileo sitting in the dark, peering through his telescope and taking careful notes on the objects he saw orbiting Jupiter. Or maybe I saw it in some Space Channel documentary. Either way, the fact that.. →