Bokashi Composting and other tips to reduce food waste at home

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"Together with Janine Gutierrez, WWF-Ph National Youth Ambassador, Rayne Roque, WWF-Ph Sustainable Consumer Specialist for The Sustainable Diner Project, and Rina Papio, Green Space President, let’s learn how to divert food waste at home and how composting benefits our soil!" 

This is how it looks like when you are taking notes from a zoom webinar:

We need millions of people doing it imperfectly. Together we can make a difference.

Compost benefits for plantitas and plantitos home garden..

Composting (Bokashi) from Greenspace

Divert food wastes away from landfills and into urban gardens. Keeping it away from landfills to regenerate the planet by building healthy soil

Food waste is the third highest emitter of methane gases

We need more beneficial microbes in.our guys, in our food, in our soil which grows the food.

We're trashing the planet for free.

New way to food waste - compost buckets

Contributing in healing the planet - land fillers to land healers

Bokashi Fermented organic matter from Japanese

Collect, ferment, compost stages

Anaerobic composting requires a tightly sealed bucket

Bokashi bran - rice bran (darak), CRH, EM-1

All food waste can be added - layering

1 handful Bokashi bran for every tub of food waste, less liquid, less air

Fermented sweet-sour smell

Wanted Soil mates!

Seriously, Bokashi composting is a process of fermentation that is able to quickly convert food waste into productive compost. The microbes, yeast and fungi developed in the 2-3 week process are key in building a healthy soil structure. 

Unlike traditional back-yard composting, this can be done right in your kitchen with nothing but your leftovers and the Bokashi bran. This method works for ALL food scraps, and shouldn't give off any foul odors throughout the process. 

Once the cycle is done, you are left with compost good for your own house plants, and maybe even  some for your neighbors'! 

Tips to reduce food waste at home from WWF-Philippines

1. Give ugly produce a chance 

2. Create a shopping list

3. Plan your meal

4. Check the storage

5. Know serving sizes - Pinggang Pinoy

6. Be creative with your next meal - food preservation, use ingredients for several recipes

7. Share excess food - Rise against hunger

8. Start your home garden

9. Make a compost

10. Share these tips with others

Well, if you understood my notes it means you are probably wanting to be a Soil mate too. You care enough for the environment to know that we must do something now to reduce our food waste and turn what we can't reuse or recycle into something that will heal our soil to eventually able to grow healthier food, and thus make us a better person.

Thanks to WWF-Philippines for organizing this type of webinar that will benefit each one of us to make us a part of sustainable living.

How do Companies Use TikTok for Marketing?

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2019 was a crazy year for a Chinese social media platform TikTok. The app has become #1 in the world according to the number of downloads. TikTok is owned by a Chinese company Bytedance and its main particularity are short-term videos.

The platform has been a large sensation all over the world for the past two years, you might have been living under a rock if you haven’t heard of it. It is a huge social media now and it is largely popular among Generation Z and Millennials. Becoming successful in TikTok can make you a real celebrity and make you as much money as on Instagram or Youtube. 

Big international brands are utilizing Chinese social media as a marketing tool to promote their products and keep in touch with their audience.  TikTok influencers are in abundance; they create videos and endorse products. 

As mentioned previously, the app is very popular among people 16-24-years-old. Statistically, 55 percent of users are males and 45 percent are females. As a fact, females produce more content, while male users prefer to watch videos instead of filming them.

TikTok has a worldwide market and is present in 155 countries. The app is translated into 75 languages and in general, a user spends 52 minutes per day browsing or filming short-term videos. A lot of brands tend to buy real TikTok likes from $2.99, views, and followers to increase their reach. If the views come not from bots - you have big chances of making it to the discovery page and become a star! 

TikTok influencers are always very demanded among big brands and businesses. A respected celebrity with a dedicated audience might have impressive success in an advertisement campaign featuring an interesting brand. 

TikTok isn’t as sleek as Facebook or Instagram. But its offbeat charm is what makes it different from other apps. Various hashtag challenges take place in the app, and users engage in creating content relevant to the hashtag. 

Use TikTok to promote your product and engage with your audience. Use the paid advertisement or biddable ads to increase your popularity.

 

Are There Any Security Risks You’re Exposing Yourself to When You Skip Windows Updates?

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Based on the latest data, the most commonly used operating system in the world today is Windows, which was developed by Microsoft. This software is in great demand both among ordinary users and corporate ones. Due to its practicality and reliability, Windows has not lost ground for many years and remains the strongest competitor in the operating system market. Therefore, it is not strange that such well-known and popular software often falls into the field of view of hackers.

If you care about your data protection, you just need to keep track of regular updates of the operating system.

Knowing the risks and threats

It's no secret that users often underestimate the value of their personal data on a computer and neglect basic security rules. But while you think that your photos or documents are useless and of no importance, hackers and fraudsters already know how to extract the information they need from your hard drive.

Firstly, if your computer is not protected, this greatly increases the likelihood of cybercriminals getting into your personal data. And believe me, it will not be difficult for them to hack your email and download the database of your contacts from there. Today, unfortunately, this is a very common scheme for hackers as the data they steal is valuable for Internet marketing and e-commerce. In addition, there are special malware programs that record literally every keystroke you press. Before you even have time to wake up, all accounts in social networks and private data on other websites will be hacked. With such programs, hackers and cybercriminals can hack all your passwords and access information from existing online accounts.

The best way to keep your data safe and prevent such situations is to update Windows regularly.

Hackers competing with developers

Probably each of us is now thinking, why can't the Windows developers make one update that will last a long time and will be reliable protection for our computer? Everything is simple here: for any new update, there will be those who will try with all their might to hack it. And if you don't regularly make changes to the security system, sooner or later cybercriminals will still get to the data they need.

However, Microsoft programmers also understand the importance and necessity of computer security, so they thoroughly test each update before release. This of course increases the likelihood that the operating system, along with the rest of the data, is safe each time. But who knows how far hackers can go and what their next attack plan is? All that programmers can do at this stage is to observe the shortest possible interval between the release of new updates. And then it's up to us, users. It's up to us to decide whether to secure ourselves with a new update or give hackers access to our personal data.

Responsible users’ behavior

Each hour of the day hackers are evolving and finding new sophisticated ways to illegally possess someone's data, photos, or money. And their closest partner in crime is an open internet network. By downloading or uploading something using such a network, you increase the chance of being hacked by 100%. Even if you think that you have nothing to lose or you don't have any valuable information or money on your credit card, you may not be the only victim. Through you, hackers can probably blackmail your relatives or friends or find their sensitive data. That is why even Windows recommends updating their software using a private network. However, if you are not sure about your privacy, you should protect yourself by using RusVPN for Windows (https://rusvpn.com/en/download/windows/). It will prevent accidental information leakage.

Informing Windows when to install updates

Most people leave all of the settings on their devices as “default”, which can sometimes be troublesome. We all know that software updates always come in the wrong place at the wrong time, whether you are in a meeting or are in an online game. 

Although, you probably don't notice the updates, especially on Windows 10, because it does it in the background, but major updates may be very inconvenient. That is why we recommend you to adjust this setting to your schedule.

For Windows 10, choose the Settings option in the Start Menu. Here you should go to the Update and Security section. Then click on Windows Update and go to the Advanced Settings.

This simple action will prevent you from raging on your computer and losing the work done.

Conclusion

To sum up, we would like to repeat that Windows updates should be up-to-date and not without reason. 

To prevent having inconvenient software updates, during your work or studying time, adjust the update schedule in the Windows Settings. It is very simple to do so!

To prevent having your data leaked and exposed, update your Windows only while using a private network or a VPN. No one can be too safe in this world of progress and technology!

These simple actions are enough to stop dangerous hackers from getting to you, so don't overlook them!