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  • Lori Lindsay
  • Mar 9, 2022
  • 1 min read

Do something green today


LED lights are up to 80% more efficient than traditional lighting such as fluorescent and incandescent lights. LED lights contain no toxic elements so switching to LED avoids the cost and time implications required for disposal – and helps to protect the environment from further toxic waste. LED Lights last up to six times longer than other types of lights, reducing the requirement for frequent replacements. This results in using fewer lights and hence fewer resources are needed for manufacturing processes, packaging materials, and transportation.


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  • Lori Lindsay
  • Mar 7, 2022
  • 1 min read

Love where you live


You can’t talk about Austin without talking music. Its cutting-edge live music scene is legendary and it’s everywhere. Austin’s music history dates back to the 70’s and 80’s and came out of clubs that became home to a new, eclectic landscape, embracing country, rock, blues, punk, soul, and roots. Artists like Willie Nelson, Townes Van Zandt, and the Big Boys, (all patron saints of the movement), fed a growing club scene, that eventually led to the live music show known as Austin City Limits.


Today, ACL draws upwards of 450,000 people to Zilker Park. And if that weren’t enough, the city also hosts the SXSW Festival every March offering a unique opportunity to explore the worlds of Interactive, Film, Music, and Comedy with parties, awards, screenings, and showcases all over town. Music isn’t the only thing Austin has going for it in the way of arts and culture. It has an eclectic art scene that ranges from weird to modern to fine with food and drink to match. Other things Austin is known for - Allergy Capital of the World (those cedar pollen), its lakes, rivers, and those hot, sticky summers.



 
 
 
  • Lori Lindsay
  • Feb 28, 2022
  • 2 min read


Just south of the Beach Cities, and slightly north of Orange County, is Long Beach, also located on the Pacific. It is a city filled with diversity and atmosphere and is the second-largest city in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. (It’s also the third largest in Southern California behind LA and San Diego.)


Long Beach is “a big city with a small-town vibe.” It’s also a multicultural place with a cosmopolitan feel, full of arts, culture, adventure, and sunshine. It gets its name from the ten-mile stretch of beach that starts at the marina, south of Long Beach Café, and goes all the way over to the San Gabriel River and the Alamitos Bay Yacht Club. The neighborhoods are diverse and can go from quaint suburbs to something rougher fairly quickly. The cool kids prefer Belmont Shore, while the more affluent live in Naples. If you don’t want to live in Long Beach but still say you live in Long Beach, Signal Hill is your place. One of the biggest benefits of living in Long Beach is the airport – a nice alternative to LAX. And, yes, the weather is great!


Its geographic location, directly east of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, paired with its mostly south facing coastline, results in the city having significantly different weather patterns than coastal communities to the north and south, but there’s plenty of sunshine all year long.

The beaches happen to have the hottest temperatures and warmest ocean water in all of Northern and Southern California. The Port of Long Beach is among the world’s largest shipping ports and is the second busiest container port in the United States. Long Beach also has its own airport, is home to California State University, Long Beach, the Queen Mary and the Long Beach Grand Prix.




 
 
 
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