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| Grandson Elliott knows how to use every app on my phone! |
5.2 miles, 1 hour, 22 minutes
24Hr Fitness workout with 20 min cross trainer 48 minutes
mowed lawn
7.9 mile long run, 2 hours, 5 min.
Got a new iPhone. It has taken over my life. So many apps... so little time. I can wear this thing on my belt and with the ipod app listen to my running playlist, spend face to face time with my grand-daughter Ava, and with RunKeeper app, keep track of my distance, time, speed, etc. But then, about an hour into the run, the playlist begins erratically skipping and jumping to new songs every few seconds. Next, the earplugs would cut in and out--finally they would not work if plugged in, but iphone speaker would go silent when the plugs were removed. Last, the RunKeeper would pause whenever winded, so I would have activities lasting 2 min. 34 sec. and lose stats on an hours worth of run. A trip to the Apple store resulted in a new iphone! Not Expected! Yea!
While many of us in the U.S. are blessed with the affluence to use sophisticated apps, for many (2.4 billion) people in our world, the apps are biomass fuel (primarily wood or dung) for cooking and heat. The environmental cost is enormous, but the human toll is even greater. The World Health Organization estimates that 1.6 million people die each year from indoor air pollution – that’s one person every 20 seconds. According to Outreach International, nearly half the world’s population use wood, coal or dung to fuel their stoves and heat their homes. The smoke from open fires and stoves carries concentrated particulates of black carbon deep into the lungs of adults and children alike, ultimately causing chronic respiratory distress, lung cancer, pneumonia, and – too often – death.
With the help of Outreach International, however, many communities are learning about a campaign for clean cooking energy and raised funds to install cleaner Malena stoves. These improved stoves are vented, use less fuel, and reduce smoke and carbon monoxide emissions. This app is inexpensive and effective. Let’s work to end poverty one child, one family, one village at a time by actively supporting the creation, production and distribution of apps for better living!
With the help of Outreach International, however, many communities are learning about a campaign for clean cooking energy and raised funds to install cleaner Malena stoves. These improved stoves are vented, use less fuel, and reduce smoke and carbon monoxide emissions. This app is inexpensive and effective. Let’s work to end poverty one child, one family, one village at a time by actively supporting the creation, production and distribution of apps for better living!
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