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(From The Slovak Spectator)

Byline: Marta Iurianova Spectator staff

A HUNT for the oldest electric household appliance is a contest that major Slovak energy distribution company Zapadoslovenska energetika has organised for 13-year-old children. The issue of energy conservation is coming more and more into focus in the face of today's environmental problems. It is believed that an environmental approach towards life has to be acquired during childhood so that, as an adult, one sees it as a normal lifestyle. Children in the eighth grade at 300 elementary schools in Slovakia enter the contest by filling in a questionnaire where they describe the equipment in their ...

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