Share and Voice: Environmental Answers

Take a peak at this video...got me thinking. This video really made me glad to hear that we have certain and positive answers to energy sources that are reducing fossil fuel emissions. This video gives you an idea of a number of sources that are becoming more popular day by day. More than anything I would like to see fields of wind power turbines. I don't totally agree with them being placed in open waters but if the best wind currents are in that region and it will greatly help our environment I am okay with that. I hope Siemens AG continue to bring their innovations into production. Enjoy.

Answers For The Environment

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Reflections on Week Three and Four

So another two weeks have gone by and my thoughts about the environment continue to change...in a positive way.

Week Three

Week three was an eventful week for me because I had my first review due on article 27. From that I learned how the film industry tends to depict our environment in good and bad ways, and sometimes even portray nature in a false view. It made me think about how I view these documentaries and will continue to view them, most likely thinking more in depth about whats behind the scenes. Another group reviewed article number 1, which talked about the environmental challenges that we face.

Week Four

Week four in class was very relaxing. We watched the documentary film An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore. It gave insight into the threatening and devastating troubles that global warming is having on our planet. Troubles that are affecting people and our environment. I thought it was a very well directed film and I believe Al Gore has made a huge step in getting people to follow along with the fact that global warming is real and we need to do something about it before its to late.

These past four weeks have been a learning experience getting me to think about the environment in ways that I really don't sit down and take the time ponder about.

Eye Openers: Ecoogical Footprint

After taking the Ecological Footprint quiz, probably the most interesting thing I found out is that if everyone lived the way I do we would need 4.4 planets to provide everyone with enough resources. Holy smokes, that's a lot. To add to that, it would take 19.7 global acres of Earth's productive area to support the way I live. What really struck me is that, having 19.7 global acres would result in 21.1 tons of carbon dioxide a year. Being that we would need 4.4 planets to provide enough resources if everyone lived the way I do makes me hope that there is a lot of people who may be living a more resource valued life to make up for my usage. I'll be thinking of ways to lower my rate of 4.4 planets. The use of electricity was the highest when I looked at what I use to support my lifestyle. Of course electricity will be the highest for mostly everyone but it reminds me that I have to do what I can to conserve that energy and use it to the very least. I know I forget to shutdown my computer for the night or leave the TV on when I'm not even watching it. Those are things I will change.

The second quiz I took was the Score Your Diet quiz. I thought this was a pretty useful tool in judging how well you diet yourself. I think to many people are to busy to actually pay attention to their diet so I find tools like this helpful to give me an insight on what I should maybe eat more or less of. I found out that I should be eating more fish and less beef. I grew up with my paps pretty much cooking meals with meat in them probably 70 percent of the time so that's been past on into my cooking abilities. My health score was a 7, while my environmental score was a -11 and my animal welfare score was a -6. For some reason I feel like those numbers are necessarily right but It's hard to select exactly how many servings you had of what. Either way it makes me think of how to improve my diet. Guess I'll be thinking of new meals to cook.

The third quiz I took was the Transport Impact Calculator. Once I started taking it I thought I would have a much worse impact on generating emissions but I found out that my annual pollution for road transport is better than average. Good thing I have a car that gets nearly 30 mpg. Thanks Toyota. I generate the most pollution while on trips to visit family, make sense to me since they live about four and half hours away. My sollution to cutting my emission rate is to car pool more often and to catch the bus more than what I have been doing.

I found these three quizes very helpful. They've made me realize a lot of what I do effects the environment. Not only that but what I'm doing I need to change so that I can have more of a positive effect on our planet. I will always be thinking of ways to go greener.