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This was very interesting to listen to because he went to a ocean with not a lot of marine life and he found plastic and it was twice the size of texas. The captain is Charles Mor. What I found interesting is that the garbage is just floating around on top of the ocean which is horrible for not jjust the ocean but life in the ocean. I think that it is just horrible that we are polluting our world like this and how we really cant do anything about it. I thought that this article was an eye opener to me and how big it is and how we are not doing anything about it.
The article talked about houses and how they make them so energy efficient and good for the environment. What I enjoyed about this article is the diagram they showed of what one of the houses looks like and all of the things that help save energy in the house. This was a good article and what I noticed was that it seemed repetitive to what we learned at the BioHouse which was good because now it is stuck in my head
The Tipping Point is about change, in particular its about understanding why change often happens as quickly and as unexpectedly as it does. The main reason of the book is to examine the social epidemics that surround us. It's that ideas and behavior and messages and products sometimes behave just like outbreaks of infectious disease, I think that this is a good reference and it makes a lot of sense. Overall I thought that this was very interesting and it was a good summary of what the book had to offer.
This was a very interesting article and very unusual to hear. It was mainly about how a few monkeys learned how to wash sand off sweet potatoes before they eat them. And also how fast it spread to other groups of monkeys and how fast they all picked it up, they found out about it in the morning and by night they already learned how to wash sand off the potatoes. I found this article to be awesome and funny, also interesting because how fast the monkeys learned to wash the potatoes.
This article describes how much a BioHouse saves energy and how efficient it is. There are many ways that this house conserves energy. They have solar panels at the top of the roof to get energy for plants that they are growing and also to heat the house up. They have blinds that protect sun from coming so the house wont get to hot and there windows are double sealed and locked so that no air can come go threw it. These are just some of the great things that this house has and this article was a great read and really interesting.
The concept of the Tragedy of the Commons is very vital for understanding how we are destroying our environment. If a resource is used by all, then overall that resource will be destroyed. I think that Harden means when he says freedom to breed is intolerable is that he cannot stand that there are so many people in the world and that we need to decrease some of the population. I think he is also saying that if there is an over population and that there will not be enough food to provide for everyone in the world. When Hardin said consience is self limiting that it is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience. Hardin suggests mutual coercion be mutually agreed upon in the article and I think it means that people should agree with him cause it makes a lot of sense. Overall this article was really long and for me hard to follow, but it was interesting.
The main point of this article is about how they are testing an hypothesis about the hydraulic limitation of tree height. The theory of Hydraulic limitation shows that tree height is limited by the difficulty of pulling water from tree roots to treetop. They were also wondering if this was the case for just tall tree or if shorter trees can have this as well. So what they did to test there hypothesis was the got pine needles from the top of a pine tree and they load the needles into a pressure bomb and it gives a number of how hard the needles at the top of the pine were sucking to get water. This test showed that water in the upper canopy needles was under more than enough suction to force the leaf openings to close. Also they took needles from the top a pine all the way down to the bottom. And the test showed that the treetops were 20% shorter than the bottom canapys. That was just a brief summary of the tests that they did. Overall I thought that this article was really interesting and it gave first hand facts about why trees aren't growing taller.
For this assignment we were suppose to go get trash from the surrounding buildings and bring it back and analyze what could have been recycled and what could we do to make this problem more public to students. Our group went specifically to lower union and got some trash there and came back to the room. We then analyzed it and found out that the majority of the trash could be recycled. Then our group came up with a couple of ways to make this public to the students here at Bemidji. I thought that this was an eye opening project because it really shows how much we don't recycle and that we need to start taking care of the environment.
This was are second field trip and it was at the Transfer Station in Bemidji. This field trip was very interesting and I learned a lot while I was there. This was very helpful to me because when i get a house here I know where to go if I need to drop off garbage or any kind of material. At the transfer station they try to recycle as much as they can before just throwing it in the garbage. They let anybody in the Beltrami county use there station and they have truck that go and pick up garbage in designated spots all over the county. Overall this field trip was very helpful for me because I learned a lot about what goes on in the transfer station and how they run it and what to with my garbage when I get a house in Bemidji.
For our first field trip we went to the BioHouse which is located just outside of Bemidji in Concordia's language village. We were lucky enough to get a tour of this house and got taught about all of the functions that the house has to offer. There were some main features to the house that stood out more than other's. One of the big differences was how the south had the majority of the windows while north didn't have any, the east and west side didn't have as much. Another one was that the windows were hinged differently so that no air got in so they can get as much sun in as possible. A sweet feature that the house had was that there were two buttons for the toilet and to save water there was a button for pee and one for poop. Overall I thought the tour and the house was really interesting and cool. I think that it is great that they are saving and conserving energy, and I learned a lot from this field trip.
Yes I think that Earth has reached carrying capacity for humans. There are millions of people that don't have a home and food and are barely surviving each day. Because of this over capacity of people we are running short of main resources like water and gasoline. These resources are most wanted when it comes to humans. And because we are overpopulated we are running out of these main supplies. Because of this people are going to become homeless and there are going to be more of them as well. I think that we need to have people more aware of this and control this. That is why I think we have reached Earth's capacity.
Yes I believe that we are witnessing the 6th mass extinction. I also think that we are a big part of why this is going on. The definition of mass extinction is the extinction of a large number of species within a relatively short period of geological time, and this is happening all over the world. There was a test done by Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson and he estimated that 30,000 species per year are becoming extinct which is a ton of species that are no longer in this world. Also we have destroyed a lot of wildlife, tree's, small species, also fish that are vital to this world. There are a couple of really big reasons why this is happening right now. They are transformation of landscaping, pollution, and over-exploitation of species. But there have been a lot of good things that we have learned to do to limit this and hopefully there will be more to keep the species alive. This is why I think that we are going threw the 6th mass extinction.
Yes I see huge changes that I would need to change in my ecological footprint. First off I use so many earths just for my footprint, it really opened my eyes to what I have to do to change it. I have to become more environmentally friendly and the first thing I have to do is recycle more than I do. The biggest one is how many miles I travel and how I need to carpool to more areas so I don't waste gas. these are the biggest things i need to do to make my self more environmentally friendly.
I think that the term environment means what objects and conditions surround you in everyday life. Also an area where something exists or lives. I think that environment means that because you are surrounded by tree's, plants, air and others everyday which is a huge impact on your daily life. Also conditions like rain, sleet, snow, sun, wind is also what environment is. This is what I think the term environment means and what a big part it plays in our life's.
