In the essay od McDonough and Braungart they began their essay by explaining how books are being made and how books can be recycable because the paper is being made from trees but the text that is made out of ink is not. The ink is very toxic and has dioxins in which is very hazerdous and are cancer- causing.
Then they began to compare and contrast the reality of a cherry tree and how it decomposes while giving nourishment to insects, plants and also the soil.
They also start to talk about how we as humans need to be more eco- friendly and the fact that the growth of nature is characterized as healthy and beutiful while those living in urban types of enviroments are cancer.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
George Monbiot
George a well- rounded man who has many different views and thoughts through his many different outlooks. A journalist, columist, author, academic, and enviromental activist. He is one that believes there needs to be a drastic change along with strong political views in order for us to capture the climate change problems that we ar e now faced with. He believes that there are many other things that we can do ourselves to help reduce the risk of climate change including: buliding regulations with german passivhaus standerds, having patio heaters, garden floodlights just to name a few. This just isn't something that everyone has to start dealing with themselves but more importantly its a change in ourselves too. Monbiot, a very decorated author as well as columist. He has published many pieces of work including his most recent published work, Heat: How to stop the planet burning.
How much do you really care?
When it comes to having a connection with nature and the environment, I believe every single person in the world has something to do with our environment. Whether it’s being an environmentalist or just doing what you can do yourself to keep the environment a clean place. Everyone has a hand in the way we want our environment to be. For me personally, I would consider myself to have an average relationship with nature. I don’t recycle, I don’t go on area- wide clean up’s, but there is a lot of good that I bring to nature as well. I do have a hybrid car, I’m not up during the early morning hours of fall trying to find the biggest buck I can get my hands on, and I do leave food outside for some animals. The main idea is to have whatever that relationship you have with nature and keep it as strong as possible. Because every little thing that you do for nature will only make things better on ourselves. We will no longer have such polluted air, the environment outside will live healthier and the plants and trees outside will grow greener and greener.
As of lately, there have been countless campaigns set up to make the earth a healthier place to live. Every day I make a routine walk through the baker center, I hear woman with their high and squeaky voices and the men’s deep masculine voices call out for volunteers to help assist them in various activities. I think I am one of many to say that they ignore many of the campaigns and signs that various organizations put up in attempt to make the environment a better place. We tend to think that our little help as individuals can’t do much to help out the earth as a whole. Ever since we started making hybrid cars and car that have flex fuel, it has been an attempt to make the air cleaner and non- polluted. The hybrid cars and flex fuel cars has catapulted a campaign for “going green”. “Going green”, is something that I think a lot of people has taken special interest in, because I believe that everyone wants to have a cleaner and more natural way of living and if they have say in what is going on and giving a helping hand wherever it may be then we will be on our way to a more natural and safer way of living.
Education and your upbringing play vital roles in the way one feels about the environment. Ever since I was just a toddlers and learning how to walk I played some kind of sport. I started playing tee- ball at the age of four. I only remember the brightest of days and a young athlete, it was the early Saturday and Sunday mornings that we drove down the run- down streets of west Columbus where I started to encounter some of the in and outs of the environment and nature. I was never a kid to sit in the outfield of a baseball diamond and pick daisies and draw pictures with their finger in the infield dirt. Through these experiments and that I went through as a youngster there was always a constant in my life. Through your mom, dad, aunts, uncles, and even grandparents, everyone has been brought up a certain way and taught to believe in the same things as our parents. And with all those morals and values you have to consider the biosphere, wild habitat and the preservation as crucial elements to living a safe and healthy life. As a family you must stay together though the hardest of times and also be able to be understanding of each one’s morals and values. I was brought to believe that every person has different interest and different views about how each feels and what they think their role is in the environment. Some of the most popular slogans you see every where you go, “going green”, recycling, even commercials that say the same thing on TV, and even charity’s by celebrity’s, rap stars, professional athletes and more.
It’s not how much money you have, it’s not what kind of car do you drive, it’s not whose house is bigger, none of that matters, it’s how much do you really care about our environment, biosphere, and wild habitat. Some say the ones that have the nicest of cars, houses, and have the most money could care less about how things are going on outside of themselves. And I agree, because if you really cared about how things where in the atmosphere you would try and cut back on the things that are hurting everything around us. Such as, invest in a hybrid car, start recycling more, start eating healthier and even try organic. These are all the things I believe we have an impact on. These are the things that we can control our self to do. And these are all things that will get done in order for us to live more natural and safer living while keeping things greener and greener.
As of lately, there have been countless campaigns set up to make the earth a healthier place to live. Every day I make a routine walk through the baker center, I hear woman with their high and squeaky voices and the men’s deep masculine voices call out for volunteers to help assist them in various activities. I think I am one of many to say that they ignore many of the campaigns and signs that various organizations put up in attempt to make the environment a better place. We tend to think that our little help as individuals can’t do much to help out the earth as a whole. Ever since we started making hybrid cars and car that have flex fuel, it has been an attempt to make the air cleaner and non- polluted. The hybrid cars and flex fuel cars has catapulted a campaign for “going green”. “Going green”, is something that I think a lot of people has taken special interest in, because I believe that everyone wants to have a cleaner and more natural way of living and if they have say in what is going on and giving a helping hand wherever it may be then we will be on our way to a more natural and safer way of living.
Education and your upbringing play vital roles in the way one feels about the environment. Ever since I was just a toddlers and learning how to walk I played some kind of sport. I started playing tee- ball at the age of four. I only remember the brightest of days and a young athlete, it was the early Saturday and Sunday mornings that we drove down the run- down streets of west Columbus where I started to encounter some of the in and outs of the environment and nature. I was never a kid to sit in the outfield of a baseball diamond and pick daisies and draw pictures with their finger in the infield dirt. Through these experiments and that I went through as a youngster there was always a constant in my life. Through your mom, dad, aunts, uncles, and even grandparents, everyone has been brought up a certain way and taught to believe in the same things as our parents. And with all those morals and values you have to consider the biosphere, wild habitat and the preservation as crucial elements to living a safe and healthy life. As a family you must stay together though the hardest of times and also be able to be understanding of each one’s morals and values. I was brought to believe that every person has different interest and different views about how each feels and what they think their role is in the environment. Some of the most popular slogans you see every where you go, “going green”, recycling, even commercials that say the same thing on TV, and even charity’s by celebrity’s, rap stars, professional athletes and more.
It’s not how much money you have, it’s not what kind of car do you drive, it’s not whose house is bigger, none of that matters, it’s how much do you really care about our environment, biosphere, and wild habitat. Some say the ones that have the nicest of cars, houses, and have the most money could care less about how things are going on outside of themselves. And I agree, because if you really cared about how things where in the atmosphere you would try and cut back on the things that are hurting everything around us. Such as, invest in a hybrid car, start recycling more, start eating healthier and even try organic. These are all the things I believe we have an impact on. These are the things that we can control our self to do. And these are all things that will get done in order for us to live more natural and safer living while keeping things greener and greener.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
My place
You know what they say? There’s no better place like home, and there’s no better place to be but at house. Well, this is place is my home away from home. Everything that I try in accomplish while playing football must go through this very place.
Nearly 25 hours of my time a week is spent doing something I absolutely love to do and out of those 25 hours, half of them is spent at my home away from home. Whether it is to get bigger, stronger, faster or to even just to get your head where it needs to be. Hours and hours a day is spent in this one place where the hard work and the will to win is born. If no work goes into this one place, then there is no chance of being successful in the sport of football.
Wither there only being guaranteed 12 games in the fall season, it gives you that extra incentive to want to push yourself in the off season to be the best you can be and that desire to win starts at this very place. Many other university programs call this home along with the football team, to a certain point it is to them what it means to me. Not everyone has a place they can go to, to get away and still call that place home too.
Nearly 25 hours of my time a week is spent doing something I absolutely love to do and out of those 25 hours, half of them is spent at my home away from home. Whether it is to get bigger, stronger, faster or to even just to get your head where it needs to be. Hours and hours a day is spent in this one place where the hard work and the will to win is born. If no work goes into this one place, then there is no chance of being successful in the sport of football.
Wither there only being guaranteed 12 games in the fall season, it gives you that extra incentive to want to push yourself in the off season to be the best you can be and that desire to win starts at this very place. Many other university programs call this home along with the football team, to a certain point it is to them what it means to me. Not everyone has a place they can go to, to get away and still call that place home too.
The Fish By Elizabeth Bishop
In this poem Elizabeth describes her fishing out on the water and catching a fish that is just not a normal kind of fish. She describes this fish as such a tremendous fish and one that she has never came across before. It must have been an older fish that has gone through a lot and finally thinks it their time to go. As she describes in the poem, the fish was stained and lost through age. It had givin up without a fight, " He didnt fight, he hadn't fought at all". The fish was slouched at the end of the fishing rod and knew their time to go. "He hung a grunting weight, battered and venerable". Throughout the poem she is trying t paint this picture in the reader's eye, and all the pieces were being formed as you were reading the poem and finally towards the end of the pem everything comes together and she lets the fish go!
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