Essay On Mountains To Sound Greenway

Ecosystems can be restored by retaining and restoring the ecological sustainability of watersheds, forests, and rangelands for present and future generations.

Provide the class with the details of the project (location, acres restored, methods used, species benefited if available, etc.). Be sure to integrate what you find with what you are learning in your text and other readings and supplement it with additional research.

For almost as long as humans have been on Earth, we have changed landscapes drastically to suit our needs, historically often without regard to the damage caused in the process. This has changed over time, with the passing of legislation like the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Water Act, the creation of national and state parks, and efforts being made to restore degraded ecosystems. While we may never see perfect natural systems again, especially in areas heavily populated by humans, reconciliation is possible. Reconciliation ecology takes the concepts of restoration ecology, in which managers seek to restore an ecosystem to how it used to be at a particular time, and combines them with inevitable human presence. It uses these factors

The Adams Middle School academic community were offered incredible opportunities enjoy experiential learning on site. Educators and pupils participate in conservation activities on a weekly basis (CEC, 2017).

With experience volunteering at the Oki’Yanahli and Pontotoc Preserves, as well as working outside of the environmental setting, I have a diverse background with much to offer. The Oklahoma Conservation Leadership Academy will provide me with another experience that will better my skills to benefit and educate the public on the environment. By tuning my problem solving skills, I can identify solutions my community faces in any environmental crises. I find that informing and educating the public over environmental concerns is one of the best ways to give back, either by catchy slogans displayed where the public can see or having local seminars or workshops on how-to’s. Purcell, Ok has a sign when you enter town that has a catchy phrase, “Give a Hoot, Don’t Pollute.”, and during my time volunteering at the preserves I heard the slogan from Jona Tucker, “Be a Leader, Kill a Cedar.” These little phrases stay with individuals and get passed along to others. These are solutions, although they may seem small can have a lasting impact on multiple communities. Workshops and seminars are equally as important in helping educate the public. I would like to give back by conducting these events to help people in towns and cities know the importance and how-tos of tasks such as recycling, using bird feeders, planting non-invasive plants in gardens,

Tons of waste is put in our environment every year harming our planet. In florida alone 32,589,513 tons of waste is dumped only 13,809,704 of that was recycled in 2015.(FDEP) Many schools don't teach about the harm this does on the environment and as we continue to increase waste we need to drastically increase the amount recycled. To achieve this goal a program should be set up to Teach about reuse, reduce, and recycle. Have kids plant trees in your community or coordinate a paper drive. This program would be called Ecology day.

Although recreation and education largely contribute to the Sierra Clubs purpose, it all starts with conservation. Through the tireless efforts of the club’s founders, and hundreds of thousands of volunteers, the small grassroots movement that started as a group of friends is largely responsible for creation of our national parks, clean-fuel initiatives, and sustainable agriculture practices. In the 1950’s to better align itself with issues that directly affected the natural wildlife habitat, the club changed their emphasis from conservation to environmentalism. “This meant that by its tenth decade the Sierra Club was deeply involved in solving new and challenging problems” (pg. 10). “Air quality in many U.S. cities was causing lung disease, industries poured wastes into the nation’s waterways with impunity, and nearly every day someone discovered children playing on an abandoned toxic-waste dump” (pg. 10). Currently the environmental conservation efforts of the Sierra Club have assisted in creating numerous government organizations to regulate industrial waste, land management, air pollution just to name a few. The Sierra Club is a good example of how a group of environmental conservationists can unite with a common goal and change federal, and local policies to preserve the earth for generations to

The Showcase of Applied Learning is an opportunity for 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th Grade Davenport Community School District students to showcase what they have learned about environmental topics such as: water pollution, watersheds, wetlands, ecosystems, invasive species, waste and energy, and is also an opportunity for students to educate others about our personal impacts on local and global natural resources.

An experience that has greatly influenced my understanding of the world has been my participation in Florida Atlantic University’s Pine Jog Fellowship. The Pine Jog Fellowship is a three-semester program that focuses on environmental improvement and education. In the Pine Jog Fellowship I have had the opportunity to develop my own environmental service projects that would benefit my community. During one semester of my fellowship, I coordinated beach clean-ups for Lake Worth Beach. I recruited over sixty people and collectively, we recycled and threw away over one hundred pounds of trash off of Lake Worth Beach. I also spoke to local fishermen and educated them on the dangers of throwing monofilament fishing line into the ocean. During the

Because this school offers both AP Environmental Science and magnet Environmental Science, the student body has a better awareness of how to behave in an environmentally sustainable manner.

Before this project, my relationship was not very good with my surroundings, such as if I found trash when hiking, I would leave it. After this project I hope that I might find my relationship to be stronger with the environment and that I will learn new strategies to help. These strategies might be; joining an organization that annually cleans the preserve, or learning what plants are native and which aren’t, or even just picking up trash in my neighborhood. I also know that the relationship with the environment I have affects my health and also others within

2. The subject of living inside of a dumpster caught my attention because of how often it is to see dumpsters. Most public establishments have dumpsters located outside of them, so the thought of one being converted into a living space is intriguing. I find tiny homes very interesting because of their complex and genius designs. They have a compact size but include many creative ways for storage and living spaces. Professor Wilson also uses his dumpster home to educate his students about sustainability through his example of living with less than what a normal person would think they need for a happy life. I believe that teaching students through example is a great way to teach. Seeing someone drastically change their way of life and convert

I see environmental education as an opportunity to create passionate young leaders and to educate them on current environmental issues. I believe that my role as a First Year Honors Program Leader has helped prepare me to assist in creating plans for environmental education and community outreach, which are also components of the internship positions that I am applying for. As an honors program leader, I had to create lesson plans for incoming freshmen in a bi-weekly seminar style class to help ease their transition to Iowa State. In addition to this, my time as a tutor for entry level life science classes has shown me my potential as an educator in the environmental field. Leading a class of twelve freshmen students and being a tutor has helped me to increase interpersonal relationship skills and taught me to educate through fun, engaging

I took CLEI 150A this quarter mainly to fulfill minor requirement. This class introduced to us some concepts on energy, water resources, food production, and soil, etc. We had several challenging homework exercises. We had finished part of our projects. Overall, the class gave students a chance to practice what we have learnt based on real life problems. This is the part I found interesting and valuable because I could calculate and analyze those problems. My groupmates and I had to do research and made assumptions on subjects we don’t know much. Lack of knowledge and experience was indeed a problem but also an opportunity. Everyone was willing to learn. In fact, there are many aspects of sustainability in this class we won’t learn about

This essay will review two significant environmental experiences I have encountered exploring the influences of these my life and how these have altered my view on what is environmental sustainability. An examination into these two experiences will follow into reviewing my perspectives on environmental sustainability and how these two experiences influenced this. To conclude a discussion on my role as a teacher and how this will impact myself when in the classroom.