I really enjoyed listening to Jim Belcher talk about the environment in class. His approaches to teaching awareness about environmental issues is new and unique and I really think that others will get more involved in protecting our environment if they listened to Mr. Belcher’s presentation. For so long we have fought arguments with anger and frustration and somethings have improved over time, but overall anger has not been the answer to everything. Anger does not solve the problem fully or at all and it tends to leads towards more problems. Mr. Belcher focuses on trying to solve the problems with the environment by using emotions, feelings, and images. His presentation really touched home for me and I felt more connected to the environment
I will be addressing how Jeff Wilson took on an extreme project to enlighten people about what it without a doubt means to live deliberately. I will be explaining how Jeff Wilson took on this intense project that also had an environmental educational aspect to it as well. Another point of view on this outlandish project is that it progressively alters a dumpster in to something way more than a person would ever expect.
Turk, J., & Bensel, T. (2014). Contemporary environmental issues (2nd ed.). San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.
James Earl Carter Jr. was born on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia. His father was a peanut farmer and his mother was a registered nurse. During his childhood, he kept out of trouble and focused on his studies. He was the first person from his father’s family to graduate high school. He went on to study engineering in college before joining the Naval ROTC program. Eventually, Mr. Carter joined the navy and went on to be the 39th president of the United States. Despite an unsuccessful, one term presidency, Mr. Carter accomplished and oversaw quite a few environmental laws and policies. Those of which included, The Endangered American Wilderness Act, the National Energy Act, and the Superfund legislation.
While attending the convocation festival today we were open to the opportunity to be enlightened by Jay Erzkine Leutze, author of Stand Up That Mountain. While he spoke I was not enlightened about items in the novel, however I was enlightened by his views on values. His views on what values make a person better. He spoke about his belief that if someone wanted to be a good person they needed to focus on the environment. If someone treats he environment well and pursues the rest of their life and values surrounding the environment that person is able to do much good. I do agree with Mr. Leutze in this regard. If someone is willing to take care of the environment and the materials within their surrounding area then they are willing to care for the organisms and people living within that environment. Those people are able to plan ahead and focus on future generations and are less likely to be selfish individuals.
I have always cared about the environment, even from a young age. I am hoping that this course can further explain to me how the environment works, what problems the environment is facing, and what I can do to help.
In undergrad, I volunteered my time as a teacher for the Saturday Science Academy on the campus of Charles R. Drew University. My work with the high school students reminded me that to make a difference, you must first care about the individual and understand their circumstances. The Saturday Science
Around the world, humans are aware of the environmental crisis going on, yet, the issue is brushed under the rug and ignored. This issue is ignored due to the fact that some people are unwilling to change their lifestyles, it is expensive to be environmentally friendly, and there is a lack of effort towards change worldwide. Scientific evidence has proven that there is a crisis happening, but people show disinterest in it. Some people feel helpless because there is no way that the individual effort that is made can possibly make a global difference.
Each and everyone of you in this classroom has a strong awareness to the dangers wildlife habitats face everyday, but we don’t do anything about it. Why? I feel the answer is obvious for most, “...we are to busy with life...” or “...I couldn’t make a difference...” both of these assumptions are the wrong outlook to take.With just these few changes in your everyday life you could help. You could start recycling, make your
By planting fear onto the animals on the farm using the ferocious guard dogs, Napoleon is able to keep order on the farm. Since no animal wants to be bitten to death from a simple unique expression of idea, they choose to remain silent and listen. This technique is simple. If the animals dare speak against Napoleon’s wishes, they will get sentenced to death. It is effective because it assures that no animal will ever go against his wishes; good or bad, right or wrong.
Social Class’s Standards In 1930, the national income halved and one-fourth of the American workforce stood unemployed (“The 1930s”). When the lower end of economic social class implied an empty stomach, social class naturally lingered on everybody’s mind. However, social class exists not simply as an economic construct. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee presents a story of a town during the 1930s with many well-defined social classes.
George Orwell was born in Bengal, India in 1903. He was a novelist, essayist, and a critic. He was a child who was sick very often and his first words were “beastly”. "I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. ”(jalic 2000)
Throughout world history, people have come up with brilliant new ideas to make life easier, and as time goes on, research, making food, and getting news, has all become instantaneous. It now only takes the push of a button to cook a thanksgiving meal or the click of a remote to find out what’s happening across the world. These things are often taken for granted, and rarely does someone stop and say: “I wonder what turning on this extra lamp does to the environment?” This statement sounds insignificant when there are people starving in other countries and people are training for the army. Yet, being concerned about the environment is not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, the environment should be one of the biggest concerns among people, as
Steve Hansen was an instructor who informed many students in Wisconsin about the importance of renewable energy, environmental sustainability, and earth stewardship. His creativity, energy, and compassion inspired many to become better people. The Steve Hansen Memorial Scholarship Fund has been established to honor his spirit and memory, and to help the next generation carry on his important work. He lived the “Earth Steward” philosophy of making ways of global change from a local-to-global scales to improve ecosystem strength and individual well being. His belief in this global reasoning inspired other students and adults around him to strive to live by this philosophy and make the world a better place. He endured to teach others about the
When I was five years old I began school. In Kindergarden we learned basic things like letters, numbers, and how not to be fully engulfed in flames. For some reason, 2004 was the height of anti-fire education in Missouri and before I knew how to tie my shoes I knew that if I ever was ablaze, to cover my face, fall to my knees, and roll back and fourth. This is what my institution placed serious value upon and because I was a student of that institution I also placed serious value upon it. The same idea must be applied to a university's teaching of environmental sustainability. This is discussed in David Orr's "What is Education For?" Through choosing a curriculum a university chooses what it places value onto, by making the environment a priority it showcases to the future generations that environmental wellness is an important responsibility for them to take ownership.
As a 17-year old teenager going to high school, contrary to the environmental activist, David Suzuki’s, remarks about the ignorance of humans about nature, I receive much information about these kinds of problems at my school, from dedicated assemblies, eco fairs and special days that address our responsibility to deal with nature in a more responsible fashion. Yet, when the school day is over, all of the information seeps out of the roof of the school; plastic water bottles are still found in the corners of hallways and leftover Tim Hortons cups are still present in the desks of my former Business class. Even when I step inside the door of my house, the disconnection from nature is apparent. Most of my time at home is spent looking at a screen and doing homework and the only sign of nature would be the fly