Personal Narrative: Achieving My Ecological Footprint

Freshman year of high school I joined the Environmental Club. It started out with just five members who would do the school's recycling. With over 2,500 student and faculty members at my school, it was like doing the recycling for a small community. While recycling is great, our club wanted to make a larger impact in our town. We have since started volunteering at the local watershed to educate kids on important environmental issues, created no-idling campaigns, hosted multiple environmentally friendly concerts, and are working on getting solar panels put on the schools in our district. The Environmental Club now has over 25 active members. Through the growth of Environmental Club, I realized many students are interested in protecting our environment,

Unit 1 Equality and Diversity Level 4Theory assignment Methodology The aims and objectives of this unit are to show an understanding of the role of Equality and Diversity in education I have chosen to research and write about those areas that are relevant and appropriate to the work that I am doing, in

My initial Ecological Footprint done on May 25,2016 If everyone on the planet lived like me we would need 5.7 Earths to provide enough resources. It takes 25.4 acres ignorer to support my lifestyle. In order to drop my footprint by 0.4 I decided to only eat meat once a week and also to recycle daily items that I use for example water bottles and other plastics I also plan to car pool or maybe even walk to places when I can the following places I would most likely car pool or walk to would be library, gacory store, family events, park, and also the gym all these places are pretty close to me living in the Macedonia community.

Patagonia is encouraging his customers to “reduce, repair, reuse, and recycle” the garments they brought with their company’s support. In order to reduce customer’s consumption, Patagonia promises to repair their product as many times as the customers asked. if customer decided to ‘throw’ it away, the company take it reuse it for donation or reselling. And once a product is no longer available for use, they will recycle it. By taking actions, Patagonia really emphasizes their social and environmental performances for the TBL. And hopefully, they will be able to maintain their

While I was living in Mexico with my mom; I would like to explore our backyard with my dog Jack. Our backyard looked like it was like a jungle / mountain. My house was on the top of one hill and the rest of the yard was below us so

From the beginning of my college career at NWACC, I knew I wanted to pursue a sustainability minor when I transferred to the University of Arkansas. At that time in my life, I did not really know what sustainability was or how it related to the workforce. I just knew it was a buzz word that would hopefully propel my resume to potential employers to the top of their list of candidates. My thoughts of sustainability were self-promoting, selfish, and a means to an end. Consequently, my focus was on economic gain with no regard for social or environmental impact. That line of thinking was exactly the opposite of what sustainability is and stands for.

Decreasing My Ecological Footprint “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” In this report, I will outlay four different methods by which I can reduce my ecological footprint. The point could certainly be argued that one person will never make a difference, that my footprint is just too insignificant to worry about. However, just as each beach is made up of single, seemingly insignificant grains of sand, this world is made up of billions of “single” people. Working all together, a giant leap will be achieved. I will explain how changing my habits in the ways that I charge my electronics, shop, deal with waste and drive will decrease my ecological footprint.

Opportunities are once in a lifetime. My junior year of high school I applied to join the Envirothon team. Although there were several applicants I was one of the few selected. Envirothon is an academic competition based on environmental science with five categories: forestry, wildlife, aquatics, soils, and current event.

The family crisis that I did my Eco Map on was, when my mom was in the hospital, where they did not know if she was going to pull through or not. She went into the hospital because she was having trouble breathing and was really sick. When she went there the tests found that she had a lung abscess, she was rushed into major surgery right away. She was in the hospital for more than a week; after she was released she had to be at home resting for a month. While, my mom was in the hospital and at home she was not able to work at all which was stressful for my mom and also, brought conflict along with it because, she was worried about if she was able to keep her job and how much work would be waiting for her when she got back. Going along with missing work is the money that she was losing not working, she was able to get some paid time and sick leave which was nice but

Rarely do we stop and take into account our living habits, and how they may impact the environment. After calculating my own ecological footprint, I learned that if everyone lived like me, it would take 5.1 Planet Earths to provide enough resources. Throughout the process, I learned the breakdown of my footprint, and ways that I could hopefully reduce my ecological impact in the future.

For me sustainability is like a family house. Since I was a baby I have known that I have to take care of it, that I have to keep it alive, just like I have to take care of the community and its surroundings. To some extent, over the years

Seeing that I have brought a smile to somebody’s face makes me feel like I am impacting the world, and it gives my life a sense of meaning. For example, when I got up in front of my entire class and rapped a song by Kanye West, all

Sustainability to me is a systems ability to continue to operate using its own resources. Most often this word seems to be used when discussing the environment. For example, soil sustainability. Modern farming techniques are literally sucking the nutrients out of our soil. The second law of thermodynamic states energy is neither created or destroyed in a system. Specifically, an isolated system such as our planet. There is and was a certain amount of energy in every field. When that energy is gone its gone until replenished. This can happen by organic matter decomposing on it, rain can bring nutrients, etc. The point I’m getting at is or planet cannot be abused. The things we have are limited. (I just wanted to add nothing in this paragraph was taken from any citable sources. This information has been learned during my time in science courses. I only added this so there was no confusion about plagiarism).

I am the Vice- President of the Environmental Club because a close friend formed the club and wanted me to be the co-leader. I am a naturally shy person and I have never had the best people skills. I took the position because I want to better my communication and leadership skills. The steps I am taking to achieve this goal is to always speak my mind on ideas I have but to also remember to get the opinion of other club members. I am also making sure to ask club members on feedback and accept constructive criticism on how I am handling the businesses concerning our club. So far I have noticed that I am having an easier time communicating with fellow students as well as teachers and other adults. Other steps I have taken is to constantly make

Sustainable Style: How Sustainable Practices Can Benefit Everyone Fashion tends to work in cycles, much like the technology industry: every designated cycle, a new innovation on a previous product or new reinvention is revealed to overshadow past generations. In fashion, rather than being met with a new smartphone every year, one is met with new collections twice a year: one for the fall and winter, and another for the spring and summer (i.e.- FW and SS). However, this cyclical behavior tends to reinforce a wasteful attitude towards products and textiles within fashion. For instance in 2010, despite the fact that almost all textiles are recyclable, Americans disposed of 13.1 million tons of textiles, and 11 million of those tons found their way into landfills (690).