Blog #9

So i looked for a blog or website or something that was amazing and I looked everywhere. I searched on google, looked at people's blogs, searched videos on youtube and then I decided on searching on yahoo because of its neat way of organizing things. So i looked through every page that came up and On the 11th page I came across a website thats very easy to read, realistic and shows things that are in reach of a normal person without a person spending too much. www.savewithgreen.com- this is what the link is to the page. You'll find everything from baby products , to saving energy in your home, to blogs...=) and more....ENJOY!

Blog #8

So being that we finished the powerpoint presentations on religion, I would like to reflect a little bit. First of all I noted that the people that went first that told us about Hindu kind of didn't have their presentation prepared properly. I liked all the presentations a lot. Also the presentation on judaism really impressed me actually beacsue it was very nicely laid out and very organized. I also learned a lot of things I didn't know before. As far as our's was concerned I would've liked it if we were a little more organized, but not even to be bias, I really enjoyed Buddhsim in that it kind of told a person to save themselves from desire before saving the earth. I really belive in the fact that people must try not to overindulge. Spening on things that you don't need or already have should not be made a priority or a sickness. I belive in buying something because you want it and plan to keep it for a while instead of buying something because someone else you know got one and you just feel like you want it. This overbuying and wastefulness really gets on my nerves. I really wish people would start thinking of life as a chance to make the world better and not beat out the next person.

Research Paper

So I have decided to write my paper on the quiet, but obvious tension between the US and Venezuela. I am posting a video that pretty much says that there is a "Dictator" as America calls him, but leader as they see him in Venezuela by the name of Chavez. He plans on selling America oil for much cheaper than Saudi Arabia. The USA wants to quote on quote, take him out. I will look further into more research, but that is all I have found. Please let me hear your opinions and advice. Thanks.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-107721931861791042

Blog #5

The Site by Chris Jordan really gives a new meaning to "Look Closer" or "You won't believe what you see! He makes pictures out of 1,000's and millions of products we use every day to show us the magnitude of what we're "wasting" and not "using." It is crazy to think that we are spending 1.5 million dollars in Iraq every hour! What??? That's crazy when at the same time he's also letting people know that there are 9 million kids in the US with no health insurance? That makes me mad. It makes me mad to think that we can sit there and take the taxes we're charged to pay for war overseas and not to keep the citizens of America healthy. There's something wrong there. Also, now that I know that it would take a million years for one shopping bag to bio-degrade, I am sickened to think that we still are making them. Why is it that we are still acting like we don't know the fact. We know the facts, but are ignorant and just want to ignore the facts. It's ludacrist to sit there and repeat these wrongdoings every day, day in and day out. Plastic is a great invention yes. I have seen the commercials saying that plastic saves lives. That it's used in Law Enforcement and in automobiles and also in medical procedures, but when you use it for practical things like carrying groceries and putting drinks in, it's insane. We need to go back and redo or rethink or reinvent things.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMISUTkoLSE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zf__GgwGuQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DNzd0hUULs

Blog # 3 ....Big Big Problem!

So, the question was, Which aspect of Global Warming do we think is the worst? Well, what comes to mind when I think of Global Warming is just the main idea of burning fuel. And by burning this fuel we are creating alot of carbon dioxide and adding it to the earth's atmosphere or as we've learned a layer underneath the Earth's atmosphere. So I did a little research and found a couple of solutions that are already taking place to reduce the emissions that are created not primarily by our cars today, but also by inefficient vehicles in other countries especially the third world countries. This particular website talks about the taxis in the Phillipines. These two stroke motorcycles that they use are attached to these cabins that transport people around. They say each one of them produce the emmisions of 50 modern day vehicles and that adds up to the emmissions of 90 millions vehicles in the Philippines alone. This is the link to the website and the information I gave was provided by them.
http://www.globalgiving.com/cb/green//pr/1400/proj1357e.html

Another website I looked at was The Discovery channel website, which is one of my favorites. It keeps me updated on what's going on around the world especially this problem of Global Warming. I'm sorry people, but they bring up one good point. America is all about saving that buck and these big corporations that make millions want to make even more than that. They want to reduce the payrolls and offshore jobs to other countries meaning....that they give other poorer countries the position that they could have given an American. I know this subject is a little hairy, BUT the truth is that in China and in India they are producing more than they've ever produced in raw materials and in products that we buy. This is causing them to burn more fossil fuels to keep their factories going, but they are coming in at number one and also at the number three, China at one and India at number three beating out Russia in emmissions according to the Discovery website. I'm sorry, but we live in an age where America is almost the most informed, able to make a change and holds the power to be very influential to what other countries do. We can lead the way. This is also another link to the article I read and all the information provided is from The Discovery Channel website.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/09/25/global-warming-emissions.html

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This is one of my project cars. i honestly don't even want to put a gasoline engine in it but see if I can take a hybrid motor out a honda insight or toyota prius and transplant it into my car. Its not about big and bad anymore, it should be about soft and friendly!

What a waste!.....I can beat that at the track with half the motor. I guess people just have to wake up. Out with the old and in with the new!

My car from the early 90's which is almost as gas efficient as this hybrid honda!

This is the difference between waste and economical!

Two cars that are economical the mini and my car the crx!

Blog Two- My Passions!

If you haven't figured it out yet one of my passions is cars. I can take a car part and put it back together no problem. Its very hard, dirty and tedious work, but I love it. When I'm wrenching at a car I forget all my worries. I even forget to eat. I just love the fact that you can take a car thats just a regular so called "grocery getter" or a car that's supposedly slow or just plain looking and transforming it into something you envision only in your mind. I love to modify a car, make it look better, tweak the suspension, make it stronger, faster or just bringing it up to snuff again with regular maintenance. I will try posting up pics of some of the work that I have done. The truth is that my hobby/passion is a little wasteful for the fact that I just burn gas and rubber for the heck of it lol, but in my defense I'm still working with 4 cylinder cars and not the v-8's! I work with engines a third of the size of the engines I compete against.

So also in class we watched the film of Al Gore and "The Inconvenient Truth" and it posed alot of questions and proposed alot of ideas. It talked about global warming and the fact that we as humans burn fuel and waste energy to create massive amounts of co2 where the earth does nto have the time to replenish. He has an effect somehow as an activist and not as a scientist because he is in politics and can talk to Congress and the Senate and hopefully change some things. He definitely got into detail about what we are causeing the earth to do and that it we're causing it to trap heat inside its atmosphere because of this co2 thats layering under the atmosphere. he did bring up alot of disturbing things and I wish I could do more than what I'm doing already.

Lastly I hope to move forward in my education after leaving LaGuardia and going to a four year college and also getting my Masters and then go on to getting my Phd. I plan to use my education to educate people because I am going into teaching. I wish we live in an era where people see past color and race and just come together and change the world forever. There is no one bad in this world. We are all born good, but the things we encounter everyday shape us into what we have to do to survive. We need to help eachother.

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So here it goes. My very first blog. Lets see if this works. So we were assigned to write about how we have helped the environment, either by doing our everyday routines efficiently or by changing the way we do things to make them more efficient. I, personally, have changed a few things I used to do in the past inorder to conserve. One thing I did honestly change was the way I used the Climate control in my apartment or what we call our thermostat. In the summer I would leave the air conditioning on 24/7 and in the winter I would have the heat on while windows were open. I know, crazy right. Well, I know its going to sound selfish and irresponsible, but I don't pay for utilities. It is included in my rent. I know some of you initially hate me, first because I don't pay utilities and second because I was wasteful. I apologize. So in the past year I have learned to shut the air conditioning off when i'm not home, which is the majority of the day and second I make sure the windows are closed in the winter to keep the furnace from trying to keep up with heating my place up. Wow took a big step already I hope. Second I started to pay more attention to recycling. I used to just shove everything into a black bag and call it a day. Now I actually seperate the metal, cardboard, plastic and of course the bio-degradables. I honestly think thats a big step for me. And finally, I have made it a point to drive a 4 cylinder and drive it as least as possible to avoid overconsumption. Plus i love the idea of a car with an engine the third of some other cars and I'll get more into detail with that in my second blog , but i have a little engine that could and I modify it or soup it up to whip some of these guys' butts with the big muscle cars lol. Thats all for now.

Some of my concerns for the future are one that we are putting alot of stress on the earth for its natural resources and one day we will find ourselves stuck at a dead end not knowing what to do when we could have prevented something like that a long time ago or even now for the future.