4/25/08

Research thoughts

Ok when I started thinking about what to base my research paper on I remembered what we talked about in class one day about the contamination in other countries because of the United States. And then I also remembered that I saw a documentary on the Argentinean channel one day about the contamination of different provinces and neighborhoods in Argentina because of the mining done in those different places of the country. The mines are owned by American and Canadian companies and by which many kids and all the people in this communities have been getting sick.
At the same time in this documentary they show how not only the mines are getting communities sick but also the tremendous amount of waste in different places that are to be use for water supplies. However Argentina is not the only country being affected but also other countries like Chile, Guatemala and Peru are being affected by mining.
Now knowing all this I just want to let other people know that the United States is not only destroying their own country but also others. Therefore I think that the best way for me to do this is to use several articles and organizations that have been working to solve this problem. However I still have a lot of research to do so far I only have some research done in the problem in Argentina, Peru and Chile …..so this are a couple of the websites that I have found to get some information on the problem and what is being done to solve it.

4/10/08

Reflection


When I read all the blogs that I have written the only thing that came to mind is…..WOW!!!! To be honest I have always done something, even if it was something really small, for the environment. Things like recycling or trying not to liter, is one of the reasons why I don’t like to drive I rather use a bike or walk besides the fact that is good for you. However now that I think about it….this is kind of funny……consider this …..we, or at least most of us, think that walking, running, riding a bike is good for your health. Yea precise really healthy but what about the fact that we are polluting the air that we are breathing when we are doing all this “healthy exercises” or even when we are not. The amazing thing is that before this class I didn’t see this. I knew that we are killing ourselves softly by destroying our environment but I didn’t think that many of the simple things that we do everyday without thinking are the problem. At the same time now it bothers me even more than before the fact that most people say there is nothing we can do, or know that something is wrong and that something needs to be done but don’t do anything. For this reason I really enjoy blogger, because even though I thought at first that I wasn’t going to like it, I found a lot of people that are showing the world (the rest of us) that something can be done and that is not really necessary, even though it would be better, to work together. One person can actually change the world and that is what many of us need to hear.

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4/5/08

Responses


1. Sustainable Cities Blog
Well to make it nice and short let me just say that in this blog is amazing the amount of events that are going on right now to protect the environment. The reason why is so amazing to me is because many of us think nobody is doing anything however we can see the percentage of people that is worry.


2. Gristmill
To be honest I don’t understand it and I can read it. I don’t know too many links. I don’t really find it interesting to read so I just skip it


3. Green as a Thistle
I totally love this one…I can’t believe everything she has done is totally amazing and open minded. It shows to all of us that if we want to make a change we just have to put our minds into it. We have so much power and we don’t even know it. However I think that for many of us it would be too hard to change so many things of our life style but we should always remember that is not impossible.


4. No Impact Man
I don’t like or dislike this blog I like the fact that he is doing something or trying to do something in New York. Hey I just think that is really hard to change something in New York and trying is good enough for me….


5. Eco Geeek
This is really not much I can say about this one. The only thing that I can say is that it gives a lot but a lot of information and that is really good.


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