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Nature 5-9 Class Discussion
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Environment and society part 1
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Environment and society part 2
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Spring Break
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Levi Webster Digital Portfolio
May 3, 2011
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Paul Gruber – Final Portfolio
May 3, 2011Weeks 1 & 2 (Jan. 12 & 19)
Current Event: Wave Power Out of the Picture
Week 3 (Jan. 26)
Current Event: U.S. Military Fuel
Week 4 (Feb. 2)
Preliminary Project Proposal (trashed in favor of Carbon Offsetting)
Current Event: Acting on environmental Racism
Week 5 (Feb. 9)
Week 6 (Feb. 16)
Notes on Environment and Society
Project Proposal – Beekeeping (trashed for Carbon Offsetting)
Current Event: Tornadoes (from the future!)
Week 7 (Feb. 23)
No notes on Environment and Society continued
Week 8 (March 2)
Notes on Eating Animals (presented)
Week 9 (March 9)
Spring Break
Week 10 (March 16)
No notes on How to Be Idle
Week 11 (March 23)
Notes on Breakfast of Biodiversity
Week 12 (March 30)
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Sharks worth $1.9 million in Palau
May 3, 2011Whoa that’s a looooot of money!
A study conducted involving the expenditures of tourists and internationalists combined places the value of each shark living in Palau in the Pacific at $1.9 million each. Through some crazy calculations, this study is meant to establish the value of each shark not as a commodity but, its worth in an ecosystem. Sharks are very important to maintaining a healthy ecosystems as top predators of many of the animals that live there, but hunting them has become a problem. What better way to place value into people hearts about something than to give it a monetary value. People understand money way better than they understand an ecosystem…
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From the article:
“Mr. Rand of the Pew Environment Group argues that even if a direct dollar figure cannot be attached to each shark, they are worth protecting.
‘People understand that when you take all the wolves out of Yellowstone or the lions out of the Serengeti, that there’s going to be quite an effect on the ecosystem,” he said. “It’s the same with the oceans, where sharks are the top-order predators.’”
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Digital Portfolio – Scott Wise
May 3, 2011
Week # 1 (Jan 19th 2011)
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Week # 2 (Jan 26th 2011)
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Week # 3 & 4 ( Feb. 2nd-9th, 2011)
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Week # 5 & 6: Didn’t complete reading for environment and society (Feb 16th-23rd)
Week # 7: (March 2nd, 2011)
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Week # 8: Spring Break
Week # 9: (March 16th 2011)
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Week #10: (March 23rd, 2011)
Week # 11:( March 30th 2011)
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Most tornadoes in April in 25 years
May 3, 2011According to a meteorologist from the NOAA, the month of April has seen a record 600 tornadoes, which is the most there have been in the past 25 years. In the aftermath of the devastating tornadoes that decimated towns and cities in the southern and south-eastern United States, many are wondering why this is the case. Usually it is in May that the U.S. sees a lot of tornadoes. So, this is very unusual, and meteorologists are having a hard time figuring out why. It’s not farfetched to think global warming and climate change has something to do with it, but it cannot be discerned now if it has any effect at all. What they have determined is that April had so many tornadoes due to a combination of the usual severe weather and the closeness of an active and stagnant jet stream pattern.
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Current Event Week # 11
May 3, 2011Flooding in Thailand kills 21 & strands thousands
As Thailand is one of the world’s largest producers of rubber. All types of transportation and exporting has been delayed due to server mudslides and flooding occurring in southern Thailand area. With tourist being trapped in areas, the Thailand navy sent out multiple vessels and rescuers to help gather the tourists and get them to a safe place, while also providing necessary supplies.
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Week # 11 Breakfast of Biodiversity ( March 30th 2011)
May 3, 2011I found it very interesting that in the first chapter it talked about banana production and how it was harming the rain forests. This is came as a shock to me that Chiquita banana has such a poor impact of the rainforest. The impact was a shock to me because one of Chiquita banana’s head quarters is located in Cincinnati, Ohio. I mean let’s be honest this is not the only problem that is causing the rainforest to decline but it is one that can be changed. We can change by building area in which banana farmers are able to develop their banana production, somewhere other than the rainforest. The hard thing about this is that a rainforest has the perfect prescription for banana growth. In a rainforest it is moist, perfect temperature conditions, rarely touched by human life and the soil which used to be rich is now taking a turn for the worst, due to all the production. It was weird to me that so many people who lived near the equator rely on migrant banana farming within the rain forest, and the vicious cycle that takes place once the land is done harvesting and the problem with the workers staying around and framing. This was strange to me because as destructive as banana production can be and communities that live in close proximity are supporting the destruction by relying on the major companies to produce the bananas. Since my 2nd or 3rd grade year I have always been in awe of the rainforest. Props to Mrs. Ristau or Mr. Way, but just the information about the rainforest and banana production kept me interested enough in the book so I was able to read it.
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Week #10 Lawn People (March 23rd, 2011)
May 3, 2011Robbins “Lawn People” was an alright read. As a kid growing up I was always outside playing and creating those imaginary games that most kids do. At least back then before video games were taking over children’s lives. I grew up in a trailer park and didn’t really have much to play with so I cherished our lawn space. Neighborhood kids and I played tackle football, mini golf, and other made-up games that were created on the spot. So, in relation to this book the use of my lawn was mostly when I was younger. As a teenager growing up we moved to our first house, which meant a bigger yard. Therefore I didn’t like the term “lawn” so much because this meant I had to do chores, which consisted of: racking leaves, picking up stick, mowing and bagging the grass and so on. This was such an inconvenience as a teenage because I wanted to be playing with my friends and chasing the neighborhood “hotties”, which I always got! But as I have matured into a more understanding young man, I have noticed that a lawn means more than just a yard. It represents how well managed a household is and if a person is organized then their lawn will be kept nice and neat. Individuals use their landscape as a visual for how they represent themselves and a way they can be compared to others around them without have to verbally brag. On a visit to Shaker Heights over a fall break I was taken by surprise when we rolled up from the poor end of Shaker to one the wealthiest part of Cleveland, I was taken back by the lawns of individual houses. This was and was not a surprise to me. After learning the Shaker Heights has one of the highest property taxes in The United States, then it all began to make sense to me, but before knowing that I was blown away with the landscapes. Most of everyone had a lawn that looked like the putting green located on hole 18 at Oak Haven Golf course. Although the concept of a lawn can be seen as a personal investment and how well organized one can be, it is all open for different interpretations.
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Current Event Week # 9
May 3, 2011Pigs love the mud to keep themselves cool!
Most understand the concept that pigs enjoy getting down and dirt in the mud in order to reap the benefits of being cooled off. Pigs do not have normal sweat glands, therefore they are unable to sweat, which leads them to cooling themselves off in the mud to regulate their body temperature. Dr Bracke says, “Pigs are genetically related to particularly water-loving animals such as hippos and whales,” He explained: “It seems to me that this preference to be in shallow water could have been a turning point in the evolution of whales from land-dwelling mammals.”
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Anthony M. Digital Portfolio
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