China's energy

For hundreds of millions of Chinese who live in rural areas often use traditional forms of biomass such as wood, crop residues continue to be the main source of energy. Other renewable energy technologies that are starting to become more widely used include solar water heating, biomass power generation, biomass pellet production, and geothermal and ocean energy.

China appears to have a control on renewable energy. They have moved up the path of developing renewable energy, about 17 percent of China's electricity has come from hydroelectric generators, there are 197 total generators. The only challenge that China might be facing would be the cost of making all of these generators, but since they dont seem to behaving any problems its safe to assume they have a strong economy.

An Inconvenient Conversation

There are many different types of forms of energy available, for example there is solar energy, hydro electric energy, nuclear energy and of course regular electric energy.

With every type of energy choice there is a benefit and drawback as well. for example solar energy is great because it requires nothing but the sun to capture energy, the drawback is that it requires a lot of energy in order to power appliances. Hydro electric energy is great because it only requires water in order to power electrical items, but then at the same time the drawback is that you need water to do this. Nuclear energy is great because it does not leave any type of air pollution making it good for the environment but the problem is that nuclear energy leaves highly toxic waste that is harmful to both plant life and human life.

I think that the only way this can be possible is not with one type of energy source but in fact with a collaboration of different types of energy sources, only then can we have a sustainable type of energy that can maintain ecological balance.

This is because with science we are able to analyze and study the movements of the climate and predict what will happen. The public and politicians can only speculate what may or may not happen with the weather, they have no actual proof.

I dont think they play any role at all, the weather is random and can not be controlled, all you can do is just prepare for what weather might be.

I believe it would be those who are either concerned that the weather might be getting worse and that natural distaters might be more likely to occur.

Back to 1983

I chose to do my “Back to 1983 For A Day”, during my one world week trip to Italy. To begin with this left me with limited technology , there were so many things to do in Italy that didnt require the use of technology. I didnt find this challenge hard at all because even though i enjoy the use of technology i am proud to say that i am not completely dependent on it.

Throughout the entire trip, I would go with a group of friends and explore various sites in the cities we visited in Italy, instead of spending all of our time texting or watching tv like you would back in SD. The experience was certainly one of a kind, it made me stop and look around at the world we live in, without technology. On my chosen day, I was in Rome. I was with Osamah, Liseth, Lisbeth, Amber, and Yesenia. We all went out in the morning to do some shopping, i had gone with Osamah and Amber to get a kebab, we continued shopping at the markets for the next few hours.

Later in the afternoon, we all met up with our entire group. Everyone had been doing their own thing, but we all communicated by setting up meeting times and places, this ensured we were on time, and of course there was never any technology involved. No one ever listened to any Ipods, everyone talked and admired all of sights.

It wasn't hard for me to give up technology, especially in such a beautiful country. The hardest thing for me to give up was my phone, because im so used texting everyday as a form of communication with my friends. It was interesting because from the first day in Italy to the last day i didnt think at all about using my phone to text my friends. If i had a choice of either enjoying the sights in Italy or texting my friends the choice for me would have been very simple.

During my day from technology I adventured through Rome, traveled through markets, and shopped in stores. Entertaining ourselves was never a problem, because Italy had so much to offer. I spent my time outside, walking, and enjoying the city, and before I knew it, my day without technology was done. I was surprised from my time in Rome because it is a very big city, similar to San Diego with the exception that i didnt need to rely on technology to keep me occupied.

thesis

Frut is often grown in many parts of the country and is then shipped off to different states. Sometimes chemicals are sprayed on the fruits in order to prevent any unwanted pesticides from comtaiminating or harming the fruit. Many states have their own laws on how much chemicals should be sprayed on the fruit to protect it. Some states add more than what other states would recommend, thus leaving the fruit unhealthy for you. People are then never informed on what may have been added to the fruit because they do not feel that it is improtant information

Blue Gold: World Water Wars

In the documentary “Blue Gold” by Sam Bozzo, explains that in the future we no longer will be fighting for oil, or striving towards world peace, but instead fight for water. many people think that because we live on a planet that is 70% water that we wouldn't have to worry about something like this. However sadly only 30% is actually drinkable but this is shrinking every second. In all parts of the world humans are destroying the only source of life, by polluting it, halting the flow of rivers by making dams, pumping and wasting our limited supply of water. In the end will result into the desertification of the earth.

Corporations have found a new way of gaining money and power by forcing countries to limit and charge the water. The Government has even turned water into a product. They use water for both economic and political gain, sometimes the military is involved for the protection of this “product” which we use for everyday survival.

With over one billion people in the world and with most who have little to no access to clean and safe water, this cause the death of over two million children each year because of the limited amount of water. Many believe that in about 25-30 years, at least two-thirds of the world will be living in scarce water conditions.

The earth has a limited amount of water. However the water comes around in a cycle that if left alone it will never run out. This process though is called the water cycle, It starts off with Evaporation, when the heat of the sun turns the water from rivers, lakes, or oceans and turns it into vapor and goes into the air. Condensation then starts, when water vapors becomes very cold and changes back into liquid forming clouds. Precipitation occurs when enough liquid has been collected in the clouds and the air cannot hold it anymore, then it starts to rain. When it rains it falls everywhere, but when it hits concrete the water is unable to be absorbed into the ground. Instead the water then travels down storm drains into the oceans where it brings no use to society.

Keeping water in damns does not help because the fresh water from rivers is constantly in motion so that all of the organisms are alive and well. When the water lays still and heats up, the helpful organisms then die off.

People everywhere are fighting for their basic rights, unless we choose to do something about it and hopefully bring an end to this needless crisis.

Annotated Bibliography

Psychology of Food:

http://foodpsychology.cornell.edu/outreach/comfort-food.html
This article talked about certain foods and their link to genders. The majority of the males favorite food was pizza, soup, and ice cream, women preferred ice cream, chocolate, and cookies. The article goes into more detail about the gender preferences when it comes to food, it also talks about how certain foods are linked to certain emotions.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200101/food-comfort
This article was about the emotional connections to food. When people were asked what their favorite food was, a majority of people said that it was ice cream, which Brian Wansink believes is an emotional connection to childhood memories.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100517172300.htm
This article talked about cravings, and why people have strong cravings for certain types of foods. The reading made me think about why we crave food, and it's effects on our bodies.

Hungry Plants Essay

"Healthy Fast Food"
Is healthy fast food even possible?
Obviously this is not possible becasue since our need for food to be made fast and low cost, this causes a lot of health problems for people of all ages. This happenes because fast food is made fast, and in large quanites. People enjoy the taste that comes with all the grease and unhealthy chemicals in the food. Many people may not realize how unhealthy fast food is, they just eat the food because it tastes good. Time is not a luxuary for the average adult in the 21st centurty, they are either late for something or do not want to spend the time to make something. Thus comes the idea of fast food, its the easy way to get food that is made fast and tastes good.

The Cove

I don't feel that the film takes sides but that it merely just shows everything that is happening, without bias, not hiding anything in order for the audience to see everything that is happening and from that allows them to think for themselves on how they felt.

I think the movie does allow the audience to draw their own conclusion however i feel that they focus heavily on the dramatic scenes in order to move people to a more emotional state that would then help to persuade the audience more to the cause. For example during the scene when the dolphins were getting killed in the cove by the Japanese whalers they emphasized heavily on this part. The music also was made so that it was more moving to help people feel more emotional about the problem.

I feel that documentaries try to be as unbiased as possible, making sure that they just tell the news on an issue and what is being done about that issue. However this can be hard to do because it is often easy to pin the blame and show someone as the villain. For example when OPS had brought forward that Japan had been killing dolphins, they had made the video more about how the whalers are only interested in the money they profited.

I think the film helps to enlighten us on how parts of the world behave. It shows us many things that we may think to be insane to even do but to them it's considered an everyday thing. I think that the more we are enlightened, the more public awareness an issue may receive which in turn can start a global change for the better.

Questions

1. In your opinion is it better to grow plants in an open field or in fossil fuel-heated green house?

2. Do your machines give off a lot of harmful emmisions?

3. how far did the come send food to.

Intial Plant Research

http://www.groworganic.com/pvfs-corn-double-standard.html

3 Possible Topics

I am curious to learn about what it takes to make a cell phone because everyone seems to go through phones like they are nothing, they always have to upgrade to the newest one just to have that extra feature that their previous phone didn't. I know that it takes a lot to make a cell phone and i also know that a lot of the items used to make one are unsafe for the environment.


I enjoy wearing vans, however i know that many shoe companies use sweatshops to make their shoes and a lot of the parts of the shoe are made from unhealthy items that are hazardous to the health of the workers in the sweatshop. since i own a lot of vans i want to know if what i'm wearing on my feet is being made by a child who is over worked and under paid.

i always seem to drink a glass of welch's grape juice every morning, I've always wondered what they do to make the juice, is it made in a factory or is it actually made by squeezing grapes into juice? i also want to know if they add any unhealthy sugars to it that can be harmful to your body.

6 degrees apart day one reflection

I guess the only thing that i did to affect the environment was taking a long shower which caused the unnecessary waste of water. i take a long time just so that i could get an extra 5 minutes of arm water. i know that water is reused and cleaned but i still feel bad about letting the extra water go to waste. my goal for the future is to cut down my time in the show by at least 5 minutes.