Project Reflection

For our final product my partner and I made a poster board about recycled fashions. It had information about places like Goodwill and Buffalo Exchange. I think that overall our research and work turned out as something that we should be proud of. The first step of learning about recycle fashions was just researching on the internet about sites and store that support recycling and sustainability. After that we got a poster board and printed out th3e information and pictures that we found. The next thing we did was visit JC Penney, Buffalo Exchange, and Goodwill, all are stores that support recycled clothing. We asked questions and learned a lot which helped us in our presentation. In our process we learned that recycling clothing is easy, you can take your old or unwanted clothes to places like Salvation Army and Goodwill, that give their profits to charities. A challenge that we faced while creating our display was that both of us were absent for a couple days so we lost those days of work. After these past two weeks my definition of sustainability is something that you can use over again and again, like recycling and old can or T-Shirt. To be an environmental steward means that you are responsible for your planet, you will clean up someone else's trash and sacrificed your time for your environment.

Blog Post 3

Answer the following questions on your blog in complete sentences and in your own words:

1. What is biomimicry?Biomimicry (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate)

2. Why are termites a great subject for biomimicry research? Because they can make souces of energy that imitate the real ones but are better for the enviornment

3. What is an enzyme? What is a catalyst? they are something that speeds up the process of something

4. What is cellulosic material? The parts of a plant we dont eat (the leafs and core part of the corn]

5. Why would cellulosic ethanol be more sustainable and efficient than biofuels using corn or sugar cane? I don't think so because we eat those things so it would just be wasting the food. But then it would be helping the eniviornment.

Blog Post 2

A. Define and provide examples of the following concepts:
1. sustainability-to keep up or keep going, as an action or process: [to sustain a T-Shirt, conversation]
2. freegans- someone who lives off of other people's waste and is a vegan
3. stewardship-a person who manages another's property [picks up after another person]
4. biomimicry-imitating life
5. ecological footprint- the footprint [mark we leave on the enviornment from all of our technology and greenhouse gases]
6. overshoot (as it relates to supply and demand-the gap between supply and demand

B. What does this equation mean?-supply and demand
area x bioproductivity = biocapacity [SUPPLY]
population x consumption per person x footprint intensity = ecological footprint

C. What is the significance of the year 1987? The first year where demand was larger than supply

D. What happened on October 6, 2007? We used up all our resources for 2007

Photo Poetry

Birch Aquarium

The Birch Aquarium is a very special place...
it has fish and tide pools and an exhibit we can all relate to...
The Global Warming Exhibit.
We should all be aware of global warming...
and the birch aquarium is helping us do that.

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