Eco Event # 5

This is a video from a news segment in conneticut where the news anchor interviews a enviromentalist that informs us on food sustainability events in conneticut. I find this interesting because it shows us how other stgates have sustainable events that we could copy here in ohio.

Eco Event # 4

http://www.earthday.org/

This website is about Earth Day. This is a very generic eco event but i believe it is a big break throughin the sustainability fight. It has been held on April 22 every year since 1970. It is a day when everyone comes together and honors the earth, and being enviromentaly healthy. This website talks about diffrent things you can do on earth day. I think we should all take advantage of this event, and due our best everyday to make the earth better.

Eco Event # 3

This is an event put together by GE. It mostly about finding innovative ways to power the grid in a enviromentaly way. I is interesting because it shows how big companies such as GE is trying to play a role in enviromentalism. During the event there are many great ideas that are brought up to help GE, and other companies to be more enviromentaly friendly. I though it was interesting because not only did they have ideas from big companies, they also took ideas from college students just like me.

Eco Event # 2

http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-the-usda-you-support-healthier-school-meals#?opt_new=t&opt_fb=t

This is website lets you sign a petition for a certain food sustainability issues. I though this was very interesting because you can easily sign a petition online to fight a problem in food sustainability. This perticular petition is to tell the USDA that you suppoert healthier food in schools. I myself electronically signed it, and there are many other petitions that anyone can sign with out getting out of their chair. I believe this to be a very useful tool to fight against unsustainble food producers.

Eco Event #1

http://www.sustainablecitynetwork.com/topic_channels/energy/article_2ed79358-34ca-11e0-9b41-0017a4a78c22.html

This is website that talks about the largest wind power project in ohio. I found this interserting because it shows how ou state is trying to become more sustainable. The wind Farm will be located in Blue Creek Ohio which is on the western side of the state. It will output 304 mega watts annualy. This should help power a lot of Ohio homes, and I am interested how it will hlp Ohioans in the future.

ESSAY 2

As human we need two essential things to live water, and food. The definition of food is any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue. We consume food with friends, family, and by ourselves. It has deep ties to rituals that bring us together every year. We have Christmas, and thanksgiving dinner where families from all over the country come together just to consume food. We go out to restaurants on special occasions like birthdays, or promotions. Then we have family dinner every night to get closer as a family. Why do we at times take this for granted, or disregard the way it is made. In some regions of the world people don’t get a lot of food. They don’t get to have special dinners, or they might not even know the next time they will get a meal. That is why I think we have to take a step back, and look at the way we really feel about food.
To me food is one of the best things in life. I love coming home, and getting my mom’s homemade Czech republican meals. There are so many varieties of food that someone can choose from. Everyone has their favorite food whether it is Italian, American, or any other culture because each one has food. I personally identify myself as a big carnivore so a big steak is my preferred choice. When I consume food I have found myself checking the labels more and more now a days. Of course I check the nutritional facts that inform me on everything that is in the food. I don’t worry about the fat and sodium amounts. I personally look at the calories in whatever I’m about to eat. Also if I want energy the next day I make sure I eat something with carbs in it. Also now that I have watched Food Inc., and researched more about the production of food I pay attention where my food comes from. I can’t really eat local while being in college, but when I go home to Columbus I will try to god to more farmers markets, and eat more sustainably. That is how I treat food that I consume today, but that has definitely changed over the years.
I believe everyone’s food consumption has drastically changed over the years. Everyone obviously starts of as a baby where they have no choice over the food they intake. Then when we are kids we just try to go for the sweet delicious treats like candy, and pizza over anything. You don’t really see a lot of 5 year old getting salad when they go out to eat. As we mature though there we go through a lot of physical changes and our physical appearance becomes more important to us. Then later in life we might develop diseases like diabetes, or lactose intolerance. We have to change our food habits to those illnesses to lead a healthy life. Also if we become more sustainably aware we try to eat locally, and support sustainable food producers. That is how our food intake habits change throughout our lives.
Food is something that is never ending I can sit here and %100 without a doubt say people will consume food tomorrow, and a 100 years after I die. It might change over the years, but I’m sure it will only get better. With saying that though I hope we all start to wake up, and realize how our food is being handled. We need to pay attention who makes it, how it’s made, and who gets hurt in the process. We need to realize how healthy or unhealthy food can be to us. How everything is loaded with sugar, and corn syrup. We need to realize how mistreated and malnutritioned the animals we get our food from are. Lastly we need to realize how the big companies that make, and serve our food benefit from our lack of knowledge on something that we consume every day. We go through many stages with our food throughout our life, but the most important stage to go through is the sustainable stage, where we change our food and ourselves for the better.



Work Cited
Moseley, Tolly. "Eat This, Not That, in 2010 - Planet Green." Planet Green : Sustainable Living, Energy Conservation, Earth Day. 1 Dec. 2009. Web. 17 Mar. 2011. .

Final Essay One

The dictionary defines sustainability as the ability to endure. In ecology it describes how biological systems can function, and be productive over time.Whether it is a fuel we use, a product or a human action. All of the aspects of it have to be for a better good. If it is an energy source it has to be non-harmful to the environment to be sustainable. If it is a product such as food, or tools we use in everyday life there are many things that contribute to its production for it to be sustainable. If it is environmentally friendly that doesn’t necessarily mean it is sustainable. You have to think about the workers that make it, and the animals that produce it if that is relevant with the product. If all of these things don’t cause any harm to the maker or the consumer it is considered sustainable. Now you have to think about what being sustainable means to us as people.
We have interactions with many different people every day, and they all have a different sense of sustainability. You might talk to a person that is very concerned about sustainability like the figures we saw in Food Inc., or an English teacher that is very concerned about the sustainability of the world. To me though sustainability is the ability to be the best you can be. I don’t think you can be %100 sustainable because there are so much factors that are involved in it. Also I believe that sustainability goes further than just being sustainable to the environment. For example you could be a sustainable student by being productive, studying, turning in all of your work on time, and showing up to class on time every day. Also if you recycle in you dorm room, and all that good stuff makes you sustainable too. Then when it comes to family sustainability you might try to keep everyone together. Make sure everyone helps around the house, and helps each other with problems such as school work or financial situations. My family personally tries to fulfill each and every one of these aspects which makes us a much more of a tighter group. Also just like with being a student my family participates in the environmental part of sustainability by trying to be more environmentally friendly. Although it is in bigger ways such as keeping the heat down so we don’t use up so much gas, or not using as much electricity, and hot water. By now I hope you are starting to see there are many levels to sustainability, and they each expand into a wider spectrum of actions.
After we go from our personal sustainability we get to the higher levels where organizational and national sustainability come into play. The main organization that I take part in right now is the Ohio University. Living in Athens I see the universities concern for sustainability every day. There are posters comparing Ou’s sustainability to other colleges all over the campus. Also you have places like ping, and the baker center that use very sustainable ways to power themselves. So I can see that sustainability is very important to my school, and its attendants. The next level of sustainability would be the state, and nation level. I researched into Ohio’s sustainability projects, and I found dozens of ways that my state is working towards a more sustainable future. For example construction just started on what will be Ohio’s largest wind power farm. Its annual output should be about 304 MW which will help power a lot of Ohio homes. There are many other projects that show how sustainable my state of Ohio is starting to become.
At the end of the day sustainability could be something as big as a state trying to change its energy sources, or as small as a college kid throwing a piece of trash into the right colored bin. We all have our own idea of sustainability, and the way we carry it out depends on how much we care about the environment, and the people around us. It is reflected from our actions, and the things we speak out against such as big bossiness that hurt our environment. I know what sustainability means to me, my family, and my school. And the states I live in. Hopefully I will continue to see this passion in sustainability as we all work toward a better future.


Work Cited
"Largest Wind Power Project in Ohio Center of Signed Power Agreement - Sustainable City Network, Inc.: Energy: Blue Creek Wind Farm, News, Akron Ohio, Firstenergy Solutions, Iberdrola Renewables." Sustainable City Network, Inc.: Balanced Information & Intelligent Solutions for Municipal Professionals. 9 Feb. 2011. Web. 17 Mar. 2011. .

Prezi

The place I visit everyday (Project One)

There are 7 core values in the United States Army: Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity, and Personal Courage. They are the values I try my best to live by being a soldier, so when we were assigned this project of finding out the history of a building on campus I thought to myself “What better place could there be than the building that represents these values than Lindley Hall, which is the home of Army ROTC (Reserve Officer Training Corps).” Now I know you might be thinking that what it holds now is the present not the history, but I want to look at the history and find out how Lindley hall became the most important building in my college career. As I further researched this hall I had to think about how to put all the interesting facts about it into my promotional piece. I thought about how I should theme my promotional piece. This part was very difficult because Lindley Hall has been around for so long, and has changed so much. In the end I hope I did Lindley Hall a favor by making the audience see how interesting in it, instead of them thinking it was just another old crappy building on campus.
I would like to start off with the bad part about making my promotional piece. Obviously making a 6 minute video would frustrate anyone, but the annoyance was there from the beginning. At first I wanted to do a power point for my promotional piece, but I soon realized that would be harder than I though. I appreciated all the sites and resources you gave us, but it was very hard to find history about Lindley Hall. All I had to work with were the pictures in the library archives, and a page on Lindley Hall today with the smallest paragraph briefly explaining the history of it. I was on my last nerve with my research until my one on one meeting. It made me think about my promotional piece from another angle, and even though I was still set on making a power point I felt better about the way I was going to set it up, but my whole project was about to change from a little walk to class.
It was Friday morning, and I was inches from not going to class. After putting myself through a guilt trip I was up and on my way to Bentley. On my way I thought I could get a little motivation from my iPod so I put on one of my favorite songs “I will hide myself away” by Cartel. Just hearing this song gave me goose bumps, and that’s when it hit me. I thought to myself if this song brings up emotions like this in me I’m sure I can make my audience feel something. Of course I couldn’t ad a song to a power point so I knew I would have to make a video which has the same idea as a power point ;however: I believe it to be a lot more moving if you do it right that is. So after finalizing my thoughts about the medium I will use to deliver my message about Lindley Hall I had to figure out who my audience was going to be.
Going into this project I had a pretty good idea about who I wanted my audience to be. At first I wasn’t very creative. I wanted to promote to a typical college student; however: after changing my promotional piece to a video I started to get a little more innovative. I kind of wanted to appeal to everyone from a little kid to a college student who might be interested in ROTC, and maybe even an older individual that attended OU. I put in a picture to go with every text so that even a small child could see how Lindley Hall has evolved over the years. I put the song in the background obviously because of the way it made me feel as I stated earlier, but it is the style of music people my age listen to so I was hoping it might make one pay more attention to my video because they may want to listen to the song the whole way. Also I added the extra info about ROTC which shows what kind of things I like and find interesting. Generally I wanted to put my audience in a serious mood. For the younger pre-college viewer I wanted them to feel the history of OU, and maybe make them really want to learn more about this great institution. For the current college student I wanted them to feel proud about the school they went too. For example the part of my video that talks about the riots against the Vietnam War might make them see that Ohio University students are very free thinking and righteous individuals. Lastly I wanted the older viewers, or alumni think back to the greatest days of their life at OU, and I wanted them to see how this college is getting better and better through the years because the people that came before me created the OU that I love today. In the end I hope I succeeded with my goal of making Lindley Hall look interesting. I hope my promotional piece shows my audience how I feel about this campus, and that I hope it shows the hard work I put into this project. To me time is one of the most important parts of life, and I am happy I got to go back into it and see the creation of the place I visit everyday Lindley Hall.

Promotional Piece

Place

I believe that wherever we go we always have relationships with our enviroment. We have a relationships in the sence of how we effect our place. We also have a relationship in the sence of how it effects us. To me there might be a lot of people in one place, but they could all be in their own place. Their own place in life, emotion, and thinking. For example when you get angry or unsettled in your enviroment someone might tell you to go to you happy place. To me this whole idea of place is very important. I belive that our sence of place can detirmine our mood, attitude, and decision making. For example we might make diffrent decision or be in a better mood when we are in our dorm instead of class, and that is visa versa. Lastly I strongly believe that our place can show people where we come from, how we were brought up, and how we live. Because we all might be in the same place but we each customize it to fit our personality, wants, and likes. That is why I believe it is higly important we all have a sence of place, a number of placesesto go too, and that we can read other people from their sence of place.