Still Going Green….

I recently started “Going Green’’ I took upon myself many little things like1) instead of using napkins to wipe my hands I use towels. I have started doing that and I feel a lot better. 2) I am still looking for a glass bottle to fill up water, maybe Dr. Smith can tell me where to buy a glass bottle like the one he has.3) I try not to throw out paper unless I can make some use of it at first, and then only when I am done then I throw it out. 4) I use to leave lights on all the time now I go around the house to shut off any lights that are not in use. 5) I will take a lot of time but I slowly started using less meat when I cook for dinner not because I want to be a vegetarian, but when I read a statistic on treehugger.com it said that you save a lot of water from not eating a pound of meat per day than to not shower a whole year, and then it said that people who eat meat use up 4,000 gallons of water per day unlike a vegetarian who only uses 300 gallon of water per day. This statistic was pretty scary so I decided to loosen up on the meat not off course completely but to start a little bit so I can save my planet. I have a question I hope Dr. Smith can answer it or anyone in the class. So like I said I took upon myself to not waste paper so what happens when I am at the train station and the workers give out a Metro does that consider wasting paper because in the end it will end up in the trash weather I read it or not. I take the paper from them in order to be nice. I feel that anyways all the left over paper will go to the trash and I don’t always have the time to catch the news online, so am I contributing to the paper waste????? SOMEONE PLEASE ANSWER. 6) I also make sure not to allow the water to run for no reason so if I am brushing my teeth I will turn the faucet off when not in use or even in my kitchen when I am cooking, and I feel I may need the water but not right this second I will turn it off (even thought it takes a little effort to turn it back on.) what I use to do was when I use to cook is to occasionally leave the water on so when I need to rinse vegetables for cooking or to make a salad I automatically had the water on so I rinse…..boom in the pot or on the plate. Well apparently that was not helping to save the planet instead killing it, so it’s great that I made the switch because a little bit goes a long way.

Off We Go.... New York Public Library.

On April 9, 2008 the whole class went to the New York public library. Here is the website http://www.nypl.org . You can find all the information that you are looking for, like a particular book or research that you may have to do for a school paper. It was kind of interesting to see many different kinds of books in anything and any subject in all kinds of different fields. I saw a book that was called “The Fine Art of Sex” and as you can use your logic you know exactly what the book is. Well I decided to flip through the page and I saw all kinds of sex pictures of different people having sex. I was pretty much laughing and I even showed to Ana my partner, and then we also had Sandy who wanted to look at it and I said, “No.” I did not like the book at all and I do not think such a book should even be in the library because young teens and children can get a hold of this book and take it out and seriously damage their minds. There is a time and place for everything even for the young teens and the children. Why should they bother themselves with this kind of nonsense? A smart parent will make sure their kid does not get a hold of such a book. I think most people will pick out a book like this to see what is in store not for the simple interest of research and study. For such a purpose the library staff should have it by them and if an adult needs then fine, but a young teen should not have it unless a parents suggest it. That is simply my opinion. Most people will defer but this is how I feel on the subject matter. Afterwards we went to the other library I don’t know the name, but it’s the one with the lions where we took the group picture (maybe it’s the same name.) There I learned that they only have one book and you can only look at it there and you cannot take it home. They even have some books that are thousands of years old and some have sheep skin on it. It’s true what Dr. Smith is saying that if you act interested then you will become interested. I usually find libraries extremely boring. It’s totally true I guess if I learn to love the library and act interested than i guess i will be interested. WE also had a tour guide who showed us around the big beautiful library and told us that some reading rooms have light coming from the outside in other words it is natural night it does not need the help of an external light. I saw all kinds of people, some are probably tourists others are researching their work.

GO GREEN!!!!

I have never really thought about going “green” this idea of trying to save the planet seemed very awkward. I even remember after reading Dr. Smith’s blog that stated, “It’s not easy being Green” I asked him what does this statement mean, and he looked at me quite strange saying you don’t know what being green means? And to get even funnier I asked him who is Kermit the frog? though the picture looked cute as you have a frog sitting on a tree playing the instrument-(I don’t know what), and then Dr. smith tells me you don’t know who Kermit is and I say the usual “NO”, and he says it’s Kermit from Sesame Street and I laughed since I felt this may have been the cause for banishing the television. Well a little joke there! I think I had enough so I will begin my paper. http://treehugger.com is a website that you can use to go green in so many different ways like how to green your furniture, sex life, water, electricity, wardrobe and many more. Well to begin greening your sex life it says that you should shower together so to save water, instead of using light you can use candles, and instead of using plastic sex toy use a metal one( I don’t know that’s what they are saying.)To Green your water you can use tap water than bottle water because studies have shown that it is a lot healthier since government regulates it unlike bottle water that is a scam in first world countries and it is not even pure. I love drinking bottle water instead of tap. I think tap water is pretty disgusting, but who knows maybe this is something I can take upon myself. Do not flush drugs inside your toilet or pour chemicals down your drain because it might come back to you in diluted water. Ease up on the meat says the website you use up 4,000 gallons of water per day unlike a vegetarian who only uses 300 gallon per day. You save a lot of water by not eating a pound of beef than not showering a whole year. Four million children less than five die each year due to water- born diseases. Many of these children do not have cleaned water near their homes and they share, bath, and drink their water with their live stock. United church of Canada started a campaign to control the spread of bottle water. Matt Damon who is an actor set up H2OAfrica after he saw that Africa’s water crises at its worst. We should also consider were we live and having the land to support us without any artificial means like in Arizona people cannot live their without an air conditioner and that is wasting the energy of this earth. What I can take to take upon myself to become a better GREENER is to not waste paper and if I don’t need it I will find use for it instead of dumping in the trash, and will try to use the computer to do my writing. I will try to use a towel so I don’t have to use napkins. I will pay my bills electronically so as not to waste paper. I will buy a filter for my water at home so I can use tap water instead of these bottle waters. I also will shot of any lights in the room that no one is using at the moment. In my home I have artificial plants instead of the real ones in the pots because this way I save a lot of water and plus my homes looks a lot nicer in artificial than the real plants. I will also buy a glass bottle to fill up water instead of using plastic.