RR Captain Charles Moore

Reading response 1 The article is focused on telling the readers about how our trash, specifically plastics, is wrecking havoc on the ecosystem. The article mentions that the particles of plastic that have been found in fish and on shores have come from humans and that our neglect to do anything, or allowing it to [...]

Getting Real About the High Cost of Cheap Food

That was a much better written article.  The paper is heavily laden with direct quotes, references, figures and verifiable data, including references.  Everything is there and made plain.  The argument was well managed, the information well organized and delivered clearly, and bias was limited and hidden.  Altogether well done.  The only ding I might give [...]

Vegetarian is the New Prius

The world’s most acceptable terrorist organization, PETA.

RR-5: Vegetarian is the New Prius

The article, Vegetarian is the New Prius, is definitely eye catching and sounds like a valid argument that makes sense or does it? After reading two thirds of the article I began to get a little suspicious especially when the writer starts instructing its readers on what to eat. What I mean by this is [...]

RR-4: Getting Real About the High Price of Food

Do we really know where our food comes from and should we care? To be honest I never thought to ask the question. When I’m pushing my cart through the grocery store I don’t have time to think about where the food I’m purchasing has come from. In fact after an eight hour day on [...]

RR-3: Need for Sustainability

Our environment is showing scars of overuse and abuse that has mother nature no longer tapping on our shoulders patiently waiting. We have taken what was once thought of as unlimited resources and recklessly overused them without giving thought to what future generations will be left with. In the article, Need for Sustainability, it shows [...]

RR-2 Nothing Wasted Everything Gained

A new way of life from unlivable to sustainable is almost unbelievable. Common sense happens to be the best way of explaining this philosophy on how to live. The community of Gaviotas, which started as a scientific experiment, aimed at living off the natural resources that the land had set before them. Impressive to say [...]

RR -1: Clean Water Laws are Neglected at a Cost in Suffering

How naive of me to think that everyone had a right to clean, safe, drinking water! After reading the article, Clean Water Laws are Neglected at a Cost in Suffering, I was horrified that this is really possible right here in the U.S. Instead of being horrified maybe I should wake up from the illusion [...]

Biodiesel: Reading Response 5

The biodiesel article that I read was very interesting. I heard a little bit about biodiesel in the past. The idea to renew vegetable oils or animal fat and turn it into usable engine oil was marvelous. The audience of this article would have to be someone like me who knows nothing about biodiesel and [...]

Response 5:Eating Mercury. by nate missimer

The audience for this article is the biggest and broadest it will ever be. The audience is any food consumer in the entire world. The only way it is even close to being narrowed down into categories is with what certain brands of food each individual eats. The point is this, that it was stated [...]