Porter’s Reading Response #10: What a Great Consideration!?!

The wonderful website Local Burger designed by Sprout Design definitely caught my attention because of it’s great consideration of every source that is related to food. I love that! However, I am left wondering if the food cost less, more or it remains the same price as other compared foods. The Local Burger website had [...]

Research outline option A

Research outline option A Thesis: Although coral reefs have been around for 50 years, human activity is causing their disappearance because of tourism, fishing, and pollution. Intro Preview of coral reefs Types i.      Fringing reefs First stage of reef formation Grow up towards sea levels and out towards the ocean ii.      Barrier reefs second Second [...]

Reading Response #6-What Are You Really Eating?

  At times the stomach churning images in the documentary “Food, Inc.” may be hard to view, nevertheless this is a film everyone should see. Once you have food will never look the same. Robert Kenner has managed to pull back the curtain on the food industry and reveal the dark secrets it was hiding. In this film he explores [...]

Response#8:Website Review-Kleen Kanteen Does It Best

The Kleen Kanteen website really has an eye appeal to the trendy, green, outdoorsy crowd. It draws in that crowd because of the message behind the company and the adventurous look of the product. People like Kleen Kanteen for more then its looks because it is a better way to avoid using endless amounts of [...]

Response #7: No Water For You!

The New York Times is a widely distributed newspaper; though it’s length may have deterred people, Karl Russell’s’ article Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost in Suffering could have been read by anyone.  The subject of clean water is well known in poor nations, however largely forgotten in the United States.  Russell’s article [...]

Response #6: Sustainability in the Classroom and at Home

The article The Need for Sustainability by Peter McLean addresses the relationship between biology class and an appreciation for nature.  The audience for this article would be a fellow teachers and parents with school aged children.  Though I appreciate and understand what the article is getting at, I feel the author did not put enough [...]

Research Paper-References

Reference List Haines, F., & Reichman, N. (2008). The Problem That Is Global Warming: Introduction. Law & Policy, 30(4), 385-393. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9930.2008.00288.x. Hobson, Art. The plausibility of global warming. The Physics Teacher, Volume 48, Number 1 (January 2010), pp. 77-78. http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=439582CA1E9B5BC0349C Keller, C. (2009). Global warming: a review of this mostly settled issue. Stochastic Environmental Research [...]

english 213- Research Paper References

1.CHILINGAR, G. V., KHILYUK, L. F., & SOROKHTIN, O. G. (2008, January). Cooling of Atmosphere Due to CO2 Emission.      Energy Sources Part A: Recovery, Utilization & Environmental Effects, 30(1), 1-9. doi:10.1080/‌15567030701568727 2. Hulme, M. (2009). Why we disagree about climate change. New York,NY: Cambridge University Press. 3.  Köhler, P., Bintanja, R., Fischer, H., Joos, [...]

Preliminary Reference List: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

References Afloat in the Ocean, Expanding Islands of Trash. (2009, November 10). New York Times. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.library.uaf.edu/‌login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=45062980&site=ehost-live della Cava, M. R. (2009, November 16). Birds, boats threatened by Great  Garbage Patch. USA Today. Retrieved from http://searhttp://web.ebscohost.com.proxy.library.uaf.edu/‌ehost/‌detail?vid=3&hid=108&sid=fe333298-ea75-4004-941a-69dd42f20a57%40sessionmgr104&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=J0E066343554309#db=aph&AN=J0E066343554309ch.ebscohost.com.proxy.library.uaf.edu/‌login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=J0E066343554309&site=ehost-live Doucette, K. (2009, October 29). AN OCEAN OF PLASTIC. Rolling Stone, (1090), 54-57. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.library.uaf.edu/‌login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=44760762&site=ehost-live Evans, T. [...]

Porter’s Reference List: Research Essay

Reference List Beyer, A. & Bizuik, M. (2008). Methods of determining pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls in food samples-problems and challenges. Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 48 (10), 888-904. Retrieved March 27, 2010, from EBSCO Host ( A34899709). Bosgra, S., Voet, H.V.D., Boon,P.E., & W.Slob (2009).An integrated probabilistic framework for cumulative risk assessment of [...]