Response #15: Below the Deep Blue

Alastair Fothergill’s BBC nature documentary called The Blue Planet explores the diversity of the world’s oceans.  These aquatic creatures are two goals in mind: eat and mate.  They accomplish these goals by using the earth’s natural terrain and the current to locate large amounts of plankton and other food.  This is just one example of [...]

Reading Response #15: A New Model for Civilization

Clearly the population of the earth will continue to significantly increase. How are we to survive, as civilization spreads out into inhospitable lands? And how can the earth even support such a massive strain on its resources? Weisman and Kratochvil take a glimpse into a scientific experiment that could provide many answers, in their article [...]

Porter’s Response #15: Saving Our Planet

Interesting and saving out planet? Saving our planet from what? That is the question I asked myself when I looked at the website titled Earth911. The main point of the website Earth911 is to inform everyone how to save the planet from trash in land fills and to recycle, reduce and reuse items. The website [...]

Reading Response #14: A Visually Stunning Portrait of the Earth

Be prepared to be whisked away on a journey through some of the most visually stunning footage ever captured. In the documentary series Planet Earth, the BBC has produced yet another phenomenal series exploring the wonders of this planet. Although the documentaries cover a diverse set of ecosystems, I chose to view two episodes that [...]

Porter’s Response # 14: The Importance of a River

Who would think reuniting a river would be so important to humans and their nature. In the article Reuniting A River by Russ Rymer, it discusses why reuniting a river is so important to fishermen, Indians and farmers. This article is written for those that are into the fishing industry. Klamath River is not just [...]

Porter’s Response #13: Plastic in Fish and Sea

Do we consume plastic when we eat fish? Of course any typical person would answer “no” to this crazy question. Then they’ll probably continuing on by saying if we put plastic in our throats we would suffocate an die. However, according  to the article Captain Charles Moore written by Nell Greenberg, people that eat fish [...]

Reading Response #15:Urban Utopia

The Guerrilla Gardening website is a very entertaining site sending a very good message. One of the main reasons that I do not want to live in a city is because of the endless amounts of concrete. The idea of planting things in any tiny patch of dirt available in an urban setting could make [...]

Reading Response #14:See the World From the Couch

The BBC television series “Planet Earth” is an incredible video documentation of the immense wonder and variety present in our natural surroundings. From the highest to the lowest places on the planet the BBC has recorded hours of footage of the planet’s natural beauty. As would be expected, this results in a beautiful piece of [...]

Reading Response #13:Would You Like Some Mercury With That?

Discovering that there might be something in one’s food that could potentially lead to extensive damage to their nervous system is not something that most would easily overlook, yet this seems to be the case with the American public. I am sure that “Eating Mercury” by Alexandra Gross is not the first article that has [...]

Reading Response #12:Green Speed

At first glance an eco-friendly biodegradable race car may seem like a poor application for useful and innovative technologies. However, Mike Rosenwald’s article “Fast Food” demonstrates that green ideas and technology can reach into every aspect of life, even over indulgence. Racing is a passion that has been around since the dawn of motorized vehicles, [...]