Final Draft: Eat Organic, or All Is Lost

Where our food comes from can make an impact on the environment, either for the good or the bad.  Grocery stores have many food choices ranging from foods with organic labels to foods that are not organic.  There is a large gap between the number of choices that are organic and those that are not, [...]

Essay 1 Cause/Effect – Recycling: GREENS and Benefits

Every day we all have waste to dispose of: a wrapper from a food item, an empty box of cereal, a beverage can, papers of all sorts, and so many other items we no longer have use for.  What we do with the everyday waste can differ from person to person, household to household, and [...]

Response #11-15

ARTICLE #1 How Factory Farms Are Killing Seals by Tom Philpott is written for the general public.  The article is intended to inform people of how the use of antibiotics on factory farms does cause adverse effects outside of the factory farm borders.  First, the overuse of antibiotics on factory farms helps create antibiotic-resistant pathogens.  [...]

Essay 3 Proposal- Trash Clean-Up Day: Getting Executive Estates Out of the Down and Dirty Look

Winters in Fairbanks, Alaska can be long and harsh.  The cold temperatures, which can dip down to forty degrees below zero or even colder, are not inviting temperatures in which most people do like to be outside in any longer than necessary.  Throughout the winter snow falls from above and covers land, streets, neighborhoods, and [...]

Research Draft 2: Eat Organic, Or All Is Lost

Where our food comes from can make an impact on the environment, either for the good or the bad.  Grocery stores have many food choices ranging from foods with organic labels to foods that are not organic.  There is a large gap between the number of choices that are organic and those that are not, [...]

HAYDN WORKSHOP DRAFT 1

  1. What does the author do particularly well? Be specific.   The author conveys the serious nature of conventional farming versus organic farming.  One instance where the author uses a good example of the serious nature of conventional farming versus organic farming is when she talks about how “regular” pesticides where founded through the use [...]

Research Draft: Organic Food for Healthy Environment

Intro Where our food comes from can make an impact on the environment, for the good of the environment or for bad.  Grocery stores have many food choices labeled organic and food choices with no organic label.   Conventional agriculture is a form of farming that is the dominate form of farming.  Conventional agriculture and organic [...]

Essay 2 Book Review – Ocean Fisheries are in Serious Trouble: Ocean Fisheries are Important in Our World, So Pay Attention

Imagine a fish seven hundred pounds slicing through the ocean waters like a bullet, or the struggle of traveling hundreds of miles against a current, or even the lavish beauty of many different colors and creatures.  Now imagine all of this fading away into memories of yesterday or even stories of old.  That is exactly [...]

Research Part 2: References

Although there are many choices in a grocery store, organic foods should be seriously considered over inorganic produced foods because organic farming reduces chemical pollutions, animal pollutants, and preserves our lands and plants species. References Araújo, A. S. F. de, Melo, W. J. de..  (2010, November).  Soil microbial biomass in organic farming system.  Biomassa microbiana [...]

Essay 2 Book Review – Protecting Wildlife in the Oceans: Carl Safina Combines Education With Novel-like Feel

Although the title of Song For The Blue Ocean; Encounters Along the World’s Coasts and Beneath the Seas sounds as though it may be a novel about sea, the book fulfills its role to educate people while still being interesting to read because of the author’s direct contacts with people of differing views, his easy [...]