Sunday, March 16, 2008



I was riding my motorcycle down the street.
When I saw a big black shadow riding over me
I look up and what do I see?
A big bird flying over me
It looks like an eagle that needs my help
so I pulled right over and got some food
I hold up my hand and he ate it all up.
What did I do I rode my motorcycle
down the street.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Answer the following questions in 2 to 3 short paragraphs:
What final product did you create for our exhibition? Are you proud of it, why or why not? What was the process that you went through to create your presentation? What did you learn from the process and about the information you are presenting on? What was a challenge you faced while creating your display?
After these past two weeks, what is your definition of sustainability and what it means to be an environmental steward?

The final product that I created for my exhibition is of what is happining right now and what can happen if we cut back on our carbon emmisions. Yes, I am proud of it becasuse it turned out really well and looks great.The process that I went through to create my presentation was first to put the ugly side that we created.Then we put the better side that we could achieve if we used buses more than cars.The thing I learned from the process I went through is that if you use buses more than cars, the earth would be a little better.

The challenges I had were geting the supplies, making the supplies and putting them where we them wanted to go. After these past two weeks, my definition of sustainability is to save every thing you can. To me environmental stewardship means to be the best you can be to the environment.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Answer the following questions on your blog in complete sentences and in your own words:

1. What is biomimicry?:a disign based on nature or life.

2. Why are termites a great subject for biomimicry research?:
termites have enzymes that could make fuel from parts of plants that are not being eaten

3. What is an enzyme? What is a catalyst?:a catalyst is something that speeds up a process; an enzyme is a catalyst of breaking down food.

4. What is cellulosic material?:cellulosic is parts of the plance that we do not eat.

5. Why would cellulosic ethanol be more sustainable and efficient than biofuels using corn or sugar cane?:beause instead of wasting the parts of the plant that we do not eat you can use it as fuel.
A. Define and provide examples of the following concepts:
1. sustainability: providing what we need today with out hurting the future.
2. freegans: people who live of other peoples garbage.
3. stewardship: taking care of people and bieng reasponsible.
4. biomimicry: using nature to disign something new.
5. ecological footprint: impact that we laeave behind on the earth.
6. overshoot (as it relates to supply and demand): when we take more from the earth than it can give us.

B. What does this equation mean?
area x bioproductivity = biocapacity [SUPPLY]
population x consumption per person x footprint intensity = ecological footprint:
the supply is how much the earth can supply us with and the demand is how much we take from the earth.

C. What is the significance of the year 1987?:
that was the year that we began to take to take more from the earth than it could give us.

D. What happened on October 6, 2007?:
U.S used up all of the reacorces that the earth would give us for that year.