2010年4月28日星期三

RRJ

Jun Zhu
EAP1 Core
Environment

Reference:

By Knights, April 5, 2010
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/04/05/sustainable.green.cities/index.html?iref=allsearch

Summary:

In Knights’ article, he says that we should change something about the environment in the cities. In the cities, people are using unrecyclable things, and it causes the environment of the city becomes bad. But now, people know that waste is bad, so they want to use the renewable energy and help all the urban have a good living environment. This is a cornerstone of helping the climate to be well, and McRae, the person in the article, says they will not be sustainable if not many people so this. At the end of the article, the author shows that is very good for get the environment of earth if the dwellers in the cities can use renewable things everyday, because the number of the dwells in cities are very huge.

Reaction:

The author initiates that using renewable things in our life, so he use the Vancouver to be an example to prove his idea. I read about some articles that Canada doesn’t use sunlight for energy, but it is popular in China. I think we can use sunlight to remove the electric energy in some places. It is also can be a kind of renewable energy, and the sunlight just a kind of the boundless energy in the world, so that we can find many ways to protect our earth. I also agree with author that he said the cities are the important places where need to be more clean and nature. Today, many people living in nature country or the suburbs near the cities, because they want to have a nice environment. And I believe it is useful to be health when I read a search in a book. In that book, it says that there are more old people living in the southern of the U.S more than the people who living in the northern of America. This is because of the industrial distribution of the U.S, the north near the five big lakes are many industrial companies, and the cities like Chicago are developed of it in the past few years, but this spend the environment and the cost of non-renewable energy. The different thing is that the cities in the southern of U.S are developed with tourism, and I can understand why Americans have that choose. However, the environment is important about our health, if we don’t care about it, we will lost all the places where we living now.

2010年4月21日星期三

Jun Zhu
EAP1 Core
Environment


Reference:


By Knights, April 5, 2010
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/04/05/sustainable.green.cities/index.html?iref=allsearch


Summary:


In Knights’ article, he says that we should change something about the environment in the cities. In the cities, people are using unrecyclable things, and it causes the environment of the city becomes bad. But now, people know that waste is bad, so they want to use the renewable energy and help all the urban have a good living environment. This is a cornerstone of helping the climate to be well, and McRae, the person in the article, says they will not be sustainable if not many people so this. At the end of the article, the author shows that is very good for get the environment of earth if the dwellers in the cities can use renewable things everyday, because the number of the dwells in cities are very huge.


Reaction:


The author initiates that using renewable things in our life, so he use the Vancouver to be an example to prove his idea. I read about some articles that Canada doesn’t use sunlight for energy, but it is popular in China. I think we can use sunlight to remove the electric energy in some places. It is also can be a kind of renewable energy, and the sunlight just a kind of the boundless energy in the world, so that we can find many ways to protect our earth. I also agree with author that he said the cities are the important places where need to be more clean and nature. Today, many people living in nature country or the suburbs near the cities, because they want to have a nice environment. And I believe it is useful to be health when I read a search in a book. In that book, it says that there are more old people living in the southern of the U.S more than the people who living in the northern of America. This is because of the industrial distribution of the U.S, the north near the five big lakes are many industrial companies, and the cities like Chicago are developed of it in the past few years, but this spend the environment and the cost of non-renewable energy. The different thing is that the cities in the southern of U.S are developed with tourism, and I can understand why Americans have that choose. However, the environment is important about our health, if we don’t care about it, we will lost all the places where we living now.

2010年4月7日星期三

RRJ(1)

Reference:
By Stone Marth 30,2010
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/29/plastiki.conservation.international/index.html?iref=allsearch

Summary:
According to the article, when the author had opportunity to dive in the Japanese ocean he was surprised to find that there were many trashes on the bottom of the ocean. He think the ecosystem have already been hurt by pollution, increased acidification, and the warming of the water. The rubbishes accumulate for a long time and the animal lived around the ocean begin to eat them. Albatrosses and turtles were dead because they choking by rubbish. They can not distinguish the plastics or food. There are many consequences that the ocean has damaged: climate change, sea level rise, ocean acidification, overfishing, loss of biodiversity, and increasing of invasive species. And the marine system does not have any problems, the problems are extrinsic. It is impacts by humans’ activities. They have three solutions to rebuilt ocean healthy. First, use Seascape model with management of broad marine areas. Second, they are increasing that modal for larger-scale regional management. Third, they will have a steady fishery management. People will work hard to improve the ocean environment. And it is also can be a solution for our climate environment.

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In this article, the author tells a very serious problem, the pollutions of the ocean. Ocean covers the 90 percent of our earth. The problems of ocean will affect our life directly. And it is also affect the climate. Because of people the animals all over the word become decreasing. All the animals are the part of the food chains. If we lose some parts of the food chains we will have many consequences that we cannot shoulder. So we must protect the animals. In addition, we must protect the largest area of this world- ocean. All the problems depend on humans’ activities and behaviors. And the solutions this article told are improved the awareness of people to protect the ocean environment. I think it is the only solution for ocean. People must realize they are living on the only earth, if they do not protect it well, this world will damage. And the first step is from the ocean. Therefore, we must notice the consequences that the ocean has already brought us. The ocean environment destroyed by us, and we must rebuilt it by ourselves too.
This is a picture about Banjo. Banjo is a music thing that is similar with guitar. Banjo has five music wires and a wood made body. It is very old, so not many people can play this things well now.