Educating Others on Environmental Conservation

This week I learned about the salmon life cycle and how their journey begins. Fish come upstream and lay their eggs in the creek or high on a river bed where the water is cool and constantly flowing. When the hatchlings are born they feed on their egg sack until their old enough to catch food they are called fry. Then they become fingerling and travel to deep pools of water covered by wood or branches that provide shade, food and shelter.  Eventually maturing enough to migrate back into the ocean. They go through smoltering for their bodies to adjust to the ocean. The salmon then travel great lengths looking for food and maturing. They stay in the ocean for about three years before their bodies instincts tell them its time to spawn. Once they have spawned they have completed their journey and they die...  Their hatchlings repeat the cycle time and time again. One thing that amazes me about salmon is their ability to remember where they came from and how to get ...

One thing that I'm really passionate about is recycling, I hate being wasteful but after watching the bottled water story, I learned that bottle companies don't do anything to contribute to the recycling of their product. I already knew that the CEO of Nestle believes in privatizing water for their companies benefit. A lot of people don't understand that bottled water is more dangerous than water from the tap that goes through extensive review for pollutants before it's released to our sinks. The price of water is extremely inflated and we pay about 4 dollars for a liter of water when companies like Nestle only pay .02 cent per gallon. Sink water has been tested over and over again and always comes back cleaner than bottled water that has less regulation. Additionally, most bottled water is tap water recycled through reverse osmosis with a couple of minerals added for taste. I encourage you all to watch this video and think about it the next time you buy a bottle o...

What compost starts at & the end result One way we can limit our waste is by composting green waste. The green bin that gets picked up by the garbage companies can contain good scrapes, coffee grounds and filters, soiled cartons, leaves and grass clippings. The material is sent off to a processing center were it's shredded down and left in piles for it to cure. I think if people were more conscious of the things they bought at the store, they would be able to reduce their waste. For example, instead of buying Styrofoam plates get biodegradable paper plates, Styrofoam doesn't decompose through a natural form but paper plates do. Another thing people can to to reduce their waste is by making sure they are using the appropriate bins to throw away their trash. Always ask yourself; Can I recycle it? Is it biodegradable? Will it decompose? These are important questions to ask yourself before you throw away anything in the garbage. If you don't know a lot about com...

This week I watched a short video on YouTube about the impact soil has to our climate. One key learning that I found out was that soil contains a lot of Carbon. When soil is damaged the CO2 goes up to the atmosphere which creates more green house gases in the atmosphere causing warming and could lead to ocean acidification.  Not only are we harming our environment by emitting CO2 through fuel emissions but we are also adding more CO2 through soil erosion. A couple of ways we can help is by, planting more variable crops, creating compost piles and having organized grazing of animals.  To learn more you can click the link on the bottom of the post. Soil Solution to Climate Problems