A year ago, I saw in the news a report about my country Ecuador. This report captured my attention because indigenous and people that live deep in the amazons were getting mutations in their bodies and different diseases. This was something very strange and new to me because it was not something that would hear in the news about my country. I found that there two main causes for the problems that these people were facing. The first one is petroleum and the second one is the aerial spraying to kill cocaine. This really shocked me because I did not have any idea that this was going on in Ecuador.
What a bad patriot I am?
This is why I have decided to pick this crisis for my research paper. I want to learn about the effect of petroleum and the aerial spraying to these people. I have so many different questions that I want to find their answers that can help me understand this problem. I want to learn all I can in order to write a clear explanation of this problem to people like me that did not have idea it was happening. In addition, I want it to help people from my native country to understand their conditions and how they can solve it. This research will be used for professional people to realize how they are affecting innocent people. This paper will demonstrate how a beautiful, clean, safe and pure environment is poison in order to make our lives easier.
Annotated Sources
Leahy, Stephen. Intern Press Service. “COLOMBIA-ECUADOR: Studies Find DNA Damage from Anti-Coca Herbicide.” June 16. http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=38205. 18 April, 2008.
Leahy gives an explanation about how the aerial spraying to kill the cocaine in Colombia is affecting people in Ecuador. All this spraying is getting mix with the water of lakes and rivers and crops that these indigenous and tribes are consuming.
Transnational Institute. “Ecuador: "Collateral Damage" From Aerial Spraying on the Northern Border.” 2004. http://www.tni.org/detail_page.phtml?page=drugscolombia-docs_ecuador-e. 18 April, 2008.
Transnational Institute is a website that talks about the big problem that is happing in Ecuador, due to the aerial spraying. This article gives information about when this problem started and its consequences to the Amazon people.
Third World Traveler. “Texaco's Ecological Terrorism of the Ecuadorian Amazon.” 2000. http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Oil_watch/Texaco_terrorism_Ecuador.html. 18 April, 2008.
This article gives information about how petroleum is affecting the people and land. The petroleum that was spill from the pipes had destroyed acres of land. This has leaved many people without food and to be surrounded by a contaminated environment.
These three resources are bery useful for my research paper. Each of them provides me information about how my Amazon people is been affected by our needs. These sources offers information that lets me know when it stared and how it has become worse. Both of these factors are destroying the Amazon forest and its people. These innocent people that depend on the environment to survive.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Reflecting....
I had a totally different concept for this class. I though that it was going to be about getting to know our career more in depth, a lot of reading and writing essays, learning different things about jobs opportunities and how to become more responsible and smart. However, the concept of this class is a thousand times better than what I thought. Since the first day I saw you, I knew that the class was going to be really interesting, open minded, and that we were going to be discussing helpful and important topics. The general topic for this class is something that others will not do it. This is great because it something that we are not been taught and it is affecting our environment.
This class is helping us how to go green? It is also teaching us the different ways that we are destroying our environment and the ways that we can fix it. In addition, it is letting us know how we are been brainwash by advertisements. Also, it opens our eyes to see that corporations, rich people and the government are not the responsible ones for the destruction of our planet. But we, common people are the main responsible ones for allowing them to do the things that they are doing.
I learned a lot of useful information in this class about our environment. I really enjoyed learning the different view of each religion towards the environment. In addition, the An Inconvenient Truth, book for this class it is very interesting. It has a lot of information about the different drastic changes that our planet has and is facing. Watching the video instead of reading the whole book was a clever idea because students (including myself) do not follow the reading assignment.
The different topics that we had for our blogs were interesting, informative, and reflective. I liked the second and third blog assignment. Both of these blogs consisted of our opinions, future ideas or goals, and learning how we are damaging our environment without been aware of it. This assignment helped me to reflect about how I can help improve our environment. It helped me to be more involved with the things that are happening at my surroundings. This class has helped me to open my mind to see the reality that I was ignoring.
This class is helping us how to go green? It is also teaching us the different ways that we are destroying our environment and the ways that we can fix it. In addition, it is letting us know how we are been brainwash by advertisements. Also, it opens our eyes to see that corporations, rich people and the government are not the responsible ones for the destruction of our planet. But we, common people are the main responsible ones for allowing them to do the things that they are doing.
I learned a lot of useful information in this class about our environment. I really enjoyed learning the different view of each religion towards the environment. In addition, the An Inconvenient Truth, book for this class it is very interesting. It has a lot of information about the different drastic changes that our planet has and is facing. Watching the video instead of reading the whole book was a clever idea because students (including myself) do not follow the reading assignment.
The different topics that we had for our blogs were interesting, informative, and reflective. I liked the second and third blog assignment. Both of these blogs consisted of our opinions, future ideas or goals, and learning how we are damaging our environment without been aware of it. This assignment helped me to reflect about how I can help improve our environment. It helped me to be more involved with the things that are happening at my surroundings. This class has helped me to open my mind to see the reality that I was ignoring.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Blogs...
1) The Sustainable Cities Blog is a great blog. This blog contains a lot of information about different websites, companies, groups, news and others. This blog it is very helpful for someone like who does not where to find information about the environment. This blog was especially created for people that live in New York City, letting us know the things that are happening around us and the things that we should do to help our environment. The entries that this blog had where written to inform and keep the students involved with the environment. The blog contains interesting topics such as the Expanding Access to Science , Time to Feed the Chickens , etc… This blog looks very simple, but it has a lot of helpful information.
2) Gristmill it seems as a great page to share information about the things that are happening around us. It has a lot interesting pages about the environment. However, it didn’t capture my attention a lot the first time I saw it. However, it does have a lot of useful information for us. It website is created for everybody. The information that it is very general, but it is messing some details. It has different advertisements popping up. But, they are related to the environment making this page more interesting and involve with our environment.
3) Green as a Thistle is a very interesting blog. It actually shows that some people are trying to improve this environment. It is a great idea of keeping a diary and making someone’s life interesting and active. This blog contains different ideas how little activities can help improve our environment. It also contains interesting and helpful links. I like the ads she has that are helpful for our environment and for people in need. It is very interesting the way she has separated her experiments from information about her. It captures the attention since it has entries about her personal experiments to improve our environment a little bit. It kind of inspires one to try this same experiment.
*This is why I decided to leave her a message. Letting her know how her contributions can improve and teach us to do the same for our environment.*
4) No Impact Man is a very interesting and informative blog. Its entries are very useful. It talks about different actions that people and organizations are doing to improve our environment. The decoration of the blog captured my attention. It is a great way of describing and showing all the information that it has improving our world. It’s a great page to share information and to obtain new one. I learned different things that are damaging our environment. Also, how SELF is trying the different methods to make this planet a happier place for us. It is a great page where you can see the actions that are going on and perhaps you can collaborate. It is really interesting the links for charities, contact and organization, etc…
5) Ecogeek is a great blog that teach us how technology is been use to improve our world. We have the idea that technology is mostly destroying our environment and us. But, this blogs is demonstrating how some people are using technology to help us. This blog contains information that is not been shown in TV or the News. The entries are interesting because they talk about important topics that involve us. Even when they are describing a new invention, it stills captures the attention. This is blog is very different from the other ones. It is demonstrating that some people are creating inventions to improve this world. It’s something that should be spread out to others. It is also design to get other genius involve.
Green Blogs:
Fashion is one of the most important and influential obsession that we (human beings) have. Clothing is something that we spend a lot of time thinking how to improve it and make new designs. But, we do not stop to think the damage that we are doing to our world to obtain these things.
One of the biggest problems that we are facing is famine. This problem is happening in many different countries; it something that scientists are working on. For example, they are creating seeds that grow fast to increase our amount of food. This problem is becoming more serious as we destroy our environment.
2) Gristmill it seems as a great page to share information about the things that are happening around us. It has a lot interesting pages about the environment. However, it didn’t capture my attention a lot the first time I saw it. However, it does have a lot of useful information for us. It website is created for everybody. The information that it is very general, but it is messing some details. It has different advertisements popping up. But, they are related to the environment making this page more interesting and involve with our environment.
3) Green as a Thistle is a very interesting blog. It actually shows that some people are trying to improve this environment. It is a great idea of keeping a diary and making someone’s life interesting and active. This blog contains different ideas how little activities can help improve our environment. It also contains interesting and helpful links. I like the ads she has that are helpful for our environment and for people in need. It is very interesting the way she has separated her experiments from information about her. It captures the attention since it has entries about her personal experiments to improve our environment a little bit. It kind of inspires one to try this same experiment.
*This is why I decided to leave her a message. Letting her know how her contributions can improve and teach us to do the same for our environment.*
4) No Impact Man is a very interesting and informative blog. Its entries are very useful. It talks about different actions that people and organizations are doing to improve our environment. The decoration of the blog captured my attention. It is a great way of describing and showing all the information that it has improving our world. It’s a great page to share information and to obtain new one. I learned different things that are damaging our environment. Also, how SELF is trying the different methods to make this planet a happier place for us. It is a great page where you can see the actions that are going on and perhaps you can collaborate. It is really interesting the links for charities, contact and organization, etc…
5) Ecogeek is a great blog that teach us how technology is been use to improve our world. We have the idea that technology is mostly destroying our environment and us. But, this blogs is demonstrating how some people are using technology to help us. This blog contains information that is not been shown in TV or the News. The entries are interesting because they talk about important topics that involve us. Even when they are describing a new invention, it stills captures the attention. This is blog is very different from the other ones. It is demonstrating that some people are creating inventions to improve this world. It’s something that should be spread out to others. It is also design to get other genius involve.
Green Blogs:
Fashion is one of the most important and influential obsession that we (human beings) have. Clothing is something that we spend a lot of time thinking how to improve it and make new designs. But, we do not stop to think the damage that we are doing to our world to obtain these things.
One of the biggest problems that we are facing is famine. This problem is happening in many different countries; it something that scientists are working on. For example, they are creating seeds that grow fast to increase our amount of food. This problem is becoming more serious as we destroy our environment.
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