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my status of time-line-thingy-magigy... 4/6/11 TASKS: -Look through textbooks for topics. -Find some awesome websites for __Friday__ about the environmental issues. RESULTS: Environment Science 10th edition; Richard T. Wright Global perspective:Can ecosystems be restored? (pg. 48) The human capacity for destroying ecosystems is well established. to some degree, however, we also have the capacity to restore them. in many cases, restoration simply involves stopping the abuse. For example, it has been found that after pollution is curtailed, water quality improves and fish and shelfish gradually return to previously polluted lakes, rivers, and bays. similarly, forests may gradually return to areas that have been cleared. humans can speed up the process by seeding, planting seedling trees, and reintroducing populations of fish and animals that have been eliminated. In some cases, however, specific ecosystems have been destroyed or disturbed to such an extent that they require the efforts of a new breed of scientists: the restoration ecologist. the potential for restoration of any ecosystem rests on the following three assumptions: 1. Abiotic factors must have remained unaltered, or, if not, can at least be returned to their original state. 2. viable populations of the species forerly inhabiting the ecosystem musts still exist. 3. the ecosystem must not have been upset by the introduction of one or more foreign species that cannot be eliminated and that may preclude the survival of reintroduced native species. if these conditions are met, revival efforts have the potential to restore the ecosystem to some semblance of its former state. Point of all this: (first two lines) and RESTORATION!

=4/7/11 MY OUTLINE OF TOPICS= Sooo...yesterday right at the end of the period we made a little paper with all the topics im going to cover. Here they are: Invasive species --> garlic mustrad --> mile-a-minute --> gypsy notcatep

Human health --> Air polution/smog. --> Water pollution.

Ecosystem --> Fragment of the land, cutting the ecosystem for animals...

--> FLOODING

--> farmland? --> disappearing?

-->Endangered animals to NJ/NY area?

--> National/State parks. -Landuse -Open Space -NJ Highlands

ENERGY WASTE HAZARD WASTE

I'll focus on one of these topics a time and then proceed. I will start by focusing on the HUMAN HEALTH section.

pg. 384 Links between Human Health and the Environment: In context of human health "environment" is the whole contezxt of human life-the physical, chemical, and biological setting of where and how people live. Thus, the home, air, water, food, neighborhood, workplace, and even climate constitute elemens of the human environment. In context of human environements "hazards" are what can make us sick, cut our lives short, or contribute in other ways to human misfortune. In this context of environmental health, a harazard is anything that can cause: 1. Injury, disease, or death to humans. 2. Damage to personaly or public property. 3. Deterioration or destruction of environmental components.

Risk= Hazard x Vulnerability.

-Cultural Hazard -Biological

First things first:

MY PROJECT:
Researching/collecting lots and lots of data/info about the local Environmental issues of our specific area, then general area. I'm going to speak of this local issues, what has been done about them, what we plan to do with them, and potential disasters from these issues. I plan to interview some intelligent people (and some not so intelligent, but maybe to get a general representation of the population and their opinions). This will ALL be in an AWESOME video that I shall ship off to china! YAY!

Second things second:

Since I already made a podcast I might as well upload it HERE:
Third things third:

Since i already made a podcast i might as well upload the transcript for the project HERE:
Environmental science: For my final project in my environment science class I will make an elaborate video that describes our local environment issues and how we live here.

-The local environement issues in our town, (picture of Montvale) -The environment issues of our region (north jersey) -And the environment issues of the state new jersey.

-Along with a few around that have an impact on jersey but may also impact the other tri-states around.

I will interview some teachers in the school who are aware of what's going on and maybe their opinion about it and what they believe should be done.

If I'm lucky, i would love to get in contact with environmentalist in the area for their input as well.

I will some some daily activities of our lives that impact our environment whether it is good or bad.

I will discuss what has happened, how we improved, (or how it has gotten worse) and predict what can/will happen.

I will explain how we can improve and what we should do to fix our local environment issues.

Hopefully my video will show you how we live vs. how we should live and hopefully one day will live.

Now that i've explained my project, and what i would like to change. What would you like to change or improve in our society as a whole.

My ORIGINAL somewhat of a timeline:
My project will consist of 4 major parts. (within each part a detail time-line will eventually emerge)

Part 1: All the Info and Research shall be obtained and collected. Part 2: a) Info/data/Research/etc shall be organized into a clear fashionable manner. b) I will construct that info/data/research/etc into a visual way, how I want it to be presented. Part 3: Film and Edit. Part 4: finalize the project, add/change anything. Get in contact with china, and send it.

Information/Research/Data/Etc will consist from the internet/websites, from the newspapers, opinions from students, teachers, those around, and if I can, possibly local official representatives and governmental people or whatnot; commissions, maybe if i can find/contact some environmentalist around, (including ms. Macke) for their input as well.

awesome website 1:

http://www.epa.gov/myenv/myenview2.html?minx=-74.14124&miny=41.02265&maxx=-73.95069&maxy=41.08867&ve=12,41.05716,-74.05747&pSearch=07645,%20NJ

Website 2, environment commission people:

http://www.montvale.org/redirect.asp?dep=ENVIRONMENTAL⊂=&G=O&B=O&D=O

Pascack Sustainability group (i'm not sure yet)

http://www.pascacksustainabilitygroup.org/

something about greater montvale thingy

http://greatermontvale.com/mission.php