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Discussion 4: Diigo/Sustainability - 26 views

Erick you're right but how do we do that? In the video we watched cutting carbon emissions by 80 percent seem to be the number one suggestion. but the UN decided on doing that in a longer time sp...

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Sarah Chavez

Sustainability Myths: Leaving the Lights On - That's a Turnoff « The Green Da... - 1 views

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    It's a short section about this myth but I like the information this site shares about this myth.
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    This article talks about lights. We have all been told to turn our lights off, but are we really saving more energy? According to this article we are not.
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    This is a good one i never knew that have to ;turn the light back on was actually wasting more engery. I guess i'll leave every light on.
Veronica Guzman

Cosmic Log - Food waste + fish poop = lettuce - 0 views

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    Fish poop and Food waste to create food, pretty creative. Even though this is only in it's experimental stages this was a very good idea. We ope this works and soon we can read about people buying this product! We just hope it really doesn't taste like fish!
kenya gonzalez

Half of US food goes to waste - 1 views

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    "Society of St. Andrew" This site talks about food waste in America, Global Food Waste, Environmental impact of U.S. food waste. This site also has links to other informational studies and reports and are helpful with this topic.
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    This article goes over a study created to determine the amount of food waste in America. The article also contains a comparison between just America' food waste and food waste Globally.
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    This article talks about how America's food waste affects the environment. It discusses the impact of global food waste as well. It concludes with information of a program to help improve the food waste problem.
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    This articles main focus is primarially on food waste. It looks at it as a whole (Globally). it discusses the Environmental impact, and what the Society of St. Andrews Programs are all about. It defines the positive impacts that the ministry has already managed to have on the environment.
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    Brief but informative description on food waste and its effects.
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    This website was about food waste in America which included everywhere such as households, restaurants and so on. American wasted 12 percents of food and only three percents was recovered so the rest of them disposed in landfills.
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    In this article it gives reasons why so much food is waste in America. After looking at all the food waste and searching through the food that is wasted they noticed most of the people don't know what they throw away.
Erick Alderete

PepsiCo Environmental Sustainability | PepsiCo.com - 0 views

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    On this website there is information on how this company PepsiCo is committed to protecting earth by using natural resources. It also has sections that further explain how to manage packaging waste, water waste, and climate change. 
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    I think this is a good website, it's informative with the videos and the short information section below them.
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    This webpage gives us a a lot of information on ways that PepsiCo is being self sufficient to help our eviromental sustainability. This is a really good choice Erick.
Taylor Burkhart

Basic Information about Food Waste | Organic Materials | US EPA - 0 views

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    This talks about how much food is wasted. this page also has two graphs one what is wasted in america not only food but other materials.
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    These graphs show basic images to help give a descriptive idea of how much food waste is happening in America. They talk about the disposal of the food and how it becomes a danger to our world by the methane gases it produces. Recycling, of course, is always a benefit for our environment; however, we need to inform more people about this.
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    By generating food waste has significant economic as well as environmental consequences. Parts of your budget goes to buying food, but yet we waste it with out even thinking anything of it. If i was to give someone 20 dollars and then say throw it away they would look at me like i'm crazy. But this is what we are doing!
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    This article talks about how recycling food has environmental benefits. It also states how food waste has both economical and environmental consequences. 
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    In this website the text is about the amount of food being wasted in 2010; which then gives the results. It also states the harsh consequences of food waste and also benefits of food wasting.
Norma Sanchez

What Is Sustainbaility - 1 views

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    "Sustainability is based on a simple principle: Everything that we need for our survival and well-being depends, either directly or indirectly, on our natural environment." This site s full of information on sustainability and more. Great links are attached to this site. Want to know how to help? Read more....
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    In this article composed by the EPA, Environmental Protection Agency; states what sustainability is about then explains why its important. The website then explains what EPA is doing to help sustainability and then finally explains what people can do to help.
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    This article explains what sustainability is about and why it is important for our environment. It explains that sustainability creates and maintains the conditions where us as humans and nature can live together.
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    This is a very informative website. It explains what sustainability is, and what is being done to preserve it. Also, it explains what we can do to help.
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    This is great article to grasp what exactly sustainability is. I like how it really goes it to depth about what exactly it is instead of just giving a general defining statement, it helps with the comprehension of what it really means. It also shows what can be done to help this also helped with the comprehension because it gave examples so also an opportunity to reflect as well.
Raymond Laborin

Sustainable Agriculture - 2 views

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    This article is about how sustainable food can last us in the long haul, without damaging our health, and environment. It also describes how technology has a big impact on sustainable food.
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    The Article gives great information on how agriclture is making a transition to a more sustainable envoriment.
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    I really enjoyed reading this article for the fact that it was straight forward and easy to read, compared to the other articles that lose you to so much jargon.
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    I really liked this article because it was forward and straight to the point. I life how it really went into depth on the topics of sustainability in livestock, crops, agriculture and more. It covers many different areas of topic in one easy to access article.
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    I reallly like this article because the main page of the article has specific buttons for specific sections of the article, this makes the article very organized and neat. This article covers many different topics and definitely could be a good source to use.
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    Cameron i agree i liked how This website gives you knowledge on a wide spectrum i enjoyed quite a few of the tabs i agreed with and thought that we should make so many of these things laws which can be punishable if they are ignored. The only way it seems to get people to do what's right is to give them no other choice.
Veronica Guzman

Tons of food waste crams landfills, adds to methane gas | Hunger Solutions Minnesota - 0 views

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    It seems that Bloom is a major source when it comes to food waste because this is the second article that quotes him. This article gives statistics and information everyone should be aware of. They also give this great example of how America has a great obesity problem and that they say to chuck away the last few slices of that pizza instead of eating them!! Wrong! maybe we should just not buy the pizza if we do not need to eat it! The examples just show how we don't really think twice before throwing food away.
Arthur Parra

Waste Land: Does the Large Amount of Food Discarded in the U.S. Take a Toll on the Envi... - 0 views

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    This article talks about how the landfills are harming our environment. this is a very huge issue in America and we need to something about this but its going to require an effort
James Sassi

Sustainability in aged care - 3 views

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    This article expains ways caregiving facilitys can be more eco-friendly. With the installation of solar panels to save energy. The website also talks about how to construct a buliding to store heat and reduce heat all year-round with out air conditioning.
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    This was a interesting article changing the way indoor environment is seem like a weird way to do thing but the way it is explained seems like it helps. Like using the light self brightens the ceiling and also keeps less heat in the room by changing the direction of the glare.
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    this article interested me because my mom is in the medical field and it discusses how places can be more Eco friendly and beneficial to the earth. This article brings up several ways that buildings can be more Eco by using lighting that self's adjust therefore using less energy and less heat because they wont be on 24/7.
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    While reading this article I have realized many companies have been going the Eco- friendly route. On the way to work I saw the VA hospital have solar panels on the overheads in the parking lot. I also see a lot of churches installing solar panels.
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    I love the comments made in this article. I agree with the author when she states that people have to look at the solar panels as part of the system on the building and not as something added on.
Kelsie Pensyl

Zero Waste : A Realistic Sustainability Program for Schools - 2 views

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    This article talks about a program that K-12th grade schools can implement through out their school. It gives examples on how this program has already been implemented and changed in schools. It also talks about how the program can be implemented in a school. This program is a great way to teach children and staff different ways to create a sustainable school.
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    I think that is pretty cool that they have the kids get involoved as well, because like you said it is a great way to teach kids about sustainability and maybe some could even educate their parents. "However, most school districts don't have an award-winning nonprofit to implement a comprehensive Zero Waste program for them." (Schumper & Dietz). This comment made me think, are Zero Waste programs very exspensive if it is not through a non-profit group, and is that why other schoos do not implement this?
Jacob Ortiz

Promoting Pesticide Resistance - 0 views

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    Here is another example of the 10th myth of sustainability. In this article it explains how a companies goal of selling sustainable pesticides went wrong, and that It actually does more harm then good.
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    What did you google while looking for your articles? I eventually found some but I had to type more than just "Sustainability." This is an intriguing piece of writing, by the way. Good job finding it Jacob!
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    @ Kelsey Martell, I used one of the yippy and dogpile websites. They take some time to fish through because they too still bring up a lot of redundant information.
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    What a great article that goes along with the 10th myth of sustainability. This gives a good example of how more harm is done when companies selling pesticides then good. This was a very interesting article to read through. Great job finding this article Jacob.
Veronica Guzman

Pumpkin Power: Turning Food Waste into Energy | Department of Energy - 0 views

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    This article discusses about using energy from discarded pumpkins from halloween. They are also creating energy for plants such as, biofuel, biopower and other products.
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    This would be AMAZING if we were able to use our waste to provide energy for the world. It would be a win win situation. Since they are already trying it out maybe this will go nationwide.
Andrea Manginelli

For Restaurants, Food Waste Is Seen As Low Priority - 0 views

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    An estimated forty-five to fifty percent of food is discarded each year by Americans.That makes it an economic problem for everyone. In a country known as the "throw away" society we are destroying the planet with methane, mountains of food waste that could of been eaten, and wasting money that could of been saved.
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    This article talks about how much food we waste on Thanksgiving and in every day life. Talks about the different studies that have been done on this topic and the shocking results.
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    In this article they talk about how half of what  we produce in america is wasted. It also talks about how farmers grow a lot of product in order to get paid more and if it comes out bad they just leave it to rot in the fields.
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    Nearly 50% of all food ready for harvest gets thrown away, according to a study done by the University of Arizona! Sometimes the crops can't be saved due to mother nature, but in most cases food waste happens because we have been trained to only look at the perfect looking food.
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    This article covers the idea of warehouses and how they contribute to the idea of food waste. They also give again, They general run down about food waste and again some ideas anyone can do in their homes everyday to help prevent the issue.
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    In this article, the author describes the effects of food waste in our landfills. Restaurants contribute 15 percent of all waste in landfills.
Demarcus Hughes

Coal-fired power plants provide close to 80% of China's electricity - 1 views

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    This article is about China's way of conducting energy in their country. This explain how much and how long China will be the main user of energy. The government in China relieves this and now bring it to the attention in meeting.
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    Its amazing to think that coal is is responsible for 80% of Chinas energy source. This results in China paying 2 billion a year.
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    China definitely needs to take another look at how they control some parts of the country. I agree with Ivan, it's costing the country so much unnecessary financial farm it's crazy. Great read.
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    I can't believe it is costing so much for them to use the coal. I wonder if this is why the cities always look so polluted and foggy? Very interesting article!
patricia kelly

Sustainability by recycling food waste - 1 views

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    This article is about the sustainability need in the food waste area. This article explain that we should recycle our food by composting and also explain two types of ways to compost.
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    I really enjoyed reading this article because it ties in with food waste what we have been taking about. For an instance I thought they were the same back to going "green" it is good to learn the difference to comprehend both. This is also very helpful for those of us who would like to help but do not know how.
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    To achieve a sustainable society then food waste must be recycled as opposed to being sent to landfill sites around the country. We all know the problems that our planet is suffering through global warming that is partly aided by the greenhouse gasses that are produced when food waste is sent to landfill and the ensuing fluctuations in temperature that is suffered around the globe.
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    I really like your comment Norma i Read the same thing but saw it in a different light. But then after reading about your going green comment i thought about how ironic it is that color is being considered a sustainability method. It is great when you can see something from someone else point of view and get more from something you already agreed with.
Raymond Laborin

Increase Energy Sustainability - 2 views

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    This article talks about how sustainable energy meets the needs for the present, but does not effect the sustainable energy for the future. It also talks about how researchers are exploring different ways to produce cleaner more efficient ways to produce better energy sources instead of relying on fossil fuel.
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    The website is short and to the point, what i really like about this article is that it is easy to read, compared to the other "sustainability" websites that have so much jargon.
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    this website was easy to understand and interesting all at the same time. It gives a run down on the technology that is being applied now to help the the sustainability within our environment. This is also gives a sneak peek into what technology that they plan to improve on and introduce hopefully within the near future.
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    This article was easy for me to understand, I really like how the article explained "sustainable energy" with terms that I know and isn't too far complex for the readers.
Taylor Burkhart

Still Inconvenient, Still the Truth - 0 views

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    In this article the author Aron Cramer explains the threat of sustainability and talks about ways its impacting the world; such as climate change. The author then goes into detail of how the government does not want accept the fact that this is reality. The website also lists information regarding the author to provide credibility.
ashcam

Sustainability Myths: Does a Lighter Footprint Mean a Lower Standard of Living? " The G... - 1 views

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    In this website a article is written by Grace Interlichia, the article explains that people often mistake sustainability for giving up living pleasures such as desired foods, homes and cars. But in reality its not giving up what people loath but instead creating a better way to live by fuel friendly cars and sustainable farming.
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    This article gives readers insight to our aim of living style sustainably. For example transportation, and farming. There are also other recommended articles to read relating to this topic.
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    while this is a good article it gives room for argument.
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