Weather I Care or Not?
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Journal Entry #17

Owen Barfield’s work proposed that “people once felt “integrated or mortised into” the world..”(Orr, 2011 pg. 188) Biophilia has become more of a choice rather than a decision. This is becoming truer due to children growing up in cities where there are no parks or outside recreation for them to play. Biophobia is not a silly “disease” that naturalists have come up with to scare being into caring about the environment, it is proven that it shrinks experiences and joys and creates an inability to achieve a close and loving relationship with the environment. Also the urge to control nature, has lead to a greater increase in biophobic people. All we want to do is control the situations around us, for example the weather, but in a world like today with so much increased CO₂ emissions, this is not possible.

Journal Entry #16
Going into colloquium I had extremely mixed feelings. Rumors circulate around campus about how boring, time consuming and long this class is giving freshman the ultimate fear of never wanting to take the class. Thankfully we are required, so the fear tends to go away as you reach your junior year. Gordon rule classes also scared me because I am not very confident in my writing skills and to take a class that focuses mostly on your writing, I wasn’t too thrilled.

In the hospitality field, hotels are moving ahead of the game by adopting greener technologies and practices to help the environment. Not only are they instilling greener practices with their employees they are encouraging and educating their guests to recycle, save water, and turn off non-needed electricity.
Although at times this class was stressful I am glad I had the opportunity to take it and become educated about the issues that are happening in our world.
Journal Entry #15

Upon arriving we were given our rules and questions and sent in our respected directions. I love downtown areas with their hidden histories, brick roads and abundant amount of art galleries. Not being accustomed to the downtown area we were completely flustered when we had to start searching for our clues. When we went towards the port we unexpectedly came across the Olympic Museum which I found to be extremely interesting since watching the Olympics is one of my favorite things to do!

Thursday, June 30, 2011
Journal Entry #13
For my service learning I had the wonderful opportunity to volunteer at the Koreshan State Historic Site. Here I was introduced to air potatoes, which are an invasive plant species that was brought to the area after Hurricane Wilma hit. These plants grow so rapidly and can literally engulf all the natural flora and fauna in the area. The first day we arrived, we had no idea what we were getting ourselves into. Mike, the volunteer coordinator, brought us to a site and showed us how to properly pull air potatoes from the ground. Not only do you have to pull the entire air potato out of the ground but you must make sure to pull out the tubers because this will kill the plant immediately. Four hours of pulling these plants later, I was covered in mosquito bites.

The second day we went was more of pulling plants, getting bit my mosquitoes, and sweating. This time we filled up four buckets which was an achievement in itself!
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