Hi guys, I needed to pick a different book so this has been updated! I chose "Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future" by Peter D. Ward . This book will cover a range of environmental topics that seem to mostly be dealing with global warming. Such as at the end of the Permian period their was a rise in carbon dioxide that lead to a climate change which caused major destruction to species. Juding by the titles of many of the chapters this book talks a lot about extinctions and what could possibly be coming in the future. To give you a better idea the chapters are as follows:
1. Welcome to the Revolution
2. The Overlooed Extinction
3. The Mother of All Extinctions
4. The Misinterpreted Extinction
5. A New Paradigm for Mass Extinction
6. The Driver of Extinction
7. Bridging the Deep Past and Near Past
8. The Oncoming Extinction of Winter
9. Back to the Eocene
Finale: The New Old World.
I chose this book because after learning more about global warming in class, I think this book will be really interesting and offer a lot of new insight. I know this book is going to have a lot of facts in it, and from reading the first couple of pages Ward seems like he writes in a "non-lecturing" can of way that will be appealing. This book has 10 chapters and 204 pages. I am going to read chapters 1 and 2 for the 1st quarter. Chapters 3-5 for quarter 2. Chapters 6-8 for quarter 3 and chapters 9 and the 'finale' for quarter 4.
Here are 3 links about the author and the book:
HaperCollins :This offers a summary of the book.
Wikipedia: This site has information about the author, Peter Ward.
Powells: This site offers a review of the book.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Friday, September 25, 2009
Reflections Weeks 1 and 2
Week 1
The first day of class was really hot! We did a rope activity and decided to do it outside. Each student in the class had to fit both of their feet inside a circle of rope that varied in sizes that were scattered around. Each time we switched Dr. V removed one circle of rope. By the end of the activity there was only one circle of rope left for the entire class to fir their feet in to. We had to problem-solve ways for it to work, eventually realizing that all of our bodies don’t have to fit inside the rope just our feet. This lead into our discussion about critical thinking, and why it’s important to always look at problems with an open mind. We then started to learn the basics of blogging and going over what’s to be expected for the rest of the semester.
Week 2
The sencond day of that class we watched a really interesting video clip off of a 60 minutes episode. It was about global warming and how when Bush was in office the government was censoring what information could be told to the public; trying to make things look better than they really were. I thought that was really interesting. We also learned about putting gadgets into our blog.
The first day of class was really hot! We did a rope activity and decided to do it outside. Each student in the class had to fit both of their feet inside a circle of rope that varied in sizes that were scattered around. Each time we switched Dr. V removed one circle of rope. By the end of the activity there was only one circle of rope left for the entire class to fir their feet in to. We had to problem-solve ways for it to work, eventually realizing that all of our bodies don’t have to fit inside the rope just our feet. This lead into our discussion about critical thinking, and why it’s important to always look at problems with an open mind. We then started to learn the basics of blogging and going over what’s to be expected for the rest of the semester.
Week 2
The sencond day of that class we watched a really interesting video clip off of a 60 minutes episode. It was about global warming and how when Bush was in office the government was censoring what information could be told to the public; trying to make things look better than they really were. I thought that was really interesting. We also learned about putting gadgets into our blog.
Introductory Post
Welcome to my Maggie's Environmental Lifestyle page! I'm a new community health major, and I'm not completely sure what I want to do with my major when I graduate. I have worked with children for a long time, and am interested in nutricion, so I could see doing some kind of combination of the two.
This is my first class that is environment related, and I'm already finding it really interesting. Blogging isn't coming too easily for me, but I'm working at it!
My blog will cover a variety of topics; listed below:
*Advocacy project
*Eye-openers
*Eco-Chic Lifestyle Change
*Read 'N' Seed
*Share and Voice
Each blog posted after this one, will be under one these topics.
My group members are listed below:
http://maggiesenvironmentallifestyle.blogspot.com/
http://jordannesjungle.blogspot.com/
http://karlyskaringhabitat.blogspot.com/
http://www.haileyshealthyenvironment.blogspot.com/
You can subscribe to my blog by clicking the subscibe gadget in my gadget column. If you'd like to follow my blog you can click "Follow this Blog" in the gadget section. If you'd like to see all the blogs I'm following and my complete porfile click on "See Complete Profile."
Blogged for the Welcome Linky Party hosted by http://ecochicwithamy.blogspot.com/
Thanks for checking out my blog!
Maggie@Maggie's Environmental Style
This is my first class that is environment related, and I'm already finding it really interesting. Blogging isn't coming too easily for me, but I'm working at it!
My blog will cover a variety of topics; listed below:
*Advocacy project
*Eye-openers
*Eco-Chic Lifestyle Change
*Read 'N' Seed
*Share and Voice
Each blog posted after this one, will be under one these topics.
My group members are listed below:
http://maggiesenvironmentallifestyle.blogspot.com/
http://jordannesjungle.blogspot.com/
http://karlyskaringhabitat.blogspot.com/
http://www.haileyshealthyenvironment.blogspot.com/
You can subscribe to my blog by clicking the subscibe gadget in my gadget column. If you'd like to follow my blog you can click "Follow this Blog" in the gadget section. If you'd like to see all the blogs I'm following and my complete porfile click on "See Complete Profile."
Blogged for the Welcome Linky Party hosted by http://ecochicwithamy.blogspot.com/
Thanks for checking out my blog!
Maggie@Maggie's Environmental Style
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