Toilet paper and school), taking shorter showers to conserve water, and using less electricity. If continuing with less paper products it would be helpful because you would save money on buying paper towels and you would potentially have less trash. On the downside you would not be able to eat out as much and in the beginning you would have to invest in a lot of tupperware. When you take shorter showers you be conserving water for the environment but you might have to take colder showers then you are used to. Lastly when you use less electricity your power bill will go way down but the downfall is that you might have to invest in some expensive light bulbs and have to remember to unplug things when they are not being used.
I choose to live my life in a way that would benefit the earth, not to destroy it. I walk to the places I need to go whenever I can, or use the public transportation to create less congestion on the roads. I do take the light rail system to my downtown campus twice a week, which is very effective to get to point A to point B in the matter of time that it would take to drive. I would like to think that I am being eco-friendly as much as I can when the opportunity is upon me. I would like to think that the city that I live in now, which is Tempe, is eco-friendly minded.
This essay was written over 5 years ago and to look at how much is still being wasted is shocking. Things have improved since then but things could also be much better. If we motivate and educate each other to save and not waste as much we began to notice our improvement and maybe even make headlines. The essay “ Waste Not, Want Not” by Bill McKibben was very informative and motivational. It makes you think how many of the things that we are used to are causing harm to our environment.
The main way that we do this is through our consumption, primarily our food consumption. Both of my parents and I are vegetarians, and my younger sister is vegan. We try to be environmentally conscious through our food consumption choices by not eating meat, and, in the case of my sister, any animal products at all. Our amount of financial privilege allows us to make these choices, as we can afford alternative options. Additionally, my family does participate in the “organic food movement”: we tend to buy organic foods and shop at grocery stores that seem to be more environmentally friendly such as Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s.
The less products we waste and leave around, the less pollution we will have. Recycling reduces mining and drilling, which both causes pollution in the air. One of my last corollaries for environment, is that it also reduces global warming. Recycling paper reduces gases of the greenhouse gases that apparently causes global warming.
Hannah Siegworth Professor Heather Swan English 153 1 March 2023 Personal Narrative: The Trouble with Wilderness The importance of a “pure” nature was introduced to me at a young age. Our family cabin in northern Wisconsin served as an abode in which we would go to “get away” from the hustle and bustle of the city. This mindset carried me through my childhood, and only when I read “The Trouble with Wilderness” did I begin to question and transform this viewpoint.
Enhancing My Roots Being Mexican-American has been such a blessing to me. Growing up I would feel embarrassed to have brown skin and to my speak my first language, which is Spanish. I would feel jealous hearing the other kids speak English so well as I struggled more and was placed in English Language Development. I would detest to get pulled out of class and get asked trivial questions like “what is this?” when it was a simple book.
Volunteering on behalf of Habitat for Humanity was an eyeopening experience, as I was able to witness the positive changes I made. Habitat for Humanity strives to bring communities together, using volunteers to build homes for those in need. Upon discovering my local chapter of Habitat for Humanity, I instantly signed up for the next build and spent my entire Saturday helping a family in need. Hardly having nailed something before, I was suddenly tasked with building the frame and siding of somebody's future home. I took this responsibility seriously and spent the next 8 hours meticulously nailing away, making sure I made no mistakes.
My shelter is one of the lowest factors impacting my ecological footprint, and the environment overall. When in college, I live in a small apartment that I share with three people. The smaller housing option benefits our environment because it takes up less land space which needs to be used as land to grow resources instead. Another one of my lifestyle factors that is beneficial is my transportation habits.
Eco-friendly, going green, upcycled and living the simple life are all fairly conventional words used in today’s society. As Americans, we find ourselves living in a world of abundance, where everything from food to clothing are all mass-produced and purchased excessively by today’s consumers. Thousands of articles have been written, movies have been made along with videos about the importance of being accountable for our actions for the survival of future generations. Two interesting Ted Talk videos touch on a fraction of the world problem of too much; Jessi Arrington discusses the importance of reusing and Graham Hill expresses his thoughts on need versus wants. While Jessi Arrington’s colorful enthusiasm is engaging, Graham Hill brings a
My family replaced all of our lights with Eco friendly lights, and we replaced all of our shower heads with shower heads that reduce the amount of water
Q1. Explain the differences between the private sector, the public sector and the voluntary sector. (1.1) (A) Public sector The public sector is made up of organisations that are owned and ran by the government. They provide services to people which include educational bodies, health care bodies, police and prison services, and local and government bodies and their departments.
My friend and I sprint through the woods, glancing worriedly at the clouds above threatening to begin a downpour at any minute. Although we run as fast as we can, we are weighed down by the amount of sticks and firewood we hold, needing to stop frequently to adjust my raincoat, which is covering the wood from the light drizzle that has already begun. Once we get back to our cabin at Camp Hayward, we stash the wood underneath, marveling the growing piles of sticks girls all around the camp are collecting in preparation for the next day. Every session the camp offers has a unique activity, but we all know that session four has the best one: a two day color war, with the last day consisting of fire games. Four girls from each team get selected to be fire tenders, and everyone on camp, including myself, was almost certain that I would be one of them.
Growing up I did not have one single environment like most people did, I was constantly facing new situations and meeting new people. However, there is one environment in my life unlike any other children of my age experienced or ever would, and that is spending most of their childhood at a flea market. I was born in South Texas and raised by a single mother and my grandmother. My family is very small due to the fact the rest of my family lives in a different country, Mexico.
1.3 explain how to use resources effectively and efficiently Without effective resources an organisation wouldn’t be able to do the job effectively for example, in my organisation we need to have care assistance to care for every individual which in turn need to be trained to do the job correctly, if we didn’t have a resource in place to cover the training needs we wouldn’t be able to function and care for our service users, this also means we need to have a budget of what we can spend on training, staff are also an important resource as we need to make sure we have enough employees to cover each shifts. There are many ways to use resources efficiently and to minimise and adverse impact on the environment. These include how we organise work activities and the use of resources efficiently understanding their impact on the environment, and finding ways to reduce their negative, and increase their positive impact. For example, by being mindful of waste and extravagance by recycling waste materials, by reusing packaging materials, by using double-sided printing
