Unit 2: Terrestrial systems, soils and food

Hi Folks,

Here is a website for finding the Nutrition Facts. Remember, journaling your food is NOT about dieting, rather about finding our ecological impact.

Here are some good resources for waste stuff:

No Impact Man.

New York writer who decided to stop doing anything that caused a environmental footprint.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fITT6rVPds

** These are regular citizens who decided to do this, its not staged.

On a similar note these there's a project from 3 room mates in Canada who decided to stop buying anything that created waste for year. 

The project is called: The Clean Bin Project

    * They created in a year the amount a waste we create in a day!

    "But what I can say is that as a household of three adults we produced about 12 pounds (5.4kg) of garbage during our year."

Project Blog:

http://cleanbinproject.com/2009/07/05/wrap-up-results/

Documentary Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm_Sr3YJjBM

** These are regular citizens who decided to do this, its not staged. 

The Recycle Bank: they are encouraging citizens to recycle by provided a point reward system. Pretty cool.

https://www.recyclebank.com/

Also, TerraCycle is a great example of a company who creates products with our waste.

http://www.terracycle.net/

And a more technology project is one by MIT Trash Track Visualizing were does trash go by putting a tag on it: 

http://senseable.mit.edu/trashtrack/

CLASS NOTES:

Mr. Anderson's soil lesson:

Mr. Anderson's lesson on Solid Waste:

Mr. Anderson's lesson on Health Impacts of Pollution:

Home Energy Audit Google files:

• Overview

• Spreadsheet