journal 3

Walking the trails brought me back to when I was growing up in Illinois where I was such a outdoors man I never left home without my pocket knife. While growing up in Illinois as a young man my family was all about getting out in the wilderness and hiking trails. My uncle who owns 40 acres of wildlife refuge in central Illinois has five different trails that run through his woods. As we walked in the woods that is all that I kept thinking of. I even thought that as a kid I would have been going from tree to tree in that bad boy because thats what we used to do in Illinois, no joke, I would start at the top of one side of the tree line and boom scurry across the the canopies and be on the other side of the woods before you knew it. This trip I think has regenerated my love for the woods and all that was going through my mind was that I wanted to walk along the Appalachian Trail one day and walk in Yosemite National Forrest. I love our nature on campus and am proud of how beautiful it is and I know that whenever I come back to this campus later in life I can always be proud of how it is in a sense more natural.

Journal 2

The neighborhood I live in is not especially something you could label as green design. I live in a pretty crappy area of San Carlos where it is pretty low class. If by green design you mean they did not rip up the ground to install sewage and city water then I am in the heart of the the green movement. And I guess one could say the community is green because the same people walk up and down the street all day. Given the fact that the cops frequently stop and search these individuals throughout the day leads me to believe the are selling drugs. So in essence one could say that in my community the drug dealers are going green by not cruising in their cars selling their product. As far as the wildlife in the neighborhood I have never seen a wild animal. The closest thing that I have to wildlife is the empty lot across the street that has never been developed that is home to about twenty cats. This actually blew my mind because I didn't think cat's colonized like that I thought they where more antisocial. When I leave and drive to my old neighbor hood I feel like I am at at one with nature due to the natural preserve in the back of the gated complex. Here I love to fish all day long and be one with nature which is a nice break from my new environment.

journal 1

As a student attending Florida Gulf Coast University I am required to take a class that specializes in maintaining the natural habitats on earth and especially in south Florida. At first I thought this was just another scheme to get a dollar out of the student because I had no idea what we would be doing in this class that would benefit me. After speaking to a few of my friends they told me that this class was all about global warming and all that rhetoric. This kind of got me feeling uneasy because I can't stand that subject, my belief is yes we need to clean up our earth but we cannot stop a process such as glaciers melting. Science has proven that there have been times when the earth was covered by oceans, how did this occur? Did the dinosaur's not have the right governors on their S.U.V.'s, I mean come on.I heard a scientist say that when a volcano erupts the greenhouse gas emitted is more pollutant then all the vehicles on earth has ever emitted. So being in opposition to what this class will be teaching us I do not have a closed mind because in order to strengthen my argument on global warming I find it necessary to fully understand the other sides point of view, this give me a tactical advantages when debating.