Well apparently I consume about 13.7 earths if everyone lived like me and that was with me lying about consumption so I guess, watch Haiti here we come lol. No, seriously these things are absurd to me I can't believe those results, what does this test want a African who is starving to and takes public transportation like it's going out of style. That's insane, I would like to shake the mans hand who only needs one earth because according to that he is a much better man then me, about 13.7 times better to be precise. So I dunno it makes me think about being more conscience about trash and stuff but just because my car isn't fuel efficient and the bank wont loan money I guess I should depend on the county bus to get me there. That's not being a responsible worker. Of course we all want green things because bottom line their performance costs less to attain then old outdated models. I not changing anything I'm riding this bad boy out for what is worth and i will let the lord be my judge on if I was green enough for his planet.

Food Evaluation

Food intake for one day 3-16-2010

2:30 am - fried chicken from 7-Eleven and taco taquitos- cardboard/paper container used approximately 20-30 plastic ketchup and mayonaise package.

5:00 am - threw up no liqour or anything but chicken and taquitos causing me to run and waste a bunch of water cleaning it up quite eerie might I add

5:15-11:30 am -ten bottles of water

12:30 pm - pizza puff from corner gas station and soda- wax plastic paper and 44 oz styrafoam cup directly in trash

6:00 - 10:00 pm - drinking my dinner -a lime, tequila, rum, plastic 24oz coke, and three tall man jones 16 oz beers in metal cans.

Evaluation: For the amount of exercise put out in a day by me I might say I am over eating but I do nothing so I require very little fuel. For instance you can keep filling up your gas tank just so that is is always full but all your doing is increasing the cars weight which actually decreases the performance in M.P.G. My options really this day was to maybe to use used beer cans, empty coke, and styrafoam for all my water intake the next day. That being said I can't drink my tap water where I live so I would have been not saving anything because I would have opened a bottled water and poured it into a empty beer which is just insane on many levels. On my liquor I go sustainable because I buy in bulk leaving me really never killing a bottle due just volume which is keeping our landfills cleaner.

Estero Bay

This field trip was quite unique in that it was so informational plus I think I will try it as a new fishing spot. In the most simplest terms if the the Caloosa Indians lived there, then the fishing is unbelievable more then likely. By this I mean they were a society based on the sea for their food so the fact they could have moved up and down the coast of florida and choose that island tells me that those indians knew what time it was and it would be stupid to go fishing somewhere else. Also it was interesting how the land was acquired through the 20/20 program because that is something in itself that is really special. I quoited Warren Buffet before and I will again when he says, " business is in business for business." If we want to take land away from big corp then we need to speak their language in dollars not sense. In St. Petersburg, Florida, I live next to a historical park called, Heritage Village. There you can go on a tour of the grounds and experience old Florida living. I believe it is important to keep up with our past because if anything it keeps us from hopefully making the same mistakes.

Water

I see water as a natural resource, the same as oil. If a person is allowed to take oil from a area why can't they take water. Wouldn't, Zephyerhills, whom divert water that floats to the surface in the form of natural springs, bottle it and sell it for profit be guilty of the same accusations made in the article. Now just because T. Boone Pickens is in Texas where the aquafer is deeper and therefore prob requires drilling for a well does that differentiate him from Zephyrhills who actually are able to cut costs because nature brings the water to the surface. I saw a documentary on the history of drinking water and it was nuts. People have been drinking bottled water for hundreds of years and that is becasue until the early nineteen hundreds chlorine the chemical in the liquid form was just developed. This gave the ability to purify water running through city pipes for citizens for drinking purposes. Before this people depended the well itself to filter the water which was perfected by the romans thousands of years ago. When studying the dark ages in school they always said this is when people forgot about writing and literature and the thing the never mentioned is people forgot the technology from the romans on how to properly construct wells using sand as a filter. So in the dark ages when kings ran enclosed towns the people living on top of each other developed disease and contaminated the water. So this lead to making beer a every meal requirement because the alcohol in the beer actually kills disease. The lowest peasants were relegated to drinking water and it was seen as a symbol of low status to drink water because one could got sick from it. So for us to pick and choose who can rape and pillage our natural resources seems a bit too much for me.

Food

In the movie "Future of Food," it discussed and showed how we as humans have been genetically altering plants for the last thirty years from a point of view skewed towards it's negative affects. This is just insane to me, as a dork who watches educational learning constantly, I really would have to say humans have been on a quest to alter plants and to preserve food ever since the first one was born. Corn is a gift to us from our ancestors of Mexico who carefully selected certain phenotypes with special characteristics from their fields and through cross breeding of these already different specimens they were able to create hybrid plants that we recognize as corn today. Corn's lineage is one that began at the hands of man, and now this movie is going to say we can't genetically alter something that was genetically altered a thousand years ago. That's ignorant and a ill prepared argument. The mass population might not know the facts I just laid out, but I do, and anyone else can that wants to find out if I am full of it can look it up themselves via Google. I just can't stand someone who's an idiot and can't realize their house is glass but keeps throwing stones. What are they the police of plant genetics? Do they realize that one kernel of corn is broken down into seven different substances that all are used in everyday life and more then likely found in the very same medium used to broadcast their messages of ignorance. Yes, steroids, in livestock has had negative effects on society's health. But where do we win, do we not have humongous animals for the fact we get more meat cheaper and more people can eat if it is cheaper. So do we have hungry people who can't afford good food or do we relatively safe food and no one hungry. Catch - 22, pick your poison type deal.

Parent of corn teosinte

Echo

When taking the field trip to ECHO and learning about how significantly that little facility has been able to affect lives across the world was amazing. The fun started immediately when I stepped off the bus because I saw the pond. Being a angler, I could identify bass slamming things on top of the water and all were of good size. This was worth the drive from the get go. Then learning how third world culture's dehydrate food and create their own fuel source from animal compost were quite amazing. Living in the states we take for granted the idea of running water. Hell, on campus we have some of the most cleanest water in the area delivered through our water faucet and we all drink bottled water. But I don't feel guilty because America is not the only one doing this, thats why these are called third world countries. When a nation reaches a certain point of prosperity its population takes things for granted and this happens in nature too. A true example of this on the most simplest terms are these bait fish called grunts, or better known as "snook candy." In Ft. Myers if you can catch a grunt you are guaranteed a snook down here because they can't resist them due to grunt scarcity here. In, St. Pete, they give them to you when you buy bait fish and thats because they're so plentiful it doesn't mean crap to snook. This being said no way in hell, if the snook could speak, would Ft. Myers snook start crying and complaining about how St. Pete snook are glutenous and start a movement because they take grunts for granted, no they would swim their ass up to St. Pete and eat some grunts! Animals are migratory unless they are able to manipulate the environment for their sustainability.