Environmental Accords

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Summary: These are the laws of the land. Literally! To preserve our planet cities, urban areas and most importantly urban villages must follow. The Environmental Accords include things like preservation of natural space, use of local grown foods and water uses cuts. Even we have to consider their importance. So lets get right into how we used these.


S&EP; Conducting Explanations and Designing Solutions:
     The environmental accords are all something to consider when designing an area. During our Urban Village project we were assigned the task of designing a village that also includes these accords. For example in our urban village we will use natural lighting to conserve energy. If we really looked deep enough we could probably get a system to make our pool eco friendly to conserve water. When designing we just had to look beyond the accord by applying it to our village.

XCC: Cause and Effect: As I talked about in my last blog we all have and effect on our environment. Its like the butterfly effect. Lets just say you decide to not throw away some trash this morning. Well that trash can be eaten by a bird. That bird could easily die knocking the food chain unbalanced. Now since that bird is not eating the bugs the bugs can start reproducing more. Then the bugs need room to live and they start eating our crops. Then over a course of a long time we all dont have any food because you decided not to throw your trash away. Just be careful every choice matters. Make wise ones.

Human Effect

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Summary:Deforestation. Mining, Overfishing, and ,Global warming. These are all examples of things Humans do to hurt our environment.  Every choice we make can either deteriorate our world or help sustain it. For example, using air filters or properly disposing our waste is positive. I have also seen how cutting down trees, using fossil fuel, creating more factories, are bad for the environment. Lets explore more examples of  this Human effect.

S&EP: Asking Questions Defining Problems. How hard could it be to sustain a society? I mean you just build homes a few farms, a power plant and you're golden. Well... not exactly. Believe me I would know I played a game this week all about Human Sustainability for 17 minutes straight. I didn't even win. You may feel like you could last a while but really there are so many factors to keep in mind. Every building every action you make has some positive or negative effect on the environment. If you build a cattle ranch its causes greenhouse gases, water depletion, and loss of species  in that existing area. Nothing is easy.

XCC: Stability and Change: As we have been talking about any decision that may seem small may have a world of difference. For example if you cut down that big oak tree on your front lawn it could cause many things. One it can heat up the are around it making the ground and even the over all air quality warmer. This can lead to more use for air conditioning during summer times. Which then causes more energy use for your house hold. On another perspective it can harm the insects and organisms in your grass. They could start dying off because of the heat. This means the food chain is now imbalanced and the grass begins to die as well as the organisms. Just becasue you decided to cut down that oak tree all of this happened. That's the Human effect.

The ph Scale

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Summary: You're trapped in a room and a cloaked figure is giving you 3 jars. One jar is filled with an acid that will burn right through you! Another is filled with a base liquid that with a sip you will be as good as gone. Then of course one is filled with a neutral that will let you go home free and alive. So which one do you pick? Well luckily I have my ph meter always with me... but I don't know how to use it. Well not until this week's science class! There are clear differences when using a ph scale. The left side of our scale is our acids. These come in colors from red the most deadly to dark pink.  Then we have the the very middle a ph of 7 this is our lucky neutral our salvation in this case which is usually in some form of purple. Then on the far right we got our bases. These come in a range from blue to yellow. Now let's see if we can survive this crazy dilemma.

S&EP; Analyzing Data: Now we have used our ph meter on each of the three test tubes. The ph scale identifies 3 colors. We have in the first tube a dark green color.  Lets start there. Since we know the right side of the scale is bases and the left is acids we need to remember the colors connected. Well do you remember that the bases are from the range of blue to yellow. Well if we refer to the image above we can see that this vial is not for drinking. Ok 1 down 2 to go. You see we did processes like this this entire week except we were  not risking our lives more so our grades.

XCC; Stability and Change: Stability. We all want that right. Something to depend on to feel complete. Well atoms are just the same. That why we have acids and bases. Acids can help give to your needy atom to become complete. Then we have our bases that get your greedy atoms that got one too many to ease up their load and be complete. See its easy as pie. Don't try to put acids and base in your pie they will not make that complete!