Share and Voice: Australia to create world's largest marine reserve

For my last Share and Voice I decided to look up an article. I found an article on CNN.com that was called "Australia to create world's largest marine reserve."

The Australian government has made plans to establish the world's largest protected marine in the Coral Sea. I think that this is huge. You hear everyday how we are polluting our waters and how coral reefs around the world are gradually getting smaller and smaller. Something has to be done to preserve these reefs because they are home to such a vast array of different species and creatures. The diversity that you can find in an area like the Coral Sea and other coral reefs is like nothing you can find anywhere else. That's why I am 100% behind this plan to preserve it. We need to start protecting our environment otherwise we are going to end up with nothing.

This article was a bit short but I feel like it really got the point across that it wanted to. I was excited to see this because this shows that in some areas of the world there are people actually making an effort to protect and preserve the environment.

Share & Voice:

For this Share and Voice I decided to do a youtube video on pesticides since that is what my advocacy project is on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McfARs9PnbM

Share and Voice: Organic Agriculture Conference

It took a bit of looking but I found this really neat event that would be cool to see. It's not in the Duluth area but it is still pretty close.  Here is the information about the event:

Organic Agriculture Conference
When: Dec 5 – 6, 2011
Where Sioux Falls, SD
Description: You all are invited to a conference for organic agriculture to be held on Dec. 5 & 6 at the Ramkota Hotel in Sioux Falls. Attached is an agenda for the conference. The conference has a bit of a theme towards adding value to farm products. Some of the presenters include: Bob Quinn - producer and marketer of specialty wheat in Montana Chris Blanchard – runs a diverse vegetable and herb farm in Iowa Kim Odden - on-farm processing of oilseeds for feed and fuel Glen Cauffman - evaluation of veg. oil for fuel at Penn State University Stevan Knezevic - flame weeding in field crops at University of Nebraska

I found the information about this event on Sustainable Farming Association website.

Share & Voice: Environmental Justice

I was looking at this Environmental Justice website and I think that it's really neat. It contains a lot of information on what is being done to help the environment. I really like how they talk about the need for everyone to get involved. There are a whole bunch of links that you can visit on the website that talk about all the various things that they are doing and have done to help the environment. This website just has a ton of information on it that you can look at. You can even look at what is being done in our area. Like in how Minnesota is communicating with Environmental Justice issues on a regular basis. This website has numerous links on it which all contain lots of information on them

One of the links that I looked at on this website was "Plan EJ 2014" which is all about how environmental justice is going to be integrated in the EPA's programs, policies, and activities. This will hopefully advance environmental justice in the EPA and also the federal government as well. I think this is a really good idea to get some of the major companies and people involved in helping out.

I think that this would be a good website for the class to check out because not only does it contain information on what we are doing on a national level to help in the environment but there are also links so that you can see what is going on in your state and your area.

Welcome to Observing Scenery with Sam

Hey Everyone! My name is Samantha Stewart and I'm a senior here at UMD. Just to tell you a little bit about myself, I am from a large family and I'm a very open and chatty person. I enjoy meeting new people, making new friends and trying new things. I haven't spent a lot of time thinking about what my blog is going to be about but I am into nutrition so I think that I will be tying that into my posts quite often. I plan to some posts that discuss ways that you can eat healthy that both benefit you and the environment.

There are 5 possible types of posts on my blog. They include:

1.  Advocacy Project
2.  Eye Openers
3.  Reflections
4.  Read 'n' Seed
5.  Share and Voice

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