Reflection: Weeks 3-4

Hey Everyone! I cant believe that another two weeks has come and gone.....in weeks 3 and 4 I have become alot more comfortable with bloggging and I have learned a lot about global warming through the video we have been watching.

Week 3:
During week 3 we had a couple of reading from our book due. One was Outlooks: Readings for Environmental Literacy, chapter 1, The Challenges We Face and chapter 27, Seeing Green: Knowing and Saving the Environment on Film. Chapter one was pretty much a summary of the environment some topics mentioned were food, climate & energy, health, etc. It was a good chapter just to get some background knowledge on all those different topics. Chapter 27 talked about environmental films and how everything that is taped/filmed in the environment may not be exactly real. Some include powerful messages that are true about the environment and others contain different visions on what the environment truly is. I thought that both readings were very interesting and I learned that not everything is what it seems even if its something as real as the environment.

Week 4:
During this we we spent our time watching and finishing the film "An Inconvenient Truth" by Al Gore. When we first started watching the documentary I wasnt very interested. But as we got further into the documentary I was shocked by the facts on global warming. I mean I knew that there was a problem relating to global warming but I had really no idea on what scale. It was such an eye opener for me to see just how much we have to do inorder to save the earth. By the end of the documentary I was so much more aware of global warming and what we as a planet can do to stop it from stirring into a much bigger problem.

Overall, I retained a lot of useful information over these past couple of weeks. Especially by watching the documentary! I also am finally starting to pick up this whole blogging thing!!! Who would have thought! sorry to anyone who is having trouble following my blog...somehow I managed to create 2 when I didnt even know how to create1!!