Prenominal Water, is your glass half full or 28 glasses?

Virtual water is the concept of adding up all the water required in order to make or create a product. It shows that things that are grown in Victoria or Australia, which has allot less water than other states or countries. Use allot more as a percentage of the available water to grow products compared to countries such as china that has allot more water and rainfall. Virtual water affects us allot more and it shows just how much is required to grow and farm food. In order to have a cup of coffee it requires over 140 litres of water, with most people having at least 1 cup of coffee a day this means that the average estimate for peoples virtual water usage is already above Victoria's "Target 155".

Catching a Detox

Whilst playing the simulated catchment game i found that one of the best decisions i made was to not have large amounts of industries or factories. The trick i learnt was just to have resorts and agriculture so that the community could live by the beach and be fed by food sources further inland. I realized that it was an unreliable source of income to log native forests as it took far too long (15 turns) for them to grow back. Instead i found it much more cost affective to farm vegetables. Except they slowly decreased the fertility of the soil for some reason. :s It had lots of sheep and national parks with a few pieces of industry, the ultimate catchment seemed rather simple as opposed to all the over thinking i think id been doing.The most important aspect of a river catchment is the environment then the economy then followed by tourism.
See without a stable environment then a good economy would not be able to begin because wed all be dead! Besides with a good economy and environment then you are sure to get a level of tourism without even trying any harder!

Bear foot or chucks?

Everyone has different sized footprints depending on how much we use, those of us that eat more meat will affect the earth more as it required much more carbon in order to keep them alive. The travel of the meat is more as its harder to farm things closer to the city, leading to more foodmiles.

however if you still eat large amounts of dairy it can affect your footprint almost as much as meat. Some animals produce more carbon than others, such as cows. Cows have two stomaches each which makes them fart more, cows don't help make the earth sustainable.
Travel is a major factor in a carbon footprint, as both what forms of transport you use and how often you use them. Public transport of cause, causes a lot less carbon emissions but still some and the " its going there anyway" theory only exists because of us in the first place!
Its up to us to decide the future of our footprints, whether it will be a chuck or a ballerina's shoe.

Truthfully An Inconvenient Film

Al Gore was trying to help rectify people’s misguided understandings of global warming.
So that people no longer believe in skeptical scientists and understand the facts and evidence that proves climate change.
The Slide show was very convincing and made me feel like immediate action was and is required. Seeing as no such action has been taken, in the past 3 years; this made me feel even more worried towards the choices made by political leaders and by us as individuals.
Personally, I really like the photo comparison shots; such as Mount Kilimanjaro, I think they gave a real time perspective to climate change and of melting glacier. The before and after shot style although trivial sounding were very overwhelming considering the circumstances.
The affect of climate change upon animals, both direct and changes that ripple through the food chain to other animals or insects.
I think that global warming could be partially solved with some reflective surfaces in order repel the sun’s rays away from the polar ice caps. This would then reduce that 90% of heat being absorbed by the water and decrease it to only 10%. However without the global action of everybody then the whole world including its animals will perish in a burning wreck until we reach either nuclear winter or the next ice age.

The Perils of Organic.

Organic food has been called many things of late:

• Delicious
• Natural
• Healthier
• Sustainable

Yes most of these things are true but not all of them
Not only is organic food often at least twice the price of regular food.
There is definitely a flavor difference but it is still minimal in comparison to the outrageous price that you will be forced to pay for organic food.
Not to mention that organic food cannot be used to help make earth sustainable.

• It takes too long to grow
• Too much money to buy

• and too much of it has to be thrown away because of infections caused by the lack of pesticides.:(

Ceres=Money:(

Change from a sausage roll?:(

Ceres has changed so much

When i was 5 i was apart of the chook group:
Every second friday i used to go and put away the chickens so they didnt get eaten by the foxes:)But now

In order to buy a sausage roll it costs nearly $5
Bad hippys:(
Hippys should be about helping each other
not just ripping one another off:(
RATHER THAN THROWING OUR MONEY DOWN THEIR COMPOSTING TOILETS!
Surely there would be able to get money by selling their algae or something?
i was very disaponted at ceres

:(:(:(:(
The convent and collingwood childrens farm is so much better!

we should go and eat all we want:)
And pay what we want
NOT, WHAT THEY WANT!

Task 1

Sustainability is a concept, new in rational existance, from the major impacts of climate change.
In order for something to be sustainable it must be able to run itself without any outside resources and to recyle all resources in order to live theoretically forever.

The Lorax

The Lorax is an allegory for the way in which capitalism and greed manipulates and mistreats the environment. The lorax himself is an advocate for the trees and the wildlife that live in the town; He “Speaks for the trees for the trees have no tongue” as he refers to it in the movie. The movie shows pollution and logging as the two major aspects affected by the greed of the onceler, whose name obviously represents the concept of one cycle or one use. The themes are very relevant in today’s society as today the problems are just as bad and are exacerbating fast with global development speeding up. Without quick action these problems are going to get much worse. Although there was no economical way for the onceler to make “Thneeds”, it still needed to be dealt with at least with re planting.