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Hello there, my name is Danielle Larrazaleta, and I'm currently majoring in psychology, my home campus is the medical campus, and this is my second year attending college. My favorite foods are mainly savory such as fettuccine alfredo, homemade mac, and cheese, or some homemade Brazilian stroganoff. My hobbies are drawing, playing video games when I get the time, jewelry and keychain making, and some DIYs. I'm passionate about the hobbies I listed as well as dressing up, it's fun to see what goes together and what you can decorate yourself in, what got me interested is mainly the creativity aspect of it as you can make/create whatever you want, the sky is the limit. My main goal is to hopefully get a master's degree or Ph.D. in psychology so that I can pursue a career in psychology, though it is all new to me so there will be some changes here and there. I become the proudest of myself when I help someone or finish an artwork as it makes me extremely happy on the inside and just makes me feel full. The most important thing to me is my close friend, sister, and partner as without them I wouldn't be the person that I am today.

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While I never experienced having knocked on my door by someone trying to buy my home. But as someone who lives in Miami Beach, it just makes me sad as a good majority of people who live are people who struggle trying to live because of not only the harsh weather and floods that happen like a regular Tuesday. But also with the rent that just continues to increase with no stop in sight. Or the hurricanes that come in like Irma, even though I lived on Miami beach all my life I felt much safer being away from the beach which my family did at one point, but the rent was very high so we had to move to a cheaper apartment which was closer to the beach. It is ridiculous as I knew so many people who could not afford to live in Miami Beach have to move somewhere else that's just as dangerous as living here or to a different state entirely, while the companies just continue making big towers that are extremely close the beach which makes living here, going anywhere without traffic, or living here peacefully hell on earth

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The video that caught my interest in The Story of Stuff is called "Solving Plastic: Designing Plastic Out of Household Products ft. Blueland" produced by Miguel Astudillo and written by Sage Lenier, Miguel Astudillo, Sam Pearse, Michael O’Heaney. The video is about how a Blueland company designed a cleaning product without the use of plastic, as a lot of cleaning products are usually in a plastic container that keeps the liquid in but the container causes a lot of waste from creating the container to throwing it away. What I realize is that most of the cleaning products are mainly water with some diluted solution, which shocked me but is also a rip-off as you're paying for water with some solution in it. The company created a product where the solution tablet is dehydrated, meaning you just need to add water, which eliminates buying and throwing away the plastic bottle, reusing the bottles you have at home, and is cheaper as you're buying the solution itself. It spoke to me as the issue where are facing today is single-use plastic and how much waste it produces, ever since it was created it's almost impossible to get rid of them or to think of a world without them, but it is possible from companies creating ways to lessen the waste, and those ways are mainly old ways such as dry tablets, bringing your bags or bottles, etc. I hope there are ways of solving other single-used plastics as cleaning products is not the only one.

Source: https://www.storyofstuff.org/movies/designing-plastic-out/

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The topic I choose is Chemical and waste, the reason why I choose this topic is the more we are going to keep using dangerous chemicals the more we, more specifically the companies need to find a safer way to dispose of these chemicals. Most of the time they just dump it whenever in developing countries where they can't fight these multi-million companies. They dump with little to no regard for the environment and the people who will come into contact with these dangerous chemicals which will cause problems later down the line.

Source: https://sdgs.un.org/topics/chemicals-and-waste

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A guide to the energy of the Earth - Joshua M. Sneideman

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Which sunscreen should you choose? - Mary Poffenroth

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Before the start of the course, I thought it will be the usual boring and hard science course, learning from not interesting PowerPoint, reading from the book with too much information to understand, and boring assignments that are hard to understand. But this class took me by surprise, it was interesting, and fun to learn about, and most importantly I learned and understand a couple of new things that were not from boring PowerPoint or reading a wall of paragraphs in a textbook.

I enjoyed this class from a learning aspect, as we get to watch videos on environmental issues of all kinds, global warming, different types of energy and why coal is still being used for energy, how plastic is harming the environment, how global warming is affecting housing, and many more. I learned a lot more than I thought as I thought we'll just cover global warming and that is it, but no we cover a lot more than that even learning about the things that global warming affects that I didn't know about.

I also liked how we get to build our padlet portfolio as it helped me remember the information that I wrote down, things that I learned about if I need a refresh, and my progress/confidence levels of writing certain topics. It's nice that I can keep the information long after this class is over as they're useful and important information. While I'm not a fan of presenting in class, I don't mind it as I know it'll help me be more comfortable presenting in the future and there is no way to avoid that so might as well just get it over with rather than avoiding it.

The last thing is that I like how we are doing different things in each class time, it's not the same thing all the time such as different topics for videos than writing what we learn/what we think, researching about something, and then writing about it, doing short quizzes, group quizzes which I never experienced before. And what I appreciate is there is no homework as we do plenty of classwork as it is, making it not necessary for any homework. And the classwork helps to grab my attention and focus rather than just listening and getting distracted.

Overall, I felt I learned a lot from this class about the environment, the assignments helped me understand why we still have certain issues in environmental aspects, and how the things we do can harm the environment. It is something that I missed from science which is the joy of learning something and writing about it. And it changed me as again I learned a lot and will be more aware of the consequences of my action, and just being aware in general of what I support, what I buy, etc.

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How noise pollution is ruining your hearing

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How noise pollution is ruining your hearing

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What I learned is how damaging constant loud noises are and the little to no effort the government is doing to solve it as it seems not important to them. I also didn't know that the hair in your ears is like grass, it'll bounce back after breaks of loud noises, but too much will lead it to break and die. As someone who lives in the city, noise and loud one are a constant, so much so that it affects me badly where I would get headaches, nausea, and just not do well until reaching home, it comes to a point where I would walk around with headphones not plugged in just to lessen the noise or not even go out at all due to the noise. It would have been interesting if the video mention the physical and emotional affect of constant loud noise, as it can take a toll on you such as making you feel grouchy/groggy, quick to anger, nausea, fatigue, headaches, and many more from my experience. Everyone should have the right to peace and quiet and it shouldn't be a privilege in this day of age.

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How noise pollution is ruining your hearing

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Can Sea Water Desalination Save The World?

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Can Sea Water Desalination Save The World?

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Desalination of ocean water is a solution to provide fresh water to places of dry lands or places that struggle to get fresh water, as there is a lot of salt water when compared to fresh water, fresh water is usually in glaciers or underground which not all places have an easy time trying to access that fresh water. It also provides dry areas or places with contaminated fresh water a chance to produce their fresh water from desalination without relying on imported water from other areas as it can cause problems if anything happens to the place where they're relying on it. Because of that desalination provides stability as it is a stable and known process. It won't fix our water issue entirely as we still need to search for more solutions for it, but it does give places that struggle to get fresh water stability of getting their water without relying on others, even if it just for a bit

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How Will Chemicals and Waste Impact Climate Change?

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How Will Chemicals and Waste Impact Climate Change?

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Chemical and Waste is impacted by climate change due to numerous reasons, it contributes to greenhouse gases from the decay of the waste and the creation of it when it was an item. Chemicals when it's dumped out without care can harm the environment and the people who consume from the environment, drink the polluted waters or just breathe in the chemicals and waste. Not to mention man-made chemicals such as hydrofluorocarbons, chlorofluorocarbons, and more that help aid in the acceleration of global warming, as they hold onto heat and stick around for thousands of years longer and do more harm than carbon dioxide can. But despite that, carbon dioxide still plays a large role in global warming as much as 64% from waste and fossil fuel burning. With global warming on the rise, the chemical and waste problem will only get worse if nothing is done to make the change

The reason why I selected this topic is that we are using more and more dangerous chemicals and throwing waste away without realizing the outcome of it, we have become numb to the idea of it whereas a lot of people don't think twice about using chemicals that aren't needed in the first place, or throwing away trash/waste anywhere without thinking about the harms of doing it. And waste and chemicals have a greater impact on accelerating global warming than any other things

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An area of the Earth's mantle from which hot plumes rise upward, forming chains of volcanos on the overlaying crust. Examples of this are Hawaii, Iceland, and Yellowstone hotspots

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The migration of the magnetic poles over the Earth's surface through geologic time, caused by the continental drift which drags the poles along as the continents move around on the planet's surface

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The Law of Reflection that states the incident ray, the reflected ray and the normal to the surface of the mirror all lie in the same place. The angle of reflection is equal to the angle of incidence, both angles are measured with respect to the normal to the mirror

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The Electromagnetic Spectrum is the range of wavelengths or frequencies over which electromagnetic radiation extends to. It includes ll types of radiation that has both electric and magnetic fields that travel in waves

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How do wind turbines work? - Rebecca J. Barthelmie and Sara C. Pryor

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The 4 greatest threats to the survival of humanity

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The 4 greatest threats to the survival of humanity

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The 4 greatest threats to the survival of humanity

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It is very eerie that the risks that can cause our extinction are directly from human action, minus a giant asteroid that can wipe us all out but that is extremely unlikely than the likely scenario that we will be our downfall. AI surprised me but it shouldn't be as they can easily replace us and depending on how they align they can wipe us out as we're seen as "the worst version of them". It does scare me that I have to trust other folks who are sometimes in power unfortunately who are so quick to throw everyone other the bus for greed, power, or just wanting to see the world burn.

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The smallest solution to one of our biggest problems - Tierney Thys & Christian Sardet

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The smallest solution to one of our biggest problems - Tierney Thys & Christian Sardet

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What shocked me is the amount of plastic produced each year, which is 400 million plastic. It is already bad enough and the number will go higher and will contribute to the plastic problem as it doesn't break down. Plastics from the 1950s will still be there today, they're just so small that we can't see them anymore. The other problem is that most of the plastic either gets discarded as trash (80%), gets incinerated (60%), leaks into the environment, or sometimes dumps in it (30%), and very rarely get recycled (10%). Not to mention that there are an estimated 10 million tons of plastic that end up in the ocean each year, which not only affect the animals in the water but also the people who live by it and eat it. I'm glad that there is a microorganism that can eat some types of plastic to help us along the way, but in the end, it is our problem and we should be the ones to clean up and fix this mess we made decades ago

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The smallest solution to one of our biggest problems - Tierney Thys & Christian Sardet

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I believe wind energy would be a bit useful here in Florida, but I can imagine why Florida has no wind farm as our wind is more random, most of the time there's very little wind. The most wind we get is during hurricane seasons or in fall which is tied to hurricane season. So I would imagine why companies never put wind farms here as we benefit more from solar energy due to the amount of sun we get daily.

https://cleanenergy.org/blog/wind-power-in-the-sunshine-state/

https://www.kurz.com/wind-farms-south

https://floridaphoenix.com/2021/10/21/talk-of-putting-wind-turbines-off-florida-is-little-more-than-a-lot-of-hot-air/

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How much land does it take to power the world?

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How much land does it take to power the world?

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How much land does it take to power the world?

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The reason why fossil fuel is used a lot is that they produce a lot of energy and can do so in small space, they can produce up to 2000 watts per square meter, and is cheaper to build. Even though you need to buy more fuel to produce more energy, it isn't relying on other factors such as the amount of wind or sun needed such as with other energy sources. That's why they are a popular option to produce a lot of energy, despite the big drawback for the environment.

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How do we as consumers reduce the amount of waste we produce daily?

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How do we as consumers reduce the amount of waste we produce daily?

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What I would like to research about is how we as consumers can limit or reduce the amount of waste we produce daily, the reason why I want to research it as my topic has to do with waste and chemicals, and one big problem with it is how companies or sometimes us the consumers waste items and just throw them out wherever without a care in the world. Even though the main fault is the company, we the consumers play a part in this waste and chemical problem so it is important to step up and clean up our part. I'll mainly be researching what to do, what not to do, the truth, and what we as consumers can do at the end of the day.

https://www.dumpsters.com/blog/us-trash-production

https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-states/delaware/stories-in-delaware/delaware-eight-ways-to-reduce-waste/

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The video I decided to watch is How Green is Solar Energy Really? This is a very interesting video as it shows the truth about how even one of the green options can be wasteful, produce emissions, and can do harm to the Earth. What surprised me is how wasteful it is once the solar panel dies as by 2050 it is expected to be 78000000 million metric tons, which is extremely a lot where it can create 200 empire state buildings with just solar panels, and what's scary is the thought of will we have a way to recycle them before 2050? As even though solar panels are recyclable, it is costly, not a lot of company do it, and it's just easier to throw them out unfortunately.

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Can 100% renewable energy power the world? - Federico Rosei and Renzo Rosei

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Can 100% renewable energy power the world? - Federico Rosei and Renzo Rosei

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Can 100% renewable energy power the world? - Federico Rosei and Renzo Rosei