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This is a picture of a fossil found by a riverbank near my house, and this connects to apes because it shows how despite being millions of years old it was trapped in the layered sedimentary rock and when the forces of nature such as the river initiated in eroding the riverbanks and sediments into smaller pieces the old fossil started to show as well. This fossil could have been damaged or fractured but the layers of sediments acted like protection and preserved the fossil to its highest extent. Thus we can see that how the earths forces preserve and present the past to us.

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This is a blow dryer located at the Mcdonalds at spring green. I took a picture of this because more and more  restaurants are adopting the dryer instead of paper towels in turn saving large amounts of paper towels which come from trees. Therefor as large amounts of paper towels are being saved it ends up saving trees in the long run. In the future everywhere will replace paper towels with blow dryers helping to better the environment and reduce the amount of things that lead to the decreasing amount of trees.

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This is a fossil of a Mosasaurus which is a water dwelling diosaur from the late Cretaceous period. This relates to APES because fossils are examples of sediments covering things up over millions of years and compacting them into sedimentary rock, one of the 3 types of rocks in the rock cycle.

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Saanika Halapeti: An Environmental Ninja - No Footprint Left Behind

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Saanika Halapeti: An Environmental Ninja - No Footprint Left Behind

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This is an image of the Long-bean plant that my family grows in the backyard and it is representative of the vast variety of plants that we have grown. While gardening is not given much importance, it can prove extremely beneficial for the environment. First, gardening can reduce pollution (little by little) as an increased number of plants leads to more photosynthetic processes to take place - more oxygen is released into the atmosphere and more carbon dioxide is taken in by plants. Furthermore, gardening can reduce the carbon footprint as growing your own vegetables can lessen the reliance on supermarkets. These supermarkets have many of their goods transported from far distances, but growing your own vegetables can decrease the need for such an immense footprint. Finally, plants roots hold soil in place and reduce erosion. Consequently, this keeps unwanted sediment out of water, roads, and etc. A lot of the benefits shown above provide a way to mitigate a lot of concerns that have been appearing in the environment, therefore, intermingling with environmental science.

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Protecting the things that MAKE-UP our enviroment

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Protecting the things that MAKE-UP our enviroment

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This is a picture of my eyeshadow brushes, they are made by a company called Ecotools. These brushes are completely vegan, cruelty free, and made from sustainable materials. Products like these are trying to reduce our ecological footprint, and protect animals at the same time. These brushes make a move by not just creating beautiful looks, but a beautiful world as well.

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Folks what we have here is my families attempt to reduce our ecological footprint by recycling. From the neighborhood I came from, no one even owned a recycling bin. But now I look around and see all my neighbors with their recycling bins full of plastic and cans every time the garbage men come. It has in a way become customary for everyone in my neighborhood to do their share in reducing the amount of waste buildup. By recycling, we have the chance to turn our already limited natural minerals and elements into products that we use in our everyday life. Because we only have a certain amount, what we had when the earth was formed, is all we got. If everyone were to recycle even a small portion of their waste produced like cans and plastic bottles, then we’d reduce waste buildup by a tenfold. I really became encouraged to take the extra time to walk outside and recycle something rather than throw it in the trash after I learned about how much waste accumulation there is and how little precious metals the earth has.

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Kevin Shi- An Igneous Rock in Every Kitchen

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Kevin Shi- An Igneous Rock in Every Kitchen

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The countertops in my kitchen are granite, an intrusive igneous rock. Granite is one of two subcategories of igneous rock, the other being basaltic. Granitic igneous rock is lighter, common in the elements silicon, aluminum, potassium, and calcium, while basaltic igneous rock has more iron, magnesium, and calcium. Granite itself is mostly made up of silicon dioxide and aluminum oxide and is one of the most common rocks in continental crust. Granite is also an intrusive igneous rock, meaning that it cooled underground slowly, creating larger crystals as opposed to extrusive igneous rock, whoch cools quickly above ground and makes fine-grained, smooth, small crystal rocks.

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Sree Gudala - A Counterfeit of Natural Beauty

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Sree Gudala - A Counterfeit of Natural Beauty

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This plastic flower is an imitation of a flower found in nature. However, it is made of plastic and therefore lasts forever. These types of plastic goods have only existed for approximately the last 100 years but have taken over the world. Many items now are made of plastic since they are easy to produce, cheap, and durable. However, plastic is very bad for the environment as they are not easily degradable. A limit of the usage of plastic, especially in goods that don't need it like this flower, can help decrease our ecological footprint.

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This is a picture of my trampoline in my backyard. As you can see in the picture the trampoline is blocking all the sun from reaching the grass ,not allowing it to grow. In order to grow, the grass needs sunlight and water ,and because the trampoline is blocking the sun;the ground remains bare. This picture relates to apes because many man-made objects affect or hurt the environment. The trampoline is just a small example of the many more ways people are getting in the way and messing up nature.

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This is a CFL lightbulb, which stands for compact fluorescent lamp. It is much more efficient than incandescent lightbulbs, which are the original lightbulbs Thomas Edison made and the ones that come to mind when someone mentions lightbulb. The CFL lasts twice as long as incandescents and use much less energy. As time goes on and human innovation increases, new technology will always be created to be more efficient and hopefully, one day we will become completely sustainable

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As you can see, the most common ingredient in the sour gummy worms is corn syrup and the fourth most common ingredient is modified food starch made out of corn, in line with what we have learned from “Food Inc” about corn and soy dominating processed food products. This corn most likely is genetically modified, as 88% of the corn in the country is genetically modified. As the video “GMO OMG” showed, the jury is still out on the health effects of GMOs, but it is interesting still to see nonetheless. There are also questions on whether or not using a vast majority of farmland for just two crop types is the most efficient or effective way to approach agriculture, but the current system seems currently entrenched for the forseeable future

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"Not Limited to Killing Weeds and Grass"

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"Not Limited to Killing Weeds and Grass"

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Agricultural pollution contributes to a high amount of the environmental disturbance our planet experiences. Amidst all of that, agro-chemical engineering is revolutionary, but potentially very harmful to us all in the near future. While pesticides are not the best mechanism for treating plants and their surroundings, they are the most efficient. However, my family has shifted from just the use of pesticides to a more integrated approach. This approach entails that my family physically removes the weeds from our garden in order to protect our plants. If weeds and grass infiltrate the backyard to an extent beyond our physical repair, my parents opt to use pesticides in order to mitigate the amount of weeds present. While it still incorporates the use of pesticides, it is definitely a step up from the complete dependence on pesticides to maintain agricultural health.

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My router went down last night and most of this morning so I couldn’t access the internet to upload this.

This product is something I as a consumer drink every week. It is my favorite drink. Yet when I looked on the ingredients I found that the second most concentrated ingredient in this was high fructose corn syrup. So I conducted a little experiment. I pulled out all of the things I usually eat throughout the week and checked to see if any of them had actual cane sugar. None! From the Campbell’s soup, the Macaroni, and my personal favorite, Werthers originals. How is it that all of these foods, with drastically different tastes can have the same underlying ingredient. And is there even any product sin the US market that contain real sugar? I know that when I go to a Mexican store, the first thing I grab is the Coca Cola, because Mexican coke contains real cane sugar. It just amazes me how high fructose corn syrup has infiltrated every aspect of the food industry. All thanks to Monsanto and their genetically modified corn. They control 80 percent of the GM corn market. Someone did a test where they left a Monsanto corn cob out right next to a non GMO corn cob, and after 3 weeks, the only one that had decomposed was the non GMO one, while the Monsanto one looked brand new. It’s not okay to interfere with nature, and something as natural as corn shouldn’t be preserving itself for that long, something is definitely wrong. Even though I love soda, I feel inclined to look for real cane sugar options, at least if it means I won’t directly be supporting Monsanto. I know Costco sells Mexican Coca Cola, I just wish there was real cane sugar root beer.

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This is a picture of a herbicide in my garage and this connects to apes because it shows how even though applying this herbicide protects some plants, it also kills others. This herbicide can also have adverse effects on the environment because if it rains, it can contaminate the water and act as runoff into the lake next to my house. This shows that we must be careful and wary about the environmental damage herbicides can have

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This is in reference to the agricultural unit we are on. It is a can of round up weed killer, the biggest company for this type of product. When used commercially it kills all plants while this one seems like it can be directed at single plants with it’s nozzle. This weed killer is the reason for many genetic modifications placed on plants to prevent them from being killed and a cause for worry among environmentalists. This is potentially very poisonous to the environment. The fact that I have it shows how widespread the use is.