Class of Video

During our third class period we watched many different videos. We were supposed to right down on each section three different parts.

1 something new we learned
2 something we did not believe
3 something relevant to South West Florida

We watched many segments on different areas of the world. We learned that ecosystem are life support systems and that we can not live without them. The need to save natural resources is a really big deal. We all need to save our resources for the future and our future generations so that they can prosper too. We need to care more about the future and not just our selves right now.

Ecological footprints

During our class period we learned about ecological footprints. What we learned about ecological footprints was very interesting. In class we had one of our classmates volunteer and we calculated his ecological footprint. If the world as a whole had the same ecological footprint as we in America that there would not be enough earth to sustain all the people living. The scary thing is that India and China are growing really fast and want to be as advanced as us in America. If China and India's ecological footprint gets as high as the average American there will be a huge problem for the world. One way or another we as Americans need to start depleting our ecological footprint.

Echo

Our third field trip we visited echo farms. Echo was like a huge food forest that we have on our own campus. Through echo we saw how different climates and environments can sustain farms. In different climates there was different foods that would prosper there and different ways to plant and sustain them. Echo teaches people from third world countries how to efficiently farm so that they can put food on the table for there family and eventually other people in there tribe or village. They had ways to purify water and make gas for cooking that I found very interesting as well. While we were there we also saw what our service learning project was gonna be.

Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary

On the second day of class we met up on campus to take busses to go to corkscrew swamp sanctuary. On this field trip we learned about the three different parts of the swamp. We also saw various animals on our long walk on the board walk. I saw deer, woodpeckers, alligators, owls, many insects and much more. In the front we learned about the living machine, which was a system that purifies water through plants, goes down a slight slant and into canisters. At the end all that is needed a little chlorine and it was up to code in Florida for healthy drinking water. This was really cool I did not know that it was possible.

Food Forest

During the first class period we visited the Food Forest on FGCU's Campus.  We learned many different things about the food forest that were very interesting. First off I did not know that we had a food forest on campus until our first class. Other things I liked where how we were able to pick the plants and fruits and eat them right off the tree. The design of the food forest was very in depth with bushes to break the wind and the different elevations used for certain plants. Then after the food forest we went on a walk through the campus' nature trails. It was nice to see how the environment around us so close on campus could be so relaxing.