Earth Day!

Happy Earth Day everyone!!!
I sadly had nothing planned for Earth Day which is a first. So like I said in my last post I'm taking it as a chance to catch up on my ILP. So a quick update:

• Finally got two resources for calculating Carbon footprints from my classmate Robbert. One is for calculating household and personal travel foot prints and the other is actually specifically for schools. Hopefully will have results from those up shortly
  
• Added a few books to the Bibliography on my wiki.
• Attempted to sign up for a Design Science Lab program this summer up in NYC with the UN, but sadly they didn't have enough people signed up so they had to cancel it. Which is a shame because it was all to do with green design and alturnate energy, exactly what I studying and extremely interested in.
  
• Still trying to sit my dad down to help me with the LEED check lists to see where SLA stands in the points.
  
• Hopping to be able to write a proposal to Philly Management soon to be able to get a dumpster put out behind SLA so we can start recycling paper.
  

That is it for now. Hopefully I will be able to be better at updating and getting things done from now on. Has been a bit of a slow point the past month or so.

TIME magazine's special environment issue

In the spirit of Earth Day I decided I was going to spend some time catching up on my reading and really working on my ILP. The first thing I picked up to read was the new issue of TIME magazine. I have to say when seeing the cover I was very excited about reading it and expected the articles to be very good. After reading it though I was not blown away as much as I thought I would be. Now maybe this is because I have read so much about our fight against Climate Change. However I felt that TIME magazine made such a big deal about this issue, changing the border color, Good Morning America talked about it, and yet the article wasn't anything special. Most of it talked about what was going on politically and on the big scale. Which yes ok that is the view that they give to everything. I guess I was just expecting them to add a little bit more so that this issue really hit home to people. It talked on and on about laws and what the government was trying to do or should do, and yet hardly anything about what we, the US, as a population can do. Not even a mention of writing to our government. And there was no statistic in it that I found really hit home, that this issue was something we need to deal with ASAP. It also went on about cap and trade for most of the article and the last part was on more research money and demanding better efficiency. I really wish they would have spent more time talking about actual fixes to our problem and less on cap and trade and offsetting. We are still polluting when we off set, we are just making ourselves feel a little better about doing so.