Roaming Gnome’s Blog

When mayor Dickinson told us a story, this is what it sounded like:

A kangaroo was in a fenced in area with an 8 foot high fence and the zoo keepers went to bed and the next morning they found the kangaroo out on the side walk. so they put him back and built the walls 30 feet high and when the zookeepers came back in the morning they found the kangaroo out on the sidewalk again.  So the giraffe asked how high do you think that they will build this fence? and that kangaroo answered 100 feet maybe 1000 feet I don’t know but I will always get out as long as they don’t lock the gate.

now mayor Dickinson said that this story meant that we can’t forget the basics but I think that it is just common sense and that he is right in the way that we need to have a foundation before we can thrive, but it’s just common sense. 

This was the blog that I read, This is a paragraph from it

Americans drank some 37 billion bottles of water in 2005, despite the inconvenient truth that in most parts of the country, tap water is not only perfectly safe, but also more tightly regulated that its bottled counterpart… manufacturing plastic bottles for bottled water creates an astounding amount of pollution — an annual equivalent of 1.5 billion barrels of oil… Bottled water ‘very clearly reflects the wasteful and reckless consumerism in this country…

Here is a link to the blog I read. Earth

I found this blog by typing in Blog+Rainforest and I found this earth blog.  I just read a few of the posts and this one just got my interest.  Here is the comment that i left the bloggers:

Wow I just cant believe that in just one year making water bottles produces just as mush polution as 1.5 billion barrels of oil. I liked the post because it was short and to the point. And it gave alot f information.

I was unable to comment but I will try later, I could not comment because of the fact that there was an error when I hit the post button.

I e-mailed microsoft with these questions:

Dear Microsoft,

I recesntly got the Red Ring Of Death, I would like to know how I got it, how to fix it, and how to prevent it in the future.

Sincerely,
Roaming Gnome

I still have not gotten a response. 

When I looked at the assignment this is what I saw:

The best way to participate is to post on your blog something that relates to the environment. Your post can be about anything to do with the environment. So you could write a post which is off topic for your blog OR relate the environment back to your topic in some way.

I thought that it was going be something that would take a few minutes because I didn’t think I would be that interested in this topic. What I found out about the Rainforest was very amazing in a bad way.

 So here are some facts:

• Rainforests once covered 14% of the earth, now they cover 6%
• 1 1/2 acres of rainforests are destroyed every second!
• Estimate show that we are losing 137 plant and animal species every day due to rainforest devastation.
• If you multiply that times 365 you get around 50,005 Species PER YEAR that are gone forever
• Five centuries ago there were about 10 million native Indians living in the Amazon rainforest now there are only about 200,000
• Just in Brazil European colonists have destroyed  more than 90 indigenous tribes
• When the medicine man of a certain tribe dies without passing knowledge on to another generation, it is like losing thousands of years of medicinal plants and survival techniques.
• Sometimes described as the lungs of our planet, the rainforest provides us with 20% of the earths oxygen
• The Amazon rainforest alone makes up for a quarter of the entire bird species, imagine if that were destroyed,
• Nearly half of all plants, animals, or microorganisms will become extinct or endangered in the next quarter of a century due to rainforest deforestation.

Are you as disgusted as I am?

So when your parents say stop being a potty mouth, you have to think so who invented toilet paper anyway? To find the answer we must travel back to sixth centery china, But because of the fact that paper was so rare it was considered impractical. Though there were other ways, in Rome a sponge on a stick was used for the same purpose, for upper class people they use diolies or Lace, but for people who couldnt afford lace they used corn cobs without the corn(ouch).  But in 1857 a man named Joseph Gayetty created a hemp based paper that was sold in stacks of individual sheets.  But even then people in america still used newspaper and catalogs, Sears was a favorite because of the fact that is was printed on absorbant paper.  Around the 1880’s the scott brothers created the first toilet paper roll. 

The podcast I chose to listen to was from the National Geographic Wild Chronicles. The podcast was about the Galapagos volcanoes and the evolution of the turtles on the island.  I thought this podcast was really interesting. I considered a few different podcasts. A few  I decided against because I was not interested in them. Some I had already listened to like Skydiving Radio, and Turkey Crossing. I found the podcast through  Mr. Bogush.  He  had suggested  the National Geographic Wild Chronicles and I just searched it and there were about 101 to choose from so I just randomly picked one. Here is where you can listen to the Podcast. I learned that the turtles on the Galapagos islands are very scarce and are slowly dying off, this is because humans used to hunt them for oil.  There are many volcanoes on the island, so if there is an eruption it is important to get the turtles out.  I also learned that The Galapagos Islands are home to many animals who have adapted to the numerous active volcanoes that are present on the island. 

 Here is the email I sent to National Geographic:

I Really enjoyed this podcast and would recommend it to anyone who wants to know more about animals and how there are people  trying to help them, listening to this made me want to help too.

Detractor Blogging; a passionate distaste or dislike of a particular brand or thing.  I don’t like spammers.    Sometimes people get comment crazy and send out  general spams to everybody.  If you are sending a specific message, I think that is ok.  I just wish that people who say that they will comment on your blog if you comment on theirs should just comment first. Maybe someone will comment back. It is a two-way street: you can’t say to give me something and I will give it back.  Sometimes you have to make the first move.

Imagine yourself packing for a trip into the wilderness.  Now imagine that you have become lost. You are trying to make your way back to civilization and you can bring 3 things for your trek out of the wilderness. The dense forest prevents cell phone and emergency beacons from transmitting. A flare gun would just start a forest fire.  Due to the heavy rainfall most of the matches have been ruined, this means if you choose matches you will only have about 10. You have enough food for about a week you can take extra if you want, though.  Water is no problem; you have enough for a month.  The items you can bring are only limited to your imagination. And please, keep it school appropriate.

 I would really like to enjoy all the time I have being a kid and not have to worry about the future.  I don’t have a big dream or a grand vision yet.  I am still learning about things I didn’t even know existed yesterday! The biggest problem then, would probably be finding a  goal and that might take a long time to do. I am realizing things I do really have big consequences,  and you have to take responsibility for things and not your parents. You need to get a job and start worrying about high school and college. That combined with all of the other things going on; I will just have fun while I’m still a kid.