Junk Removal Service

This news article is in the theme of recycling. Found on the Sarasota Suncoast news at http://www.mysuncoast.com/content/living-green/story/Living-Green-Junk-removal-service/_0DMlifqdkyeDQL4BCrIZg.cspx

This red truck is on a mission to take whatever junk you don't want and find it new homes, and out of landfills. Junk King GM Michele Postell says "Then we bring it back to the warehouse, we sort through it and see what can be re-purosed, recycled or reused to keep it out of the landfill." To me this sounds a lot like what companies like the Goodwill does, only instead of you bringing your unwanted items to them, they can come to you and take it off your hands. I really like this story, because it is nice to see things being recycled, especially things that we have bought in the past, and no longer need. Giving it to those who need it most. We have a tendency to buy more than we need, we fill the need to buy more thing. And be surrounded them, but do we really need so many things, does that make us happy. Just like the saying goes (or phrase) "money can't buy you happiness" and that goes well with this story.

If we can recycle more stuff like this and give it to other people, then that might be the start of having companies make less of the stuff, and there by less pollution that goes with it.


 "Then we bring it back to warehouse, we sort through it and see what can be re-purposed, recycled or reused to keep it out of the landfill," says Junk King GM Michele Postell.

 

Save the Animals

I think this is a very important topic to talk about. Next to talking about our environment and helping to clean the earth and save it, we must not forget the animals.

I found this video on NBC.com Nightly News titles New View on endangered species.
Joe Satori is a photographer and in a way he is also playing the similar role of Noah. Being the more modern day Noah of taking photograph's of every animals (two of the same species, boy and girl) instead of building an ark. Satori feels that it is important to get pictures and document their information before it becomes too late for them and for the future. A quote from Satori "These things have value and we shouldn't be throwing them away-- we are throwing away the ark" This project of his is called the Biodiversity Project, documenting animals and even plants.

This is a short video (about 2 minutes) but it is a powerful one and to me, it shows that there are people that are speaking for the animals and trying to help save them from going extinction. I would like it to see Ringling's Photography majors do something like this, even the other majors like Illustration can do something to get other people to look at these animals in a new way.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/#46674706

Living Green Save Water

This weeks news that I found on the mysuncoast.com is about water and more importantly how much we should use it, especially for garden lovers out there.


The irrigation systems is used at many homes on the Suncoast to water their yards and plants. There is a problem with the system, which is that sometimes that don't always do the job. Debbie Shapiro of Sarasota discovered the extension service's irrigation Evaluation Program and used their expertise. Shapiro said that before her yard and garden did not get enough water from her sprinklers. Sometimes she said that "many of the heads were broken or spraying incorrectly." After going through her yard with these experts, her yard is now better and looks healthier (greener). The reason why it is even healthier is because she has a better understanding of how the irrigation system works. By capping some of the sprinkler heads that she did not use, expanding the use of more efficient micro-irrigation heads and repairing some of the broken heads. This is helping in a big way by saving a lot of water.

This is something that I think everyone should do. They should take a look at their yard, if you have a garden or not. If you have something to give water to your yard, it is best to check out everything. See if there are any broken sprinklers and maybe see if you limit how many you have. Basically notice how much water you are using, even too much water is bad for your yard. I know that some people might have their sprinklers on a setting and it would go on a timer. But I have seen some people that just leave their sprinklers running and wasting water. By doing that, not only is it a big waste of using water. But your are over water the yard and it is not going to make your yard greener than your neighbor.

the extension service is recommending people to keep the irrigation systems off and only use them when there has not been enough rain water. I agree with this 100%. Before we take more water from someplace else, lets us first let nature take care of watering the earth. Let us use more natural resorces than the sources by some company.  A quote from the extension service about the system "An irrigation system is not meant to replace rain water, it's meant to supplement rain water...and we forget that sometimes."



http://www.mysuncoast.com/content/living-green/story/Living-Green-Irrigation-evaluation-can-help-save/AXfG47TgQ0GJKf5giBCadQ.cspx