Nepal Earthquake

What is the causation of this incident?

Earthquake is movements within the Earth’s crust cause stress to build up at points of weakness, and rocks to deform. The reason of this devastating event is the regular movement of the fault line that runs along Nepal’s southern border, where the Indian subcontinent collided with the Eurasia plate 40 million to 50 million years ago.

When did it happen?

An earthquake with magnitude 6.7 occurred near KATHMANDU, Nepal at 07:09:08.90 UTC on Apr 26, 2015.

Lost

Estimated around 3218 people who have confirmed lost their lives by morning Monday April 27 2015 (the number has risen up to around 3800) and more than 6000 injured  ,most the building, temples and landmarks are destroyed  

Effects

The US is sending a disaster response team and $1m also are India China Japan UK Pakistan UNICEF and many other countries including Thailand are sending help aids medical teams to Nepal .

Idea

We can help donating the money to the people who contact to Nepal organization ,helping them out though its not that much.

Citation

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/27/world/asia/nepal-earthquake-international-aid-agencies.html

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/25/nepal-earthquake-us-disaster-response-aid

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Nepal_earthquake

http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/earthquake-spells-destruction-in-india-20-feared-dead-houses-damaged/article1-1340918.aspx

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nations-rushing-rescue-aid-to-nepal-earthquake-survivors/

The Tragedy of the commons

The tragedy of the common .Harbin explained that if there is a ground that is for everyone in the village and people want to start  grazing the animals on that commons as much as possible hoping to get more products while the grass ,land of the commons are getting worse and worse in another way if we put fences on the common and limit them we have less cow but can produce more in the future because animals have more foods to eat.

Earth Day Pledge Table

Earth Week Apr 20-26	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Pledge	Take shower less than 10 minutes	Turn on Air Con 25 degree while sleeping	No Single Plastics	Don't use laptop	Not watching TV	Turn off all the switches after leave the house	Shutdown computer after finish using
Actual	I took shower 30 minutes ,cannot.	Yes ,I did	I used one plastic bottle on the day	I had to work on the internet	Yes ,I did	I forgot to turn off Wifi	I did

Earth Day 2015

What is it?

Earth Day is the day designated for fostering appreciation of the earth's environment and awareness of the issues that threaten it.

When is it?

United Nation Environment Program, or UNEP has designated every year on 22 April as Earth Day 

Purpose?

1. To reduce the rate of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is very dense.

2. To eliminate chloro fluorocarbon. Which destroy ozone and cause the heat of the atmosphere.

3. In order to conserve the remaining forest. And a campaign to plant a forest

4. To not buy - sell living organism that have the risk of extinction.

5. To establish the authority to organizations. Around the world to join together to protect the atmosphere water and the others out of the wrongful acts of man.

6. To create a consciousness of the world as well as individuals, communities and nations.

Single-use plastics

Compass 

Well-being 

• Plastics are actually not good for us, it contains alot of dangerous chemical that can harm our body .There are different types of ways that plastic is dangerous for humans. Direct toxicity from plastics comes from lead, cadmium, and mercury. 
• Diethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP) contained in some plastics, is a toxic carcinogen. Other toxins in plastics are directly linked to cancers, birth defects, immune system problems, and childhood developmental issues.
• Other types of toxic plastics are BPA or health-bisphenol-A, along with phthalates (mentioned above). Both of these are of great concern to human health. 
• BPA is used in many things including plastic bottles and food packaging materials. But also there's a positive side of plastic that save humans and make our lives better .
• So many items or things we're using now adays are made of plastics such as plastic bottles ,plastic bags that make our lives more convenient and it gives us happiness and harm our bodies at the same time. But as long as we cannot find the replaceable resources for plastic ,plastic is convenient for us.

Nature 

• A lot of animals mistake plastics for foods and eat them and it cannot be digested and also affected their habitats.
• Plastics are made out of fossil fuels which is non-renewable resources 
• It takes 100 years up to thousand years or longer to decompose plastic which is not good for environments and it also release toxic when decomposing.
• No, basically plastic has no goods to the environments at all only destroying .

Economic 

• Yes, "A Lot" of things humans are using now adays are made out of plastics which benefits to many organization related.
• Plastic are Cheap and more affordable , each year more than 600 million plastic bags are used worldwide .
• Single-use plastic producer gain huge amount of profits where they would earn orders from many convenient stores and shopping malls (such as bottles beverages or  plastic bags)  

Society 

• No, the more we use single-use plastic the more trashes will pile up in the world because its non-renewable.
• It will disturb not only humans society but also other animals if plastic bags are still floating around in the air or on the street. 

Are you going to continue using single-used plastics? Why or why not?

I'm going to have to keep using single-used plastics but will try to use it less. Because I find it very hard to just stop using it because if I'm going to 7Eleven and bought alot of foods and milk but but I cannot use plastic bags but have to carry them all would be a really bad idea and take alot of times and for paper bag is not as strong as plastic so it cannot be a solution of plastic bags. 

Mind Factory Farming

Factory farming

up to 20000 chicken warehouse

Normal duck live up to 10 years
But in farm factory duck live up until the farmer sees that it is big enough to be slaughter

Pigs

Impregnated at the age of 7 and go to slaughter house or send to another place if they are males

Cow

Males cow will be sold for meats

564 kilos in 6 months to reach the market weight

In Vitro-meat Pleng Current Event

In Vitro-meat
also known as cultured meat, lab grown meat or test-tube meat

Fetal bovine serum
-The blood fraction remaining after the natural coagulation of blood and later remove any remaining blood cells

First In-Vitro Beef burger
-On August 5, 2013
-The world's first lab grown burger was cooked and eaten at a news conference London
-Took stem cells from cow and grew them

There is no fat in this meat but there is some intense taste that is similar to the real meat

Is this In-Vitro meant answer to sustainable meeting global food demand ?

-Compared to farm beef ,lab beef require alot less in anything

Pros
-Cleaner
-Require less food input ,water and waste
-Healthier
-More ethical in terms of animal welfare
Cons
-Unnatural require enormous capital investment for research and Development

Is it good for us?
-It does not includes saturated fat, no heme iron, no growth hormone, it seems cultured meat have many potential benefits

Review sheet

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14oRTFhXJR2kWCVVNy0D7C4b3humcK9UWkRbt-tv7LrI/pub

RN: Resources - Natural Capital Continues

Intrinsic Value of the environment 

Economic Value - determined from the market price of the goods and services

a resource produces.

Ecological Value - no formal market price. (soil erosion control, nitrogen fixation and photosynthesis)

Aesthetic Value – no market price. (appreciation of a landscape for its visual attraction)

Intrinsic Value – value in their own right, not economic value.

Economic uses

Direct use - values of ecosystems good and service that directly used by humans. 

• Consumptive use - such as harvesting food ,fuel ,hunting animal for foods or cloths.
• Non-Consumptive use - some cultural activities that does not require harvesting .

Indirect use - values are derived from ecosystem services that provide benefits outside the ecosystem itself . 

• Optional values - use of ecosystem goods and services not currently used – either by yourself or future offspring 
• Non-use values include aesthetic and intrinsic values

Recreational value – For natural resources to attract the tourist that can provide an alternative income that is sustainable and does not deplete the source of natural capital.

Sustainability 

Sustainability means using world's resources at a rate that will allows nature to restore itself and 

cause less damage to the environment.

Sustainability applies to harvesting natural capital, to the generation of energy to process the product, and to how the product is packaged and marketed.

Humans will reach the sustainability limit by 

• Over population (more people more resources needed)
• Financial motives (when money is more precious than what it's made of)
• Ignorance (doesn't care about the nature and balance)

Global or Local

Global perspective for managing resources sustainably is desirable because many problems have worldwide impact.

Global perspective also helps us to understand that our actions have an impact on others.

Local perspective, human actions are often culturally specific (traditional farming methods).

It is also the case that individual and small community action can be effective for managing resources sustainable. (recycling schemes)