Change Will Come

I just wanted to congratulate Senator Barack Obama in his success of being elected our next president. I believe that he has a lot of ideas that could help our nation reunite, so I hope that he is able to stay up to par once he takes office in January. Again, congratulations Senator for creating history and becoming the first African-American to take office in the White House.

Looking Back

As I take the time to reflect on the issues I have researched, I am confident to say that my ability to think has definitely grown throughout this project. Before I started this project, I had never written a blog, replied to a blog, or really known anything about the blogging world. I always thought that blogs were a bunch of non-sense and that they were used as a form of diary. I now know that my original understanding was completely off guard and that blogging sites can actually be very informative.

Throughout this project I have not only learned about myself, but I have become much more informed about the issues pertaining to my topic of making the world a greener place. I choose this topic because it is a rising issue in our country, and although I knew some information I wanted to learn more and see what I can do living as your average college student.

Obviously the ability to recycle items that can be reused: paper, cans, plastic I have known about since I was a child, but I never knew how much garbage is taking over our precious land and how a large portion of the waste in landfills can actually be recycled. I've never understood that. Recycling is not difficult at all; there are plenty of containers and most towns pick it up for free, yet we still have so many Americans that have the attitude that it's not their problem to deal with. Truth is that it will become every one's problem if we don't do something about it.

Out of the entire project I probably learned the most about our fresh water crisis. This was something that I knew nothing about, but once I started doing research I was amazed at what I found. I had no idea that the world's fresh water supply was at such a depressing and risky low. I felt like I needed to express this information with all you readers because water is the most important resource that we have and if we lose it, we're going to be losing a lot more than just fresh water. I was able to find appliances that people can use in their homes to help save water in addition to valuable water saving strategies. I was also able to find out how the government is dealing with this issue and how reusable water techniques have already taken effect.

Linking The Chain

I have spent a great deal of time browsing the Internet over the duration of this project searching for valuable and credible information. Because I have been writing about an environmental issue I have not had a great deal of success finding information in the nationally renowned news sites. Instead, I have had to search the internet for each posting and try to find some sites that explore any of my issues of water conservation, recycling, and alternate energy sources. Fortunately, I was able to find some sites which were valuable enough to use multiple times:
OurEarth.org
Water Use It Wisely
Water Conservation News
Recycling Guide
Energy Resources: Solar Power
The majority of the websites that I have used are linked to water conservation because I put most of my emphasis on that topic. All aspects of going "green" are important, but I wanted to spend a lot of my time dealing with the water crisis because I believe that it can grow to become a much more heated topic as the resource continues to dissipate.