tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70121716851594849312024-03-13T02:01:18.197-07:00Chimacum World SolutionsChimacum Schools 6th grade students blogging about solutions to the problems facing our world. This blog was inspired by classroom discussions where students came up with the idea to share their thoughts and ideas through a blog!Mr. Gonzalezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05791154978308055567noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7012171685159484931.post-37953296767120964112021-04-18T18:28:00.000-07:002021-04-18T18:28:51.435-07:00We Can Do This<p><span style="background-color: white;"> <img height="351" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/cek2_HdhQ0dHUQ31WAhHnW3H4xqPzhcqsgKX81pRj5CG2h7Eoyazmimwf93ZmgEs6fRXDsuLMfaIjHYtFhMNIuuJu614k-ZAdb5hOt-QCtgf7-6CTMTBgyR_LH_UxrPC5IPKk6J6" style="border: 0px; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; height: auto; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;" width="624" /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I got this picture </span><a href="https://pixabay.com/photos/plastic-fish-recycling-trash-4234205/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 7pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">HERE</span></a></span></p><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our planet is suffering! People are suffering! Animals are dying! We need to DO something! YOU can do something! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch is </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">twice</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the size of Texas and </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3 times </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the size of France! There are more than 1.8 TRILLION pieces of trash in this garbage patch. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LET’S DO SOMETHING! </span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Frijole, cursive; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is the great pacific garbage patch:</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is a large patch of garbage. There are two main groups of garbage, The Western Patch, which is located near Japan, and The Eastern Patch, which is located between Hawaii and California. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Both of these patches are huge problems. They are gathered by the ocean’s currents pushing them into an enormous patch of garbage. The individual pieces of garbage are not just floating plastic bottles or ballcaps. Most of the patch is actually made of microplastics, tiny pieces of plastic that you usually cannot see. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch still growing? Because plastic is not biodegradable, it does not decompose. Instead, it just breaks down into smaller pieces.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So, with more plastic gathering, and no plastic decomposing, it is just growing bigger. </span></p><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;" /></span><h2 dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Frijole, cursive; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is happening:</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Animals are eating trash, thinking that they are eating food. They then die because they gained no nutrients from the trash. Sea creatures are getting stuck in nets and trash and getting injured and sometimes dying 😭.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWqIP6DTZ14eGEnmoJ48Rs8br7iFO4qxIquRzvUEDsZGSviQS97AsA9FQ1fVf20cmMZlcRBZtQA_LoAfgu8vpWSlR6UXN6jaRGvayWw4KiheINCvpCV55RPwbZNLWHBFBgh-nk6UGYcMk/s279/CoraBird.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="217" data-original-width="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWqIP6DTZ14eGEnmoJ48Rs8br7iFO4qxIquRzvUEDsZGSviQS97AsA9FQ1fVf20cmMZlcRBZtQA_LoAfgu8vpWSlR6UXN6jaRGvayWw4KiheINCvpCV55RPwbZNLWHBFBgh-nk6UGYcMk/s0/CoraBird.png" /></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I got this picture</span><a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> HERE</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is one thing causing this. US!! Before humans existed there was no plastic in the oceans and no animals dying because of plastic! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We need to fix this mess we got ourselves into. </span></p><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;" /></span><h2 dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Frijole, cursive; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; display: inline-block; height: 261px; overflow: hidden; width: 462px;"><img height="261" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/bpTtbyhO8ldcOT2pthR2kisN3ZRKC4yQzVbU7BcW2UdHwFtND6hh7nlCphT3pYUchZHZNLdC1dXeudpRzSABUuYaN9cYczrJLz_IkzmMS8g0iAU3vPwGa0ia1uqVvCwCKCZKCdsy" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%;" width="462" /></span></span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I got this picture </span><a href="https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/ocean-pollution.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">HERE</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Frijole, cursive; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What can we do:</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We can do something about this! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m sure you already know the 3 R’s. Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But there are lots more! How about Replace? Replace one use plastic and paper cups with reusable mugs and cups. Replace one use paper towels with reusable cloth towels. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What about Refuse and Reject? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Refuse to use plastics you can only use one like plastic bottles and plastic cups. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reject things you don’t need, reject doing things you know are not good for the earth. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Practice using all of the R’s in your home!</span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Frijole, cursive; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is already happening:</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">People are already doing things to solve this huge problem. The solution I think has the </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">most promise is by The Ocean Cleanup. You can visit their website </span><a href="https://theoceancleanup.com/oceans/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">HERE</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of their goals is to remove 90% of ocean trash by 2040. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Their other goal is to clean 1000 rivers in 5 years. Let’s help them do this!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Did you know that 80% of ocean plastic comes from rivers? A good way to clean the ocean of plastic is to stop it before it even gets to the ocean. They are using a machine called the Interceptor. It collects the plastic in the river and then a ship empties it when it is full. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is run by a robot and 100% solar powered. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">For cleaning the ocean, they are using a giant net that uses the ocean’s currents to push the trash into the net. One it is full, a boat comes to empty it. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">This net has not entangled or captured any sea animals. When the boat comes to empty the net, the operators are careful to make sure there are no animals in or around the net. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">I think this solution can work if people work hard to remember their R’s and help not put more plastic into the water. </span></p><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;" /></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white; border: none; display: inline-block; height: 175px; overflow: hidden; width: 288px;"><img height="175" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/i01JxN7Aq84Gh0QOXnYfojihhEjvMVyrujwT-dTvqBujeZCyKhweSbHGmL5-FyHEwHj4WQc83GKFc0XSdVQBaMQ2axFfw9Vr3V4z94Jfvyytd9dbG-kniinjY6Aj7nO9IPmTU5wr" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%;" width="288" /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 8pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I got this picture </span><a href="https://pixabay.com/photos/water-background-banner-wave-blue-4825172/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 8pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">HERE</span></a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What does water mean to me?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Water is a very important part in life. If water wasn’t here, we would not be here. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I spend a lot of time in the water, swimming, boating, riding and swimming with my pony. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Water makes me feel happy! I love the feeling of diving into the water and swimming. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#WorldWaterDay #Water2Me</span></p><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;" /></span><h2 dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Frijole, cursive; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thanks for reading! </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(and P.S.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">we can and we will solve this problem TOGETHER!) </span></span></h2><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;" /><br style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;" /></span><h2 dir="ltr" style="font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Frijole, cursive; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">MY Sources!</span><span style="font-family: Frijole, cursive; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Great Pacific Garbage Patch</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. National Geographic Society, 9 Oct. 2012, </span><a href="http://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/#:~:text=The%20Great%20Pacific%20Garbage%20Patch%2C%20also%20known%20as%20the%20Pacific,states%20of%20Hawaii%20and%20California." style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/#:~:text=The%20Great%20Pacific%20Garbage%20Patch%2C%20also%20known%20as%20the%20Pacific,states%20of%20Hawaii%20and%20California. </span></a></div></span></span></h2><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“CLEANING UP THE GARBAGE PATCHES.” </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CLEANING THE GARBAGE PATCHES</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, The Ocean Cleanup, 12 Feb. 2021, </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://theoceancleanup.com/oceans/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;">theoceancleanup.com/oceans/. </a></span></span><div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://sciencegirl8.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">By Cora</a></span></h3>Mr. Gonzalezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05791154978308055567noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7012171685159484931.post-9728134996215504822021-04-11T22:03:00.001-07:002022-05-09T21:57:49.824-07:00Is This a Landfill or the Ocean<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMap8M1cGsorbfbWFWbQMZuNoC_V_yAM1pmEb_8_NUkZYCSvH21SLuHWnuWhbi9oTsK-rVonstVtOsOyJwzPNo2ju0ZzA67pOvrI-IcORPGXy6xPsL-_R_Hhd6kwJzqx4Cr__Kphth_p0/s535/LandfillOrOcean.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="535" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMap8M1cGsorbfbWFWbQMZuNoC_V_yAM1pmEb_8_NUkZYCSvH21SLuHWnuWhbi9oTsK-rVonstVtOsOyJwzPNo2ju0ZzA67pOvrI-IcORPGXy6xPsL-_R_Hhd6kwJzqx4Cr__Kphth_p0/s320/LandfillOrOcean.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you didn't notice ocean water pollution has gone OUT of control. People have tried inventing amazing things like </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the plastic-eating shark drone, The seabin, The world's first ocean clean-up system, and a lot of other projects</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">that take SO long to work on. Some people think that if you made something to help STOP pollution they can still Poulton our planet and keep littering. What is the point of making these incredible inventions if we are just going to keep polluting our oceans? Did you know that the ocean </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">has killed over </span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">100 million</span><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> marine animals each year from plastic waste alone? I recommend you keep reading so you can find facts about our oceans and what I will try to make to stop ocean pollution.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some people also think that if we keep polluting our oceans and our world that nothing is going to happen and that the whole world is going to be the same but really their consequences. Not only for animals but for humans too. Restaurants that serve seafood have to kill sea animals and if those animals you have killed eat little pieces of microplastic which means you would be eating little pieces of plastic too and that means you can get many diseases like... </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pulmonary cancer due to inhalation of poisonous gas, Liver damage, Nerve and brain damage, Kidney diseases, Asthma. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Also,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">animals would die because of… entangled in or ingest plastic debris, and could cause suffocation, starvation, and drowning. This can affect us because some people leave off seafood and if the animals died that wouldn't be good for some people. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are a person who wants to do something to STOP polluting our ocean here are some things you can do ( there are a lot of others you can do but here are some major things you can do to help)... </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 1. Pick up litter and throw it away in a garbage can.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Picking up litter is a big way to help the environment. When you litter most of your plastic blows around and will </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">eventually clutter around drains and enter rivers and the sea this way).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 2. Stop littering </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(When you throw garbage and plastic out on streets and anywhere the wind will eventually blow it into streams and rivers, and through drains. The drains lead to the ocean).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 3. Always recycle.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(you should always recycle because your plastic may end up underneath all of your trash or other people's trash. After a while, the bad chemicals will soon soak up into the ground and will find the chemicals way into the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">potentially contaminating drinking water supplies, rivers, streams, and eventually the ocean).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. Use Less Plastic (obviously)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">( You might be thinking everything is wrapped in plastic like… meat, chips, cookies, milk, and a lot of other things. I am not saying completely stop using plastic I am just saying use less plastic. If we use less plastic more marine sea animals will be still living and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">recycling plastic water bottles and other things will also help to decrease the amount of pollution in the air and water sources).</span></p><p><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-size: 15px;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am working on a solution called “The seabin project”. I am not the only one who has thought about making this! The first creators were </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pete Ceglinski</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Andrew Turton</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. They don’t say how they made it but they say that the bin is made out of recyclable plastic and that they made a mesh bag that also usings natural fibers and also there is a pump connected to a dock. When they turn the pump on the pump sucks through the mesh bag. Then the clean water gets pumped back into the water. My idea is to make a filter with a battery power waterproof motor. Then make a bin or use a reusable bin that goes into the water. I will also get a type of net with a ring for buoyancy with a pump connected to the bin that will pump out the clean wate</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">r. </span><a href="https://youtu.be/GzRKHRBFEpU" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #f2470f; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is a link to a video to explain what I am trying to recreate.</span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> What water means to me... Water to me means life, without water we wouldn't survive or be living. Just imagine not having water animals and humans would die because of dehydration, farmers would stop farming (think about it most people make money off of plants and farming), we couldn't wash clothes, we may not even be able to eat because all the animals might die of dehydration. Also, we wouldn't have power, and without POWER that will really affect people. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-3cfe8168-7fff-3847-71bf-988002cf816e"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 21pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">B</span><span style="font-size: 19pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ibliography</span><span style="font-size: 21pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/how-does-plastic-end-ocean" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #f2470f; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/how-does-plastic-end-ocean</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://greenliving.lovetoknow.com/What_Will_Happen_if_You_Do_Not_Recycle_Plastic" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #f2470f; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/plastics-in-seafood" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; color: #f2470f; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/plastics-in-seafood</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2018/09/24/plastic-pollution-affects-sea-life-throughout-the-ocean#:~:text=Fish%2C%20seabirds%2C%20sea%20turtles%2C,suffocation%2C%20starvation%2C%20and%20drowning.&text=Plastic%20waste%20kills%20up%20to,their%20stomachs%2C%20sometimes%20causing%20starvation." rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; 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color: #f2470f; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>http://samanthagouldson.com/how-does-the-seabin-work/</b></span></a></span></p><div><br /></div></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><a href="https://graciescience101.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">By: Gracie S</a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #676767; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSGtErevDE_Tyg9jy-NKwFIM6BoViIz6IBSLJ_uJ0kHL775EcwQzVRKPw475hFi_QoQoubKiv3sO-SKl4CFawQWyZN9OU6VD2sAR28XRUJtx-ayJdDaWZUW6p-uYe0G7_ZoXVeXcXvDSW3/s800/Ocean+Guardian+School.jpg" style="background: transparent; color: #f2470f; display: inline-block; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSgBYmCUCccy6hxirIMjqKdqYXPuoFnLMwLKIaOsAhQ-27WSIFMFX0oInDCRD6IejDatOlRKNyMDRjNKJ1WzDYG8L4SghJr_EQFwyUEm9O2pRASEOzc2OsJXss5SkMA1sWR6x7KXcgKtk/s416/CarinaImage.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="275" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSgBYmCUCccy6hxirIMjqKdqYXPuoFnLMwLKIaOsAhQ-27WSIFMFX0oInDCRD6IejDatOlRKNyMDRjNKJ1WzDYG8L4SghJr_EQFwyUEm9O2pRASEOzc2OsJXss5SkMA1sWR6x7KXcgKtk/s320/CarinaImage.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/hdptcar/797326075" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2196f3; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.flickr.com/photos/hdptcar/797326075</span></a><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">( I built upon this image )</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><br style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><h2 dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Frijole, cursive; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is it?</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Would you want to drink contaminated water? Well, A Lot of people don't actually know or understand what water pollution is and that's why I am here to tell you. Water pollution mainly comes around when harmful chemicals or microorganisms contaminate rivers, streams, oceans, lakes, or any other body of water. This usually comes as a result of human activity. The sources mainly come from waste water which comes from domestic/industrial processes, leakage from sewer lines, burning fossil fuels, mining activities, oil pollution, river dumping, marine dumping, radioactive substances, and agriculture pollution. Water contamination is also a big deal, about 2 billion people use a drinking water source that is contaminated and this is a big problem we need to fix.</span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Frijole, cursive; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Consequences</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> There are numerous consequences that affect your health from your drinking water if it contains unsafe levels of contaminants. It can cause serious health effects like gastrointestinal illnesses, nervous system or reproductive effects, and chronic diseases like cancer. Some of the waterborne diseases you can also get are Typhoid, Cholera, paratyphoid fever, dysentery jaundice, amoebiasis, and malaria. Chemicals in the water have negative effects on our body’s health. Pesticides usually can damage the nervous system and that's what can cause cancer because of the carbonates and organophosphates that they hold. Waterborne diseases are a big problem coming from water contamination. Why? Well, water borne diseases are illnesses caused by microscopic organisms, like viruses and bacteria, which are ingested through the contaminated water.</span></p><br style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><h2 dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Frijole, cursive; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What can we do?</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Don't you think water pollution is a big problem? Me too, and well it doesn't matter how old you are you can still help just by doing small things such as, picking up litter and throwing it away in the garbage or recycling bin, blow or sweep fertilizer back onto the grass if it gets into paved areas, mulch or compost grass or yard waste, wash your car or outdoor equipment so it can flow to a gravel or grass area instead of the street, and don't pour your motor oil down the storm drain, take it to the nearest auto part store, its free. Keep your water clean, you can sweep sidewalks and driveways to prevent debris from hard surfaces getting into storm drains, leave an unmowed buffer next to streams and lakes to filter the pollutants that get carried away, flush responsibly by only flushing toilet paper and not pill bottles, medicine, auto fluids, etc., use the trash and not the drain, throw out any fats, grease and especially hygiene products to prevent having clogged pipes.</span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Frijole, cursive; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Solution</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I have been thinking about my solution and my idea is to use a paper filter specifically REEVE Angel paper filters. You basically take a plastic water bottle and cut it as if it was a funnel. Then wrap the filter around the lid and pour your contaminated water through. I have tested three filters: a coffee filter, the REEVE filter and the WHATMAN filter paper. As known the REEVE paper won and that's what I used for my experiment. I have several written papers on how I can create my own paper filters too if that's necessary. Here is a link to a video of me and my partner doing our paper filter experiment.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NZxNXUwvYrk" width="320" youtube-src-id="NZxNXUwvYrk"></iframe></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">IMPORTANT:</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> World Water day ( #Water2Me) is a very important day and is on March 22 and began in 1993. This day means alot to me mostly because of how much we are working on for our environment and one of my favorites is valuing our water source. Which means all water is generated by ecosystems and all of the water we take for human use eventually goes back to the environment with the contaminants they have added. It's amazing how much you can do on this day. </span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Frijole, cursive; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My Sources!</span><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Frijole, cursive; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">EPA “Drinking Water” Sep 11, 2018</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.epa.gov/report-environment/drinking-water#:~:text=If%20drinking%20water%20contains%20unsafe,chronic%20diseases%20such%20as%20cancer" style="background: transparent; color: #2196f3; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.epa.gov/report-environment/drinking-water#:~:text=If%20drinking%20water%20contains%20unsafe,chronic%20diseases%20such%20as%20cancer</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><br style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Melissa Denchak “ Water pollution, everything you need to know” May 14th, 2018</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.nrdc.org/stories/water-pollution-everything-you-need-know" style="background: transparent; color: #2196f3; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.nrdc.org/stories/water-pollution-everything-you-need-know</span></a></p><br style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aria Bendix March 27th, 2020 “Cities with the most contaminated tap water in the US”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cities-worst-tap-water-us-2019-3" style="background: transparent; color: #2196f3; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.businessinsider.com/cities-worst-tap-water-us-2019-3</span></a></p><br style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ensia September 15th. 2020 “</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Across the U.S., millions of people are drinking unsafe water. How can we fix that”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2020/09/drinking-unsafe-water-contaminants-solutions/" style="background: transparent; color: #2196f3; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2020/09/drinking-unsafe-water-contaminants-solutions/</span></a></p><br style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pete Duffy Dec 18th, 2019 “6 Ways to prevent water pollution”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://raleighnc.gov/SupportPages/6-ways-prevent-water-pollution" style="background: transparent; color: #2196f3; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://raleighnc.gov/SupportPages/6-ways-prevent-water-pollution</span></a></p><br style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Government ( i couldn't find date or author) “Keep water clean”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.dec.ny.gov/public/43661.html" style="background: transparent; color: #2196f3; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.dec.ny.gov/public/43661.html</span></a></p><br style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“15 proven ways to stop water pollution” July 20, 2017</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blog.arcadia.com/15-proven-ways-can-reduce-water-pollution/" style="background: transparent; color: #2196f3; text-decoration-line: none;">https://blog.arcadia.com/15-proven-ways-can-reduce-water-pollution/</a></span></p><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://carinashiflett.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">By Carina</a></div>Mr. Gonzalezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05791154978308055567noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7012171685159484931.post-42184908438720947862021-03-28T21:01:00.000-07:002021-03-28T21:01:11.758-07:00Help Promote a Business for Cleaning Plastic<p align="center"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoINiP8tl-a2t5Pfq8PEbZXp9EzHedto3-uOnBd3HzszOtdyhQpqIWIC5ApTFRMiDCVvgnQmvErq3bufj-VR7qfReMIVSXVhdr_iPA7_ubW2-fVKOJhyphenhyphenrvXsQDmzrDEIvicWIAOeoBqiQ/s279/Plastic+meme.png" style="color: #33aaff; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px; margin-center: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="237" data-original-width="279" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoINiP8tl-a2t5Pfq8PEbZXp9EzHedto3-uOnBd3HzszOtdyhQpqIWIC5ApTFRMiDCVvgnQmvErq3bufj-VR7qfReMIVSXVhdr_iPA7_ubW2-fVKOJhyphenhyphenrvXsQDmzrDEIvicWIAOeoBqiQ/w384-h326/Plastic+meme.png" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="384" /></a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"> It is a nice lovely day and you really want to go to the beach and you really want to go for a swim today. You get to the beach and you see that the water is FILLED with plastic! You know that people are working on cleaning the ocean but they haven't gotten to our beach. You get mad and impatient and you wish that you can fix this.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"> You actually can fix it! All you have to do is try to help promote the people or businesses that are already getting plastic out of the ocean. One business that is really good called the ocean cleanup (link in bibliography) is trying really hard. You can make a blog or website where it promotes them, you can then buy their recycled plastic so that they get more money to get more plastic out of the ocean. <br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"> The ocean cleanup puts nets where currents are so that the garbage patches just float right into the nets. A boat comes and empties the net once it is full. They also have a solution to stop garbage from even getting into the ocean. A robot boat called the "interceptor" stops the garbage from leaving rivers, and "intercepts" it which stops it from even getting into the ocean. Once the boat gets full another boat comes in and takes out the garbage and then makes the plastic into something else and then sells it it (by the way the ocean cleanup is a non profit business.) This is also an example for how you can promote businesses like the ocean cleanup.<br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"> #Water2Me, What does water mean to me? Water means clean water to drink and able to eat because all of the animals use water and we eat them. I also love a bunch of water sports and if there is no useable water then I can't swim or any of that.<br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"> Bibliography<br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><a href="https://theoceancleanup.com/" style="color: #336699; text-decoration-line: none;">https://theoceancleanup.com/</a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><a href="https://alansfactoryoutlet.com/7-types-of-plastics-their-toxicity-and-most-commonly-used-for/" style="color: #336699; text-decoration-line: none;">https://alansfactoryoutlet.com/7-types-of-plastics-their-toxicity-and-most-commonly-used-for/</a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><a href="https://milesscienceblog.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">By Miles</a></p><div><br /></div>Mr. Gonzalezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05791154978308055567noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7012171685159484931.post-13967634756519907752021-03-28T21:00:00.001-07:002021-03-28T21:00:57.459-07:00Water Contamination! Drink it? What do I do?<p> <span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;">Public Service </span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Announcement</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidmmkv4OIIN29PqPITbvUN79TNSd9UamC1uQyeheSjPaJkguJPQcVL2a_rgLFvbMr-J3zJ1ecIFy8G41b3vx5RQiWXwMDOxFY0uvpOIx8HuLQOGUw426QYvkNQPiuaBFFxrYq1Iv6zDPUt/s1200/My+Post.png" style="color: #d52a33; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="670" data-original-width="1200" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidmmkv4OIIN29PqPITbvUN79TNSd9UamC1uQyeheSjPaJkguJPQcVL2a_rgLFvbMr-J3zJ1ecIFy8G41b3vx5RQiWXwMDOxFY0uvpOIx8HuLQOGUw426QYvkNQPiuaBFFxrYq1Iv6zDPUt/w486-h272/My+Post.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="486" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: medium;">Contaminated Drinking Water</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #666666;"> What if your drinking water could cause cancer, would you drink your tap water? There are many infectious microorganisms that may be found in drinking water such as bacteria, viruses, protozoans, pesticides, parasites and more. Which you shouldn’t drink because they can make you sick and some can kill you. By the year 2025 half of the earth’s population will be living in water-stressed places. There're at least 2 billion people in the world with their drinking water that is contaminated with feces. Plastics, pesticides and pathogens go into the list of items that are not safe to drink. People’s water that is contaminated can cause diseases such as diarrhea, cholera, dysentery, typhoid, and polio, just to name a few. Waterborne diseases are illnesses caused by the microorganisms in water that haven't been treated. If every single person on this earth had access to safe and clean drinking water these diseases wouldn’t exist. Things that can cause contaminated water are oil pollution, marine dumping, radioactive substances and your sewer lines leaking and getting in the water. All of the things I just told you could be bacteria, diseases, pathogens and more going into the water. The National Primary Drinking Water Regulations (NPDWR) legally apply standards and some ways to treat your water but you can still help. Treating the water by following standards protects the public health by putting a limit on the contaminant levels of your drinking water. High levels of exposure to PFAS could suppress your immune system and raise the risk of being infected with COVID-19. So what can you do to help?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: medium;">Consequences</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #666666;">Consequences of contaminated drinking water are countless such as you becoming ill or dying from something in your water. Contaminants in Public Water Systems could lead to outbreaks of multiple illnesses, parasitic infections, compromised immune systems leading to multiple diseases. The water pollution will come from chemicals and microorganisms contaminating creeks, streams, rivers, oceans, lakes and other water bodies. Pesticide normally causes damage to your nervous system, that’s what will cause cancer from the carbamates and organophosphates. If your drinking water holds unsafe qualities of contaminants, which can cause health issues including cancer, gastrointestinal sickness, nervous system or reproductive system. There is a sizable importance for water especially drinking water, the average American will drink 1-2 liters of water a day. In the United States of America our water comes from fresh surface waters and groundwater aquifers.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: medium;">We Can Help</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #666666;">How do we help prevent drinking water pollution? You can help prevent drinking water contamination by raising awareness, spacing your septic and well away from each other, filtering your water, packing out what you pack in when in nature, and making inventive solutions. If you are flushing things down the toilet that should go in the garbage change that habit. Help make sure debris is not going into the water from sidewalks and your driveways by going out and sweeping it up, compost rather than putting items in the garbage to go to the dump. If you live near water, toss out any fats, grease and definitely hygiene products so they don’t clog pipes and tubes and burst contaminating the body of water. There is a solution that people did when they found out about some of the things in the water for example the LifeStraw, they came up with this idea because at first there were thousands maybe even hundreds of thousands of people who got sick with the guinea worm in Africa. In 2020 it went down to 27 human cases of guinea worm. You drink water with guinea worm larvae in it, the larvae becomes a worm inside of your body and then it comes out of your foot as a guinea worm. This would happen almost every time someone drank the water. If you want to help prevent drinking water contamination it will take inventive ideas and many people helping raise awareness and being proactive. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: medium;">My solution</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #666666;">My idea to help prevent drinking contaminated water is a filtration water bottle. It will filter out lead, metal, microorganisms, pesticides, protozoans and other contaminants in the water, so that the water is clean and safe to drink without becoming sick. You will be able to use the water bottle to filter your water in your daily life, when you go on camping trips, hiking, and other places that you need to filter your water. The filter will be made of creped paper. The turbidity level of grade 202 of the reeve angel creped paper filter is 62 NTUs (Nephelometric Turbidity Unit).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NZxNXUwvYrk" width="320" youtube-src-id="NZxNXUwvYrk"></iframe></div><br /><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: medium;">Meso Paper</span></div><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7369ae78-7fff-588d-177d-683026d8cca9"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 259px; overflow: hidden; width: 492px;"><img height="259" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/JGhtZq7T05_qbpkBbpltjkIa-rpHmpB_BqgHXfQd0-p2LBy36qwWFT0QO4uX93fzY5hJ9oT1AQKAd_l_91Y56oETZoBstag5wZywZvTQQ0n0v70U43RPEOrqxzuPA1jk9HcrsXAv" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 8px;" width="492" /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">Meso paper is something else that filters water into a cup. Meso paper filters out microorganisms, lead, metal and toxins. It uses natural fiber that is biodegradable, you are able to use it multiple times and it is not harmful. It makes it so that there is safe water, filtering out the contamination. Meso paper is made of bamboo fiber and ceramic. Meso paper is safe because it passed the NSF international safety test. The hole size is 40-50 nanometers. Meso Paper will make water that is unhealthy, clean and safe to drink. </span></div><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBL4_8I-A6Gb1P3gBQjJMcfSzDPJ56-K5d-lmP3WhXdEHVJc3emXZbW8lnuEDAOshQiZ-OKX5FnB8TWhDOws6B7rsed6fKnOwXWwnyEnZiyk-r5swzjmQTS-59TkZFKbKsHJvDD0RWJc_b/s480/World+water+day.jpg" style="color: #d52a33; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="480" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBL4_8I-A6Gb1P3gBQjJMcfSzDPJ56-K5d-lmP3WhXdEHVJc3emXZbW8lnuEDAOshQiZ-OKX5FnB8TWhDOws6B7rsed6fKnOwXWwnyEnZiyk-r5swzjmQTS-59TkZFKbKsHJvDD0RWJc_b/w416-h312/World+water+day.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="416" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://files.classcraft.com/game/uploads/ouLBkyxdLzMzW8jHh/1616084654710/WWD2021_toolkit_ENG.pdf" style="color: #d52a33; text-decoration-line: none;">World Water Day!</a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #073763;">World Water Day #Water2Me</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #073763;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;">World water day is on March 22 . There are many ways that we can think about water and how we can appreciate water. I enjoy going to the lake, and going boating because I get to Wakeboard, surf and play on the water. On December 22, 1992 they declared world water day to be on March 22. So ever since 1993 world water day has been on March 22 and that was also the year that world water day started.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: medium;">My Sources</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;">“Cities with the most contaminated tap water in the US” Aria Bendix Mar. 17, 2020</span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;">https://www.businessinsider.com/cities-worst-tap-water-us-2019-3#residents-of-brady-texas-are-worried-about-radium-in-their-water-supply-7</span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;"><br /></span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;">“Across the U.S., millions of people are drinking unsafe water” Lynne Peeples, Great Lakes Now Sep. 15, 2020</span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><u>https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2020/09/drinking-unsafe-water-contaminants-solutions/</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;"><br /></span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;">“Microorganisms that may be found in drinking water” Environmental Health 2021</span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;">https://www.mecknc.gov/HealthDepartment/EnvironmentalHealth/GWS/Pages/Learn%20About%20Contaminants.aspx#:~:text=The%20principle%20bacteria%20pathogens%20that,fever%3B%20Shigella%20dysenteriae%2C%20S. </span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;"><br /></span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;">“Drinking water” World Health Organization June 14, 2019</span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;">https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/drinking-water#:~:text=785%20million%20people%20lack%20even,water%20source%20contaminated%20with%20faeces.</span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;"><br /></span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;">“Waterborne diseases” Lifewater 2021</span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;">https://lifewater.org/blog/7-most-common-waterborne-diseases-and-how-to-prevent-them/#:~:text=Waterborne%20diseases%20are%20illnesses%20caused,these%20diseases%20would%20not%20exist.</span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;"><br /></span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;">“National Primary Drinking Water Regulations” EPA January 5, 2021</span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;">https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/national-primary-drinking-water-regulations</span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;"><br /></span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;">“Waterborne diseases and preventing them” CDC April 24, 2019</span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;">https://www.cdc.gov/ncezid/dfwed/waterborne/index.html</span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;"><br /></span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;">“Contamination on Public water systems” CDC April 7, 2014</span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;">https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/drinking/public/water_diseases.html</span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;"><br /></span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;">“Contamination affects” EPA Sep. 11, 2018</span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;">https://www.epa.gov/report-environment/drinking-water#:~:text=If%20drinking%20water%20contains%20unsafe,chronic%20diseases%20such%20as%20cancer.</span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;"><br /></span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;">“Guinea worm Information” LifeStraw </span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;">https://www.lifestraw.com/pages/guinea-worm-eradication</span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;"><br /></span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;">“Water pollution” NRDC May 14, 2018</span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;">https://www.nrdc.org/stories/water-pollution-everything-you-need-know</span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;"><br /></span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;">"Water filter" Meso Paper 2018</span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;">http://mesofilter.com/mesopaper-fact-sheet </span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><u><span style="color: #20124d;">http://mesofilter.com/mesopaper</span></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: medium;">My Picture</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><u>Ildar Sagdejev “Dirty water spilling from a bottle.” Sep. 20, 2008.</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><u>Dirty water spilling from a bottle</u></span></div><div><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f7cb144d-7fff-899c-cde1-e1f74cdcb9f8"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 231px; overflow: hidden; width: 517px;"><img height="231" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/uev2eUPsPfMmdwyZxAS8mPUuMxj6vxn5rr1Dv0GdbDstH0-xRr3NnSn7avGLHIqiiCtH34fZLx3iSFZYQAsXVF6zwbcLmSE27VqjYKJljXBd3W0AcjZ0uJL-0Ub7h26kL-Wo0jKc" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 8px;" width="517" /></span></span></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d422af3a-7fff-470d-14f9-f9ce76c12c88"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 407px; overflow: hidden; width: 521px;"><img height="407" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/CUTjdgZARir48nHlbRJv4P27qPwCmCpgcEelFwM0ptE3tTZPPnxr_-wx8d6Vf0F7Za1yCa0LEXCJh82OYg-vsDlsgLIdvRYwa4n80QhW02Y1l5taZJ3w8EmvUV-ml3ejcM2czqkT" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 8px;" width="521" /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here is data from a google form that I did for Sixth Grade to find out information from the people in my grade and what they think. Also to see what they would think of Contaminated water.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://breannehuntingford.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">By Breanne</a></span></span></p>Mr. Gonzalezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05791154978308055567noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7012171685159484931.post-25753315156691003052021-03-22T12:31:00.010-07:002021-03-22T12:55:36.667-07:00PSA - Toxic and Hazardous Waste Water Pollution<h1 style="text-align: left;">Toxic and Hazardous Waste </h1><h1 style="text-align: left;">A Water Pollution Public Service Announcement</h1><div class="post-outer" style="border: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.25em; position: relative;"><div class="post" style="margin-top: 0px;"><div class="post-body entry-content float-container" id="post-body-5404093574987700909" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1.5em 0px 2em; text-align: left;"><p style="color: #201f20; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 376px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><img height="241" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/VTk05QqrZyrk_hrzt6etZzFgnLnkKXnpzf-UB-tOGJMGzHMk8rswttnsCebSWQZY3qhxvFAWrSfhruAYOm0VL-AGhcKp6hP9UWiHmbmCy5bLutHSPYop_WD71gae3uxMXPqvoeJI=w400-h241" style="border: 0px; height: inherit; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%;" width="400" /></span></span></p><p style="color: #201f20; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></p><div style="color: #201f20; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Frijole, cursive; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Hazardous waste:</span></div><div style="color: #201f20; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Don't drink poisonous water! Hazardous or toxic waste eventually ends up in our water. By taking simple steps in recycling toxics and proper disposal methods we can reduce pollution and protect our water systems. Hazardou waste is </div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Some examples include pesticides, automotive fluids, fluorescent light bulbs, rechargeable batteries, some household chemicals, mercury, oils, and fuel.</div></div><div style="color: #201f20; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Frijole, cursive; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Consequences:<br /></span></span><span style="color: #201f20; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Hazardous waste gets on the ground. It can contaminate the soil, which could also contaminate the groundwater or nearby surface water. Many household products, fertilizers, and pesticides contain hazardous chemicals. These can travel through the soil and contaminate groundwater. Many consumer products can contain toxic chemicals and in many cases there are less toxic alternatives you can choose from.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="color: black; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span style="color: #201f20; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Less toxic chemicals are better for your health and safer around your home and family. More toxic chemicals can irritate skin, cause breathing problems, and poison children and pets.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Frijole, cursive; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">How you can prevent water pollution:<br /></span>Read and follow signs to conserve or save water, post more signs around your neighborhood, take your toxic wastes to the county dump station, or you could join an earth day volunteer project to help clean up your local area.</div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;">The county dump has a hazardous waste disposal program that identifies toxic waste and how to dispose of it. </div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;">Make up signs to post around your community with a message that reminds residents that storm drains dump directly into their local water source, make a poster about ways to save water at home like turning off the water when you're brushing your teeth or only running the dishwasher when you have a full load.</div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;">People can choose safer products. Look for products that have an EPA Safer Choice logo, used to indicate the products that meet US EPA safer product standards. Products with this label use the safest ingredients, and are just as effective as other similar products. Products to choose from that can be less toxic include, all-purpose cleaners, bathroom cleaners, degreasers, soaps, and laundry detergents.</div><div style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Frijole, cursive; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">What's A Solution:<br /></span><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">My solution is to post signs around our local towns and community areas. Simple reminders will show and tell people of possible water pollution problems. Signs telling people how to dispose and recycle waste will reduce pollution in our soils and water systems. Many signs are available telling people how to conserve water, help not waste water, and stop water pollution.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">What I want to do is to share available information about the county's waste program to let people know how to handle toxics and household waste. I can also make up informative posters out of cardboard or sign poster material. I would use markers, glue, stickers, and tape to decorate and create colorful information boards. With help communities can learn how to manage solid and hazardous waste. They can also choose to use less toxic chemicals in the products we use. By learning proper disposal methods for the everyday household products and using more green practices we can protect our valuable water resources. </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;">Here is an example of the Jefferson County Solid Waste household hazardous waste disposal flyer.</span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="color: #201f20; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span face="Calibri,sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #e76d80; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><a href="https://solidwaste.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/2020-hhw-facility-flyer.pdf" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #e76d80; font-size: 15px; text-decoration-line: none;">127862_HHW facility_WEB (wordpress.com)</a></span></div></div><div style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><img height="340" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/bQV7ugUCOSCVGgPSwmZVzT_85kOUl3I474fwlOdPRySjILCl6Y4hPA26geW4uJaKXWxkDs9zNr_CvCF3wVATOrdCiSGL1xJk_SP1e1SFj9u18B8I1YtZ2ZWgvrZJjq8p_zhyTejt" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12pt; height: inherit; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%; white-space: pre;" width="259" /></div><div style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #e76d80;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; white-space: pre;"><u><br /></u></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Frijole, cursive; font-size: 24px;">Sources:</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Source Water Protection (SWP). Easy Things You Can Do To Protect Drinking Water Source. <br /></span><a href="https://www.epa.gov/sourcewaterprotection/easy-things-you-can-do-protect-drinking-water-sources#:~:text=%20Easy%20Things%20You%20Can%20Do%20To%20Protect,You%20can%20make%20new%20friends%20while...%20More" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #e76d80; font-size: 15px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://www.epa.gov/sourcewaterprotection/easy-things-you-can-do</span></a><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Cleveland Clinic. Household Chemical Products and Their Health Risk.<br /></span><a href="https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/11397-household-chemical-products-and-their-health-risk" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #e76d80; font-size: 15px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health</span></a><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Washington State Department of Ecology. Publications and Forms. Wastes and Toxics.<br /></span><a href="https://ecology.wa.gov/Search-Results?searchtext=Dangerous+waste+basics&searchmode=allwords" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #e76d80; font-size: 15px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://ecology.wa.gov</span></a><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Jefferson County, WA – Solid Waste Program<br /></span><a href="https://jeffersoncountysolidwaste.com/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #e76d80; font-size: 15px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">https://jeffersoncountysolidwaste.com/</span></a><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Jefferson County Solid Waste. Hazardous Waste Flyer.<br /></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1155cc; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><a href="https://solidwaste.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/2020-hhw-facility-flyer.pdf" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #e76d80; text-decoration-line: none;">https://solidwaste.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/2020-hhw-facility-flyer.pdf</a></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #201f20;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">By </span></span><a href="https://charlottetsscienceblog.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #201f20; font-size: 15px;" target="_blank">Charli T</a></div></div></div></div>Mr. Gonzalezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05791154978308055567noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7012171685159484931.post-80006591665492611402021-03-22T12:26:00.003-07:002021-03-22T12:26:58.245-07:00Growing Food Polluting?<p> <u style="color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">FARMING POLLUTION </u></p><div class="post-outer" style="border: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.25em; position: relative;"><div class="post" style="margin-top: 0px;"><div class="post-body entry-content float-container" id="post-body-8482039434393140280" style="color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1.5em 0px 2em;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy3V-O13-Efhkx5AEKszrDZxIjNcp6HBHHBmo6Ut5QOJWaDAnTPTZDNB-1n4S8VMc5xbciSPTmA0LyO29DppkACD0V1Sy3EiNb_2cr5ghNw-mZzIXewpdpiyY9wx4oiS-TAFJMSlCeTVw/s1200/My+Post+%25281%2529.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2196f3; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="670" data-original-width="1200" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy3V-O13-Efhkx5AEKszrDZxIjNcp6HBHHBmo6Ut5QOJWaDAnTPTZDNB-1n4S8VMc5xbciSPTmA0LyO29DppkACD0V1Sy3EiNb_2cr5ghNw-mZzIXewpdpiyY9wx4oiS-TAFJMSlCeTVw/w495-h216/My+Post+%25281%2529.png" style="border: 0px; height: inherit; max-width: 100%;" width="495" /></b></a></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>What if I told you fertilizing our crops/lawns is hurting our environment? Well, when we fertilize our lawns and crops we can be polluting flowing water. When you fertilize your lawn the water is lifting the fertilizer and carrying the fertilizer into the nearest water source. Then the fertilizer is polluting that water source.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF8Dqo5wzmBLQjNrmFrOa6QK0KQNklL2Bqu7vFul0FzzS_DycC8Zt52vKJMwylBFwBV_HMDRA3vKhLc6nznYzmjjZn0UCq8j0r2UtOcymaWtRyxfmfT2zJl7MIZO36-8Vb2bRTaaBU9Tk/s1080/My+Post+%25282%2529.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2196f3; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF8Dqo5wzmBLQjNrmFrOa6QK0KQNklL2Bqu7vFul0FzzS_DycC8Zt52vKJMwylBFwBV_HMDRA3vKhLc6nznYzmjjZn0UCq8j0r2UtOcymaWtRyxfmfT2zJl7MIZO36-8Vb2bRTaaBU9Tk/s320/My+Post+%25282%2529.png" style="border: 0px; height: inherit; max-width: 100%;" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>One out of the many water sources affected by farming is the Mississippi River. The Mississippi River is now brown because of all of the pollutions from farming. The turbidity levels of the Mississippi River would be terribly high. The tap water from most Mississippi homes is toxic and isn't safe to drink or use. </b></span></div><div><b style="font-family: helvetica;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AFtdTnyTUZ0" style="max-width: 100%;" width="320" youtube-src-id="AFtdTnyTUZ0"></iframe></div></b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></div><div>I did an experiment to see how we can fix this pollution problem. This slideshow is the process (if you can't see the slideshow below, <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1z6AGx4R0yoX_WU3_kCN2EHBT3xvsoPrhwL4OlkzhwDc/edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2196f3; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">click here</a>):</div><blockquote style="border: none; color: #444444; font-size: x-large; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></blockquote><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="299" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vSGVsJl1RL2WHSiS971Oqo3MlVXviUujpcVTwHwh6sKZxiDUOK3KPX360_LZEytIPTxuQiY9cWakR6w/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000" style="max-width: 100%;" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="480"></iframe></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Why do you value water? Well, think about it March 22nd is National water day. I value water. My family always hits the water in the summer we water, ski wakeboard, tube and etc. We even have a pool. The time I value water is with my family. That's why water means so much to me. Think about it some of your best memories could be in the water or you could value good drinking water. If you value water why are you helping pollute it? </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">#WorldWaterDay #Water2Me</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">We can fix this problem and we will!!! </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Bibliography </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="https://www.epa.gov/nutrientpollution/sources-and-solutions-agriculture" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2196f3; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://www.epa.gov/nutrientpollution/sources-and-solutions-agriculture</span></a></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.epa.gov/nutrientpollution/sources-and-solutions-agriculture" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2196f3; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.epa.gov/nutrientpollution/sources-and-solutions-agriculture</a></span><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/AFtdTnyTUZ0?rel=0" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2196f3; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/AFtdTnyTUZ0?rel=0</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/nutpollution.html#:~:text=Nutrient%20pollution%20is%20the%20process,and%20garden%20fertilizers%20are%20used.&text=When%20the%20algae%20and%20seagrass%20die%2C%20they%20decay." style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2196f3; text-decoration-line: none;">https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/nutpollution.html#:~:text=Nutrient%20pollution%20is%20the%20process,and%20garden%20fertilizers%20are%20used.&text=When%20the%20algae%20and%20seagrass%20die%2C%20they%20decay.</a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://homeguides.sfgate.com/fertilizers-pollutants-78452.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2196f3; text-decoration-line: none;">https://homeguides.sfgate.com/fertilizers-pollutants-78452.html</a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2196f3; font-size: medium; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/publications/environment-natural-resources/environmental-implications-of-excess-fertilizer-and-manure-on-water-quality" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2196f3; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.ag.ndsu.edu/publications/environment-natural-resources/environmental-implications-of-excess-fertilizer-and-manure-on-water-quality</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div>By <a href="https://graceescienceblog.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gracee L</a></div></div></div></div>Mr. Gonzalezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05791154978308055567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7012171685159484931.post-77496387346239890342021-03-19T07:33:00.001-07:002021-03-19T07:34:42.762-07:00Look at the Lovely Sea<h3 style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOkjMHji6VOrKByL_nXu-dJWbsjiSrATJA5szGpEo2HwbRbPnx4fE39XpMMSOfxKBjrlqrZHCZWsfpjzVLemcqyegaLpMYIKzqeIOrAuZ2eBMBNAf_gNQ20HZThj8hG_Msd53K6WHSJsM/s1800/og-logo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOkjMHji6VOrKByL_nXu-dJWbsjiSrATJA5szGpEo2HwbRbPnx4fE39XpMMSOfxKBjrlqrZHCZWsfpjzVLemcqyegaLpMYIKzqeIOrAuZ2eBMBNAf_gNQ20HZThj8hG_Msd53K6WHSJsM/s320/og-logo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> Presentation (<a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1O7xHzwADVOZc50GWaZbjR7634Pv12SPgJlhCEEo3wCU/edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here to open the slides on a new tab</a>):</h3><p><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="356" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRZZx9TUGEdo5X_t1jiwOD9T2-uNiso6vff-x3mE9Yq8TEjDLMY7FjeBMOFFT8JnHGB5oEXjkwRa2f0/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="600"></iframe><br /></p><p>By <a href="https://roslundm.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rosie M</a></p>Mr. Gonzalezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05791154978308055567noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7012171685159484931.post-17394433519274832942021-03-18T10:25:00.000-07:002021-03-18T10:25:29.604-07:00Oil Spills? Get a Vacuum<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">PSA</span></p><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" id="docs-internal-guid-b60f9f6e-7fff-3454-37df-c73d47f1a866" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-size: 15px;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx4YtP6bl5sfMAHA7mm1fQjz6GPZlWX-LxWzQGcyOAsavu9SGJKRil-v_LRc9LygE3PABwEiXoGY5V8TWDNrqfGpstF_nY_ORSgMahOhM5HJDMr72lfuBY7AwszZ7OfCOvGysJrRdaap4/s1077/My+Post.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="669" data-original-width="1077" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx4YtP6bl5sfMAHA7mm1fQjz6GPZlWX-LxWzQGcyOAsavu9SGJKRil-v_LRc9LygE3PABwEiXoGY5V8TWDNrqfGpstF_nY_ORSgMahOhM5HJDMr72lfuBY7AwszZ7OfCOvGysJrRdaap4/s320/My+Post.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Frijole, cursive; font-size: 16pt; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oil Spills:</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oil spills happen a lot around the world and it is horrible for the ocean. Oil spills happen when oil tubes explode and the oil from the ocean goes all over. When oil tubes explode they suck the oil out of the ground in the ocean and just keeps going until it gets fixed. Once it gets fixed they have to make sure that it has no cracks and they have to make sure that the machine is still working because it has been smothered in oil. Once they fix it they have to go into deeper parts of the ocean to get animals and clean them off and take them in so they don’t get into more oil.</span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Frijole, cursive; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Consequences:</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The consequences are that all the sea life in that ocean dies because they get smothered in oil.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If all of our sea life dies then we can’t have calamari or fish. All the people that get protein from seafood will have to eat the out of the ordinary food (What I mean for out of the ordinary is that it is not normal for “Them”). Seafood is very healthy for us and can give us protein and if we don’t have that source of protein then we will have to eat more of other animals like cows, pigs etc. If we eat more of those animals then we will run out because we have eaten so much that we will not have the time to breed them for more cows. We will just eat them.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Frijole, cursive; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How can we help:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Us humans can help by putting types of machines out in the water to clean up the oily water and we could also make the oil tubes stronger so they do not spew out any oil when it blows up. Another way we could help is that we have eyes on the oil tubes 24/7 like scuba divers will go into the ocean and check it all out before setting a camera somewhere and some people watching the video like a security camera. Another way we could make sure that oil spill don’t happen we could protect the tube with more metal, and plastic around it so if the first layer cracks we can still have 2 more layers to break through and the time it would break the other layers we would have it completely fixed up,</span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Frijole, cursive; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My Solution:</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My solution is that we put a machine called the (Swasher) and it cleans the oily water like this:</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 200px; overflow: hidden; width: 252px;"><img height="200" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/6qxvpgNvcC4xz9U4Ug-iEJSsTi7YN5aXbF_DuIFU1PsE12QWFe38ByyZcB7Ox19WXSaa8ZULPnQnx0WxBpECaXODCh7Uxd619Ly6joA70AZsG2OQkimWbfA6fDtTNz1WKm18rtrX" style="border: 0px; height: inherit; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%;" width="252" /></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We do that except with oil. The machine will have little holes that water can go through but the oil particles will stay in there. The water will be pressed down through the small holes. It will be all the stuff that sea water will only have in it and not oil. Once the water is completely pushed out the oil particles will go into a separate container that sucks it up so the other oil particles will stay in it. This part works like a vacuum:</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 453px; overflow: hidden; width: 400px;"><img height="453" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/x810NPI-Y_1WooLL4v01BO0qLoBdIYTRDm_Vr6gKiLbqKM5RmbCZcZPDARZGdT9EARXz9_FQw-viIbLH_U0xjzVevLcnt6vdALSVU3MKjLCtywJFR9a46b8ovM9ASdgZtyBKtShb" style="border: 0px; height: inherit; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%;" width="400" /></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Frijole, cursive; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Show Your Sources!</span><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Frijole, cursive; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where I learned how a vacuum works and how it is the same as my device is from:</span><a href="https://home.howstuffworks.com/vacuum-cleaner.htm" style="background: transparent; color: #2196f3; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://home.howstuffworks.com/vacuum-cleaner.htm</span></a></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I got my information about how the oil would be pushed down enough to where it would push the water out and the oil would stay behind:</span><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/121935927@N06/13580040284/in/photostream/" style="background: transparent; color: #2196f3; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.flickr.com/photos/121935927@N06/13580040284/in/photostream/</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How the machine will spray out the water that gets into the oil spot:</span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://alexanderell.is/posts/check-valve/" style="background: transparent; color: #2196f3; text-decoration-line: none;">https://alexanderell.is/posts/check-valve/</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">By <a href="https://dekenlorenzen.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Deken</a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE5z5FFK-LFRNaIPJz6RHaucPbBCdXY4xf0OcrujOuHf8XLIkm7l6NlCYNfiMA8SsgIIa2Y_Te09K7Z-N-h0Y7RmccBtC5MfVCsA8fBQl_sfUhkOoKDnwAlLKjlssKRtSq02UxCOgrVaY/s1800/og-logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE5z5FFK-LFRNaIPJz6RHaucPbBCdXY4xf0OcrujOuHf8XLIkm7l6NlCYNfiMA8SsgIIa2Y_Te09K7Z-N-h0Y7RmccBtC5MfVCsA8fBQl_sfUhkOoKDnwAlLKjlssKRtSq02UxCOgrVaY/s320/og-logo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p></span>Mr. Gonzalezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05791154978308055567noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7012171685159484931.post-44963107582422210352021-03-18T07:30:00.004-07:002021-03-21T16:13:18.731-07:00Lovely Day on the Lake<p style="text-align: center;"> <img height="344" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/p1S9h8lFLuebr5m_yxPNjT2Y99UkQJToTEAtDwf10djHqcjPEoPDgoMKgFZ9GW39nTZWLyLWN5KXl9JoOUXroFhkmfSFcvXksEl53VUbRQwn-Vjr1_aGOU_Tg_9X5j6kgDtVn1tN" style="font-family: Verdana; 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Your family is visiting Twin Lakes and decides to have a beach day at the lower lake. You walk in the warm sand towards the cool water and a breeze hits your face. You are instantly refreshed when you submerge into the deep water. You dunk your head underwater, only to see the glimmer of toxic metals amongst the sand! You push yourself to the surface and gasp for air and when you open your eyes you see that all around you are rotting disgusting dead fish. It's a lovely day on the lake.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #757575; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Thankfully, this isn't what lower Twin Lakes looks like YET. But the mining in areas surrounding the lake will cause this eventually unless something is done. The lower lake connects to many small streams and rivers that carry toxic metals like aluminum and lead from the important mining industries in Northern Idaho. It isn't just Twin Lakes that's affected. Many other large lakes such as Coeur D'alene Lake are suffering from toxic metal pollution as well. But that's not the only problem. Algae blooms are also taking over! Algae blooms are poisonous to fish and wildlife. Something must be done.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #757575; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> This is an interesting problem because the mining industry is big, important to the economy of Idaho, and provides lots of jobs for people. The community could try and find alternatives to relying on mining for money like working at a supermarket or starting a small business. The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality also has resources for schools, citizens, and businesses to help them cut down on waste and pollution. People can research and join local clean-up groups to try and slow down the pollution, but it's going to take a more creative idea to fix this issue. That's where I come in.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #757575; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #757575; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My solution is called “The Lake Roomba”. It would be a submersible dropped by a crane boat into one of the more heavily polluted areas of lower Twin lake. The submersible would have magnets to magnetically attract the metals, and UV sterilizers and kill toxic algae blooms simultaneously. To make sure it would not go off course there would have to be a programmed navigation system that would have multiple preset routes of the lower lake. Because algae blooms can be killed with at least 4 hours of UV interference, we would have the submersible running for at least 4 hours a day and doing different routes each time for maximum effect.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 12pt; margin-right: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #757575; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 240px; overflow: hidden; width: 320px;"><img height="240" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/KmcUrFmMhHaF4IHzBLeoJ0kY09UT6nBQFtaMDz9FhbWNyOieZ2mzsFGdTN2OqGaZs6ZiSSgifKPtyogu1OJsvjmYsyWhpIPvV2Y2_P2ilsmHwAVJ7R6ZRsU0itUTTjQO6_sCpWlW" style="margin-left: 0px; 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font-size: 11.5pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">High Country News – Know the West</span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #757575; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 24 June 2019, <a href="https://www.hcn.org/issues/51.11/pollution-a-dangerous-cocktail-threatens-the-gem-of-north-idaho" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.hcn.org/issues/51.11/pollution-a-dangerous-cocktail-threatens-the-gem-of-north-idaho</a>.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 28pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 11pt;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #757575; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sarles, Connor, and Connor Sarles. “Health Advisory Issued for Lower Twin Lake Due to Toxic Algae Blooms.” </span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #757575; font-size: 11.5pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">KXLY</span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #757575; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 19 Dec. 2019, <a href="http://www.kxly.com/health-advisory-issued-for-lower-twin-lake-due-to-toxic-algae-blooms/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.kxly.com/health-advisory-issued-for-lower-twin-lake-due-to-toxic-algae-blooms/</a>.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 11pt; margin-left: 28pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #757575; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Where This Occurs: Lakes and Rivers.” </span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #757575; font-size: 11.5pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">EPA</span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #757575; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Environmental Protection Agency, 18 Apr. 2019, <a href="https://www.epa.gov/nutrientpollution/where-occurs-lakes-and-rivers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.epa.gov/nutrientpollution/where-occurs-lakes-and-rivers</a>.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 11pt; margin-left: 28pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #757575; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 11pt; margin-left: 28pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #757575; font-size: 11.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Written by <a href="https://thewanandonlysalt.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Zachary H</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 11pt; margin-left: 28pt; margin-top: 0pt;">What water means to me (to raise awareness to water issues all over the world, the United Nations celebrates <a href="https://www.worldwaterday.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">World Water Day</a> every year and this year's <a href="https://www.worldwaterday.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">World Water Day is March 22</a>): <br /><span style="color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">What water means to me is life. We can't survive without water. We use water to drink, to clean ourselves to wash our clothes, and to power our homes. It must be hard to not have clean water or to not even have it at all.<br />#Water2Me</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOkjMHji6VOrKByL_nXu-dJWbsjiSrATJA5szGpEo2HwbRbPnx4fE39XpMMSOfxKBjrlqrZHCZWsfpjzVLemcqyegaLpMYIKzqeIOrAuZ2eBMBNAf_gNQ20HZThj8hG_Msd53K6WHSJsM/s1800/og-logo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOkjMHji6VOrKByL_nXu-dJWbsjiSrATJA5szGpEo2HwbRbPnx4fE39XpMMSOfxKBjrlqrZHCZWsfpjzVLemcqyegaLpMYIKzqeIOrAuZ2eBMBNAf_gNQ20HZThj8hG_Msd53K6WHSJsM/s320/og-logo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 11pt; margin-left: 28pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p></span>Mr. Gonzalezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05791154978308055567noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7012171685159484931.post-8917391673076719242020-05-20T13:22:00.001-07:002020-06-19T00:18:20.213-07:00Minecraft Pollinator Garden<h3 style="text-align: center;">
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Here's what kids see when they first enter the Pollinator Garden world:<br />
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Here's what their empty plot looks like before they start building:</div>
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And here's a tour <a href="https://ethansscienceblog12.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">from one of our 6th graders</a> who completed his gardens and recorded a tour on the assignment Flipgrid:</div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Acidification is the process where a substance yields a hydrogen ion when dissolved into water. This means that it gives up the positive hydrogen in its molecular structure and binds with the water. So when CO2 dissolves into the H2O, it forms carbonic acid. And when the hydrogen in the water is yielded, it becomes a bicarbonate ion. But where does the hydrogen ion go? Well, there are lots of particles and other things in water. But the one that shellfish like oysters, muscles, and clams all use to build their shell is called calcium carbonate or CaCO3 which is one calcium, one carbon, and three oxygens. But the hydrogen ion likes the calcium as well and will fight the shellfish and coral for the calcium carbonate. This results in the shellfish trying to find carbonate to build their shells rather than finding places to eat or hide from predators. Anyway, the hydrogen ions are what make the oceanic pH drop and the reason that they’re even in the ocean is because of all of the carbon dioxide that is created when we burn fossil fuels to generate the energy we use to power our lives.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> The United States of America has been one of the first countries to be affected by Ocean Acidifica<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">tion. The Puget Sound has <i>The </i>most corrosive waters in the world. </span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium;">The water that the oysters grow up in is so low pH that they are dying within two days after being raised in it. </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">If th</span>at isn't saying we've been hit, I don't know what is. Maybe if our rain was dissolving trees or something, but the water is corrosive enough to dissolve the baby oysters in hatcheries. That's right, <span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the </span><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">oysters are actually dissolving in the water that they're being raised in. The waters of the </span></span><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Kitsap Puget Sound have made a huge leap in acidification ever since the Industrial Revolution. Upwelling is how most of this acidification happens. One of the processes of this kind of upwelling, is when the ocean</span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium;"> plankton absorb the carbon from the air in the water is then getting eaten by fish that live deeper and they’re taking that carbon dioxide even deeper and then upwelling brings all of that extra CO2 and making the surface more corrosive. Upwelling is natural, but when it upwells so much CO2 that it is increasing the oceanic acidity, it's a minor problem.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"> There are so many things that we <i>could</i> be doing to help stop the climate crisis, but we aren't. </span><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The answer to the question, “Who will win, climate change or us?” is determined by two other questions. “Can we power our lives with much less CO2,” and if the answer to that question is yes, then the second question is, “Will we do it?” The answer to the first question is pretty straight forward, of course, we can use less CO2. But the second, the answer depends on a few things. Scientists say that in order to protect the worst effects of climate change, we cannot let our planet warm by over 2 degrees Celsius, and we’ve already almost reached 1 degree. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> And a quick piece of information, the amount of energy you need to warm the entire planet even 1 degree Celsius, or 34 degrees Fahrenheit, is so tremendous compared to how it happens naturally. For the planet to warm naturally like this would require hundreds of thousands to millions of years. And now some things about how energy is generated in the US. In a fuel plant, they have many turbines that are turned by burning fossil fuels that heat up water, and then the water turns to steam, then the steam turns the turbine which generates energy. But there are many other efficient, and Earth-friendly. Like using water and wind to turn the turbine instead. Or, you could pull energy directly from the sun with solar panels. And even some places use the geothermal vents in the earth to power plants and generate electrical energy. These resources are renewable energy sources, unlike fossil fuels which are nonrenewable sources which means that there are a lot of them, but eventually, they will run out.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">I have learned much about climate change in this learning course. Some key details I think that I should state are that the average American takes up about 16 football fields of square feet. Almost 80% of the energy we </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">almost 80% of the energy we use right now comes from burning fossil fuels. </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">There has never been more than 300ppm of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere for over 800,00 years until just a couple decades ago. Which is over 100 times faster than the previous 800,000 years.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The planet is actually really beautiful and humans are very smart. The CO2 emissions are what keep the planet warm, but too much can lead to great heat spikes that have never been reached before. </span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In being able to create a big change in the world, they have to see the truth and what is really happening. Many people have taken action and speak up about our global crisis. There are thousands of young people speaking out in front of other nations, politicians, and protesting and pointing the finger at our US government about how crooked we really are and how little we’re doing about the problem. If our generation of people keeps doing this for the next few years and the government decides to do something about it, our movement can move the world.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium;"> DOT is Doing One Thing for climate change. There are so many things that you can do to help put a stop to the growing global atmospheric temperatures. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium;"> Well, I have decided to do multiple different things. A lot of these things I just do casually like turning the lights off, reducing my waste, recycling, and riding my bike places. But what I've changed? I decided to not eat so much meat, use cleaner energy (Haven't got to the solar panels yet), I have never let the water run while I've brushed my teeth, and I also have washed my hands not in cold water, but in cooler water. I know, not much right? But sometimes, in a whole year, those things add up to be a lot. If that wasn't true then everyone would leave their water running, throw everything in the trash. Did you know that if no one ran the water while they brushed their teeth that we could save nearly 2400 gallons of water in a year</span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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Mr. Gonzalezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05791154978308055567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7012171685159484931.post-76796530522960089112020-05-15T15:01:00.004-07:002020-06-19T00:48:34.549-07:00Oil Spills<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuzqvY2cp4CYSCoGwVuiG1r-IaeMmQicK6npAvOQMkPhmX16uBHMf2UlXMAXnzKXnf6arqtzTOzt16TMSenNwkgYtK3wn3yCQ0TfvmkzB6xp5Q4kU_PTkKcWYS5Sw8ZtSCly5ekTOfERU/s1800/og-logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuzqvY2cp4CYSCoGwVuiG1r-IaeMmQicK6npAvOQMkPhmX16uBHMf2UlXMAXnzKXnf6arqtzTOzt16TMSenNwkgYtK3wn3yCQ0TfvmkzB6xp5Q4kU_PTkKcWYS5Sw8ZtSCly5ekTOfERU/s320/og-logo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><i><br /></i></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15px;"><i>What we need to survive is what aquatic animals need as well. But with the amount of garbage (14 MILLION pounds a year), oil (1.3 MILLION gallons a year), extinction, habitat loss, and much more, soon our waters won't be drinkable. Although businesses are helping it still isn't enough. This is happening why? US.</i></span><br />
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To sum it up a little, we are just trying to use something as much as it can be used, and then turning it into something good. That's our problem right now! Not everyone is taking this into consideration, or being RESPONSIBLE when it comes to making the most out of something, and then discarding it properly. Ok, so picture this example - for every time that you do something wrong, let's say...forget to pick up your trash, and the result of this is one tree gets taken down. Let's talk about what the trees do to help us? Right...they help us breathe! But, if you compare that to all the garbage that is being washed up on what used to be a family-friendly beach or river, we would have no tree's left. We'd all die, and then look at all our wildlife that we are eliminating because of what humankind has done, and not only that but our own people too!<br />
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Pollution is everywhere and you can help! Be responsible and pick up after yourself. If you have any plastic, glass, paper, cardboard, or jugs you NEED to recycle them! It doesn't only save our planet but it saves you. It saves our planet because we aren't letting all the bad toxins used to make our garbage out where animals can reach, or decongest it. "<span style="color: #212529;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41);">Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis" Global! It's all over the world, I believe that anyone can help this problem. "</span></span><span style="color: #212529; font-size: 16px;">We’ve sued companies that turn plastic into consumer goods to better control their runoff." </span><br />
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<span style="color: #212529;">My evidence: </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/%20//www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/ocean_plastics/" target="_blank">https: //www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/ocean_plastics/</a><br />
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Ocean pollution picture: <a href="https://time.com/4133379/rio-water-pollution-olympics/">https://time.com/4133379/rio-water-pollution-olympics/</a><br />
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Ocean pollution meme: <a href="https://deathbytoxicwaste.wordpress.com/2018/05/30/hysterical-memes-hehehe/">https://deathbytoxicwaste.wordpress.com/2018/05/30/hysterical-memes-hehehe/</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Microplastics get into their digestive system and get into the fish from inside or the plastic can just stay in the fish until it is eaten or dies. You can NOT throw your bottles and garbage on the ground, instead, make sure it goes into recycling. You can go to your local beach and do a cleanup day and pick up the garbage and plastics so they don't get into the water. When you kayak or fish, you can pick up plastics you see in the water, so they don't become microplastics. </span><br />
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Even though this discovery changed the way we did things back in the 19th and 20th century, an oil spill is extremely dangerous. And one in the Ocean is even worse. Elastec is an organization that designs solutions to clean massive oil spills like in this picture. This picture is of a crashed ship that spilled just over 400,000 gallons of Heavy Fuel Oil. As you can tell, that's a lot of oil and a lot of fire. But do you see how they are containing it? They are using a very large boom to contain the oil and bring it back to a containment center or to a ship that carries it to where it needs to be. </div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">My class is working on cleaning the oceans, creeks, and rivers of plastic and garbage. Thanks to COVID 19 we have to stay at home so we do all our work while at home! By staying home I was able to find more research links for you to look at.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">I thought of making an invention that can filter water and clean it up but you can't drink out of it. I got the idea from the invention of the LifeStraw because it has a filter that removes about 99.9999% bacteria and it also removes the chance of getting Guinea worm and Giardia. Here is a list of things that LifeStraw can filter: Poop water, toilet water, mud puddle, pond water, clear water, and spit water, things that Life Straw can't filter: Pee, Saltwater, Sprite, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Lemonade, Chocolate milk, and probably </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Slurpy</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"> juice. Sorry if I weird you out!</span><br />
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This beach pollution is more serious than you may think. A major problem when it comes to plastic is that plastic doesn't degrade. Fish or other sea life could eat plastic and die. Plastic has chemicals on it, which means every piece of plastic that goes into the water releases chemicals and humans ingest them. The chemicals will impact human systems. </div>
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Microplastics are also a huge problem! Microplastics will go into watersheds, then they drift through water drains, then the microplastics will go through rivers and end up in our oceans, where it will be broken down by waves. The main problem with microplastics is that they attract toxins. Those microplastics will eventually get eaten by fish, birds or humans. If we don't recycle plastic and other garbage, they will find a way to end up in our oceans. </div>
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If everyone on the earth lived like Americans, we would need five Earths of resources. Also, did you know that every time you burn fossil fuels it creates this atom called CO2? CO2 traps heat in the earth, and we are creating too much CO2, so the earth is getting too hot. Did you know that the average American uses over 16 football fields of Earth's resources?</div>
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What I did about this problem was I made an EV3 robot, which was made to pick up garbage on beaches. On the robot there was a claw that me and my partner made, to pick up the garbage. </div>
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You may now realize how much of a problem this is. But what you may not realize is that you can fix this! Basically, all you need to do is stop adding to the problem. Just recycle plastic and stop littering. You should also stop using products with microplastics in them. You should especially not litter cigarettes because they play a major part in plastic pollution. So now that you know what to do to help beach pollution and what's so bad about it... go help!</div>
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Mr. Gonzalezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05791154978308055567noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7012171685159484931.post-64881545723178987072018-05-01T13:01:00.002-07:002022-04-25T22:19:43.249-07:00New continent to be named: The great pacific garbage patch!Our oceans are facing a big problem, standing waste is one of the biggest problems in our oceans, literally, there is a garbage patch the size of Texas. If you don’t think that that is a problem you're a nincompoop. If you wonder how the garbage got there, ask yourself because humans were careless and just tossed the garbage into the ocean and the way that the currents travel the garbage goes to the ocean gyres and creates a land like mass of stinking rotten garbage.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><br /> Because of humans, our oceans are flooded with trash, but some of it wasn't put directly there, it went into rivers and streams from sewage treatment plants and storm sewers and then it goes into the oceans creating very hazardous habitat for marine life and giving humans a bad reputation.<br /><br /> If you simply recycle, you will help fix this problem and restore our oceans to there former glory, our beaches will be filled with sand instead of trash, and sea animals will flourish and live an unrestricted natural life<br /><br /> Water pollution is when something gets in the water that is not natural, whether it's plastic in our oceans or an oil spill, it's not good if it's not natural. If we can find teddybears in tires along with other stuff, we know we have a problem.<br /><br /> You may have heard of the three R's, reduce, reuse and recycle, but have you ever heard of the five R's? According to "The Greening of Westford," Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose and Recycle are the things we need to do to make a cleaner, fresher, easier to live in earth. If humans just did those R's the world would be a much better place for everyone.<br /><br /> The water cycle is a very delicate part of nature, it depends on everything going according to plan. However, humans have built power plants and factories that destroy that delicate balance by throwing cafeteria waste and oil into streams and then that turns into acid rain which causes the nutrients in the soil to dissolve before plants can get to them.<br /><br /> I have chosen to study suspended matter in our oceans. Suspended matter is little bits of floating plastic or trash that gets into creeks and rivers and streams and then works its way into the ocean where it floats into the ocean and collects into little islands or a marine creature tries to eat it and chokes to death<br /><br />If we eventually destroy the oceans, that means that we destroy the creeks and rivers and the whole water cycle. Then where do we get our water?<br /><br /></span><br />
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Mr. Gonzalezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05791154978308055567noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7012171685159484931.post-26057185262609793562018-04-13T10:31:00.001-07:002022-04-25T22:20:28.855-07:00Your Air is Bad, Fix It<div class="post-body entry-content float-container" id="post-body-5281854059424393171" style="background-color: white; color: #757575; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 1.5em 0px 2em;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy-DuzNw_k6HebWC9l_SbCjwyg675JImc90degPO6QYgiD5GGBNpaFvLTjsCnTFmB5osbpjZjD94t9Db_plqmJKbXwJxMb6JeL6X8-hz22FXY5DETiFGj4YCj06KWQQhXyPNuVWl4Cvi0/s1600/download.png" style="background: transparent; color: #2196f3; display: inline-block; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="508" data-original-width="783" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy-DuzNw_k6HebWC9l_SbCjwyg675JImc90degPO6QYgiD5GGBNpaFvLTjsCnTFmB5osbpjZjD94t9Db_plqmJKbXwJxMb6JeL6X8-hz22FXY5DETiFGj4YCj06KWQQhXyPNuVWl4Cvi0/s320/download.png" style="border: 0px; height: inherit; max-width: 100%;" width="320" /></a></div>
This video shows our robot testing air quality it does not actually have the sensors we need but it represents what the robot will be like. Our robot will test sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide levels which <span style="text-align: center;">both contribute to acid rain and algae growths. By detecting the high levels early are robot can alert people to fix and take care of the leak or problem.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span> In this picture, you can see pollutants and other stuff come out of a production plant as you can see pollutants are a very big problem if a lot comes out it can contribute to poisonous algae blooms and acid rain. Acid rain hurts the forests and helps deforestation. Nitrogen dioxide also hurts people. When these pollutants mix with rivers and lakes they not only harm the water but also the animals that live in them and need it to survive.<br />
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As you can see below algae covers a lot of this lake. When algae cover lakes and ponds it is gross and can sometimes be dangerous to swim in. Some lake generates antitoxin algae the algae can make you sick and can even kill animals and humans. Nitrogen dioxide and sulfur oxide contribute to the growth of algae and can even make it so there is a algae bloom. Algae bloom is where there is a huge amount of algae the number of algae can go anywhere from a thin coating to an almost mattress of algae.<br />
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The way that we can stop this is to make sure that power plants are clean and re regularly checked for leaks. Nitrogen dioxide comes from car exhaust if we use clean fuels and try to use electric cars or not drive so often we can cut down on the rate of nitrogen dioxide in the air.<br />
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Mr. Gonzalezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05791154978308055567noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7012171685159484931.post-32592289666669402092018-03-25T12:26:00.000-07:002018-03-25T17:03:26.281-07:00Chimacum Middle School March 14 Walkout<div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The March 14, 2018, speech:<br />"Today we are here to honor life’s lost in the unspeakable tragedies happening all over the country. The latest in Parkland Florida. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">Our voices as students, teachers, and members of the community need to be heard. Our voices need to create change. Our voices need to inspire others to do the same. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">I'm asking you to put aside your political views for 17 minutes. I'm asking you actually recognize what is happening around the U.S. I’m asking you to put yourself in someone else’s shoes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">This is our lives! Their lives were taken away from them, so yes I am asking you to do something. I am begging every single one of you. We cannot choose to ignore or tune out these events because they do not affect us. Because when we let it go untested it gets worse.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">This is how a Wednesday went from a normal day to a movement like this</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">I walked out of the gym at 4:30 I checked my phone looking for a text message from my mom instead I found a shooting. I remember looking at the screen looking at the article, looking at the death count, looking around at my fellow teammates, my fellow classmates. Girls I had grown up with for ten years. I then imagined seventeen of them gone. How could this keep happening? Why is it that seventeen people need to die for us to start taking something like this seriously?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">Us as students should feel safe going to school every day. But we don’t. And how could we? How can any of us after this?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">It has been a month! The time to change is now. Something needs to come of this! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">17 minutes of silence isn’t enough to remember the souls taken from us due to senseless acts of shooting. It will take us coming together to stand for what is right. I’ll let each one of you decide for yourself what you truly think ‘right’ is. But I can tell you this 17 people had their life’s cut off all too soon in Parkland Florida Feb 14th, 2018. </span><br />
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A sample of the middle school gathering.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">It’s one thing to remember the victims and speak out. It’s another thing to take action.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">If you see something say something! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">Whether it’s from social media, school, text message, home, anywhere if you witness or hear something that could be a red flag report it!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">Don’t be the person to stand by and let something like this happen.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">I don’t care if that person is your friend, your relative, a total stranger. Do something tell someone. You can speak to a trusted adult. For example a teacher, principal, counselor, parent or law enforcement. Not only could you be helping to prevent a death, but you could also help change someone's life and aid them in getting help. We cannot stand by and watch something like this unfold. Because to me keeping some secret or joke isn’t worth a single life, and absolutely not 17.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">Florida is the farthest state away from Washington, we cannot let those 1000s of miles detract from the seriousness of this.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">When we stand together for what is right we become more powerful. We can’t let things like this separate us. When we allow them too we become weaker.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">The victims who died were children, friends, sons, and daughters. Just like us</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">Peter Wang died holding open a classroom door for other so they could escape before him. Teachers threw themselves in front of children to prevent their own students from being shot. They were willing to save somebody else's lives even if it meant their own. We owe it to them to change.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">Their kindness and bravery in their last minutes on Earth should move us to show the same. Thank you for listening and showing your support today. If you can take something away from this besides learning to take action please take with you thankfulness for what we have. Because for some in Parkland it is what they lost."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">After the shooting, I was really just left in shock and disbelief. The shock translated into action. We spent hours, planning, talking to students, sharing with teachers, and trying to morally understand why something like this happened. Why we didn't feel safe going to school. Why we even had to worry about this. It all accumulated into the walkout. I reached out to the paper and they came out to the school on the day of the walkout. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">We wanted a way to really help students visualize what the after effects massacre like this could be. The idea presented itself at an ASB meeting when our advisor suggested we do some form of representing the victims killed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">After that, we then worked with a group of representatives who helped organize and participate the show of solidarity. Each one of us was assigned a number and when the number was read out loud we came out from the crowd to sit on the bleachers. Underneath our sweatshirts we wore an X, to represent each shot that ended 17 students and teachers lives in Parkland Florida. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">As a student, I feel a responsibility to spread my voice and encourage others to do the same. We all have a voice, it is up to you to make sure it is heard.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">by Ava</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">PS: Our <a href="http://www.ptleader.com/news/chimacum-students-show-solidarity-with-parkland-shooting-victims/article_7bfe9ff2-2c9b-11e8-8a69-7f3f1e703af2.html" target="_blank">local newspaper covered the story</a>.</span></div>
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