Reflection: Weeks 13-14 & Overall Course

I really liked when we went to the Goodwill and learn about how the company operates. I think it was really cool that they help people with disabilities and let them work there. It was also really interesting to hear how much they recycle and what kind of different things they recycle. It was pretty neat to walk around and see how they sort all the different kinds of product.

The online learning activity was good and a fun way to learn about different material. There was a lot of new information for me when I was doing the different activities.

I definitely feel like I learned a lot on this class. I think the documentaries taught me the most, especially the video called Tapped. It is really sad how much plastic there is in the ocean, and even sadder how the water manufacturers are taking our water and selling it back to us with higher prices. It was a really interesting video and after seeing it I haven’t bought any plastic bottles. Another thing that was really interesting and made me change some of my habits was when we did the Ecological footprint. I couldn’t believe that it would take 5 planets to support my lifestyle. I have started to take the bus to school or drive more with my roommates. I really enjoyed making the SMART goal and truly changed some of my habits. I am now drinking more water and only using my reusable water bottle. I also use my reusable bags whenever I go shopping so I don’t have to get plastic ones.

I think it was fun to make the junk project and see what kind of different things my classmates did.

This is my junk project, money bank.

 

Reflection 9-12 weeks

Reflection 9-12 weeks

These past couple weeks we watched a lot of documents. I don’t usually like to watch videos in class, but these documents taught me a lot about different issues related to the environment. We learned about what is advocacy in Health Education and we did a little presentation about it. I really like to do the eco-chic lifestyle change. My SMART goal was to drink more water and only use my reusable water bottle. During these past weeks I haven’t bought bottled water and I am going to continue to use my reusable water bottle to help save our environment from plastic bottles. Another thing we did was find out our political representatives from our home town. I think it was really interesting to find out who are the political representatives in my town because I didn’t know them before. One of our advocacy projects was to pick one HealthyPeople 2010 goal in which we are interested and then we used THOMAS to find related bills. I think that was pretty cool to learn how to do that. Overall, I have learned a lot these past few weeks and I have been able to change a couple of my habits to be more eco-friendly which has been great.

Reflection: Weeks 1-4

I feel like I have already learned so much in four weeks. The biggest thing I have learned so far is probably creating a blog and everything that comes with it. This is my first time using my own blog and I really like it.
After taking the ecological footprint quiz and seeing how many planets it would take to support my lifestyle it really made me think what habits I could change to become more green. From now on I am taking the bus to school every day and I am using a reuseful bag when I go to the grocery store. I am also trying to eat less meat and trying to buy food from locals.
I really liked our last class when we went to the eco friendly building. Hopefully one day I am able to built my own house and by learning about the eco friendly building it really made me think what I could have at my own house. For example, I really liked those windows which are letting the light come in and that would be something that I would like to have at my own house.
I am learning something new about our environment and other topics every day when I read other peoples posts.

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My name is Heidi Pelttari. My blog is going to be about what I am learning in my Environmental Health class.

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