Week 6 & 7

1) Visiting the libraries was exciting, since I haven't been to a public library in years. Actually I never visited the NYPL of Humanities or the one right across from it. But what I liked the most was our tour in the NYPL of Humanities, the class got to see all the paintings in there, the original Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, and the rest of the Christopher Robbin collection. I found it very exciting that the train passes right by it in the bottom level of the library, it also has book shelves that run through floors in the building. The NYPL of Humanities has a building within its building where there was a court yard.
In the smaller regular public library the group & I looked at some photos of graffiti on the third floor. That floor was filled of any type of books about art. We visited the Fourth floor where we found periodical book, index books, and there was an online database there. The fifth floor was was the History & Socail Science floor; we found books on biographies, religion, philosophy, and folklore. The group also got yelled at, we asked the lady at the desk for a book on an artist and she couldn't find it, so she yelled saying we spelled it wrong and her computer doesn't lie. We found it funny.

2) I'm still trying to save the earth little by little. I work at a candy store in the city, and instead of giving all of our customers plastic bags I try and give them no bag or our paper bag. I'm only doing this because the plastic takes forever to disintegrate. And if they insist on the plastic bag I try to tell them my reasons and somethimes they'll change there mind, but others don't care, at least i tried. Other then just the plastic bags, we are recycling our paper towels. If we just used it to dry our hands off ,my mom will later then use it to wipe the table down after dinner. I want to find a new way i can buy drinks without purchasing a plastic bottle. my family drinks soda and i love Naked juice, but they all come in a plastic container.

blOg 5 "GOin' Green!"

Well the topic of the blog is how me and my family are going green? So it took me a while to figure out what we are doing in my home to do this, and I couldn't think of anything until I saw the energy star on my air conditioner, refrigerator, and tv. And then I realized the light bulbs in my house. I guess I got so use to these florescent light bulbs I didn't notice I had them already. My family apparently has always been using them. So this family has been going green for a while I see. Pretty surprising, cause there not your Earth saving people. I guess there just your saving energy to save money people. My mom hates plastic cups, plastic jugs, plastic forks, anything to do with plastic she hates. She says it carries a lot of germs if you don't clean it right; something like that. So in my house everything in the kitchen is mostly metal or glass. We still use plastic bags when we go to the store, only because we have a dog and we have to walk him outside so we reuse it to pick up th poop, or even for the trash in our home, so we recycle the bags. But speaking of trash, we recycle all our bottles, cans, and papers here. Well my whole building does, so we all working on it here. Purchasing a used textbook saved me money and saved a tree. And even though plastic bottles aren't good I reuse my plastic bottle and fill it up with my own water, those dollars add up. And not only do we go green in my home, but my dog as well, we feed him organic dog food. As well as Dr. Smith my mom has alot of plants. I call it her little jungle.

All these are great ways to save the earth, but I wanted to find out more ways. So i researched on it and found this cool website that can help me and others.
http://www.ewg.org/solutions?gclid=COe8mJyFy5ICFUIlFQodoVhWuQ
I also found this nice website with a good heart.
http://www.uber.com/1plus1
And then ways to go green and save money
http://www.bankrate.com/nydn/news/energy-environment-2007/tips_environmental_main_a1.asp?caret=4b