Water!

Water is important for life. To live we need water.
                                 We need water for;

To extinguish fires!
                                                            To bathe



To drink!
          To wash vegetables fruits


To water plants!
                                                            To cook!              


To produce energy!
                                                         To navigate!


... And many other things.

As you see we use/need water for EVERYTHING! We have a lot of water for this years, but Water is a limited resource and if we don't take care of water we will finish it! We can not recycle water, and one day we will use all the water we have, and then???... What are we going to do?, if we can't recycle water. So is more than obvious that we need to conserve water!

To do this everyone can help! We don't have to do a lot or big things, we can help doing smaller things.
        These are some things we can do to conserve water;

*Do not wash the car with a hose.
*When you are in the shower, close the key whenever you put soap.
*Check leaks in your home ... for example, in the toilet.
*Aware neighbors that they are wasting water.
*Wash your hands using a small container.
*Brush your teeth with half a glass.
*Using water from the washer to mop or clean the yard.
*When it rains, filling buckets for use in cleaning the house.
When washing dishes, use a container to soap dishes and one for rinsing.

                                                                                                                 -Remember:                                                               NO EVERYONE CAN HAVE THIS PRIVILEGE. Water is not evenly distributed it, Take Care of Water!!!

Biofuels and Food Production

Biofuels impact food production because biofuels are basically ethanol, things that come from plants, so it is ovbiously that if it comes from plants and to make some kinds of food we make plants, so fod can grow in, it will impact on food production
we grow  crops to make biofuels and you can find that out in the National Geographic article call ''Clearing Land for Biofuels Makes Global Warming Worse''.


Even corn is not the only way we can make ethanol as show on the same article it is (in simple and easy words) and easy and faster way to make it. The world will need more cropland to feed everyone with food crops increasingly being turned into fuels.

Pesticides!

Pesticides are used to kill the crop invaders. These pesticides are sprayed on the crops where they remain. These crops are sold to the public and used in the production of animal feed and other byproducts.

The crops are the same ones we buy at market to eat. The bugs are gone but the chemicals are not. We are ingesting these chemicals which were used to kill living organisms.

These crops are used in the preparation of feed and produce which is marketed to humans. Animals are eating the byproducts and humans are eating the produce and both are retaining the chemical in their bodies. Then the humans eat the animals and get dosed again with the chemical. Humans have all these toxins in their bodies and are slowly being poisoned. And it's not just land creatures.

Washing and pealing don't clear it away completely. Washing doesn't get everything off. Still you need to wash all fresh fruit and vegetables to clean them as much as possible. Pealing doesn't get everything off because it can grow through the vegetables. The other problem with pealing is that many of the nutrients that we want from the fruit are stored in the skin, so pealing reduces the benefit to your body.

Permeability & Porosity!♥

As everyone in our Environmental Science class know: porosity, permeability and retention are related one to another. Here are the meanings for each one;







Porosity: Volume of water that fits between the soil particles.

Permeability: Rate of flow of water through soil.

Retention: How much water is 'trapped' by soil.





Porosity and Permeability are directly related, when one is high the other is high too, and percent water retention is inversely related to both. We can see those things on common or not in the last lab we did. Just seeing the numbers on the data you see their are related, I don't remember really well the data because I turn in it but the gravel porosity was like 4 cm per second and the permeability 55%, that tell us that they are directly related, if one goes up the other goes up too.

We should care about it because depending on the porosity and permeability is how much water it will have, and that is all about LIFE.

Food in a Book?

I am reading a book called ¨Kitchen Literacy¨. It is a really good book, I chose this  book because in a future I wan to be a chef and books like this one, will help me to be better in that career. It talk  about how we lost knowledge of where food comes from and why we need to get it back. At first you will not care about, may be you will think; why do I have to know where food comes from? If I just eat the food I don´t have to do it. But once you start reading the book, you start asking yourself about this things, and it would be interesting to know about it.

Too Many Passions♥

Hi! How are you? I hope you are doing fantastic c:

If you don't know me, well, my name is Lesley ...., I have one little brother, Cristian, my mom Karla, and my dad Andres. I don't think I have a passion, I like to do a lot of things but they don't are passions, YET.
In somethings I'm really good at it, and in other I just like it, that doesn't mean I am good doing those things.

The FIRST thing that I have always liked it is; going to school, I remember I will cry if I will be absent one day (kinder-garner, elementary or middle school), and I am really good at school c;, oh BUT I don't like all my classes... I like to listen music, and I'm good listening the meaning of the lyrics, well in Spanish. There is a thing that I like to do, but I am not good at it; playing soccer, I WAS good playing until 6th grade, I was in a team but I didn't go any more and I just forget about it like for 3 years, so I forget my experience :c , but I like it.
Now, there's something that it can be my passion in my future, that passion is my dad's passion too. Let me give some clues, you will know quickly what I am talking about.
Clues:
-It has to do with nutrition.
-It's indispensable such as: in home, hotels, restaurants, hospitals, etc.
-The hygiene and precautions are essentials in this career.
-It is local, national, and international.
-It mix any kind of cultures and/or traditions.
-It isn't enough to like it, you need to have a GOOD seasoning.
I thinks you already now what that future passion is, yes, I want to be a chef, I like to cook! and I am good at it. I like to invent dishes, when I'm cooking I like to have a lot of ingredients so I can just add whatever I think it will give a good zason(seasoning) to my food.