Feb 15 2012
If you missed Friday, we discussed the “next” industrial revolution. Did you know it was underway? The last industrial revolution gave us the linear material flow economy-the one we diagrammed earlier in the week. While recycling programs do reduce some waste disposal and some extraction, they focus on the “downstream” end of that flow (waste [...]
Feb 15 2012
So we debated recycling. Is it good for the environment? Is it bad for the environment? It’s a decision that each of us have to make, what’s your decision? Here are some points people made that may help you decide, or at least help [...]
Feb 09 2012
In class on Wednesday, February 8, we discussed the material flow economy, which can also be called the “waste stream”. This was inspired by a video called The Story of Stuff (see first attached video). We did not watch the video in class, but I highly recommend that you watch this video for clarification because [...]
Feb 08 2012
The focus of today’s lesson was what happens to trash after we put it on the curb for garbage collection and what trash consists of. Even though all of us are well aware that out of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle; reduction is the most important factor in waste management because of course if there is less [...]
