Share & Voice:

POPULATION AND ENVIRONMENT

• I was searching on YouTube and came across this video when I was looking for environmental information.  This video was catchy to me, with the music playing in the background, the numerous pictures, as well as the text that flashes across the screen with informational facts that relate to some of the images and themes which are being shown and I feel relate clearly to environmental health.  

• I would say this YouTube video is mainly informational based but somewhat educational too.  It contains different pictures of our air and land being polluted as well as the negative effects on oceans, animals, people and our planet.  It is a wake up call to me to see some of these photographs put together by a student who attends the University of Oregon and it was for an Environmental and Population class.  

• This YouTube video gives a broad overview of problems happening in the world around us, on our own planet, and I felt this was a good video to do my first post on.  It will help connect me to the other share and voices I will be doing for the rest of the semester that all relate to environmental health.

• Here the actual link where the video was specifically taken from:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJVMh2-5Lr0&feature=PlayList&p=A2AA59C9FDC0E8EB&index=0&playnext=1

Read 'n' Seed 1: The Last Hours Of Ancient Sunlight

The title of the book I chose is The Lat Hours of Ancient Sunlight. This book talks about how many different things are "crashing down" around us, such as low oil prices, water shortages, wars and many other topics as well. This book is letting us know that there are still things that we can do to try and fix these problems we are facing. The book talks about what is happening and some of the main reasons for our cultures "blind behavior." It has a great emphasis on the important role that sunlight can play in our relationship to the world, each other and our natural resources. This information was taken from the Synopsis from Dr. V's homepage.  I chose this book because it was on the list of improved readings and the information sounds interesting to me. This book is also based on a movie so I found that interesting as well. This book has 400 pages so I will do posts broken up by the page numbers. I will post on each 100 pages for the remaining four posts due.  Here are some links you can look at or read that provide greater detail about this book and the author who wrote it.

1. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/50896/book_review_of_the_last_hours_of_ancient.html?cat=38
2. http://www.foundationwebsite.org/OnThomHartmann.htm
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thom_Hartmann