1. Why do you think it is important that scientists effectively communicate their findings with stakeholders (citizens, industry, government entities). It is important that scientists be able to communicate their findings so that the public is aware of what is…

Through watching this video series, I learned that many young people in the world have been able to achieve their goals and spread their messages with great success. Each of these videos have a few commonalities between them. They each…

Year in Review

One of the first things that I did this year that involved people from ENR was celebrating my birthday. My birthday is early into the year, Septemeber 19th, and I wasn’t planning on doing anything at all. However, a bunch…

The first two weeks of my actions for Earth Month have gone fairly easily, as the first two weeks are my easiest actions. The first action was an email written to my local representative about water issues and water quality…

Week one For the first week’s event of Earth Month, I will email one of our local representatives in government and see what issues are happening with our local water sources, as well as to infer what it is that…

After your initial assignment on this lens and our discussion in class, what do you think you personally would like to do to take action on your issue? From what our guest speakers said, it was made obvious that in…

Social enterprise is the way an organization applies their commercial strategies in order to improve the overall quality of environmental and human well-being. Social enterprises can be either for or not for profit, and can encompass many different structures in…

By listening to the speakers that came to speak at our last ENR class, I learned that there were several ways to go about spreading the message and actions that I wish to spread to those who live locally here…

Part 1) Communities everywhere are affected by water quality in their community, from small ways to large, detrimental ways. It could be that there is a drought that year, though if not a bad one will barely be felt by…

There are countless issues in our living world that seem too big of a picture to truly look at and solve, including these are water (whether it be access to it, pollution affecting it, etc..), mental health, and climate change….