Do you think it’s gross to live beside a garbage dump?
Personally, I wouldn’t want to either.
How about swimming or bathing or even eating next to garbage?
That’s what the fish and the marine animals are doing and it’s disgusting.
We have a giant floating MASS of garbage (plastic) smack in the pacific ocean. I wasn’t aware of it until someone (EW) showed me some images of baby Albatross birds found dead – with a handful or more of PLASTIC PIECES in the midst of their decomposing stomach, or the area of.
These images were done by Chris Jordan and can be found here in his gallery.
Some sample photos of his work:
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We’re the cause of this mess.
Innocent birds are dying because they are eating our garbage/plastic.
Don’t know what the great pacific garbage patch is? This video explains it pretty well:
So you know what to do now –
recycle all that plastic.
Even those white lids from the Starbuck coffee you get every morning. I’m guilty of just throwing the cup into the garbage. Time to find that recycling bin for the plastic lid and the paper cup.
And so it began at 8am UBC Robson Square (at least that’s when I got there).
Everyone busying around a mere hour before the show starts.
The mics were still not perfect, a problem continuing from the dress rehearsal the night before….
the wires still need to be taped down and whatever else the Digital Academy kids are doing… (they did a great job actually – fantastic).
Finally, 5 or 10 minutes after 9am we got started.
Was it what I had imagine? Not quite. It was more homey and definitely smaller scaled. This was probably because I’ve seem many TED Videos from TEX Global and such larger productions where everything is more high tech and expensive, to be frank. However, it carried the expected response.
There were 12 speaker presentations. 13 presenters.
All were exceptional. All had their own stories to tell & their own perspectives; All had their presentations captured on tape and viewed around the world, their pictures taken, their ideas tweeted and retweeted; All were mic’d by me.
Yes. That was the exciting part.
It was such a great opportunity to be an important part (or at least I like to think so ;)) of a production this size. It may have been small scale but it was greatly important, especially to the TED community and its lovers and viewers. It was also important to the education system itself.
TEDxUBC was Fast ForwardEd: Fast Forward World. Fast Forward School. Fast Forward Jobs.
Fast Forward Education: What ideas should be spread on the future of business and technology education?
There were four speakers in each section. I managed to catch most of the talks as I try to wrap my head around the mic’n job at hand. It was important to make sure the sound ppl know which mic is being used while at the same time, I needed to make sure the transitions were smooth between the mic transfers…etc. I won’t delve into details right now.
Nevertheless… here are some of my favourite quotes, or at least the ones I could remember:
You must own your education. You are the one who loses if you don’t.
The remix [education] rules: 1. Sample from everywhere 2. Don’t wait for the next opportunity 3. Stretch
Matt Giammarino
Re-invent your career. If you don’t like posing in a thong, maybe you can become governor of California.
Kids who score high for creativity contribute more back to society than kids who score high for IQ.
Quoted: “The kids in our classroom are infinitely more significant than the subject matter we teach” -Meladee McCarty
Carla Rieger
Educating Jetson children in Flintstones schools.
The skills that we learned in kindergarten are still important today.
In the future, workplace location won’t matter if today’s students learn universally applicable communication skills.
Jeffrey Piontek
On a pilot course: “Ambiguity is deliberate.” Need to detox students. Students: “This is really challenging, we are having to think!”
Paul Cubbon
We need to teach the children we have, not the children we’d like to have.
A 10 yr old can access more information [today] through his mobile device than our government could 50 years ago.
Barry MacDonald
University-based startups have a 68% success rate, 6.9x the average.
There are 18 million vacant homes in the US, twice as many as there are homes in Canada.
Basil Peters
Our success [in university] is determined by how much boredom we can endure.
Elysa Hogg
The real world is addictive and students don’t want to go back [to school].
On social media education (blogging), it’s not “Mine is better than yours” but “Yours can help make mine better”
Chris Kennedy
I’m SURE there were many other quotes from the TED that I loved but I can’t remember right now… The other speakers were also fantastic.
During one of the video breaks, there was this video that adapted a TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson on Changing Education Paradigms that I really enjoyed seeing; I’ve actually watched it already but it was still fascinating and interesting to watch again.
If you build it you will TED
– audience member
Here’s an example of “it” : the Rube Goldberg Machine
Beautifully done.
I regret not taking pictures of the event itself because I realized I can’t link photos off of the Flicker website containing the TEDxUBC photos. Overall, it was a fun, priceless experience to emerge myself in all these ideas and inspiration and to be a part of the Ideas Worth Spreading community.
Even though we don’t celebrate Thanksgivings, I always take a few moments every year to give some thanks.
It’s always healthy to be grateful.
I am thankful for:
-having a loving and supportive family
-having a mom who gives me everything
-having a sweet loving bf who willing shares all the ups and downs in life
-having sisters who don’t mind my blabbing
-having a brother who brings energy into any situation
-having the friends whom I can always rely on without any doubt
-having the friends who share the same interests and delights
-the new friends I’ve made this year
-the opportunities that life’s presenting me
-the luck that occasionally blesses me with its presence
-the sun and its life-giving heat and light
-the earth for its water and resources
-the beauty of the world that I live in
The BP Spill effects more than just the Gulf. and their methods to contain the oil isn’t effective.
I don’t think these ppl understand the consequences of such a huge amount of oil in the ocean – The ocean contains a vast amount of organisms, we all know this, and the coastal regions hold a rich ecosystem of animals, plants, growth – that are directly /indirectly related to us. As humans, we have caused this disaster, and it is our responsibility to clean it up… thankfully there are 100’s of volunteers who are cleaning up the coast right now.
It is amazing that this multi$$$$ dollar company do not have a safety plan or an effective cleanup plan to contain and control such a huge oil spill. I guess they were blinded by the green that this oil was giving them to see the consequences of any mistakes that they have.
Furthermore, what’s with the toxic dispersant that were blatantly dumped into the ocean? Was this suppose to help?
Oil and water are naturally immiscible – wouldn’t it have been more effective to collect the oil off of the surface rather than breaking up the oil into tiny drops and then letting it mix throughout the water? How are we going to collect it now?
I understand that the weather and waves/wind forces may mix the oil with the water it self, but I doubt not as well as dispersant. Not to mention, the environmental cost of using such chemicals are unknown. But I have a feeling it’s not going to be a positive effect.
For the next thousand of years, oil will remain in the ocean, in the birds that feed off of the oceans, in the plants, in the soil… it will be found in areas miles away from the Gulf because animals move and birds fly. They come to the Gulf and then they leave if they don’t die from ingesting oil or getting stuck in it.
I’m not an oil expert, nor am I an environmental expert so I may not know what I’m talking about
But I know, being a person who often go to the sea/ocean/lake/river-side to sit and watch, listen, smell and basically immerse herself into the nature and calming effects of such a pristine environment, it would break my heart to see disgusting black/brown slick on the rolling waves… to see birds with oil stuck to their wings and feet… to see dead fish on the shore…and to know, the ocean may never be the same again in my lifetime.
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