Dan's Global Environment Blog

photo of Theodore Roosevelt from  Wikipedia Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was the 26th president of the United States. President Roosevelt is often considered the "conservationist president." Without Roosevelt's work, this country would not be where it is today, and I firmly believe that the environment would have deteriorated faster. He was a hunter all his life, and was able to see the first hand results of overgrazing and even lost his ranch due to it. A lot of peop le though, did not agree that our resources would ever run out, but Roosevelt, who was seeing what was happening, would respond with " We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources. But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil, and the gas are exhausted, when the soils have still further impoverished and washed into the streams, polluting the rivers, denuding the fields and obstructing navigation." Because of...

A photo of the earth.  source Originally, for this assignment I was going to discuss the Global Warming crisis as a whole, but, I recently read a Time Magazine article about an effort put together by rapper Lil Dicky to help raise money and awareness for multiple organizations to help reverse the effects of Global Warming and Climate Change. The organizations that the rapper has partnered with include  Quick Response Fund for Nature, the Shark Conservation Fund and the Carbon Cycle Institute, along with the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation. The song itself uses humor to keep the listener interested, and draws in an  astounding  amount of listeners due to over thirty artists  being  featured on the track. A Time  article  by   ANDREW R. CHOW  compares the song to a modern day "We are the World."  Towards the end of the song, Lil Dicky (David Burd), explains what climate change is doing and how bad the results can be.  I fo...

A current photo of my tree It has been about three months since I first explored and wrote about my tree. My tree is located right outside of my dorm, Holloway Hall, and it makes a statement to everybody who enters and exits the building. The last time I explored this tree for a blog post, it was barren, with absolutely nothing growing on it, as shown in the photograph below. But now, we are starting to see some action! A photo of my tree located outside Holloway Hall. Today, as I was observing my tree, I noticed something new. All over the branches of my tree, there are tiny green leaves, along with red things growing as well. I was very excited to see some action occurring, as it seems to be one of the last trees around campus that still needed to bloom. In my prior post I said " My prediction for this tree is fairly simple. I am predicting that it will bloom with pink buds in the coming weeks, maybe early to mid April, before the tree becomes covered in a bea...