a.)
my name is gabri mays & i'm 16 years old. i'm from atlanta, & i have a mom, dad, and little sister who's almost 13. all that jazz. we live comfortably.
be able to live comfortably, has made me aware about the problems on our planet. we recycle and compost in our house, we use energy efficient light bulbs and we are very conservative of our water.
when i turned 15 my family took a weekend trip to st. louis, missouri for my mom's 20 year college class reunion. my dad is originally from there & we visit annually by car, but this time we took a plane because its faster and no one wanted to hear my dad complain the whole 8 hours because he had to drive. my mom went to washington university in saint louis so she was a very proud alumni & was so excited to go back.
on one of the free days we had we went to the saint louis earth day celebration in forest park, the biggest park ever. lol. but my parent surprised me by taking me here because i've heard things about this celebration from family and the internet, & i was so happy to be apart of this function. i heard people speak, i got gift bags, we entered in many competitions. it was amazing. i felt like i was actually apart of something bigger than me. i felt like there were people around me who actually wanted to change the ways that we as a nation & as a world have.
needless to say, i believe that anything is possible and i'm a firm believer of optimism. people can change, but we just have to get used to the IDEA of change, and that's where we have a problem.
b.)
5 things in my home that impact the environment are:
electronics: in my home we have 5 televisions, 4 computers, every member in my home has an iphone, & various electronics. if we continue to use these things the way we do then that could really be harmful to our environment. mainly because of the way we dispose of them.
water use: in my family we love to work out and do things outside that require cleaning ourselves. lol. we need to control the use of our water. because I am one who loves a 30 minute steam shower which is heavenly, but totally unpractical.
car use: my mom, dad, & I all drive. we have expensive cars that require the "93" gas. if we all didn't drive every day we could try to control the exhaust.
paper: we use heaping amounts of paper towels and toilet tissue for the most obscure reasons.
electricity: we don't turn off every single appliance in my home & if we did then we could save energy.
c.)
in my house I chose a stir fry seasoning packet. the ingredients are as follows:
- powdered soy sauce
- sugar modified corn starch
- hydrolyzed corn gluten
- spices
- maltodextrin
- garlic powder
- natural flavor
- caramel color
these ingreidients don't seem very harmful but the things I was concerned about were the things like "hydrolyzed corn gluten" & "maltodextrin".
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