My name is Theresa Catanese. I am a born and raised Californian currently pursuing higher education at Riverside Community College. Currently I am in my last semester before completing my AA degrees. Though it is something to be very proud of, I plan on moving onto a 4-year to pursue a program for intercultural studies. I have a great desire to travel. With a trip to Africa already under my belt and a trip to Asia for a teaching opportunity fast approaching, it is of my top interests to experience other cultures and be able to invest my life into other people's lives from a variety of places.
Freshly 20 years of age, I have often been mistaken to be a Sophomore..in high school, but that is more than always justified with the phrase "It'll be a good thing when you're older!" I honestly give no concern to such matters. Aging is something I would love to be blessed with and something I will treasure. Any life I receive is something to be treasured and used to the fullest!
There's a brief explanation of who you'll be following and reading from! Let me fill you in on the purpose of my little blog.
Being in college, I am often challenged to become a better being to my society and the professors from various subjects have given me the tools to understand the world and my place within it. One particular class I am in is environmental science and an ongoing project for the class is to keep a blog where we will submit various homework assignments onto. It's quite the assignment and I am looking forward to it. I'm sort of a blogging freak already, so I am all for my professor throwing more fuel onto the fire.
My first assignment, aside from setting up the blog, is to give an introduction of myself (CHECK!) and to write about an online exercise which I will inform you of momentarily. Other than homework assignments, If I find any information regarding environmental science outside of class I will most likely put it on this blog for anyone to check out (See "Helpful Green Sites" for any links to the sites I refer to). For anyone wondering, my blog is titled "7 Billion Feet: Treading Lightly On Our World" for the fact that there are now over 7 billion humans now living on the earth and how we need to be increasingly more aware of where we place our feet. In other words, we as humans should be more concerned with how we treat the world because there are consequences to all of our actions. So be careful where you tread!
My first assignment, aside from setting up the blog, is to give an introduction of myself (CHECK!) and to write about an online exercise which I will inform you of momentarily. Other than homework assignments, If I find any information regarding environmental science outside of class I will most likely put it on this blog for anyone to check out (See "Helpful Green Sites" for any links to the sites I refer to). For anyone wondering, my blog is titled "7 Billion Feet: Treading Lightly On Our World" for the fact that there are now over 7 billion humans now living on the earth and how we need to be increasingly more aware of where we place our feet. In other words, we as humans should be more concerned with how we treat the world because there are consequences to all of our actions. So be careful where you tread!
Taking care of the world is something I would like to interest myself in more and if that is the reason why you are now reading my blog, I hope to be of some help to you in how you can get practical and filled with knowledge about top environmental issues.
For every blog entry I post, I will share a website(s) that have aided my understanding of various issues presented in each blog entry. For this entry I was rather curious of the world population (hence my blog title). A great site to check out if you happen to be curious is 7 Billion Actions. This site is funded by United Nations Population Fund for the purpose of making awareness of all that 7 billion people can accomplish for the end result of committing to care for the world around us. I highly suggest that you check the site out at some point!
What a wonderful link, 7Billion Actions! It really gives a visual perspective of how many people our planet is supporting and how quickly the number is growing. I was amazed to see that Africa, having such a high population, has such a small amount of senior citizens. Those numbers really have me asking "why?" Is it such that the increased population is a relatively new increase or is it that diseases and living conditions prevent Africa's population from reaching elderly ages? I know that my church sends groups missionaries to Africa once or twice a year to teach about disease prevention and provide free medical care. So I know that in the less or under developed regions of Africa life expectancy is a fraction of what it is in the United States. I think that it's amazing that you have traveled to Africa and are going to China this year! My mother taught English, as a professor, in Korea so I've seen how many lives you can change as a teacher. And changes, I think that at the time that I explored the link you provided, over 900 testimonies were given on how 900 individuals were working to live more sustainable lives. Of the stories I read it was inspiring to hear how people are working, using education, and technologies to improve the lives of others or helping to change peoples lives to prolong Earth's resources. Hopefully, there will be 7 billion pledges to make constructive changes. Thank you for sharing that with us!
ReplyDeleteI'm really interested in your interests about internationalization! Also, your trip to Africa. Maybe you could somehow tie in some environmentally friendly information to conversations as you travel the world? Keep up this awesomeness!
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