Week 7

This week we were exposed to a presentation on growing various food and how to do this effectively year round in this area. 

Joe: "Growing my own food is something that I have already been trying. In my last house I planted a mango tree, two avocado trees, papayas, coconut palms, and several pineapples"

Cesar: "I really enjoyed the presentation on food growing. I found it interesting and am definitely going to use these hints and pointers when I grow food in the near future".

  After the presentations, Team Wolfpack watched "A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil".

Katie: "Curitiba is an inspiration for creating a more environmentally city. This started in 1971 when Jaime Lerner became mayor of Curitiba. Their first idea that they took from paper to reality is make the city more people friendly than car friendly by taking their busiest street and turning it into a pedestrian only street. I feel like in cities like New York City where there is a lot of traffic and a huge population, this is something that should be looked into. I think this would help the environment greatly." 

Vanessa: "After the speaker, who gave us some valuable information on how we can personally grow our own natural foods, the class watched "A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil." This helped us broaden our innovations and ideas of how to be environmentally and economically friendly in our industrialized country, using ideas from their country leaders. We can take a large piece of useful advice from other countries who have out in an effort to conserve energy as Japan has in creating the bullet trains, reducing other transportation emissions"