Bancroft's Positive Effects On The Environment

Improved Essays
Today we have some major problems on this earth having global warming and lack of trees because of all the paper used today. Bancroft is trying their best to have a positive effect on the environment but their best isn’t good enough. I believe that Bancroft middle school has a mostly negative effect on the environment.
First of all our school wastes a lot of materials. To clarify students waste paper and food everyday, also teachers waster electricity to power the classroom. For example everyday I see all my teachers using their lights and projectors to teach just like they are right now. By this I mean the waste of materials not only costs a lot of money but it also makes more fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas which is bad for the environment. Another example is everyday I see students use a lot of paper each day for their class work which is bad for our trees. What this means is that four billion trees are cut down in a year worldwide and we are part of the problem not the solution. As you can see Bancroft as a school wastes a lot of materials which is having a major negative
…show more content…
To clarify we have heaters that produce Co2 when they heat up the classroom and we also have cars and buses that also produce a lot of Co2. In the video Teachers Tv Climate Change by Teachers Tv it states humans waste seven gigatons of carbon dioxide a year! To clarify we contribute to that seven gigatons of Co2. The video also states that is the climate keeps getting hotter due to all the carbon dioxide it can lead the polar ice caps to melt completely leaving animals without a home and major floods on coastal states. What I’m trying to show is that we at Bancroft are also contributing to what could eventually be the end of human life. As you now know Bancrofts Co2 emissions can lead to terrible terrible things like the death of arctic animals such as polar bears, arctic foxes, etc and just maybe human

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Fremont High School by Jonathan Kozol In Jonathan Kozol’s report titled “Fremont High School” he discusses many things he observed when visiting the school in Los Angeles, California. He starts off by giving basic information about the school such as “...enrolls almost 5,000 students on a three-track schedule, with about 83,300 in attendance at any given time.” but as he continues he discusses the many problems the school faces. In his text he discusses a variety of things that are wrong about the school such as the number of students that drop out rate, how crowded the classrooms are, how difficult simple things such as lunch and using the restroom are at the school and etc.…

    • 930 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    It is impossible for the youth to escape Earth’s contaminated environment, which will be their harsh reality for decades to come. Maintaining an eco-friendly lifestyle is nearly impossible in today’s world due to society’s constant industrialization and innovations. However, it is possible to significantly reduce the level of mistreatment and strain induced on Canada’s ecosystems. Within the St. Brother Andre community there is no active club protecting the environment for future years even though as Catholics we are called to protect God’s creation. Although all schools produce litter and waste resources, it is possible for the school community to be more environmentally friendly by creating a group that continually strives for reducing their…

    • 221 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The passing of prop 13 back in 1978 resulted in a lot of unintended causes for the school system. Some people felt indifferent about voting for the prop, with their reasoning being that they do not have any children. We need to be looking at the bigger picture though, regardless if those thirty something year olds do not have kids it will affect them in fifteen years when these children are sent out to the work field to attend them. The impact of socieeconomic status and poverty in the American education is tremendous and really cannot be missed. “In California right now, the average cost to support a prisoner for one year is 27,000 dollars, we have a little under 6,000 to support a student for a year” (“The Merrow Report: First to Worst”).…

    • 749 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Sustainability presumes that resources are finite, and should be used conservatively and wisely with a view to long-term priorities and consequences of the ways in which resources are used. Acharacle Primary School delivers a clear message of ‘Ecominialism’, which means the use of careful design to achieve sustainable construction, without spending extra cost, energy and maintenance (Liddell, H., 2008). Using Brettstapel construction, which is a glueless form of massive timber construction that was imported from Austria, can produce a most likely insulated and airtight school (Scottish Ecological Design Association, 2013). Nonetheless, the setting of Acharacle Primary School is also an important aspect, as it affects the energy consumption…

    • 268 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Throughout The Nature of College Farrell argues that the everyday life of a college student impacts the environment whether they know it or not. Things such as using the bathroom, washing your hair and taking a shower all play a part in effecting the environment. Taking a shower, for example, is something that we all do and we probably don’t stop to think about its impact on the world around us. When we take a shower we use approximately 3 gallons of water per minute and since I am pretty sure that no one takes one minute showers we use way more than 3 gallons. The average person takes about 10 minutes in the shower, which in turn would be 30 gallons of fresh water being dumped down the drain.…

    • 320 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    There has been an unprecedented amount of evidence that our Earth is heating up due to global warming causing hard to repair damage to the world. According to Van Jones, author of The Green Collar Economy we must take action now. The rising temperatures are melting the ice caps at alarming rates they are also allowing there to be a rise in bacterial plant diseases that ruin crops, and disease carrying insects. These insects can ruin more crops, as they are active for a much longer time. We humans add about seven billion tons of carbon to the atmosphere every year.…

    • 1054 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    This proposal seeks to identify a solution for the current recycling problem at Mercer University. Purpose This proposal was written in response to RFP No. MU-2014-03. In this RFP, Dr. Pam Brewer identified a problem with the current recycling and sustainability program at Mercer University and requested that the program be improved and expanded upon.…

    • 2002 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Tragedy Of Commons

    • 863 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Professor Victor Miguel Ponce (2014) defines the Tragedy of the Commons as, “a natural resource shared by many individuals, in the absence of regulation, each individual will have a tendency to exploit the commons to his/her own advantage, typically without limit. Under this state of affairs, the commons is depleted and eventually ruined.” Ashford University is currently facing a “tragedy of commons” that presently affects many students including myself. I believe it has stemmed from the unconscious and careless nature of college students and faculty. However, the existence and magnitude of the problem cannot be overlooked.…

    • 863 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Teddy Willcocks Y1 Civics Ms. Marshall Essay Climate change affects everybody and everything all over the world and is impacting how we live our lives. Around the world, we need to tackle the issues of climate change and alter the way we consume and dispose of resources. The pollution we create from factories and vehicles goes up into our atmosphere and creates a barrier of greenhouse gas. When the sun 's rays come to earth and then radiate back out to space, they can’t go back because of the one way, very thick greenhouse gas barrier. The 20 warmest years ever have happened since 1981 and with 10 of the warmest happening within the past 12 years and this is continuing to get worse as the years go on.…

    • 1187 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Human beings have lived in the Chestertown, Maryland region for several thousand years. In that time, they left indelible marks on the landscape and the ecological processes which inhabit that landscape. As humankind’s impact on the environment grows, how does this impact the local environment? Specifically, how does Washington College’s presence within Chestertown impact the surrounding ecosystems?…

    • 1827 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Final Project: Sustainability in the Age of Responsibility Marisa Arnholtz In Wayne Vissers’ ‘Age of Responsibility’, the meaning of responsibility and what is takes to be successfully responsible to ourselves and those around us is explored. “Being responsible also does not mean doing it all ourselves. Responsibility is a form of sharing, a way of recognizing that we’re all in this together” (Visser, 2011). He shares the importance of teamwork, and without working together it is impossible to make any kind of impact or positive change.…

    • 1862 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Of course, scientifically this is absurd--only a basic understanding of scientific processes is required to understand that pollutants we put into the atmosphere have an effect the environment. We must convince, and educate the general product about the externalities of polluting our planet. Once the general public has the basic knowledge to understand this concept, we will begin to see change--a shift from coal and fossil fuels to renewable energies such as solar and wind. As we mentioned earlier, these pollutants, particularly CO2 have a long residence time, meaning that even if we stop polluting the atmosphere all together, right now, which is wildly unrealistic, we would still have to worry about all the CO2 that 's already there! In conclusion, the gasses and pollutants put into out atmosphere effect it ways you might not think is possible, so each person 's carbon footprint matters and has an effect on the future climate of our…

    • 1166 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    From the start of the 1900s to 1950, world population began to experience an exponential increases, more than doubling from one billion in 1927 to two and a half billion in 1950, the year carbon dioxide started reaching record concentrations (“World Population” 1). As carbon dioxide levels rose, the population would reach just over seven billion. This correlation occurs because as more people populate the earth, more people are driving cars, burning fossil fuels, and removing forests, which releases greater and greater quantities of carbon dioxide each year. While many are skeptical of the realities of climate change, ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree…

    • 1722 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The idea of a perfect school has always been a thought, but it’s never been executed. However, with that being said, I don’t think anybody has ever seen Columbia City High School as a perfect school, and they never will see it as a perfect school. With a few changes, the perception of Columbia City High School could be slightly better than it currently is. Columbia City High School’s routine day for some students includes extensive classes, incomplete homework assignments, repulsive lunches, and irrelevant―yet required―classes; consequently, students aren’t receiving the maximum benefits from attending school that they could. This can be improved by slight tweaks to the schedule, revamped lunches, and a variety of class selections.…

    • 1217 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    I had one experience my aunt she got two trash can one for garbage and one for recycle. That’s the live example I saw. I learn a lot of good things in this essay. I learn how I can help to protect the environment.…

    • 970 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays