Monoculture

Jonathan Jeschke discusses a rapidly growing scientific discipline known as the four general hypotheses in modern Invasion Ecology. Ecology is defined as the study of interactions between organisms and their natural habitat. Jeschke elaborates using different methods of hypothesis to disclose an unambiguous image of each ‘backbone of science’ as a whole and individually and the ways it is beneficial to us. However, the most important influential invasion hypothesis I believe is Biotic Resistance…

PART 1 The main point raised by Gloria Ladson-Billings about the concept of culture is to emphasize the lack of knowledge about culture in our society. Ladson-Billings explains the reason for the failure in education of minorities is due to the fact that teachers do not know how to adapt their teaching skills to help a child who is not like them, which they consider to be “normal”. I agree with her reasoning because students are unique and their ways of learning and grasping information all…

Living Off the Food Systems Three distinct food production systems make up our everyday food choices. Some Americans will never move past the very first food chain where little connection exists between nature and the plate. In Michael Pollan’s book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, he walks through and explores each food chain in detail. Pollan holds a strong desire to closely experience every aspect of the processes and origins of the food that humans eat. His introduction explains what the book’s…

As I walk into my local Stop & Shop or Market Basket I am overwhelmed by my choices. I look at some of the products and sometimes I find pictures of small farms with wide green pastures. That is how the industrial food system wants us to interpret it, although I know this is far from reality. Most of these industrial farms do not even have animals, and the ones that do are simply awful. In the essay “The Future of Food Production, the author, Sam Forman mentions that as soon as food production…

Margaret Atwood’s dystopian MaddAddam trilogy is a text that enters a speculation into a post-apocalyptic fall-out of environmental disaster and autocratic corporations, a global pandemic and extreme bio-scientific experimentation provide the catalysts for feminine subjective becoming. Atwood positions the book as a treatise on the ambiguous potential of powerful tools, and the role of humanity in determining the fit use for such tools: "Our tools have become very powerful. Hate, not bombs,…

The decline has been linked to the parasites, climate change and the industrial agriculture as well. The losses of the biodiversity from the usage of the harmful pesticides and monocultures have the most notable effects on the decline of bees worldwide. So what is it that must be done in order to relinquish the control of a healthy bee population thus sustaining effective pollination practices for the farming industry? This country…

Introduction El Salvador locates in Central America, bordered by Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. It has a tropical and a subtropical climate including a dry season from November to April and a rainy season from May to October. According to World Development Indicators, there were 29.6% of households living in poverty in 2013 (World Development Indicators, 2015). This report focus on smallholder farms, which found at high altitudes in the mountainous regions of the country and grow crops…

Ecofootprint The Ecological Footprint Analysis (EFA) is an awareness tool, which allows individuals, governments, and businesses to understand in a representative way, their ecological impact on Earth. The concept, developed in 1966, aims to represent all the natural resources that is consumed by human activity. Although EFA has its limitations, it is an effective method for a person or institution to determine its current footprint and then make appropriate decisions and actions towards it…

In today’s society people has taken care of the environment in a different way. If God created the world and everything that goes along with it; then we as followers of God, Don’t we need to treat the world the way God would want us to? In Psalms 24:1-2 NIV it says “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; for he founded it on the seas and established it on the waters.” How funny that not just people, but Christians themselves treat the world with such…

The world is interconnected with the web of ideas, commerce, and culture linking the deserts of the Australian outback with the acreages of the American South, the forests of India with the cobblestones of German villages. This globalism defines the modern world and transforms economies, governments, and the private lives they shape. However, globalism was not born with the creation of the World Wide Web, vast networks of public transportation, or even Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone. The…