Community Garden

Community garden is a growing initiative in most American cities and communities. This initiative is intended to encourage local communities to engage in healthy eating practice and organic food consumption. Many communities make used of grants to established community gardens to make the community self reliant and established a relationship with the environment.

Community gardens provide more benefits then just providing organic food, it provides a catalyst for neighborhood and community development, and stimulates social interaction and opportunities for cross-culture connection.
In the fall of 2008 Macon Roots, an organization which promotes community gardening in Macon, started a conversation between the Beall's Hill Neighborhood Association and Centenary Church about creating a neighborhood garden. With the help of volunteers from the neighborhood, Centenary, and Macon Roots, the community broke ground on the garden on May 2, 2009.
A little over three years since the community garden was established I had the opportunity to visit the garden with my class. There I saw fresh vegetables and flowers. There is a great potential for the garden to provide both social and economic benefits for the community but I was disappointed about the under used of the space and abounded plot of land. It might have been my visit to the garden was the wrong time, but the spirit of community interaction and total involvement was absent. It look as if there is a very few people who have interest in the community garden and are working hard to keep it up. I hope they proof me wrong on my next visit to the garden. I hope to see the land fully utilize and experience a sense of community.

(http://bealls-hill-garden.blogspot.com/)

Rachel Carson contribution to the Environmental Movement

The story of every environmental movement start with Rachel Carson. Her book silent spring and her many contributions to keep the environment save from chemicals make her the back bond of the environmental movement. The Environmental Protection Agency look to her as a founding inspiration. The EPA's official history site states: "There is no question...that SILENT SPRING promoted the Federal Government to take action against water and air pollution- as well as against the misuse of pesticides- several years before it otherwise might have moved."

Before there was an environmental movement, there was one brave women and her very brave book. Carson's most direct legacy in the environmental movement was the campaign to ban the use of DDT in the United States. Carson's work, and the activism it inspired, are at least partly responsible for the deep ecology movement, and the overall strength of the grassroots environmental movement since the 1960s.

Rachel Carson 100th birthday

Effect of Global warming on Health

Over the past two decades the issue of global warming have gain attention in both the political and social media. the raise in sea levels, global temperature change and nature disasters have catch the attention of ordinary people outside of science and politics.

Scientists and politicians are divided over the cause of global warming and solutions to the problem. some scientists and politicians do not believe that global warming exist or is the cause of climate change. other science and political leaders strongly believe that the problem of our world today is cause by global warming and there is a need to do something to save the planet before it is too late.

Who cause global warming? this is a question that is difficult to answer as both pros and anti environmentalist shifts blame to human activities or the nature cycle of the earth. whether global warming is cause by human activities or not, there is a clear need to do something to stop the process.

Global warming is an international and global problem. global warming do not only affect the country or person that cause it, it also affect ordinary population in all regions of the war.

Drought is one of the negative attribute of global warming. farmers around the world are finding it difficult to grow crops. There is a global food crisis due to the lack of enough water for farmers and the low yield of farm products. On the east coast of Africa millions of people suffer and millions of children and women die of starvation. food is very essential for the human body. it promote good health and enable the body to grow strong and fight against invading diseases. As the earth temperature continue to increase, streams, creeks, and rivers dry up and put thousands of population at risk of access to clear and save drinking water. Lack of save drinking water create a lot of complicated health problems. Everyday thousands of women and children die due to water related illness.

Whatever side of the table you stand on this issue, it is clear that the earth is experiencing some extreme temperature increase and unprecedented natural disaster.