Blog 1:
Watching the first clip of the video in class last week, I felt inspired. I have a small garden outside of my apartment and have always dreamed of expanding it. My garden consists of bell peppers, spicy peppers, tomatoes, herbs, raspberries, and I just began corn, broccoli, spinach, eggplant, among some others. Since it is a small personal garden I don't use pesticides. I never really thought about if i did how it would cause run off and pollute, most likely, the pond 20 yards away. That pond is not the clearest of the cleanest, but the apartment complex "higher ups" decided it was too ugly so they tried to dye it blue. They obviously messed it up the first time because there are blue patches here and there that you can't even see through. I imagine this can't be good for the fish, especially the ones that spawn near the waters edge because they can't see predators. The video clip about the harmful chemical running off and polluting the Mississippi made me think about that exact process but on a smaller scale and directly affected by me. On a large or small scale our actions even individually greatly affect our environment negatively. Even though it is easier to affect it negatively, it will be difficult to change that and start affecting the environment in a positive way so the environment can benefit as well instead of just us.
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