Blog #2

I feel that the location of the FGCU campus is totally appropriate for the “eco-empowerment” mission of the university. First, it is centrally located. This means that students either from the North or the South will not have to travel a great distance to get to school, saving fuel.

This is my third semester at FGCU and I have noticed the solar field. Part of the benefit of the location is the availability of land to create more solar fields in the future. An unfortunate aspect is that there are some professors that still insist on the students turning in typed and printed papers instead of emailing them. This is a great waste of paper.

Having come from Haiti, I appreciate the idea of conservation and sustainability. I hope that these  values will make their way to Haiti and my home country can be saved from the lack of knowledge and greed.

Blog Entry #1

    My expectations for this class is to help me understand local environmental issues better. I would like to learn more ways to make our world more sustainable. I am not from here, I am from Haiti. Haiti is a place where there is no Environmental Protection Agency or a Department of Agriculture. 

After doing some research, my definition of sustainability is the ability for our environment to last and replenish for the future. My goal is to become a dentist. I don’t believe that I could manage that without simple things such as running water, power, and clean air. The ability to maintain our environment and create better ways to manage resources will greatly benefit the future of any profession.

Personal attitudes or behaviors that are unsustainable are those that do not have a sense of responsibility to do his or her part. Recycling, for example, is a sustainable behavior. Many people feel that just one person will not make a difference, so they choose not to participate. It’s feelings like these that place our world in danger.