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How do the earth systems affect each other?
In business like ours they affect the atmosphere by truck delivers and those deliveries produce fossil fuels which pollute the air. Then over consumption and using all the productive resources will affect the biosphere.
What efforts can we make to create a sustainable future?
We can stop using factory farms and cut down on burning fossil fuels and energy consumption because it is a mess. First, of all we use to much of each for storing foods which we end up throwing out because of over consumption and having to much products.
Q1 Benchmark Final Submission
The earth systems are affected on the daily and we know we can reduce these negative affects. An industry affects the earth because it uses up all our renewable energy, pollutes our air, and pushes out oil into our waters. We will be using solar energy to get direct sunlight and act as fuel. We can reuse our clothes to stop wasting and can save money.
Q1 Sustainable Business and Resource Management Benchmark (2018-2019)
Ethnobtany and Culture
Through this project I had the chance to learn more about agriculture. I learned about the different tribes that had a big influence on agriculture. They helped with the society especially when it comes to trading. Different tribes used to trade food, animals, and raw materials. We depend on the growth of these crops for food, health, and even clothes. Before we bought everything we need from a grocery store, Native tribes would plant and cultivate crops to survive. They used agriculture to their advantage and made the most out of everything.
One of the tribes that I learned the most from was the:
The Sioux tribe, from South Dakota-
They lived in teepees, wore clothing made from animal skin such as buffalo, the clothing usually consisted of Fur, leather, and suede. They traded buffalo products for crops such as corn. They got this from tribes of plains (tribes found within Canada, and The U.S). Females were good at bead embroidery, while men usually performed raids on other tribes. They believed in 4 powers that controlled the universe.
Animals such as Buffalo and Bear were a big deal to them usually used in rituals, and celebrations. Although they tended to crops and used them as a source of income. Their main source of income was the animals they killed and herded. The weapons and clothing made from the fur and skin of these animals were highly praised and sold well.
Ethnobotany & Cultures
Within the Agriculture community we've had many different types of groups amplify and pitch in increasing agriculture and spreading it. One of those being the indigenous tribes found within the U.S and basically everywhere else. We studied multiple tribes such as Lanape, San, Angami, Sioux e.t.c. Within these tribes we've seen how important agriculture was to them. Usually being the drive force to their tribe and growth as a community. Something like this helps explain the heavy background agriculture carries which is why it's praised and held to such high standards. Looking into this helped a lot and made me more interested in researching in said Topic.
Comparative Ethnobotany
REFLECTION:
Indigenous plants, cultures and wisdom should be conserved by spreading awareness of indigenous people and their background. They use every plant in a different way depending what the plant is good for. Depending on the plant, like herbs can be used as medicinal, while other plants like fruits, nuts, vegies, is used as food. If humans genetically modify the plants to help change with the environment, it will allow the plants to survive in those specific environments, etc. What stood out to us was how many different organizations there was to help out the Indigenous plants and people.
Comparative Ethnobotany
For our project we studied four different native tribes from around the world, including the Lenape from Philadelphia, Sioux from North Dakota, San from Southern Africa, and the Angami from Nagaland India. We studied their culture and learned about how they used agriculture in their society. With what we learned we can conserve their culture and wisdom by using some of their planting techniques, and trying to use plants as much as they did. These tribes incorporated agriculture into their daily lives and made sure to get the most out of everything. Plants in new climates can either become invasive or just not do well in a new environment. If we keep them in their natural climate and respect land as much as the indigenous people did/ do then we will have a more positive affect instead of negative. From this project I realized how native tribes helped shape agriculture and their use of plants and materials was rather conserved and not wasteful. I think this is something we can still use today in order to get the most out of all that we use.
Botany Reflection
Comparative Ethnography
With the indigenous knowledge, we are capable to help with the biodiversity, and we can also help the forest due to the traditions only working if the forest canopy is intact for example in the old, Africans used to conserve forests in a simple way. Indigenous wisdom is a valuable tradition among indigenous peoples, in these long traditions human problems have been taken care of by learning from other species and also from the wider natural processes in which we participate. The anatomy of a plant can affect plant physiology in a positive way because we are able to use various parts of a plant for a variety of things such as food, medicine, etc. Human interactions affect plants ability to adapt to changing climates because if it’s extremely hot then there can be droughts and plants won’t have enough water where in other areas they can drown to excessive water.
Q1 Botany Benchmark
Comparative Ethobotany
Indigenous plants, cultures, and wisdom can be conserved if we put more effort into protecting them and giving more respect for their culture and what they do. The structure of a plant affects how they function. For instance, a Venus Fly Trap is structured the way it is so that it can eat bugs. Humans can affect how plants are affected by the climate because the actions of humans always affect how the environment is which affects the plants in that environment. Like when people smoke, it gets in the air which then kills plants. This is why we need to not only take a priority in taking care of plants, but also take a priority in helping indigenous people.
Q1 Benchmark: Comparative Ethnobotany
Q1 Benchmark: Comparative Ethnobotany
The way that indigenous plants and the culture be preserved as a whole is by having more classes teach these kinds of things. This information can be shared amongst students at the grade level of 5th grade and could teach it again in the sophomore year of high school. There could be special schools days where they acknowledge indigenous culture and spend a day or however long they want to spend celebrating and cultivating that culture. Plant anatomy affects plant physiology because plants need to be structurally strong so that it can do certain features; a plant that thrives in rainy conditions and is built for humid areas such as the rainforest isn't going to work the same if it was suddenly put in an environment like a desert, it wouldn’t survive. Humans interactions affect a plants ability to adapt to changing climates if it’s a plant that is always in a constant environment. If a plant is always being nurtured by having constant light and being given water at certain times throughout the day the plant will never have to experience a drought of water or sometimes not seeing the sun. Since the plant is in a constant environment it will always know only that constant.
Q1 Benchmark: Comparative Ethnobotany
McDonald Sustainable buisness
Sustainable Mcdonald's
It is evident from objective data and statistics that Mcdonald’s’s business practices are not sustainable for the environment and will play a role in the depleting the earth of its natural resources, and warming to planet to a point of no return.
Mcdonald’s has two meat suppliers: Keystone Foods (now owned by Tyson Foods) and Lopez Foods. Tyson Foods takes pride in only working with independent, family owned farms. But while these farms are independent and family owned they are factory farms. According to the Ethical Choices Program, factory farming is the largest contributor to environmental damage. Tyson foods justifies their practices by glorifying the farms they work with, drawing the conclusion that if they are family owned, they must be ethical. But this conclusion is false because the fact that a business is family owned does not mean it is a small, ethical business, Mcdonald’s itself is family owned. Furthermore, the farms that tyson foods works with are hardly even family owned as tyson foods owns the animals, and the food that the animals eat. Only the land and equipment are independently owned.
Lopez foods produces the beef patties for the hamburgers sold at Mcdonald’s. They are made in a large scale factory, and all large scale factories contribute to air pollution if they do not use renewable energy. Lopez foods is not a farm, and they will not publicly state their suppliers. It can be inferred that this is because their suppliers farming practices are even more unethical than those from tyson farms.
New plan for sustainability:
In order to ensure that the food sold at Mcdonald’s is sustainability. Mcdonald’s should introduce Clean Meat as their new supplier. Clean Meat produces 100% real meat without killing animals. They do this by taking a sample of the animals cells, and then growing the cells outside of the animal. This will help the environment because far less animals will be required to produce the same amount of meat, and it will drastically reduce the costs of meat because a virtually endless supply of meat can be produced from a single animal.
In addition, Mcdonald’s should cease opening new restaurants, there are already 37,241 worldwide, which is more than enough. And all current restaurants should be powered by forms of renewable energy such as solar energy and wind energy.
Works Cited
Lopez Foods, lopezfoods.com/.
“Ethical Choices Program.” Ethical Choices Program, www.ethicalchoicesprogram.org/.
“Farmers.” Tyson, www.tysonfoods.com/who-we-are/our-partners/farmers.
GRACE Communications Foundation. “Environment.” GRACE Communications Foundation, www.sustainabletable.org/265/environment.
Maserati7200. “Inside the Factory Where McDonalds' Meat Comes From.” YouTube, YouTube, 17 Feb. 2009, www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGWqwYP1dcA.
Primack, Dan. “Tyson in Talks to Purchase Keystone Foods.” Axios, 30 July 1970, www.axios.com/tyson-chicken-keystone-foods-mcnuggets-mcdonalds-b6e98f3d-2d47-4f4c-9fcb-f66144beae7e.html.
“Trace Your Food Back ToTHE SOURCE.” McDonald's Food Suppliers & Food Sources | McDonald's, www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/about-our-food/meet-our-suppliers.html.
“Welcome.” Clean Meat, cleanmeat.org/.
Business and Resource Management
Ethnobotany Project By: Quamir, Deja, Simon
Ethnobotany Project By: Deja, Simon, Quamir
Indigenous plants, cultures, and wisdom can be conserved by protecting them from what you know that would hurt them.
Depending how plants are structured effects how they function and how they are taking care of. Human interactions affects plants ability to changing climates depends on how humans take care of plants and what they are using them for. Something that stood out to me is indigenous group use plants for clothing because I am a fan on clothes and it interesting to see culture coming from so small into something used for so big. Learning about the different indigenous groups made me see a bigger picture on plants and why they are important and how they can supply human needs.
Comparative Ethnobotany
Exploring Differences In Tribes
Plants uses
The plants have many uses in different cultures because each culture has a different point of view
Abenaki
Native American tribe and First Nation.The role of the plants is something that may have helped them in there everyday life when planting different foods to eat everyday and sometime make cool objects out of them.
Angola
Natural or man-made fires occur frequently in savanna vegetation, and tree species are thus usually resistant to fire.
What is the climate like ?
When we discuss climate change it refers to global or regional climate patterns so for these tribes we will go through what they experience...
Traveling for more resources will change
More carbon released may create more changes
Changes in food sources, perceived reduction in weather
Deforestation and forest fragmentation
Angola: Climate. Like the rest of tropical Africa, Angola experiences distinct, alternating rainy and dry seasons. The coastal strip is tempered by the cool Benguela Current, resulting in a climate similar to coastal Peru or Baja California. It is semiarid in the South and along the coast to Luanda.
Abenaki: North America extends to within 10° of latitude of both the equator and the North Pole. It embraces every climatic zone, from tropical rainforest and savanna on the lowlands of Central America to areas of permanent ice cap in central Greenland.
Events/ evolution overtime ?
When it comes to evolution we talk about learning and growing into something more to improve...
The Abenaki are a Native American tribe and First Nation
The Abenaki live in Quebec and the Maritimes of Canada and in the New England region of the United States
Similarities and differences ?
The Northern Mbundu or Ambundu are a Bantu people living in Angola's North-West, North of the river Kwanza. While Abenaki were in america
Benchmark
Ethnobotany Project - Simon, Deja, Quamir
I think indigenous agriculture can be preserved simply by un-industrial farmers and gardeners performing the same methods of indigenous cultures. If indigenous methods can escape their original culture and be used by the greater population they can survive in modern culture. We can adapt to changing climates by monitoring the change in climate and influence our new methods by those that thrived in the new climate we will be in. Our actions can also be used to selectively breed plants so they are better suited to the new climate. What stood out to me was how sophisticated and advanced these cultures agricultures are and how much thought went into individual methods. It is also awesome to learn about these culture's agriculture and compare it to methods used by Europeans and see how boring those methods are, or maybe I just see them as boring because they are standard to me. I'm wondering why with automation our agriculture has become very standardized and there isn't much variation in mechanized farming like how there is in indigenous farming.
Q1 Poetry Benchmark
The Truth Behind Kente (reveal a truth)
Kente is a piece of me
Loving its colorful energy
Knowing you’re more powerful
Wearing a piece of cloth
Living up to your all
Knowing you could never fall
I am Africa American
I am proud
I will stand up and say it out loud
Being black is amazing
Bet my ancestors are proud
Of who my mom is raising
Alive and well
I am praising
I am black and proud
Even in the biggest crowd
My Kente cloth will stand out
Not What You May Think! ( asking a question)
Africa? The place you may think is awful
Africa? Hot and dirt roads
Africa? A place you could never call your own
Africa? A place that doesn’t have livable homes?
Africa is not what you think
It’s more urban as poverty begins to shrink
You may ask why it’s portrayed that way if it isn’t
The answer is simple
People are easily manipulated
Hardly concentrated
Never really creative
Which makes them simple-minded
Believing everything they see
Not experiencing
So take it from me
Africa is not what it seems
People there are inviting
Not the slightest bit of mean
Visual Presentation
https://youtu.be/UAqHTvCGyCU
Special Cloth ( tell a story)
I have not only one piece of kente
I have 2
One colorful
With some blue
One straight pink
With a naturally made ink
20 cedis is how much it cost me
Which is equivalent to almost nothing
Knowing its price was considered expensive in Ghana
But nothing with my US dollars
And that it was handmade with beautiful techniques
Fairly hard to critique
I didn’t think twice about the price
All the hard hot work
It came out very nice
Making them sturdy and durable
In all that hot weather must have been terrible
So my 20 cedi blessings
Must have been a miracle
