Tuesday, September 27, 2011

what i learned in the september 21st class

we started with economics and environmental policy. what economic growth is sustainable. When U.S. environmental policy started, and the diffrent waves they came in up to modern policy. The diffrent agencys that were formed and differnt bills and acts that came as a result.
Also we learned about the european unions and diffrent world orangizations and environmental acts. Then we moved into diffrent ideas on environmental policy like green taxes, subsidies, and environmental solulitons. We moved along into dead zones and postive and negative feedback loop. The chemistry and the environment and how atoms and elements are chemical buildings blocks. what a atom is made up of and how it reacts with the environment around it. The diffrent ph levels which measures how acidic or basic a solution is. How matter is composed and the diffrent componds. Energy fundamentals and how it changed in the environment. The life and environmental cycles that are always taking place. This is what i took away from this weeks class.