Our group selected the theme nature and the environment. We saw the need for more awareness about what is happening in our environment. Although we live in it, we ar enot necessarily educated on the types of effects our actions are causing. After choosing this topic we were able to, after following the city-state-national guideline, find different topics that showed drastic changes in our environments. For this assignment, you must (1) post the New York Times “Front Page” you’ve developed in your seminar AND explain why the group selected the items that are included reflecting on how/why these selections best express the most salient issues/concerns during their first semester at Baruch.
In our group we each had the responsibility to find three articles which embodied these guidlines. My main role after finding these articles were to summarize them and explain their importance to our class. After doing this research, I have become more conscious of my actions and how they will impact the environment. Even before this research, I have been conscious of littering and if someone close by is littering, I would ask them to pick it up. My willingness to research more about the environment and keep tabs on what is going on in the world as increased more.
I was following an article that explained, trash in the train tracks can lead to a fire and I definitely would like to live as I travel to and from places using the trains. The main point to take away though is that even the little counts. If someone sees you littering they may too because they may have the concept in their minds that someone will clean up after them or a little dirt will not hurt. The truth of the matter is the little adds up and eventually we can be living in our own waste. Now who really wants to do that?
The link to our project is below. Remember every little counts so take the first step and read a little, today!
https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/newyorktimesteam5/
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