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Since the COVID-19 crisis has us all stuck at home, that means we do school from home to!! For my AP Environmental Science class online, we had an assignment to do an inventory of our refrigerators and lights in our house. We were challenged to find the wattage of each light and of each fridge.Continue reading “My Drawdown Project”

During this time of quarantine because of the COVID-19 crisis, I have been living at my summer house in Chatham, Massachusetts. Cape Cod is in particular danger of climate change because we are surrounded by the ocean here. I have grown up living in Chatham for summers and before I ever learned about climate changeContinue reading “Chatham Climate Change Blog”

After we collected our trash for a week, we finally made it to the Andover transfer station!! I did not have very high expectations for the transfer station, however it was very interesting and I really enjoyed our time exploring the transfer station. A lot of different things we had been talking about in classContinue reading “Transfer Station Blog!!!”

In our AP Environmental Science class we collected all of our trash for a week, and at the end we weighed and counted all of our trash items, and we are ready to take it all to the transfer station!!! Based on your observations of the solid waste materials displayed on all of the desksContinue reading “Personal Solid Waste Inventory”

Love Canal: A 70-acre neighborhood in Niagara Falls that used to have a landfill but it became a huge hazard all residents living there because of the pollution and hazardous chemicals in the landfill. Our homework one night was to watch a movie about Love Canal to prepare for our exciting class the next day,Continue reading “Kent Armstrong Speaker”

This is my blog for my AP Environmental Science class! My first blog post is about my presentation on DDT, aka Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane. It is a bad chemical that is found in foods like fish, meat and vegetables that can be very bad for you, and sometimes even lethal. Luckily the United States banned DDT inContinue reading “Welcome!”

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click theContinue reading “Introduce Yourself (Example Post)”