Open blog 2

Open blog 2
So for the open blog I will mention the abandon bike event. The mean walked or road bikes around campus to tag bikes that appear to no longer be in use to be tagged an removed. This will provided available parking as well as provide a bike to a current USC Student. Since the team walked or road bikes during the event rather then using a motor vehicle, we did not emit any harmful gases into the environment. While this project does not directly affect the planet, it will promote the use of alternate energy. Students will drive a car to school if bike parking in unavailable to prevent walking, VisVersa if this is no car parking. By freeing up space, we are promoting the use of bikes. Now lets focus on the where the abandon bikes go. Parking services gives them to the USC bike center who will accept applications for the bikes. If accepted the student only pays for parts, not labour. At the end of the day, it is significantly cheaper than purchasing a bike form a local store, or even buying one offline.  This places alternate methods of transportation to those who might not have been able to purchase a bike in the 1st place. If the choice is to drive a car you already own, or pay $500 up front for a bike, which do you think most people will choose. On the other hand, if the bike only costs $79, thats much more affordable and the percentage of people able and willing to purchase the bike increase. Now once they obtain the bike, parking in front the buildings are available due to abandon bikes being removed, thus making it more convenient to ride rather than drive. Finally the income one will save on gas in amazing.

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Open blog
Since these blogs are instructed to be based around sustainability, and since I am on the Transportation team, I decided to have my 1st open blog focus on how I am implementing the teams goals into my own life. One of the key values my team pushes is alternate methods of transportation instead of using the traditional car. This is exactly what I have incorporated into my life. I use my bike as my main method of transportation rather than my car. I use the alternate green transportation method 5 out of 7 days of the week while only using the fuel burning car 3 out of 7 days. Sure the bike takes longer at times but in the long run, there are greater benefits. One is that you emit less carbon into the air, second, it helps provided a healthier life style. Since the bike has become my main method of transportation, I have lost weight, increased strength in my legs, and have higher endurance level. The car is literally only used when traveling distances that would be longer than a 40 min bike ride, highway use, or when shopping for groceries. It would be to difficult to ride a bike and trying to balance 8 bags. One thing I also forgot to mention is the money I save on gas. I use to fill up once a week for about 30$ a tank equaling $120 a month. Now I fill up once every 3 weeks to a month and spend a total of $30. Because of this lifestyle change and working with the transportation team, i have been able to utilize what my team has to offer and discover the safest and faster routs between classes.

Blog 13

What do you think of ecofemisnism before you read, and after? Did you have any strong reactions? What do forms of dominance do you see in the world around you?
So I figured Ecofemisnism was mainly left wing feminist ideology with a hint a environmental values thrown in. But according to the reading, I was mistaken, "The primary aims of ecofeminism are not the same as those typically associated with liberal feminism."
After the readings it still seems to be closely related to the liberal feminism and I didnt have any strong reactions. Males have been the dominant gender politically and socially throughout most of the human history. So is it a shocking that males are portrayed as being Superior, no,  are males superior, no. We live in a modern era were we are all viewed as equals (for the most part). But we can never completely rid of the the sexism between the genders. Women will see stronger support to end any form of inequality once obtaining more political power following left wing ideology. But one must remember not all men in today's time believe they are treated better than most women and there are many women who believe the men and women are being treated the same. Its just how and what instances we focus on. While people get up that a Male CEO makes more than a female CEO in some cases, how often do we here complaints about a female server making significantly more than a male. There are certain fields of work that are naturally unequal for both parties which i understand that ecofemisnism wishes to correct. Im a strong supporter of pure equality among all citizens.
As for the statement about Ecofeminists disagreeing about whether these 'male' and 'female' qualities are innate to the sexes or are simply human character traits common to us all. I have to agree its not a male or female trait, its stoley based on the person. 

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I CANT GET THE WHITE LINE TO DISAPPEAR, IM COPYING AND PASTING IT FROM WORD AND BLOGGER REFUSED TO CLEAR THE CODE, JUST HIGHLIGHT THE WHITE PART TO READ IT

So we begin this blog with the question "what is monkey wrenching and do your agree with it?"

Money wrenching is a sabotaging  equipment to cause serious economic damage, while temporary or permanently halting activities that cause damage to the environment. Personally I have no tolerance towards this type of protesting for 3 reasons. 1^st is illegal, 2^nd it a form of violent and destructive protest, 3^rd its harms economic activates while promoting illegal behavior, deeming it acceptable.  This is where earth first fall under.

Next we move onto the Green party. The piece of legislation I most approve of is not environmental policy, but economic.  Section E of the platform Fair Taxation  section 1.m“Federal and state taxes must be strongly progressive” is the policy I most agree with. This mean that individuals are taxed solely based off income. In this system, the citizens who make a 100,000 + pay significally more than citizens who makes only 25,000 a year. This allows for lower income citizens to keep more of their income. Those who have been so lucky to have a decent income pay more to help support the nation. They are not taxes to the point where they lose majority of their income. A progressive tax rate has been in effect in the US since 1900s.

Finally, would I join the Green Party? If some of the ideology changes then yes. The Green Party support strong leftists policies which I can truly relate to. The problem I have with the green party is the fact that is it was to strengthen and weaken government at the same time. While this is a flaw in green values, most green party candidates do not support the weakening of the federal government since its viewed as the protecting force for the people. If the candidate supports this ideology, then I would support the Green party. I did in the last senate election, I voted for Tom Clements. 

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So we begin this blog with the question "what is monkey wrenching and do your agree with it?"

Money wrenching is a sabotaging  equipment to cause serious economic damage, while temporary or permanently halting activities that cause damage to the environment. Personally I have no tolerance towards this type of protesting for 3 reasons. 1^st is illegal, 2^nd it a form of violent and destructive protest, 3^rd its harms economic activates while promoting illegal behavior, deeming it acceptable.  This is where earth first fall under.

Next we move onto the Green party. The piece of legislation I most approve of is not environmental policy, but economic.  Section E of the platform Fair Taxation  section 1.m“Federal and state taxes must be strongly progressive” is the policy I most agree with. This mean that individuals are taxed solely based off income. In this system, the citizens who make a 100,000 + pay significally more than citizens who makes only 25,000 a year. This allows for lower income citizens to keep more of their income. Those who have been so lucky to have a decent income pay more to help support the nation. They are not taxes to the point where they lose majority of their income. A progressive tax rate has been in effect in the US since 1900s.

Finally, would I join the Green Party? If some of the ideology changes then yes. The Green Party support strong leftists policies which I can truly relate to. The problem I have with the green party is the fact that is it was to strengthen and weaken government at the same time. While this is a flaw in green values, most green party candidates do not support the weakening of the federal government since its viewed as the protecting force for the people. If the candidate supports this ideology, then I would support the Green party. I did in the last senate election, I voted for Tom Clements. 

Blog 10

What religion were you raised with and how does
that affect your view of spiritual ecology?

My father was Jewish and my mother is Protestant. Luckily my parents never forced religion onto me and I was able to research religion myself. I am not religious in anyway. So spiritual ecology doesnt have any effect on me.

2. What are your opinions on the Gaia Hypothesis?
Do you agree or disagree?

IIiIf Gaia Hypothesis states that the Earth is an evolving and growing along side organisms as a living creature, then disagree. The earth is evolving but not in the literal sense. The constitution is adapting (evolving) like a living organism with the times yet its not actually alive. The Earth is the same way. Its a not living mass that has living organisms on it. The organisms are what are evolving.  

3. Do you believe we live in a hyper-masculine
culture? If so, how do you see it changing

 Yes, I do believe we live hyper-masculine culture which I do not see changing drastically any time soon. Our society is still politically and socially dominated by the male culture thus influencing our way of life. We are slowly seeing this culture changing but not at a significant pace. Once women and feminism play are stronger role in political society, we might then see the hyper-masculine culture weaken beyond recognition. 

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Deep Ecology is, in my own opinion, the relationships that humans and all organisms have with the existence of others within ecosystems. They strive and depend on all living organisms whether it be a plan or an animal. Humans are causing the destruction of the environment which poses a threat to not only humans, but to all organisms. Everyone depends on the cooperation of each other.

The value that I agree with most and relates to all of our social lives is that the resources of the Earth are limited. When we think about resources, we tend to focus on coal, water, trees, and metals. But what we tend not to think about as a resource is life. Our food sources like fish are drastically declining, this RESOURCE is depleting and its because of human intervention. We demand the life styles we are use to yet are unwilling to make alterations to sustain such lifestyles. We are fishing the fish population dry, continuously draining the limited oil supplies, cutting down more forests then we can replace. Resources are limited and we must adapt to prevent depletion.

Now I don’t have a value that I really disagree with, just a statement. “More recently Christian Theologians and Biblical scholars, Father Robert Murray, Margaret Barker, Vincent Rossi, have begun to question the traditional Biblical interpretation that Man was granted dominion over all God's creatures, ie granted the absolute right to exploit, and that instead there was a Cosmic Covenant and that Man's role was to help maintain the cosmic order for all of God's Creation. An interpretation that would have been recognisable to St Ephrem the Syrian, St Dionysius the Areopagite, St Maximus the Confessor, Hildegard von Bingen and forms the world-view of vernacular man and chthonic societies. Organisations like ARC and REEP are attempting to reconnect mainstream religions with their environment.” The readings states that we need to rethink modern religions. We do not need to rethink them, just understand why humans do act in a certain way. It all relates to Machiavelli’s might make right. Humans are the dominant species and will take advantage of species while justifying the reasoning. We are not above the rest, we only believe that we are.