Senior Safety Group

We interview the senior safety group on Monday . The mission is to provide senior citizens with safety tips in the case of an emergency and to prepare them with a plan in the case of a disaster. Some of tips they share was to always stay indoor during a heatwaves and to always have a emergency contact. They plan to visit about 10 senior citizens home before August 14 and present their tips. Check out this awesome group at http://seniorsafety09.blogspot.com/

Wagner Free Institute of Science

Today we visit the Wagner Free Institute of Science which a is science museum from the 18 hundreds that has a wide collection of fossils, bones, insects, and creepy aquatic life. The exhibits can be seen through glass cases or around a chain barrier on the cherry wooded floor. Walking around you'll also hear the creaking of the old wooden floors , see the ancient architecture and can't help but laugh at the old technology. The entire building itself is an awesome museum which is very cool. Check is out if you're interested.

Energy Audit

Yesterday our group interviwed the Energy Audit Group. They work with the office of sustainibility on Temple Unversity and conduct research for them. They go into office and conduct an energy audit, which is looking for places where energy is lost the most or wasted such as not having a recycle bin, computer monitor with no screensavers or outlets with no power strips. They take back there data to the office of sustainibility and they make new rules and guildlines to follow. There may even be a person at every building to enforce the energy saving guildlines. They show you how to save the environment, money and enforces you to do it, what there not to like about the this awesome group. Check them out at http://phillygreen09.blogspot.com/

One of the biggest issue today towards the environment is global warming. We’ve all heard that global warming could cause floods, increase the intensity of hurricanes and even cause a new ice age. Is all this true? You first must know what is global warming and what causes global warming.

Global Warming is the gradual warming of the earth’s atmosphere. It is cause by the burning of fossil fuels and industrial pollutants. Mainly by the gas Carbon Dioxide but also from other gases such as Methane and Nitrous Oxide. As carbon dioxide and these other gases enter the atmosphere they trap the sun’s heat, causing the planet to warm up.

The source of carbon dioxide from power plants and automobiles. Power plants which are the largest source of carbon dioxide. In Australia alone produces more than 11 tons of CO2 per person and the USA produces 9 tons per person. Automobiles which is the second largest source produce 1.5 billion ton of Carbon Dioxide every year. The country that produce most of the world’s Global Warming pollution altogether is the United States. Although the U.S makes up only 5% of the world’s population it produces almost 25% of the fossil fuel burning.

This morning our group interviewed a group called Bike Temple. Their objective is to convince people to use bikes around Temple University's campus instead of car. During the school year their are too many car and no parking space. Riding bikes they stated will reduce your carbon emission into the sky, save you money and make you healthier. They have already give out surveys about bikes and put up posters around the campus for a start. Click here to check out their incredible blog.

We also talked to three other group all about twitter. We showed them how to use it, why use it, how to advertise theirs blogs and get more followers.

I've recently researched Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO). Genetic Modify Organism are simply organism whose genes is changed due to genetic engineering. It is done by a method called Recombinant DNA. Recombinant DNA is combining two DNA sequences that would not occur naturally. DNA is transfer is transfer into an organism usually by a virus, something common and safe, because a virus can get into the cell membranes. This technology or innovation is in its infant stage and is currently used for biological and medical research, production of pharmaceutical drugs, experimental medicine and agriculture. For now scientist are just testing and perfecting this method by practicing on animal such as the glow in the dark dog.



These breakthroughs from testing animals will eventually lead to testing on humans. Imagine how many human diseases can be cured or erase with genetic engineering. Everyday scientist are getting closer. They have even succeed in an even better test subject, Monkeys. These genetically engineering monkey has passed on alien genes to their offspring. But as all innovations this also conjures a debate : Is it right to test animals?

Welcome to the Greenest Blog

Hi, I welcome you all to my new blog. I work with a group of interns and our mission is increase the awareness of environmental research here in Philadelphia. Our group will be writing about green research and project that is going on in Philadelphia and in this program. Join Us and stay tune so that you can help us spread the awareness and together we will rescue the environment.