Callan Thompson's Blog

 Section 1. Environmental Health Impacts     Jonathon Foley studies complex environmental systems and their affects on society. He had been studying the impact that agriculture has been having on our planet and presented his findings at a  Ted Talk . He found that agriculture has been draining the earth's natural resources, but no one seems to know about it. Over consumption and the world's growing population has both impacted humanity's role in draining the earth's natural resources and greenhouse gas emissions. The reason this Ted Talk is called "The other Inconvenient Truth" is because people always only seem to think about climate change and energy when they think of the environment and greenhouse gasses. People seem to forget, or not know, that agriculture also plays a huge factor in this. Agriculture is one of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gasses. Carbon dioxide from burning tropical rainforests, methane from cows and rice, nitrous oxid...

 My favorite place in nature would have to be a little hidden away spot on the edge of the Connecticut River. In high school my friends would I would go to this spot and bring some chairs, food, and drinks and just hangout. There was a tree at this spot with a rope swing attached to it that we could climb up and swing off of. There was nothing fancy about it, just a nice quiet spot in the shade right on the edge of the water.    Connecticut River Photo by Jeff Holcombe                                                                                                                              Connecticut River               ...

 Callan Thompson first test blog post.