joednhs11′s Blog

Over all, I feel the movie fulfilled its intended purpose, it informed the viewer about sustainable living especially to the intro of group three with the time machine, also it showed what might happen at the end of group four with the earth exploding, and then it persuades the viewer with the end of the movie with the water and all the facts being said in the back ground about the water we use then the last word that is said is toilet.

            The thing that works best in this film was the background music choices, they make the facts more effective and the metaphors have a purpose in the film. The music choices put together the expert interviews with the street interviews. What really can be changed in this movie was the use of the visual metaphors in some scenes they were used way too much but in others they weren’t used at all. None of the metaphors had a good enough purpose for what they were being used as and they were played at the wrong parts of the movie to. I’m not saying they were bad I’m just saying that they need some improvement; they were all talking about the environment and what could happen, how we can prevent it, what might happen if we change now. Come on really we need to talk about the past and future it in our title “The Future is in Our Hands: Live Sustainably” if we did that we can make it a lot better.

            What I learned while I was working on this project is how to properly blog, how to make an amateur movie, how to work with others, and how to organize facts on a certain topic. What I want to learn is how to improve on the camera skills I already have. I found out that there most of the cities we live in over half of the ground underneath us is a land fill from a hundred years ago, all so that each year we are adding about another ¼ of a mile of land to the radius of the earth by all the trash we throw out, and also all the trash we dump in the ocean goes to the middle of the ocean where right now is a large land mass made out of just the trash we have been dumping in to the ocean in the past 300 years, its 2x bigger than the state of Texas, and it kills thousands of fish each year.     

http://www.dosomething.org

this site has everything about our enviroment. It breaks the subject down to different subjectsthen it breaks down those subjects even farther in to wht you really want then you can chose articals and facts about the subject you went with. their was so much stuff on the site it made firefox crash on my computer at my house

I really don’t know cause sustainable living is a good thing for the environment and something i have found out is that it has more of a economical effect on every one if we go all out and want to eat healthy organic foods, our bodies cant take that much in one day we have to ween off a little at a time. We also have to break out of our normal routine of throwing out the trash that can be recycled an recycle it. Their are more things to get in to sustainable living but we can’t do those until we finish what we really need to do.  

My name is Joe and I’m a sophomore at PARKWAY NORTH HIGH in St.Louis, Missouri. My English class is currently working on a documentary filmon the effects of sustainable living. I personally don’t understand what the subject is and why its different to living a conservationist life style. Although I can’t really speak to some one in the company face to face i would like to talk to a representative on the phone or by email.
you can reach me between  1800-2100 hours according to Chicago time or u can email me at

I do hope u will hear me out and i look forward to talking to someone on this subject

Sustainable living is a form of living in which the person is living in a more enviromental friendly way their for causing less carbon emissions into the air.

• http://getsustainablenow.org/slp/index.html
• http://www.sustainablestuff.co.uk/PromotingSustainableLiving.html
• http://www.sierraclub.org/sustainable_consumption/food_factsheet.asp
• http://www.supergreenme.com/go-green-environment-eco:Sustainable-Living
• http://environmentalism.suite101.com/article.cfm/eco_design_for_sustainable_living
• http://www.sustainableliving.com.au/getinvolved/pastwinners
• http://www.earthsense.com.au/
• http://www.naturalchoice.net/articles/mcmansions.htm 
• http://noimpactman.typepad.com/blog/2009/01/sustainable-living-on-a-community-level.html

http://www.sustainablelivingmagazine.org/planet-watch/environment/clean-water clean water

http://www.sustainablelivingmagazine.org/planet-watch/environment/fresh-air/44-smog smog

http://www.sustainablelivingmagazine.org/planet-watch/environment/rich-earth rich earth

http://www.sustainablelivingmagazine.org/planet-watch/environment/tree-hugs forest

We really need to stop cutting down the trees or at least find some way we can use all of the materials of a tree and in place of cutting down that one tree we plant seven more we already have enough land why not save the rest for the animals to roam free espaicilly when most of us are scared of them. If we don’t use anymore land then the animals will stay where they are if we stay where we are

Recycling can be anything. anything we can melt down and use to make a new product out of. Energy, paper, metal, plastic, glass, and even wood can be reused for many things. The subject is a broad subject and most of America recycles some of theis stuff anyway but what we really dont see used again is glass. There has been no market recycling glass since 2002.

http://issues.tigweb.org/disasters

This artical is saying that if we all work together after a natural disaster things can get done faster and better. The people can get back to their normal lives with out any trouble. It takes a long time for that to happen but natural disasters can happen at any time