Share and Voice: Guy in the Ally

Today is December 17th and on my way to the store this morning there was this man walking through the ally going through garbage cans, which I thought was kind of odd because the garbage was picked up the other day. So being my last day in Duluth I decided to ask the man what hes doing just casually... So after speaking to the guy and getting a whirl wind of information this guy who is going through the ally is a secret santa. He goes through allys and looks for broken items or things that he could use to make presents for kids in need. I was very hesitant to believe it at first, but than I thought about it and the passion this guy had in his eyes and the way he spoke was very real. I believed him and then I thanked him for what hes doing. I think its important that we dont pass judgement on people regardless of any situation because alot of the times we dont even know the whole situation were just looking from the outside in.

Share @ Voice: How does aclohol affect stress?

Alcohol. I found this article because I was searching around the internet trying to find things on alcohol and if it even actually reduces stress, because I know I have had times when I think alcohol is the answer to make your self less stressed so I wanted to find out.
MY finding....
Alcohol does not reduce stress... The few different things that it does do though is it temporily affects your perceptions and affects nuetrotransmittors in your brain. The long term affect of this i s actually depressing not uplifting. So my conclusion to this is that alcohol is not the answer when you are trying to reduce the stress. Working out or something active to get the natural endorphins is alot better of an option.

Share and Voice: My experience in this class

Hello,
I wanted to take this time to reflect on this semester as a whole and talk about the experience I have had in this class.
I will be honest..coming into this class I was hesitant and afraid as I am with every class that I take because I am an extremely shy person. But as the weeks came and gone and the videos we watched and even the trip to goodwill my perception of everything had changed. Instead of facing classes and new topics with hesitation, I started to come in with a real big open mind and with no hesitation at all. I have learned so much in this class and would recommend it to anyone even if they don't have to take it because it really creates a different slate for your life. I just wanted to take some time to get that out there and even though im quiet it was really cool getting to hear all of your opinions and emotions and hope the best for everyone in the future.

Share @ Voice: My new Signature!

I made my signature using livesignature.com. Its pretty easy and cool!

Share and Voice: East Phillips Neighborhood

Doing some research on my advocacy topic I found out that East Phillips Neighborhood committee also known as EPIC, went to war to fight against a wood burner right in the middle of East Phillips Neighborhood! According to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) the power plant would be;".... a Major Source of Hazardous Air Pollutants".

I think this is a great thing that people went to war and fought against this and won. This affects me because I do live by this nieghborhood and having this plan would have been extemely dangerous for the children of the neighborhood! I am proud of epic and hope there future plans continue to better the neighborhood!

Share and Voice: Smoking Forum Meeting Policy Meeting!

Holla...I attended tonights smoking forum and saw some other classmates there to so thats neat. I guess I wanted to take this time to express more of how I felt about the forum as a whole and express my opinion about certain people that were there. First off...the one thing that bothered me right away is the hippie guy goes up and starts ranting about his rights to smoke...yet he admits smoking is bad for him..so my question is, if you know its bad why are you trying to advocate for it to be allowed on campus? Secondly he kept contradicting himself, by saying that having this ban on campus is not helping the cleanliness or health of anyone on campus its only making it worse..That doesnt make any sense to me. Basically in my eyes the kid should have saved his breath for another cigerette maybe. Also another thing that bothered me is you can tell who the smokers are. No offense to them at all but the school is trying to help students and there health. And I got kinda upset when these students who smelt like smoke and had bags under there eyes and barely could breath well enough to speak into the mic could only ask about the surveys and if they were valid and about this new "trend" UMD is taking on. I think they need to get more educated on the topic because its not a trend. Its been a long process to clear the smoking from campus. I think the smokers should quit worrying about there rights that they dont have because smoking is banned from school and maybe try to realize that what they do actually affects other peoples health because I can gauruntee that people who do not smoke dont affect smokers health. Just a thought. Thats my rant for the night. Until next time have a good one and stay unsick!(my links are still not working, sorry for the inconvenience)

Share and Voice: Enviro-Cool Blog Award

Hey everyone!

Excited to say the least I recieved the Enviro-Cool Blog Award last week for my blog post Man Throws Garbage Out The Window. I recieved the award from amy@ecochicwithamy. It was a real hard decision and it came down to a few and one even made me really hungry. But all in all there was one that I believe deserves it because standing up for you and what you believe is one of the bravest and coolest things to do especially to someone who is older and educated. So the Enviro-Cool Blog award goes to Karly@Karlys Karing Habitat for her post about the discussion with the customer on global warming. Good job Karly for standing up and spreading knowledge!

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Share @ Voice: F as in Fat 2009

Here is the link. F as in Fat.
This article with these statistics is startling. To be honest I was just searching the web looking for data because I got motivated because of the book I am reading. I came across this website and was absolutely stunned. According to this article obesity rates in adults didnt even decrease in any states this last year but INCREASED in 23 states....If you click on the link you can look at each state and find the percentage of children obesity and adult obesity rates per state.
Just a quick fact , Minnesota has the 31st highest rate of obesity in America. I guess thats not to bad considering there is 50 states. but seriouslly ... SOMETHING HAS TO CHANGE!!!! The hardest part of this is that I have a neighboor who lives right across the ally from me back at home in Minneapolis where I am from and he is heavily obese. It scares me because I know whats going to happen if his parents dont help make a change.  Until than have a good one.

Share @ Voice: Al Gore's Global Warming.

Hey everyone!
Well I decided to do some research and look up some articles and read some stuff and I came upon this article that I will mention in a second after I tell you a little about it first. FIRST OFF I am not in any way going against what Al Gore is campaining about the issue of Glabal Warming. I am just giving a little preveiw on the other side of what other people might think and just to give another insight. The reason I am chosing to do this is because I do not trust politicians. I do not care what data they show me or what they say or anything in that matter. IN MY OWN personal opinion I think that MAJORITY of them only care about the money. But this article titled "Why Wont Al Gore Debate" by Joseph L. Bast has some pretty good information and also opened my mind to some other things. So check it out and if you disagree/agree feel free to let me know how you feel!. Until next time stay safe and warm.

Share @ Voice: Man Throws Garbage Out The Window

Today, I decided to get up early because I wanted to get a few things done before the day gets hectic. So I went for my daily run and I see this car driving down the road and the window gets rolled down, and I think to myself thats kind of odd considering its raining a little bit and pretty cold. Well, next think I know while I am blasting away my music the guy dumps out all of his trash into 8th street. It wasnt just like 2 bottles of Coca-Cola. It was a bad full of everything. Chip bags, cigerette boxes, you name it he threw it out. So I got a tad bit upset and cursed under my breathe about the incident and decided to take action.
So, I went back home and snatched up some rubber gloves that my roommate has because he loves cleaning and walked over to the spot and cleaned up after the person. If I see the guy again I will give him a piece of my mind. Other than that everyone have a great day!

Share @ Voice: Amandaswaterbottlewatch

amandaswaterbottlewatch ...had a very interesting share and voice that I wanted to talk about. I really liked how she went out there and helped out with the Great Lakes Aquarium Garbage pick up, but there was a part of the post that bothered me. It has nothing to do with her but with the most common piece of garbage that was picked up. So take a gander at this video I found 



 This video really explores how trash makes it into the ocean and how easy it is...especially cigeratte butts. Im sorry but this bother me so much because its something so easy as just throwing the darn thing in the ashtray or those gray things on the ground that hold the butts. I apologize for my attitude but I feel this is a huge concern and it just shows how lazy people can be.

Peace love and afro pics.

Keithsgreenbike (introductory post)

 Welcome to Keith@keithsgreenbikes

Hey hey hey! My name is Keith Enstad. I am a Health Education Major and believe my calling is to help people. In this blog I will be posting things about the enviroment and other things that I think are important topics about the enviroment. My hobbies and interests include hockey, cooking and making music.



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