Weekly blog 5/15-19/17

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Summary:
        When you are making a building you have to think about more things such as how you are going to impact the environment like the wildlife, air the water, trash, pollution, etc. A example of an environmental accord is to make sure is to make it so that in 7 years to make sure that there will be more recycle and composting so that there is less waste in landfills and incinerators by 25%. Another one is to make sure we  have 50% more shade for walkways by adding things like trees so that it will make you cooler to make sure that people do not use the air conditioning as much and waste energy or create more pollution. One more example is that in 7 years there will be at least 20% or more locally grown and organic foods served.

S&EP: SP2: Developing and using models:
The way that I used a model is that I had to make a small presentation about the environmental accords that I wanted to include in our environmental accords in our urban village. What we had to do was choose some environmental accords and we had to put them in the slide and decide how we are going to include it like how if you wanted to compost who is going to do it and how will it work in your space. An example is like how we want to make it so that there is more shaded walkway so that people use less energy for the air conditioning. We wanted to do this buy making paths with tree's for shade on both sides. The accord for this was to make sure that there 50% more shade for walkways so we wanted to add more trees.

XCC: Cause and effect:
When you throw away any of your trash for the landfills it will eventually decompose and become methane gas which is a pollutant. When you do simple things like when you turn the air conditioning on it will waste energy which we should be conserving. When we pour water down the drain or leave the water you are wasting the water that could be used for other purposes and we are wasting some of the little fresh water we have. When we do things like when we compost it make sure that we are being better for the environment and reusing our natural resources. When we turn the sink off when brushing our teeth it can help to save and conserve the little fresh water that we have on this earth.