Problem: Environment - global warming 11/13/09
There is a constant increase in the status of global warming.
Solution: People should take measures in regards to products they use that directly affect the environment. People should change their habits, and switch to eco-friendly products. We should all take action and make changes today in regards to our planet earth.
Sources and references: News
Would like to participate in the expansion of Building Blocks? Yes

Problem: Environment - Global Warming 11/13/09
global warming is taking over and we need to stop polluting our environment because this is where we get our sources from. i see that no one is trying to do anything about it.
Solution: raise money on gas, because more people would carpool laws for mediatory cleanliness of the environment go green effort.
Would like to participate in the expansion of Building Blocks? Yes

Problem: Environment  - Energy 11/12/09
Solution: We Americans should find other sources of energy such things as cars and homes solar energy, hybrid cars that go off of hydrogen or electricity to stop pollution.
Would like to participate in the expansion of Building Blocks? Yes

Problem: Environment 11/12/09
There seems to be no effort in making the environment cleaner i see nothing really big happening with the government effort. As global warming creeps upon us we still just standing waiting for environment disasters to really react to it.
Solution: I suggest we start making laws to save the planet to live in a healthier place. We should make in mandatory to make and effort to keep the environment cleaner. Such as electric car would be a fantastic effort to the get green effort. Electric car would greatly reduce all the negative effects car are running off of fossil fuels.
Would like to participate in the expansion of Building Blocks? No

Problem: Environment - Drilling for Oil in Alaska 11/12/09
The United States even considering the start of drilling in Alaska for oil.
Solution: I believe this is a ridiculous consideration and my solution would be to seize our dependency on oil and devote our time to finding alternate sources. People need to realize that right now the main crisis is the environment and if we were to start drilling in Alaska we would have a temporary solution to our dependency on foreign oils. But in the long run it will do more damage than help.
Perspective: Democratic/Enviormentalist
Would like to participate in the expansion of Building Blocks? No

Problem: Environment - Drilling in Alaska & Global Warming 11/12/09
We shouldn't drill in Alaska we need to preserve our wildlife that we have left. Drilling for oil in Alaska only promotes the problem of destroying in the OZ layer and increasing the dangers of global warning.
Solution: My solution is that instead of spending money on drilling on Alaska, We use money to research into eco friendly energy sources such as Clean Coal or Nuclear Energy where we already have the technology to use Nuclear Energy already shown by all our Naval Aircraft carriers and battleships are ran by nuclear reactors which have no problem. And creating these new energy sources would increase jobs opportunities for the unemployed!
Perspective: NO for drilling in Alaska and Promote new energy sources.
Name: Christopher Wagner
Would like to participate in the expansion of Building Blocks? Yes

Problem: Environment - Global Warming 11/12/09
The problem is that the environment is too contaminated & people don't have a conscience on this topic. The Earth is full of contamination and the ozone layer has a big hole on it, which is growing. Global warming is very evident, the weather is getting extreme and the poles are melting. If we don't do something and just keep contaminating Global Warming will get worst.
Solution: Create awareness programs in schools of how we can change our habits and have a cleaner envioronment. More t.v. advertisements to promote green lifestyles.
Would like to participate in the expansion of Building Blocks? Yes

Problem: Environment 11/12/09
The drilling in Alaska will affect the environmental aspect of Alaska. I t will also ruin animal habitat and destroy may homes for the animals.
Solution: I think that the U.S. should look for another solution, try to provide another way of retrieving oil or simply provide new ways that eliminate oil completely.
Would like to participate in the expansion of Building Blocks? Yes

Problem: Environment 11/12/09
Overpopulation- due to Earth being a "closed system", we are forced to recycle and conserve the limited resources available. This is difficult when the relation between the population and years ahead is linear.
Solution: We, as individuals, should work to preserve our resources to avoid negative impact.
Perspective: Mr. Wood's student
Would like to participate in the expansion of Building Blocks? No

Suggest a new topic or subtopic: Contamination 11/12/09
Problem: Environment
Our planet is dying with contamination.
Solution: We should take care of our planet because its the only planet we have. We should start an organization that communicates this problem to everyone. That way it would make everyone aware of this situation, and therefore everyone would be a little more conscious of our planet and how important it is.
Perspective: I was passing by the freeway the other day and I realized there was a lot of trash in the sides. Things such as plastic bags, soda cans and cups, ship bags, and many other things. It makes us as American citizens look bad and it damages our planet at the same time, it may not look as much if it just a chocolate wrapper but imagine, if we don't stop it now it could get so much worse.
Name: Kathy C
Would like to participate in the expansion of Building Blocks? No