2 websites

Question: How does the extinction of an animal affect humans?
1.) Whitty, Julia. "Animal Extinction - The Greatest Threat to Mankind | CommonDreams.org." Common Dreams | News & Views. Web. 21 Oct. 2009. .
-Talks about the effects of animal extinction
-Gives statistics of how many animals may go in extinct in a certain amount of time
-Great source for overall animal extinction problems, causes, and how it is affecting humans
-Explains how the different species are linked together and why one depends on the other
2.)University of Exeter. "Humans Implicated In Prehistoric Animal Extinctions With New Evidence." ScienceDaily 12 August 2008. 21 October 2009 /releases/2008/08/080811200028.htm>.
-Explains about prehistoric animals and why they really went extinct
-Shows how humans were the real cause of their extinction not climate change
-Gives a lot of supporting information to back up their claims
-The source comes from Science daily (trustworthy site)
Question: How does the extinction of one animal affect the entire habitat it lives in?
1.)Lloyd, Robin. "Domino Effect of 'Co-extinction' Pinned Down | LiveScience." LiveScience | Science, Technology, Health & Environmental News. Web. 21 Oct. 2009. .
-Talks about how on animal extinction can have a domino effect on habitat and other animals
-How many animals are in the endangered species list
-How many percent of species are we expected to see go extinct by what year
-Gives quotes of different scientist talking about their findings of animal extinction
2.)Nelson, Bryan. "11 Extinct Animals That Have Been Photographed Alive |." The Best Article Every day. Web. 21 Oct. 2009. .
-Gives information about 11 different species that have gone extinct
-Every animal has a description
-Gives you a statistic about the rate of extinction

Propagation Research

Link 1:
"PLANT PROPAGATION." HCS. 9 Oct. 2009 .
-Explains cuttings, stem cuttings, leaf cuttings, root cuttings, softwood and hardwood cuttings, layering, divisions, bulbs and corms, grafting, budding or bud grafting, micro propagation or tissue culture, and plant patents.

Link 2:
"PLANT PROPAGATION." HCS. 9 Oct. 2009 .
-Same as link number one except this link basically talks about what is germination, what is the best way to plant, how to buy for seeds, and it also explains other terms.

Link 3:
"mygardenguide.com - Green Gardening Glossary." mygardenguide.com - Home. 9 Oct. 2009 .
-This link gives an exact definition on what exactly is a heirloom seed

Link 4:
Mendelson, Kathy. " What is an heirloom vegetable? ." Providing professional ISP internet solutions in the Seattle area since 1987. 9 Oct. 2009 .
-This link explains three different traits that heirloom seeds have. Does traits are age, Open-Pollinated (OP), and quality. I really like this link because it gives a really solid idea on the history of a heirloom seed, what is a heirloom seed, and why heirloom seeds are good. This link is the best link I came upon on so far that talks about heirloom seeds.

Farmer in Cheif

I found this article to be very interesting. It talked about our current food system, how that system is affecting us and the world, and he gives a solution to that problem. Today we had a seminar talking about the article. One issue that came up was that there is a lot of people that don't want to change but I think that there is a lot of people that would like to change. Some people gave a suggestion about having homeless people growing some of the crops and a lot people thought that that idea was gross but if you think about it we bathe our vegetables with chemicals, our food comes from the dirt and it is good for the plant if we added some cow crap. We have the resources to change our ways and create food without the need of chemicals, fertilizers that have fossil fuel in them, and make the food much much healthier.

One really good idea that I read in the article was that we can make compost out of the food that we throw away and I think that is enough to cover pretty much all the farms. This will make the food grow better because it can hold more water so the plants can survive droughts and the plant will be more healthy and this way the people that consume it will be healthier as well. I also believe that we should not give the animals so much antibiotics because the bacteria becomes super bacteria and if a person gets that bacteria into their system and spread it to other humans than they are pretty much screwed because that bacteria would be resistant to all the antibiotics out there.

After all this reading I had a question floating in my head for a very long time. Lets say we managed to pull this off and everyone goes green. That means that there would be more food to feed everyone in the world and the food would be really healthy so the person eating it would turn more healthy. That means that the person would live longer because they are healthier so they have more children because they are healthy and live for a longer period of time. That means that the population will continue to grow even faster than before because we are going to have people having more people having kids and people living longer. My question is Up to when can we keep this up? Because if the population grows that means we would need more food and if we get more food we will get more people so how many people can the world hold? And I don't think the answer is unlimited. I think that in order to succeed we need to look really far into the future and find out the answer to this question without actually hitting the point of no return.

Best Practices

For our special assignment groups we were supposed to write down the best practices of our group. My group was propagation. What we did was basically study how to plant the seeds, like what types of seeds could be planted at what time, how many seeds how far from each other and ll that good stuff.

I found out that the seeds needed to be planted at least 2 inches away from each other in order for them to grow big and healthy. Some plants need a certain pH level before you plant them you should check the pH level, the structure and the texture of the soil, it is also a good idea to add compose so your plant has warmth and nutrients to grow. Once that is all done and you are ready to plant you should make a little hole with your finger and plant the seed about two inches deep. After that you cover it and water it. Some seeds require special attention so you might want to do some research about the plant before you plant it.