Citizen of the World

Spring 2015 Instructor: Teresa Koper Our meeting last Tuesday (the 14 th of April) during Angela D. Goldsmith and Daniel Phipps visited our class Sustainable engineering at Mount Hood Community college, has been meaningful to me and very satisfactory. Their instructions, advice and different approach in their presentations greatly affected me. Angela D. Goldsmith where talking about permaculture. Permaculture ethics such as care of the earth, people, and distribution of goods that are surplus to our needs etc. based on what she talked about she believes that “food forest is one way to fight desertification”. She uses some good images to illustrate and clarify her ideas and I had an opportunity with my classmate, my teacher and her to visit one of the projects that she is undertaking after class. That allows us to understand and see what she is doing, it was really nice outside.  We had a great speaker a famous guy, named Daniel Phipps who has his charcoal project, ...

Natural resources are the raw materials, such as plants, water, soil, rocks etc. these resources are used by humans or other living species, to meet their needs. It is our duty to protect and enhance our environment. My community named Pétion-Ville it is mostly mountainous and it was very well known for its beauty and freshness because it was green throughout its extent.  Pétion-Ville But nowadays due to anthropogenic factors it becomes increasingly warm. If simply, we continue to clear cutting without replanting that will increases those significant issues in the years to come, such as erosion, drought, heat effect, declining economy and the community will become vulnerable, sensitive and exposed to natural disasters and what is worse it can turn against the lives of people living in the community. To avoid this sad situation we must build our houses a correct way. Do not cut or remove trees in bad conditions especially, near the aquifers or sources of water, mo...

Louis, Dieuseul Louis is well known as a dedicated leader of positive change from his community. He was born and grew up in Thomassin, Pétion Ville, Haiti, and graduated from College Baptiste Fermathe (CBF) . During his time in college he was the president of Philo “Intellect” cycle (2011-2012) and he helped with leading, planning and organizing school activities including graduation and championship interclass). He moved to Oregon (a green state, according to him the best place to study the environment) to study Natural Resources at Mt Hood CommunityCollege (MHCC) for two years. Currently Louis is a leader for SEED Cross Cultural, Committee and English Conversation Club to help new students learn English. He is a borderless individual who has collaborated with several international organizations, including the City of Gresham, METRO and Sandy River Basin Watershed Council to develop projects that help people in a global sense, developing better environmental stability...