Green and Non-Green Features Around St Albans College

Activity 6: Energy for the future (written questions)

1. A green building is a produces zero pollution. The building does not produce any carbon emissions, doesn’t harm the environment in any way and does not take up too much space. The building will use alternative methods to power, heat and run the building. An example of a green building is the Bahrain World Trade Centre which uses wind turbines to give power to the building.

 2. These are some green features of a building:
• Advanced Framing/Extra Insulation
• High Efficiency Water Heater
• Air Sealing
• Rainwater Collector (can be used to irrigate)
• Solar Panels

                                                                    Conclusion
 At St Albans, we found that there are many un-green characteristics in the buildings in the College. There were far fewer green features in the buildings around campus, than there were un-green features. One of the very good, energy saving green features that we found, was in the Knapp-Fisher common room and it was the movement sensor. When the sensor detected movement, it automatically turned on the lights, and when there was no movement for 5 or so minutes, the lights automatically turned off. One of the un-green features that we found was the air conditioning. There are lots of air conditioners all around the school and they use huge amounts of electricity and give off pollution. Overall we found that there are hundreds of un-green features at St Albans, and only a few green features. St Albans needs to cut down on our carbon emissions.

Activity 4: The Earth Summit, Poster

Activity 4: The Earth Summit

1.The Earth Summit is an event that is attended by many representatives from countries all over the world. They discuss very important issues regarding the Earth such as global warming, climate change, resources and lots of other things. 2.United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. 3.It was held from the 3rd of June to the 19th of June 1992. 4.It was held in Rio de Janeirio. 5.The most recent Earth Summit is going to be held from the 20th-22nd of June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro. 6.The purpose of the Earth Summit is to try and find ways to make the Earth cleaner, more efficient in using its resources and try to find ways to sustain this way of life. 7.At the Earth Summit the representatives made a blueprint called the Agenda 21 and this blueprint was a plan to keep the earth’s resources sustainable and promote rural development. 8.I think it is necessary to have these events for a number of reasons. It makes people more aware of what is going on around us, and that it is not just a story, it is real and cannot be ignored. It also gets people to start doing something, not just get them to sit around waiting for something to happen. 9.No, I don’t think that the 1992 Earth Summit was successful at all because nothing really happened after the summit. There was also not another summit held until this year which proves that it wasn’t very successful and they are trying again to put the Earth Summit into action. 10.Sustainable development is to keep the earth inhabitable and have resources readily available for of future generations. The Earth Summit’s main goal was to try and get the scheme going.

Timeline on Apartheid in South Africa

Activity 8

1.            African nationalism is the political movement for Africa as a unified continent and the desire for African people to rule themselves, not be ruled by others.
   2.       The Aborigines’ Rights Protection Society - 1897; The African National Congress - 1912; The National Congress of West Africa – 1920.
   3.       Pan-Africanism is a movement that aims to unify African people or people living in Africa, into a one community and to establish co-operation between all Africans.
   4.       African Nationalism has to do with African people trying to rule themselves in their own country. Pan-Africanism has to do with trying to unite African people and people living in Africa into one community.
   5.       Kwame Nkruma and Robert Sobukwe contributed to the Pan-African movement in Africa by helping the decolonization process and protesting for their rights and freedom.
   6.       Bob Marley’s song, “Buffalo Soldier” relates extremely well to slavery and white oppression in America. It explains how black Africans, the Buffalo Soldiers, were stolen from Africa and forced to work in America. It then goes on about how the black Africans were then hated, and they had to “fight for survival” because there were white haters out there that wanted to kill the black people, for example, The Ku Klux Klan. It then goes on to speak about the Civil War in America, where the North won the war and freed black people from slavery.

The Nazi Holocaust

Activity 6: The Holocaust

1.  The holocaust was a period of time where the Nazi Secret Police exterminated over 6 million innocent Jews.

2.  They wanted to kill them because they believed that all Jewish people were bad and that there were very bad example of the Aryan race, and so Hitler gave the order to exterminate Jews in death camps on a daily basis.

3.  They had large camps called concentration camps or death camps, e.g. Aushwitz where they just gassed thousands and thousands of Jews everyday.

4.  The world reacted very badly to the mass genocide. The Nazis were hated and after the war many, many sanctions were placed on them and they were not allowed to have a military.

Activity 4: Question 4 (Pictures)

Activity 4: The Rise of the Nazi Power

2.   The purpose of the manifesto was to give the German people a sense of identity; to restore German dignity and pride; to create a pure race of German people, the Aryan race, where only people of German blood , with blonde hair and blue eyes, could be considered racial comrades; to identify Germany’s need for land and colonies.

3.   Aryan people were of pure German blood, blonde hair, and blue eyes. It was a racist ideology and Hitler himself didn’t at all resemble it.

5.  Propaganda. The Nazi party made people believe that Jews were bad, textbooks were rewritten to portray the ‘evil’ of the Jewish people. People were driven to believe obsessively in the Nazi cause. Joseph Goebbels was the ‘Minister of Propaganda’,he claimed that he could play the popular will like the piano, making the German people all ‘dance’ to his tune. 

Nazi Rise to Power-Timeline

Review on Video of Developent

This is a wonderful example of how some people are desperate for houses. In this video you see the one group of people trying to teach the people in the less developed place how to make bricks and build houses. It is like an old saying: "Give a man a fish, and he will eat tonight, teach a man to fish, and he will eat forever." This is completely true. In the video they are teaching the people how to build bricks and then houses, they are not building the houses for them. That is the important part, the people will now be able to build houses forever! This also teaches the people, who may not have proper education, that things aren't just going to be done for them, they have to work to achieve success.

One of the reasons that the peole teaching the others how to build the bricks and houses is that they want to try and encourage leadership. They are hoping that someone or some people will try and take charge and help and guide and encourage all the others who are building their own homes. The people will also have a sense of accomplishment after they have built their home, as they have not just been given it, they have worked hard to build their own home.

I think that this Reconstruction and Developmet Program (RDP) is very good, they are helping others (like the ones in the video) to produce thousands and thousands of homes a year, we might think that it isn't really making a difference, but it is, even if we only start to notice the difference in 10 years time. Overall, I think that this is a very good thing, peolpe are being provided a home, but they are building it themselves, so they are learning lots of new skills.

Activity 1: Development

1. Development is the progression and advancements in technology, economics, globalization, etc.    Development to one person may be considerably different to another person’s development. For example, a poor persons development might mean being about to put a roof over their head, where a rich man’s development may be getting faster internet or a nicer car.

2. The country’s GDP, HDI, the average life span, the number of infant deaths per  100 births and the number of people recieving education.

3.   

Developed Countries	Less Developed Countries
Higher HDI.	Have generally low GDP’s and HDI’s.
Greater average life span.	Have fewer medical institutes and hospitals.
Better infrastructure.	Have higher unemployment rate.
Higher employment rates.	Have lower average life spans.

   4. “LEDC” means “less-economically developed countries” and “MEDC” means “more-economically developed countries.”

5. 1. Yes there is, they are all African countries.

5.2. The reason they are all African countries is that African countries are generally much less developed that other continents like Europe. Also there are much less hospitals and medical facilities and things like medicine aren't always freely available.

5.3 The countries are all Africa countries, they are all in heavily infested malaria areas and a lot of the children there are born with AIDS.

5.4 Subsistence farming is where the farmer grows crops and food to provide only for himself and his family, there is not a lot of food leftover to sell.

5.5 They rely on having a good rainfall, fertile land, the weather to be good. They also need to make sure that they have enough surplus left over to sell and make money for things like rent, medical treatment etc.

6. Sustainable development is a pattern of growth in which the use of resources aims to meet human needs while maintaining the enviroment so that these needs can not only be used now, but in the future.

7. Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education.  Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women.  Goal 4: Reduce child mortality rates.  Goal 5: Improve maternal health.  Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases.  Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability.  Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development.                                                 

What Is Development?

The following mind map shows different things that development can be associated with.