Samantha Cline's Blog – April 2014 Archive (8)

When I am 100 years old I will share my wisdom of recycling not just bottles and cans but various materials. Although it is often easier to "just buy a new one" or throw out something that breaks I will encourage my successors to try and reuse resources and supplies whenever possible to reduce wasteful resource use.

I chose to evaluate "Restoring Local Community Participation in Wetland Resource Management: A Bangladesh Case Study". In this case study, "The Initial Situation is that apart from habitat destruction, one of the main problems facing the management of most freshwater wetlands in the country is that the fisheries resources have largely fallen into the hands of the elite : wealthy and the politically well-connected. This process, whereby local fishermen are (sometimes forcefully) divorced from…

The EVOKE Network works to unite people and share knowledge about various crises that are or will affect world. The network also pushes individuals to take action and conduct further research to help solve the crises presented. The website is set up so that other people can discuss and share the work they have accomplished. The overall goal of the EVOKE network is to work together to make the world a better place.

I believe that the next mission should be to focus on equality of educational opportunity across the globe.

If the next pandemic flu was reaching my part of the world I would organize all of the city's transportation works in an online site. This would allow for them to be contacted if there were sick individuals that had no means of physically going to get medical treatment. The drivers could be provided masks and sterile buses to transport the patients in therefore freeing ambulances for other medical emergencies.

I believe that coming to terms with uncertainty was not only surprising but important because once people recognize that some things are uncertain. We can work together to better understand uncertain event instead of working individually to predict the event ourselves. This secret of crisis communication also provided the idea that if a crisis such as infectious disease outbreak were to occur, it’s possible to report on infectious disease outbreaks without being a graduate-trained scientist.…

Each year the University of Florida has a Greek Water Challenge. The objective of the challenge is to motivate the UF Greek community to reduce water use therefore improving Urban Resiliency. This past year water use was measured weekly from Jan. 20 - March 2. The house with the greatest percent reduction in water use won 100 points. The second place house received 50 points and the third place 25 points. Additionally, there was weekly challenges for earning bonus points. Weekly results were…

Living on the Gulf of Mexico, Red Tide is a yearly crisis. It kills thousands of sea creatures each year. In 2013, a record high number of manatees perished due to red tide causing them to have seizures. According to an article found in the Bradenton Herald, the only way the manatees can survive is through human intervention during the seizure that prevents the manatees from drowning. The coasts of Florida could use Ushahidi to share information about the algae blooms and work together to…