Nik+J.

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One issue that I'd like to change in the world environmentally is how bottled water companies are using plastic for their bottles that people throw out once the bottle is empty. This is an issue because these companies haven't done anything to try to stop this, and if they don't soon then the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the burning of their thrown-out bottles will really hurt our atmosphere.

are already exposed and are now common knowledge, such as global warming, however I believe that there are many more issues that people don't really know about. These issues need to be addressed.. To open yourself up to these issues, you need to go where most people haven't gone with research, and "think outside of the box". || You need to have the right skills to do t he right research; you should know how to find information easily on the internet and you should be able to properly use encyclopedias and books to find the information you need. || It comes in handy when you already have some knowledge on an issue that you decide to work on. However, it is sometimes fun, interesting and eye- opening when you work on something that you've never heard of before. || date and stilll factual. If there is a lot of information that seems to be repeating itself everywhere you look, that just means that you should be looking a little deeper so that you find information that people don't know too much about. || When researching it's really important to know how to cite your resources properly and give them the credit they deserve. See above. || Try to make your resources as un-biased as possible, and if you use a biased piece of information, say that it's biased so that the information you are spreading the honest truth about the issue. || take-part in will be something that will leave as big a mark as possible, and not something that will never be looked at again. || When taking action, making sure that you're informing the right audience about the issue is really important. You need to tell people who others respect. Or, you could go right to the source and target the people who made the issue a negative thing - doing this over social media would be the most effective way. ||= If your issues has already been researched by others before you, see who they targeted and whether or not they were successful with the way they took action. If they were, do something similar but not the same. If they weren't, then brainstorm for other things to do. ||
 * Journal Entry #1 || __**Attitudes**__ || __**Skills**__ || __**Knowledge**__ ||
 * __**Issues**__ || I think that there a many issues that
 * __**Research**__ || I believe that it's really important to make sure that the research you are using is up to
 * __**Actions**__ || For me, I want to make sure that the action I

Entry #2 || __**Attitudes**__ || __**Skills**__ || __**Knowledge**__ || impact has changed since I began this project. I realized that really,Walmart isn't nearly as bad as some other major companies.After reading statistics about Walmart,I thought that they were really negative and bad, but after comparing them to other companies' environmental statistics, they seemed less negative. This is unfortunate because it lets you know that a company that is negatively impacting the environment looks good when compared to others, simply because others are even worse - yes it's possible. || The skills mentionned earlier are still applicable in this issue. Because I know how to research thing online as well as in books, I am able to find the information I need. || My knowledge towards my issue has obviously grown since the beginning of this project. I look forward to completing my action so that I can help expand other people's knowledge as well. || It isn't the usual boring reading of encyclopedias filled with words you don't understand. It's more reading over projects similar to the one I'm doing that other people have already done. So far there have been a lot of cool powerpoints and blogs about the issue. || So far we have been taking notes of the sources we have been using. || As much as I know it is important to keep your sources as un-biased as possible, it is hard to do so when attempting to dig up dirt on a company. || researching problems not only with Walmart but with people's neglecting of the environment as well. Hopefully we'll gather enough followers so that our information can be spread as far as possible. I look forward to working with social media as part of a project for school - something I haven't done before. || For our chosen action, we will need to be able to work Twitter so that we can optimize the amount of people reading and hopefully learning from out tweets. ||= I am already somewhat aware about how to use twitter, I had an account last year but deleted it because it was too high-maintenance! ||
 * Journal
 * __**Issues**__ || My Attitude towards Walmart and its environmental
 * __**Research**__ || Researching for this project has actually been pretty interesting.
 * __**Actions**__ || We have decided to make a twitter account as a scientist

Entry #3 || __**Attitudes**__ || __**Skills**__ || __**Knowledge**__ || replied to any of our tweets to them. Walmart should really make sure that their customers are happy - and by not answering their concerns they're doing the complete opposite. || My skills that I used for the primary and secondary research came in handy during the action. If i hadn't put them to use earlier, Id have nothing to tweet about. || About Walmart specifically, my knowledge hasn't really changed during the action. I only now know that Walmart doesn't answer to it's constructive criticism. || spreading the research we've already gotten. || As above || As above || I thoroughly enjoyed working on this action. It was a lot of fun to try and get followers and converse with other people that are into the same type of thing...making me re-consider my thoughts on twitter altogether! || For this action, we needed to be able to: 1, Use twitter effectively 2, Be okay with talking to strangers about our mutual interest that is the environment ||= My knowledge about just how many scientist and people interested about keeping the environment a happy place has expanded (there's a lot of them!). My practical knowledge about twitter has expanded. As well as my confidence as a social media figure. ||
 * Journal
 * __**Issues**__ || A little upset that neither Walmart nor Walmart Canada
 * __**Research**__ || Not too much research done for the action. More just
 * __**Actions**__ || Even with Walmart's lack of cooperation, i can say that