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 * If I were an environmental activist, one thing I would try to change is the way industries and companies are willing to clear-cut thousands of trees to build factories that burn up fossil fuels and release them into the air, polluting it. This matters to me because I, along with every other human on earth, breathe air, and I want to make sure that it stays healthy and breathable for my kids, and my kid's kids, and so forth. To make this change I would start multiple petitions and come up with reasonable, environmentally efficient solutions to the company's problems and together we could come up with a solution that does not involve killing thousands of trees and releasing toxins.**[[image:http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/I+Swear+It+s+Not+What+It+Looks+Like_d4c647_4335432.jpg]]

Journal #1-- Secondary Research problems this issue causes. And hopefully my research will help me to learn more and help me to pass on the information to other people. || For secondary research I will need good research skills and will need to know how to apply what I already know to help my research run smoothly and effectively. || I am fully aware of the environmental issues this problem causes. The toxins that leech out of the old electronics cause serious environmental damage, not to mention health problems of the workers. A lot of companies who "recycle" electronics in fact are shipping the products to developing companies, where children who don't wear any safety equipment or shoes have to use harsh and dangerous chemicals that poison them and melt down the outer layers of the product to get to the metals they can sell. ||
 * x || __**Attitudes**__ || __**Skills**__ || __**Knowledge**__ ||
 * __**Issues**__ || My issue is on electronic waste. My attitude on this is very serious because I know of the drastic and terrible environmental and health
 * __**Research**__ || My research will have to be on the toxins and how the waste affects the environments around. I will also have to find positive solutions to the issue, and what one person can do to make a difference. || To find good and effective research, I will have to be patient and thorough. || I will have to make sure the websites and videos I watch/read are unbiased and are legitimate, and correct in their information on this issue. ||
 * __**Actions**__ || I have looked into different environment and child labor companies who try to create safer solutions to this problem by personally recycling the products using the proper equipment. Seeing many people trying to change the problems this world faces makes me feel like our world can possibly have a bright future. || I will have to make sure people don't feel pressured to donate/listen to us discuss the issue if they really don't have time. ||= The action I will take part in will be to go door-to-door in the neighborhood to ask for the donations of electronics. Then I will personally donate those electronics to a recycling company that will make sure it will not be shipped to developing companies. ||

Journal #2-- Primary Research
 * x || __**Attitudes**__ || __**Skills**__ || __**Knowledge**__ ||
 * __**Issues**__ || Some things I discovered in the primary research was the fact that a lot of people not only did not know the problems that electronic waste causes, but they did not dispose of their products in a environmentally friendly manner. || For this research I had to know what questions to ask about the problem and how to use the responses to know what to discuss when moving from house-to-house. || To get people to answer the survey, I had to know what would appeal to them, and/or make them laugh. To do this I posted the link on Facebook, with a silly caption, while my partner messaged people personally asking them to answer the survey. ||
 * __**Research**__ || I looked at my classmates surveys to see what type of questions they asked, and how many responses they got, to help myself get a good idea of the answers/number of people who would do the survey. || I had to make sure the questions were clear (even though, unfortunately there were some errors in the survey) and that the formatting worked to make it easier for people to answer. || Having done surveys before, I knew that when it came to paragraph responses, many won't answer fully and the responses will need editing. ||
 * __**Actions**__ || I felt confident in the survey and the answers we got in response. || I had to be persistent in trying to get friends and relatives to answer the survey without making them feel like I'm forcing them to do this, but trying to get it across that this would help my project. ||= Another thing I needed was a large group of people with different situations from different backgrounds to answer so I could know who to target. ||

Journal #3--Action
 * x || __**Attitudes**__ || __**Skills**__ || __**Knowledge**__ ||
 * __**Issues**__ || I feel fairly confident in our action, which was going from house-to-house in our neighborhoods and spreading awareness about our topic, and collecting electronic waste which we personally delivered to a recycling company that does not ship the electronics to developing countries. || For this, I needed speaking skills, to quickly summarize the issue for people, assuming that they wouldn't want to hear a long-drawn speech about recycling electronics. || I needed knowledge on my topic so I would know what were the most important parts in our issue so I could stress the importance on those parts to neighbors. ||
 * __**Research**__ || We needed to research where to send the electronics to, and what that company does to keep workers and environments safe. || We needed to know what to search for, in terms of a recycling company. || We needed to know what to look for in a recycling company. ||
 * __**Actions**__ || I feel confident that we spread the word about the issue of e-waste, and that we got the community involved in our project. || For this, I needed speaking skills, to quickly summarize the issue for people, assuming that they wouldn't want to hear a long-drawn speech about recycling electronics. ||= I needed knowledge on my topic so I would know what were the most important parts in our issue so I could stress the importance on those parts to neighbors. ||