Entry # 1 for Colloquium

        My main expectation for this class is to learn about Florida’s wildlife.  This should be fun since I love animals!  Another expectation is have for this course it to receive an A.  I am diligent and a hard worker.  I take pride in a job well done and have set this my goal for the semester.  In my humble opinion sustainability is an attempt to merge ecology and the economy into one system while living within the resources of the planet.  This is my own definition of sustainability because it is the way I can express sustainability throughout my life.  I can live a sustainable life by focusing on replenishing and preserving the environment that I live in.  Eco-literacy is the ability to understand and follow the natural systems that allow life on Earth to happen.  Sense of place to me is a perception rather than an actual place because sense of place deals completely with emotions.  I picture these three terms making up a tree.  

Sustainability is the foundation, or the trunk, and Eco-literacy and Sense of place are branches that stem from the concept of sustainability.  In my major, communications, I aspire to one day in the distant future become a news anchor.  Sustainability can be very 
closely related to my career aspects and my field of study because one day possibly in the 
future I may report on sustainability issues like how the demands of human population have 
increased the need to use more natural resources which reduces natural animal and plant 
habitats or maybe on invasive species in Florida.  Some problems I see myself faced with, 
that are anti-sustainable is my forgetfulness to unplug chargers when not using them, and 
using fossil fuels rather than strictly solar energy. I have to say that my lack of energy 
conservation is probably the worst.