Feburary 28, 2012

Kelly Siegrist

I really enjoyed the guest speaker we had today.  Not only did it make me want to visit ECHO, it almost made me even more excited to have my own edible landscape once I live in my own house.  As of now, my home back on the east coast is filled with organic tomatoes, peppers, cucumber, strawberries, lettuce, and herbs, and being in a dorm makes me miss growing my own food. Now I know the same day I move into a house with a back or front yard, I will plant multiple fruit trees in order to begin my edible garden.  The second part of the class was also enjoyable.  My minor is in community planning and development and my career goal is to work with cities to make them more sustainable and environmental friendly, so this movie gave me some great ideas.  Also, the concepts Brazil used were all very simple and its shocking to me that cities here don't have anywhere close to their technology.

Geri Coppola
The guest speaker today was extremely informational, and interesting. I learned a lot about edible landscaping and in the future I would like to plant some of the trees, plants, and fruits that the guest speaker mentioned. The video about Brazil was also very interesting. It is nice to see that other places have such great ideas and are thriving with those ideas. I think if the bigger cities in the U.S. did what the video talked about in the city in Brazil, then traffic would be so much better.