Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Ruby's First Post
Welcome to Ruby's Enthusiasm Academy! Let me tell you the basics of my website. My name is Ruby. I'm seven years old, and I am homeschooled by my mom. I'm interested in lots of different subjects, and I made this website (with my mom's help) to share my interests and ideas with you. Some of my interests are: turkey vultures, space (including the Big Bang), history, art, songwriting and Biology. Now I want to tell you a little bit about me and my dad writing songs. What we used to do is, Dad would play the guitar and record it, and then I would sing and record it. And you can find me and my Dad's songs on Soundcloud. And now it's time to go back to me and my mom. One other thing that this website can provide is to contact me to tell me what you have been doing to help the environment, and if someone you know works at a zoo, even though it's very rare that tigers are in a zoo, I want you to ask the person, if you know one, to release the tiger back into the wild because if it's kept in captivity for too long, it will die. And if it dies, it is making the number of tigers dangerously low in the endangered species list.
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I absolutely love your blog! What a gifted young lady you are! I also like the universe, history, art, poetry and science. Did you know that I once played with two very small white tiger cubs at the Safari Zoo in Caney? The cubs thought a Golden Retriever was their Mommy; but when the cubs got a little bigger it wasn't safe to have tigers and a dog together because tigers get so much bigger than dogs. I also love your songs. Love, Nana
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ReplyDeleteI read this post the day you posted it and I wrote you a lengthy response too, but I was doing it on my phone and it wouldn’t post and I lost it all. So here I am again. I was very inspired. Few people actually ask so directly “to tell me what you have been doing to help the environment”. That is brilliant. It holds people accountable to their actions and makes them think about their impact, is it a good impact or a bad impact? We need people like you asking these questions because people often get too busy to think about such things and that is unfortunate.
Now, the day I first read this blog, I was on my way home (Oklahoma) from work (in Nebraska). Most of my work involves helping the environment in some way although sometimes the connection isn’t as glamorous or direct as you’d think. For example, what I was doing in Nebraska was looking for dead birds and bats under wind turbines. It was sort of like a morbid easter egg hunt. We do that to try to find out how many birds and bats are being killed by the turbines. Of course it is sad when any animal dies, but all forms of energy that we use daily come with a cost. The questions are, what IS that cost and HOW MUCH are we willing to pay? So counting the birds and bats helps answer what the cost is. When we have that cost, we can compare it to the cost of other forms of energy (petroleum- cost = oil spills, wars over resource territory, etc.; solar- cost = ecological impact to species that are adapted to living in direct sun that is intercepted by the solar panels as well as highly toxic substances used in the manufacture of the panels) and decide the best way to use the ones we choose.
Today, I am working on a completely different type of project. There is a road here in Oklahoma that is being expanded. It is a little gravel road that is going to be wider and paved when the work is done. Well before they can do that, there is a pipeline in the ditch beside the road that has to be moved further out. Before THAT can be moved, I have to record any wetlands and endangered beetle habitat that is in the area they are going to put the pipeline. It has to be moved so they have to mess up that habitat, but they can promise to pay for making better habitat in another area (the question is how much) and they need to know the areas to work most carefully in. So I’m doing that work so the pipeline company can do their work so the roadway engineers can do their work. It is like a big chain, all linked together. Here is a good website to learn more about wetlands: http://www.carbonon.me/what-are-wetlands-and-why-do-they-matter/ and here is a good site to learn more about the endangered beetle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicrophorus_americanus. Here is a link to learn more about win turbines and their impact on birds: http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/wind-turbine-kill-birds.htm .