Questions

1. Green building (also known as green construction or sustainable building) refers to a structure and using process that is environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout a building's life-cycle 2. Sun panels buildings built primarily with wood will have a lower embodied energy than those built primarily with brick, concrete or steel Press tap Power saver light Bulbs skylight Conclusion: so to conclude you you can say that st Albans College is a green environment to an extent. There are green features in this school but to find them you do need a prior knowledge of green design, and you need to look specifically for these features. But the un-green features outnumber the green features by a large amount.

Un-green buildings in St Albans

1. Classroom aircon/heater: this is un-green as it provides pollution, it uses water, a solution would be to us better insulators when building buildings such as thatch and wood.

2. Very unefficient electric pool heaters, They are not green because of the amount of electricity used and there is pollution caused, a solution to this problem is to just use pool covers or solar panel heaters.

3. A leaking pipe: This is very un-green which is wasting a very precious non-renewable resource. A solution to this is to use better pipes and to fix this very quickly.

4. A very un-green design as there are eight switch operated fluorescent lights in close proximaty. They are all on even though it is broad daylight. This is a huge waste of energy. This has a simple solution replace these lights with power saver or motion sensor lights or even just having less lights.

Green Buildings in St Albans

1. Sky light: this is green because it cancels out all electricity entirely, because it uses the suns power and light, A downside to this is that it does not work at night.

2. Motion sensor lights: these lights are power saving lights, if someone is walking into a room the motion sensor will pick them up and then it will automatically switch off, when there is no motion. It does not waste power. The light bulbs also last a lot longer.

3. Push tap: A more environmentaly friendly tap as it does not waste water, because as you leave it closes automatically, you cannot forget to close it. It cannot leak as easily as a turn tap.

4. Reservoirs and Astros: The reservoirs pump water onto the astro, the water runs through the astro and runs back into the reservoirs. This works on the concept of recycling which is very green. if the astro had just let the water run out.

5. Thatch roof: This saves a lot of money, thatch is a very good insulator so no aircons or heaters are needed. There is much less energy used in this procees of making thatch roofs.

6. Wood Hut: this hut is made up of wood, (wood is a renewable resource) it is a very good insulator, and provides less pollution. The procces of using making bricks it uses a lot more energy. As well as more materials and manpower.

Un-Green buildings

1. A very un-green design as there are eight switch operated fluorescent lights in close proximaty. They are all on even though it is broad daylight. This is a huge waste of energy. This has a simple solution replace these lights with power saver or motion sensor lights or even just having less lights. 2. Very unefficient electric pool heaters, They are not green because of the amount of electricity used and there is pollution caused, a solution to this problem is to just use pool covers or solar panel heaters. 3. Classroom aircon/heater: this is un-green as it provides pollution, it uses water, a solution would be to us better insulators when building buildings such as thatch and wood. 4. A leaking pipe: This is very un-green which is wasting a very precious non-renewable resource. A solution to this is to use better pipes and to fix this very quickly.

Green Buildings

Wood Hut: this hut is made up of wood, (wood is a renewable resource) it is a very good insulator, and provides less pollution. The procces of using making bricks it uses a lot more energy. Push tap: A more environmentaly friendly tap as it does not waste water, because as you leave it closes automatically, you cannot forget to close it. Motion sensor lights: these lights are power saving lights, if someone is walking into a room the motion sensor will pick them up and then it will automatically switch off, it does not waste power. Sky light: this is green because it cancels out all electricity entirely, because it uses the suns power and light, A downside to this is that it does not work at night. Reservoirs and Astros: The reservoir pump water onto the astro, the water runs through the astro and runs back into the reservoirs. This works on the concept of recycling which is very green Thatch roof: This saves a lot of money, thatch is a very good insulator so no aircons or heaters are needed. There is much less energy used in this procees of

Earth Summit

1. The Earth Summit is the UN conference on Development and the environment. 2. The United Nations organised the Earth Summit. 3. The first Earth Summit was held in 1992. 4. It was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 5. Rio de Janeiro, 2012. 6. It is a United Nations conference held to discuss environmental, development and energy issues. 7. Future development must be sustainable. Development must be eco-friendly. Countries need to work together to protect the earth’s eco-system. 8. If left unchecked, the population of the world will use up natural resources in a non-sustainable way. By having these conferences, the countries of the world are better able to map out the consumption of resources on a global scale and respond accordingly in order to make sure that the consumption is as sustainable as possible. 9. To an extent. 10 years after the conference, the goals hadn’t yet been met and the efforts had to be re-doubled. 10. The conference encompasses plans for sustainable development.

Activity 8

Activity 8:

1.       African Nationalism was when the European countries gave the African colonies their independence due to international pressure and the great depression.

2.        ANC -1912, National Congress of West Africa 1920, aborigonies rights protection society 1977.

3.       Pan-Africanism is an act in which the Africa continent would like to unify all Africans and make it a “one African community” it also stands for the liberation and freedom of African people.

4.       African nationalism is/was a struggle to make Africa a republican continent by allowing all country’s to become republic, whereas pan-Africanism is an act in which the whole African community would like to make Africa one continent and unify us.

5.       Kwame Nkrumah was a Ghanaian who led the struggle for independence in Ghana against the British empire, he started boycotts, no-violent protests, strikes and non-co-operation with British officials. He fought even during his two jail sentences and became the first political leader of Ghana and showed the Africans to unify and fight for freedom. Robert Sobukwe was the first leader of the Pan Africanist Congress and he had strong influences on black South Africans to liberate themselves.

6.       Bob Marley’s song buffalo soldier is a song that is linked to Pan Africanism and African Nationalism by means of showing how a soldier from Africa was sent to America where he was un-unified by his African homeland nation and that he was used by America and was taken away from his land as a sort of a slave, which also depicts African nationalism as it shows how he was used by other countries. It also portrays how he won the war for America, which the Africans don’t want as if he was unified with Africa get would help them win wars, and yet the best of the Africans are shipped off to other countries.  

The Holocaust: The tears they cried

Activity 6: The Holocaust

1. The Holocaust was an extermination/murder of millions of jews bt the Nazi regime.

2. They killed jews as Germans believed that jews were inferior and they wanted to create a Aryan race, they also blamed the Jews for the Great Depression.
3. Boycotted jews, Laws came in stripping Jews of all rights, Star of David, Ghetto's(isolated camp), Concentration camps(forced labour), Firing squads, Extermination camps such as Auswitz(Gas chambers).

4. The world did nothing during the war but after the war was finished they killed many Germans who killed many Jews and also had many memorials.

Activity 6

1. The holocaust was a mass extermination of the jewish race.
2. They had thoughts of jewish people being unsuoerior and being a threat to the work of the Germans.
3.They either got a large group of people together and shot them, Made jewish people dig their own graves and shoot them or put them in "showers" which released lethel mustard gas.
4.Germany was banned form having an active army, made them sign a treaty and memorials were laid out.

Activity 4: Rise of the Nazi power

2. The Germans had a Political maifesto because they wanted german people to regain power and to only allow pure German people to vote and hold public office, they also disliked jews and didnt allow them German citizenship. They also wanted their land that was taken from them after WW1 to host surplus Germans and insure every citezen can live decently and earn his livehood. Hitler had this political manifesto because he wanted to German people to vote for him and his demands that could help the poor lifestyle of the millions of unemployed Germans due to the Great Depresion.

3. They saw that they were more superior than other people as they believed or "brainwashed" people into beliving that white people with blond hair and blue eyes were portrayed as far more superior than other people and aslo had a small nose.

5. They broight thier ideologies through posters, newspapers, cinema and gave every German citizen a free radio that could only recieve a Nazi radio station which played propaganda that supported the Nazi's.

Nazi Rise to power 1919-1932

Rural development in South Africa (Simunye project)

Rural development is a great idea as it shows people living on the streets and people striken by poverty to create a life for themselves and to not rely on the government to provide certain aspects such as housing and food, it teaches people that through hard work you can create a better life for yourself and to inspire people to do the same, if more projects such as this are created then South Africa shall overcome and become a second or even first world coutry due to the already high level of technology aleady obtained. Doing such projects shall keep people away from crime and corruption and teach them the right ways. It teaches the inhabitants of the land to use resources that they find insignifigant and use it to create goods, in this case bricks via mud. If people are willing to rather create opportunities for communties than give them what they need then people would stop relying on the governments money and learn to be creative.
They also learnt a new skill in which they can now go use to obtain job opportunities. Now if the people of South Africa are willing to create a couple of these projects then it will have an overflow effect and will begin to spread  like wildfire(a tipping point of kind) and if that does happen people will learn new skills to gain work or people of the rural communities will produce job opportunity for others, creating a higher employment rate and get South Africa into a MEDC(more economically developed country). Doing such prjects will also allow for people to stay in a certain community and not allow them to over populate the already crowded main cities of Southern Africa. The question is whether the people of South Africa are willing to give these communities a chance to create something bigger.

Activity 1

1.)              Development is the process where people’s needs and living conditions are improved. The need of time, money and skills is needed. 2.)              Life expectancy, HDI ranking, Income, population,  GNI DEVELOPED COUNTRIES LESS-DEVELOPED COUNTRIES GNI of $6000pp pa GNI under $6000pp pa Many industries produce high value products Underdeveloped industrial sector Extensive trading Low value exports High levels of education Large amounts of uneducated people 4.)    MEDC- More Economically Developed Countries          LEDC- Less economically Developed countries 5.)    It is better as it uses a variety of options that helps with the economy of a country; money is one way in which an economy can grow. 5.1)  No, except for the fact that Liberia and Mozambique are on both graphs 5.2)  as there will be a lower population then that of the figure 1 countries 5.3)  the country either has bad health care, a lack of resources or a high suicide rate. 5.4)   When a group of people only farm for themselves. 5.5)   They need to get great amounts of raw materials and trade with more developed countries. 6.)  A country that will develop over a period of a few hundred years. 7.)  End extreme poverty and hunger, give primary education to all children, promote equality between men and women, reduce child mortality, Improve the health of pregnant women, Fight HIV, Make sure the environment is used in a sustainable way, Encourage partnerships between countries.

What is development, ,my way

The following mind map shows the activities of development.