What I learnt in Geography this week.....

My Geography teacher has started an experiment which involves me writing about what I have learnt in my lessons and about any geographical news that interests me. My Geography teacher is also going to write a blog about what she teaches me (and therefore what I should have learnt!) and hopefully the two blogs will match up. The idea is that this will not only help me to consolidate what I learn but that it will also help fellow students do the same and keep up to date with current issues.

Monday, 7 March 2011

3 quick questions I have been meaning to put forward in relation to the energy module.......Can biofuels offer a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels? Do developed countries have the right to limit the amount of fossil fuels industralising countries use? And finally Does oil fuel aggression?

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We have come to the end of the energy module now and there are a few things that I have been meaning to write about for a while but have jus...
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Saturday, 5 March 2011

Sustainability

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This week we completed the last section of the energy module – sustainability. If something is described as being sustainable it means that ...
Thursday, 3 March 2011

The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind

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The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind is an extraordinary true story of a Malawian teenager who managed to build windmills that eventually provided...
Wednesday, 2 March 2011

Could the current situation in Africa combined with the soaring costs for oil as we approach both peak and decline in oil supplies provoke countries to accelerate the development of their renewable energy sources?

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Iceland responded to the oil embargoes of the 1970's by converting to domestic resources. Nowadays virtually every building in the entir...
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Tuesday, 22 February 2011

Encounters At The End Of The World - A students review

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Just over a week ago now Millie watched this film and when she wrote her review she stated that it was one of her favourite films behind Har...
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Saturday, 19 February 2011

Dealing with the aftermath of flooding

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This is slightly off topic (if you can bear the length there is a link to climate change right at the end) but I have been trying to keep on...
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Tuesday, 15 February 2011

American oil company refuse to take responsibilty of the pollution created by the oil industry in Ecuador

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The oil industry has many negative impacts on developing countries and the big oil companies often escape punishment for the impacts their i...

Climate loans - A good or bad idea?

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In my last post I discussed whether or not developed countries have a moral obligation to take some responsibility of those displaced by cli...
Sunday, 13 February 2011

Do developed countries have a moral obligation to help those displaced by climate change?

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An environmental migrant is someone who has been displaced by climate change induced environmental disasters. Technically they should not be...
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Friday, 11 February 2011

An Inconvenient Truth

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I watched the film version of 'An Inconvenient Truth' whilst studying Geography at GCSE and I was planning on watching it again seei...
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Thursday, 10 February 2011

Impacts of the 1973 oil crisis and how energy consumption is linked to population growth and development.....

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I have realised that it is probably about time that I actually started blogging about what I am primarily supposed to be blogging about! So,...
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Vicki The Geography Student
Whilst studying A-levels in Geography, Chemistry, Biology, Maths and History, I became completely fascinated by the Earth Sciences and found them particularly good for feeding my natural curiosity, providing answers to my never ending list of questions! Despite my relentless enthusiasm and frequent question asking, I was quite a quiet student in comparison to the rest of my class so my teacher asked me to start this blog as part of her experiment to test the benefits of incorporating social media into education. The aim was to find out if social networking can be a valuable educational tool and discover how much I actually learnt in lessons. It proved to be a huge success, for both myself and other students, with all my A-level notes still available for students use. I am currently at University studying BSc (Joint Honours) ‘Physical Geography with Oceanography’ and still asking way too many questions! In an attempt to continue to share my love for anything Earth Science-related, and to see if it can have the same benefits at Higher Education, I am trying to continue the blogging and use of social networking. I hope it proves to be a useful and interesting read!
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