Dr. Stuart Reichler’s Spring 2009 Bio
301M Bonus #2
Due 22 April 2009
This assignment is optional and can be worth a
maximum of 2 points
added to your final grade.
In Friday's (3/27) class, we talked about problems that humans make for
non-humans (plants and animals), and how groups and/or individuals
might help solve these problems. For Bonus #2, try for a weekend,
a week, or longer to do one
of the actions that individuals can do to help non-humans. It may
be one of the actions we discussed in class, but it need not be from
this list:
Some of the ideas from class are:
Recycling
Reducing goods and/or packaging bought
Reusing durable replacements for disposable goods
Eating less meat, or eating a vegetarian or vegan diet
Driving less/riding the bus more/biking or walking to get around town
Using less electricity and/or water
Political activism for animal-friendly or environment-friendly causes
Planting trees
This bonus will be graded on your report which should include the
following information:
1.What you did.
2.What problems your actions helped solve.
3.A brief account of your experience. Was it easy, or was it
hard? Did you feel like it really made a difference? Do you
think more people could do what you did; why or why not? What
could be done to make what you did easier, or more palatable, for
others to do?
The report should not be more than 2 typed pages and is due in class on
Wednesday, 22 April. I will
subtract 0.5 points for each day late.