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Lab 1:� PERSPECTIVES ON THE ENVIRONMENT
This is an opinion paper reflecting your own ideas.� No library research is needed.
Lab 2: ENVIRONMENT AND BUSINESS
"ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE" ADVERTISING
. Think like an Advertiser:
If I wanted to get my message out to people concerned with the environment, what magazines would they tend to read?����
| American Forests |
��������������������� Mother Earth News |
| ���������������������������� Audubon |
��������������������� National Geographic |
| ��������� Backpacker |
��������������������� National Parks |
| ���������������������������� Discover |
��������������������� National Wildlife |
| E: The Environmental Magazine |
��������������������� Scientific American |
LAB 3: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF NATURAL AND MAN- MADE DISASTERS
. Use Reserve titles on 2-hour Reserve at the Circulation Desk (Ask for Biology 110 reserves):
. Click on COD Library Catalog under Quick Links
Do a SUBJECT (S) search on topics such as Disasters, Natural Disasters, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Acid Rain, Endangered Species, etc.� Don't forget to�look at "Related Subjects".
� TRY IT: Biological invasions
. Click on "Article Databases"
Choose Expanded Academic Index (InfoTrac). Type in your topic and View results or Narrow by subdivision, especially "Environmental Aspects".
Another good database: ��Academic Search Premier (FirstSearch).Can limit to Full Text articles.
Also consider these databases: Newspapers (Proquest) �including Chicago Tribune for fulltext of articles on local issues.
�TRY IT: Snakehead Fish
LAB 4: CHEMICALS IN THE ENVIRONMENT: AGRICULTURE AND FOOD INDUSTRIES
PESTICIDES AND HERBICIDES
. Go to your local hardware store or garden center and check the active ingredients in pesticides and herbicides to make a list of possibilities to explore.
. Books to use:
**Kamrin, Michael A., ed Pesticide Profiles: Toxicity, Environmental Impact, and Fate. 1997. Call Number: Reference RA 1270 .P4 K285 1997
Briggs, Shirley A. Basic Guide to Pesticides: Their Characteristics and Hazards. �1992.�
Call Number: General RA 1270 .P4 B73 1992
Moses, Marion.� Designer Poisons.�1995.� Call Number: General RA 1270 .P4 M679
Thomson, W.T. A Guide to Lawn, Garden & Home Pest Control Products.�1996.���
Call Number: General SB 951 .T52 1996
. Internet Sites:
EXTOXNET: The Extension Toxicology Network: Pesticide Information Profiles
A cooperative effort of University of California--Davis, Oregon State,� Michigan State, and Cornell Universities.
http://extoxnet.orst.edu/pips/ghindex.html
TRY IT: Resmethrin (active ingredient in Raid)
FOOD ADDITIVES
. Check foods you eat regularly for preservatives and other additives listed or use the Federal Government's Generally Regarded as Safe List (GRAS) List,� Code of Federal Regulations(CFR), Chapter 21 Parts 182, 184 and 186.� Marge has copy of list or search "GRAS list" using Google or another search engine on the Internet
. Books to use
• Encyclopedia of Food Science and Technology. �4 vols.
Call number: Reference TP 983 .W54
• Foods & Nutrition Encyclopedia. 2 vols. Call number: Reference TX 349 . F575
• Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials. �3 vols.
Call number:
Reference T 55.3 .H3 S3
. Specific Internet Sites:
Materials Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for Chemicals
Gives access to company-provided information on the safety and health effects of thousands of chemicals
http://hazard.com/msds/index.php
. Search the Internet
If you want to see sites with information about an additive (or pesticide), use a search engine, such as Google, Yahoo or Teoma.�� In most search engines, use quotation marks ("....") around phrases or + before words that must be present in any Internet site retrieved.�
Example: + "sodium bisulfite" +health
LAB 5: ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN THE� NEWS
If you don't have access to enough newspapers and magazines on your chosen topic at home, you may want to use those in the library.� See Lab 3 for ideas on how to research topics in magazines and newspapers.�� Please photocopy those that you want to include in your project booklet.� Don't forget to take the information you need so that you can cite your source (Name of author, Title of Article, Journal name, Date, Pages)
Alternative Lab: ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES
See Lab 3 for ideas on how to research topics in the book collection,� magazines and newspapers. Some headings to use: Solar power, Wind energy, Geothermal Resources.
