David Dittenhafer (101)

I'd say that planting trees although I have done several over the years, for this assignment and challenge mentally I have more of a want to do it and I know the benefits to having this tree in my yard (winterberry tree) so that helped me kind of be more into it. For physical sense it does help me with doing some sort of labor to exercise and be outside as well. As for spiritually I wouldn't say anything specific felt better doing this, it was just good fun planting the tree.

For the Stalks you can boil them and mix them same with the skins and make a pasta dish for good meal to eat. another thing is use is the tops and refrigerate them and eat them later on for more nutritious meals. (Also used in composting as well.)

Before, I would eat my food very fast and not take the time to really taste or rather enjoy what I was eating and that could be really unhealthy to gain that indulgence to eating. After being more mindful and taking more time to eat without any distractions I actually enjoyed my food and thought about what I was eating actually to a point where i changed some of my diet. Adding things like more protein and fiber.

The parts that make me think about my actions is the amounts of data that is on the amounts of greenhouse gas emissions as well as overall pollution rates in things like forests and ocean specifically. these same examples can also be extremely overwhelming in many aspects like team related work to improve the environment and as well as making a relevant and proficient solution as an alternative. The parts that make me hopefully is the amount of relevance to change and provide help to other in regions with pollution and planting things like trees and recovering waste from the ocean.

Yes! there are lots of things that biochar can do besides storing carbon, but it can provide a much cheaper alternative to the business of capturing carbon. Another thing it does is help capture and keep nutrients in the soil for farms and plants soil providing them for higher growth rates. the final thing that I feel is important is that many use biochar rather than trees because it has lower chance of burning and having the risk of being chopped down leading it to maintain it's importance wherever it may be.

One major component to seaweed that shows its importance through the ocean ecosystem is the ability to store carbon. It stores so much carbon while floating on the surfaces that from multiple sources they state it's compared to mangroves with just how much they are able to store. Excess C02 being a key struggle for our battle against climate change there is no wonder why the use of seaweed and understanding its importance has become more apparent recently.