Project Milestone 1
Subject
Guiding Questions
Response
Define situation or problem
- Take the issue and explain how it affects your community.
- What do family members and the community have to say?
- I chose Save the Everglades. It’s a movement in Florida that is trying to protect Lake Okeechobee and the rest of the Everglades from pollution from large ranches and farms.
- Family and the community agree that this is problem. Pollution triggers the growth of algae and other invasive plant species.
- How does this issue affect households and local residents?
- How does this issue affect area businesses.
- How does this issue affect our government at the local, state, and national levels?
- How does this issue affect the rest of the world?
- How does the issue affect resources, goods, and finances?
- Less pollution equals a safer environment for local residents and an increase in the economy due to tourism, fishing, agriculture, and hunting in the area.
- Although this may be tedious for farms and ranches to stop using the Everglades as a place to dispose of waste, the economy will increase for local businesses.
- This will be good for the local, state, and national levels. The plan is to propose a plan to limit the amount of pollution legally allowed in all of Florida’s waters. Will this plan in action, an increase in tourism, commercial and recreation fishing and hunting, and camping will increase.
- This issue affects the rest of the world because it’s decreasing tourism to this area from all parts of the world.
- This issue affects the waters of the Everglades which provide food, shelter, water, and recreation to so many people. Protecting this area can also protect its lucrative goods.
Subject
Guiding Questions
Response
Identify important criteria to evaluate possible solutions.
1.What are the necessary conditions for any possible solution to work?
2.Are there budget or labor concerns?
3.Does the public need to be aware of and support the solution?
4.What challenges are there to implementing each solution?
5. How else might you judge possible solutions against each other?
6.What do your parents say about the issue?
7.Should possible externalities factor into the chosen solution?
- The proposed law has to pass. This way, we can limit the amount of waste going into the Everglades.
- The only budget concerns are for the large ranches and farms that need to find another (potentially more expensive) way to get rid of their waste. There aren’t labor concerns; in fact this can create jobs.
- The public, especially the local community should be aware because it’s affecting their immediate environment and economy.
- We have to get the law to pass which means convincing the government to accept this plan. It might be a challenge to get the government to support it.
- There could be multiple solutions, like cleaning up the area. However, limiting pollution will create more jobs in the area and prevent another clean up in the future.
- My parents agree with me that the Everglades is a precious place that shouldn’t be taken advantage of by the companies using it as a dumpster.
- The Everglades is a free resource getting taken advantage of. If we can limit pollution though it won’t be. Another externality is that it is a “common” area- tourism can increase pollution and waste, too.