Regenerating Confidence

During our class Wednesday night I was worried about where my project was actually going. To be honest I was kind of clueless on to what I wanted to do next. However, after hearing what everyone had to say and after Dr. Durbin gave some insight on how to make project better I got a clearer sense of where I was going to head now. I raised questions that I previously hadn’t asked myself yet, that I thought were very adequate questions to raise. One is how does hemp make it easier in the anthropocene, and also what place does hemp have in the Anthropocene? When going through my previous blogs I knew that I had skimmed the tip of the iceberg when revealing what hemp can do for the world. From what I had seen personally and encountered in the media. I recently talked to a couple of buddies on mine out in Colorado after not being able to receive and email back from officials and also the website creators of the paper hemp website. I talked to them about what they had seen in the change of hemp being legalized regarding hemp production for household products and also energy efficient gases and or also liquids. In example, lotions, creams, medicine, etc.

From what I got through our phone call was that since the legalization, there has been an abundance of people moving for the hemp production of more household products and medicines. They told me that in their own home most of what they use is hemp based, there are stores that are hemp based in Colorado regarding many household appliances. This includes hair products, skin care; almost anything they own is some hemp lineage. When listening to them rants on why they believe the movement should be pushed forward with more velocity. I got a sense of just where hemp was making its mark in the lives of people it affected directly. Hemp is a movement that is swept under the rug for most people and its obvious why for most of the country because this is a delicate topic. Just hearing from those that had seen the movement and had been directly affected by it showed me that it can make lives easier for those in the anthropocene it takes on so many shapes and forms that it is inevitably going to makes a mark in this world and last until the end of time. Why do I believe this because it is so hard to ignore with all that it can do that we would be ignorant not to use it for its greatest uses and get over the fact that it is labeled as a controlled substance regarding its natural state.

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Community outreach

My idea for my community outreach is to acquire those hemp notebooks, pass them around campus and inside place facts about hemp regarding our atmosphere in relations to carbon with using trees for paper and showing how hemp can be a better source.

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Reading: Nadar, Barriers to thinking new about energy

When reading this I could just see how this was in relation to my topic on the fact that most of the people who had differences with her wouldn’t even give up there stubborn ideas to even listen to her which is a part of the problem with hemp today. Most people that grew up seeing it as a taboo have had that thought installed in them for so long that they are stubborn to the fact that there are good uses in hemp not just what the media shows of it. With people having limited personal experience with the pros of hemp it is easy to see how people are blind to the fact that there are more uses then what they know of. I could feel what Nadar was going through when in her line of work, when you have a message but people wont take the time to listen to you its discouraging and almost disrespectful because all you want to do is help. With the movement becoming bigger now since the birth of legalization I hope people don’t stay blind to the fact that there is more good then bad when it comes to hemp.