About Our World

By Valeria Rogers (riarogers1@earthlink.net)

Our World is about environmental issues, how we affect the environment, and the environment affects us. Environment means the aggregate of surrounding things, conditions, or influences. So this blog site will cover anything from weather, to endangered animals, to catastrophic events like earthquakes, to pollution, to public health issues, to the organizations that seek to protect or add to the problem of pollution, and finally to political policy that either alleviates or aggravates the condition of our world.

I’m Valeria (Ria) Rogers. I’ve been active with animal groups for years. As a natural extension of that, I am interested in the environment. I blogged during the 2004 elections about the environment and found I was a very small minority. Most blogs centered on terrorism as our biggest threat. I was the oddball that kept warning people Mother Nature trumps terror, trumps all. I saw the need to keep people informed about the environment in a world with other priorities. It’s the only way to bring about change. People don’t have the time to research what they see and hear.

I do have the time, and I love doing research.  I have a BA in English for Professional Writing from Ellis College of NYIT. Because I belong to the Sierra Club, Nature Conservancy, Environmental Justice, NRDC, about 36 different groups altogether, etc., I get a wealth of information through their various newsletters that the average person does not hear about. I also belong to Care2.com website of over 7 million people worldwide who care enough to circulate and sign petitions for all types of causes. I subscribe and read Time and U.S. News and World Report regularly, and try to get a sampling of newspapers in Michigan and elsewhere, and am always on the Science Channel, Discovery, National Geographic, or NASA channels. There are so many environmental issues both good and bad that it’s mind boggling.

My purpose is to pass it all along with a few thoughts to help connect the dots because everything is interconnected. Our actions affect our world and everything in it. We’re poised for big changes in the future and that can be shaky. Having an outlet to voice concerns and questions is important. We need to know we’re all in this together.