Personal Benchmark

I have been really busy lately doing schoolwork. I will get this construction site undergoing soon. 

A Documentary...

You can go to this URL to watch the video:

http://m.youtube.com/watch? v=W4KBgiHPAD0


I recommend it because it goes over the different types of resources we could use without harming the environment.

Renewable Energy Terms

This post will be updated constantly.

Substitutability
Stakeholder participation
Urban sustainability
Beset
Jatropha plant
Acid hydrolosis
Gasoline importing OECD countries
Spacial proliferation
Sociology
Nodes
Programmes
Sedentarist theories
Global Interconnected Networks (GIN's)
Deterritorialised
Moorings
Sociotechnical infrastructures
Sociomaterial networks
Photovoltaics
Solar thermal electric systems
Solar hot water systems
Passive solar building design
Bioenergy
Gethermal energy

State of the Union Address Analysis on Presidential Environmental Goals

" Now, one of the biggest factors in bringing more jobs back is our commitment to American energy. The all-of-the-above energy strategy I announced a few years ago is working, and today, America is closer to energy independence than we’ve been in decades. One of the reasons why is natural gas – if extracted safely, it’s the bridge fuel that can power our economy with less of the carbon pollution that causes climate change. Businesses plan to invest almost $100 billion in new factories that use natural gas. I’ll cut red tape to help states get those factories built, and this Congress can help by putting people to work building fueling stations that shift more cars and trucks from foreign oil to American natural gas. My administration will keep working with the industry to sustain production and job growth while strengthening protection of our air, our water, and our communities. And while we’re at it, I’ll use my authority to protect more of our pristine federal lands for future generations.

It’s not just oil and natural gas production that’s booming; we’re becoming a global leader in solar, too. Every four minutes, another American home or business goes solar; every panel pounded into place by a worker whose job can’t be outsourced. Let’s continue that progress with a smarter tax policy that stops giving $4 billion a year to fossil fuel industries that don’t need it, so that we can invest more in fuels of the future that do.

And even as we’ve increased energy production, we’ve partnered with businesses, builders, and local communities to reduce the energy we consume. When we rescued our automakers, for example, we worked with them to set higher fuel efficiency standards for our cars. In the coming months, I’ll build on that success by setting new standards for our trucks, so we can keep driving down oil imports and what we pay at the pump.

Taken together, our energy policy is creating jobs and leading to a cleaner, safer planet. Over the past eight years, the United States has reduced our total carbon pollution more than any other nation on Earth. But we have to act with more urgency – because a changing climate is already harming western communities struggling with drought, and coastal cities dealing with floods. That’s why I directed my administration to work with states, utilities, and others to set new standards on the amount of carbon pollution our power plants are allowed to dump into the air. The shift to a cleaner energy economy won’t happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact. And when our children’s children look us in the eye and ask if we did all we could to leave them a safer, more stable world, with new sources of energy, I want us to be able to say yes, we did. " - President Barack Obama`s State of the Union Address, January 28, 2014

For starters, I really love that our very own president is going green, especially how I want to be in  that field of work. Second, the fact that he is bringing in more international jobs back to the USA is even more rewarding because my parents can look for better jobs and so can I, once I have all my school finished. The one concern I have is, will Mr. Obama be including all the forms of renewable energy or the kinds of energy that can be massively used? If so, I am really safe because my future job will be secure. 

Environmentally Friendly Connecting the Dots

We, as humans tend to connect the dots for everything, from finding the solution to a crime and trying to find the things in common. With that, the paper that we are supposed to write has to link somehow to our future careers and majors to racism, one of the issues facing our world very often. 

The career that I want to pursue is being an environmental engineer. Environmental engineering, in general, is the integration of science and engineering principles to improve the natural environment, to provide healthy water, air, and land for human habitation and for other organisms, and to remediate pollution sites. The engineers are also concerned with finding plausible solutions in the field of public health, arthropod-borne diseases, and to implement laws to remediate and adequately place correct sanitation in urban, rural, and recreational areas such as playgrounds or national parks. Female and male engineers also are in charge of waste water and waste disposal management, the control of air pollution, recycling anything (especially shipping containers), radiation protection (for those citizens that live next to the nuclear plants), the rights to industrial hygiene, environmental sustainability (energy efficiency, water and gas conservation, waste reduction, etc.), and take care of public health issues. You should have some kind of environmental engineering law  school degree with you before you leave college. It is basically the same thing. The only difference is that the law degree gives that person the right to be the lawyer for the better future of the envionment. The "green" lawyer protects any of the above laws if they are broken. The "green" lawyers have to have both environmental engineering and law school to address complex environmental problems, most frequently include land transactions. 

I chose this career as my main career because I am concerned for the environment, that we are burning off tons of fossil fuels and that our present leadership doesn`t seem to look at that. I do believe that renewable energy is the future for the United States, economically as well. We already have some electric cars coming out of motor companies such as Ford, Chevy, Nissan of America, and Tesla Motors just to name a few. The United States could once again be the the giant powerhouse of the world. All we need is for someone to believe in this type of future and implement it into everyday life. 

The way that it fits into racism, profiling and discrimination is how some people are placed in categories depending on the location of their home, either being from a dirty farm or coming from a sleek, industrial-designed megacity. Also race has to do with how sanitary an ethnic group is and how I can help them meet sanitation codes, as the engineer that I will be in the near future. Race and ethnicity has to do with  environmental sciences in general because we tend to segregate those that we think are filthy and don`t pick up for themselves to those that want to leave a pretty, clean, and manicured park the way it is. Also it can be on the city funds, too. Maybe some cities have money to keep the city clean but it is just not enough to keep up with the city`s demand for more street-sweepers and rainstorm drains.