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=Week 4: Solar Energy Takeover =

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= = We have learned about the Paris Climate Agreement and how America left as well as the energy and how much this world would save if we have all changed to solar energy in class for the past 2 weeks. To go along with that theme, I watched this video of how many governors and mayors have already started an initiative to go and meet the agreements anyway. The video focuses mainly on Hawaii though. Hawaii has to import a lot of fossil fuels and mainly oil in order to power the state and that’s the main reason why it is so expensive to live there. They though have been trying to change this since 2015. The governor started this goal to use completely renewable energy to power the islands. Their goal is to get off of oil by 2045 using wind energy, biomass, and ocean energy, with a few more thrown in to help create enough power. The people including the governor in Hawaii has a lot of faith that this goal will be reached and keep helping to save the world as best they can from Hawaii. The power source that will take over a lot of the energy is going to be solar energy. They even go into discussing why this isn’t in California and other very sunny states, but that main issue that they can’t change the type of energy is because of the agreements with the other industries and power companies. This will help make Hawaii even better than before and help the rest of the world, but Hawaii still gets the effects that others do wrong. This is significant because countries can learn from everything and companies can also learn how to make money and save the world at the same time. One question I have gotten from looking up about solar energy is how do we use solar energy in areas that don't get enough sun to power something that needs a lot of power? media type="youtube" key="FY4GbgJWuXQ" width="560" height="315"

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=Week 3: How to make restaurants sustainable =

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This video takes what we learned in class this week about food and my group's sustainability project dealing with waste to a new level. It no longer takes the disturbing parts of where food and meat come from but takes it from getting rid of a large amount of waste it takes to run a restaurant, which is one of the biggest problems and one of the sustainability goals. This man, Arthur Potts Dawson, discusses how his restaurants in England are trying to stop this over consumption of waste. He has 2 restaurants so far, Acorn House (wood) and Waterhouse (water) and wants to make 5 (adding fire, metal, and earth). In addition to having these restaurants stop consuming such a significant amount of waste, the restaurant's tables and chairs have been taken from past owners who no longer want it instead of going out and getting brand new tables and chairs. The Acorn house has floors that are recyclable, chairs that have been and are recyclable with pillows that are reused. The fact that he called the disuse of wall space "waste" was fairly interesting, but again he used this waste tho his advantage and added shelves. The restaurant is also run significantly on wind energy as well as other energy savers with light bulbs and paint. He also refurbished and reused coffee maker that looks pretty cool. The restaurant grows trees and reuses water. The restaurant isn't too small but takes advantage of all the space they are given. I think what is also interesting is after looking at these photos of his restaurant, you would not expect it to be so earth friendly because it looks the same as other restaurants.

After wanting to learn more about what he has done, I found he also wrote this cookbook about eating more vegetables which also goes back to what we have talked about in class with eating more vegetables and less meat. The main thing that this book shows is that he doesn't want you to become a vegetarian, just eat more vegetables. This also relates to the video we watched this week in class from Graham Hill. It's not the fact that people are trying to convert you to becoming a vegetarian, it's about trying to show you a healthier lifestyle that also is healthier for the planet. Whether it is eating veggies all week or for one meal, you are helping save the planet one step at a time.



= =Week 2: Water and How to Improve =

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Wow, this video was actually really cool and very interesting. This video about water takes what we learned about water this week and how there is not much usable and drinkable water in the world into a new perspective. The use of water is split up by what we, people use it and how. Through industry, agriculture, drinking, and energy, the water in this world that is all we have is slowly going away due to pollution or other forms of waste stopping the water from being able to be used again. GE has taken technology and formed many different ways in order to help make a difference in this water shortage around the world in 130 countries saving water daily. This video goes to show how this problem is slowly trying to be solved. The technology shown in the video include the Ge Dustreat Technology in the US cut the water use for mining significantly. As well as, in Russia, the Ge Zeeweed technology allowed oil to take over some of the water use. The Ge Membrane is a treatment to help recycle the wastewater daily in Kuwait. Singapore has the Ge Zeeweed ultrafiltration which takes the wastewater and turns it into pure water for microchip production. Spain takes uses Ge Edr technology in order to create drinking water from raw water for major areas. This is just one step, so what's next?

Sustainability: "Wall -E"



Sustainability is the ability to maintain a balance of some sort. In biology, it means to maintain a balance with the environment and the organisms in of it. The next step for the new settlers, which they start and show in the last few seconds is the ability to keep the plant living and grow more. Also trying to clean up the garbage left over in order to keep a clean and organized place for the plants to grow. They have to learn how to keep everything clean because even the soil could be very bad. Also, a lot of work would have to be put in from the people. This would be hard for them because they have been lazy and doing nothing for so long now that they really need to take time and adjust.

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