His lecture basically put everything into perspective for me. I new the amount of CO2 U.S. was producing was bad, and new that we needed to find new sources of green energy was important. But his lecture kind of opened my eyes and made me think about the other countries again. In the begging I knew that solving climate change and getting green energy was a job the entire world had to participate in. However over the past couple of months all I've really been hearing about is how bad the U.S. is in all of this and how we need to do all of things to be like the other countries. I really liked how one of the very first things he said was that climate change is something everybody needs to work on and not individually on a person to person scale of on a whole country scale. Everybody needs to put forth effort or else it really wont work.
He also did a good job of showing the pro's and the con's to us. He wasn't really lobbying for green energy he was just showing numbers good and bad and then saying we need to make a choice. And if we do go with green energy we need to find cheaper/more effective ways to produce and distribute it because the way they are doing it now is way to expensive. He showed how much of each energy source we need and then basically why it would be almost impossible to do it.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
2nd Round of Research
1. "Study finds a healthier diet and a return to traditional farming can help reduce energy consumption in US food system by 50 percent," Eating Less Meat And Junk Food Could Cut Fossil Energy Fuel Use Almost In Half July 24, 2008, Science Daily, February 10, 2010, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080723094838.htm
It is estimated that around 19% of the energy used in the United States goes to processing food. The article discusses ways to cut energy consumption down by 50% using a few different methods. The overall picture of the article is that the American consumer ultimately controls the energy consumption by what they buy and eat. It was suggested that people should simply just eat less and also that we should buy locally from farms that use environmentally friendly farming methods.
2. Ruskin, Gary & Schor, Juliet "Who's to Blame for Childhood Obesity?", Junk Food Nation August 11, 2005, The Nation, February 10, 2010, http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050829/ruskin
The article focuses on how junk food companies donate millions of dollars to government officials for support on many different controversial issues. They funded the Bush administration to gain support on claiming that sugar and processed foods don't lead to diabetes or obesity. They also gained backup on laws and bills to keep junk food out of schools and restrict junk food companies ability to advertise to children. This shows that junk food companies and lobbyists have started to gain access into the same circle of privilege that tobacco and oil companies have.
It is estimated that around 19% of the energy used in the United States goes to processing food. The article discusses ways to cut energy consumption down by 50% using a few different methods. The overall picture of the article is that the American consumer ultimately controls the energy consumption by what they buy and eat. It was suggested that people should simply just eat less and also that we should buy locally from farms that use environmentally friendly farming methods.
2. Ruskin, Gary & Schor, Juliet "Who's to Blame for Childhood Obesity?", Junk Food Nation August 11, 2005, The Nation, February 10, 2010, http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050829/ruskin
The article focuses on how junk food companies donate millions of dollars to government officials for support on many different controversial issues. They funded the Bush administration to gain support on claiming that sugar and processed foods don't lead to diabetes or obesity. They also gained backup on laws and bills to keep junk food out of schools and restrict junk food companies ability to advertise to children. This shows that junk food companies and lobbyists have started to gain access into the same circle of privilege that tobacco and oil companies have.
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