Green Living Q & A

Would an alternative energy source be considered or accepted by trucking and airline companies?

I have noticed lately the high fuel prices have made trucking and airline companies desperate in attempts to cut fuel costs in order to make profit or just to stay afloat.

If some one was to present an plan or an idea to replace petrol
based fuels and combustion technology with a practical and low cost and existing or soon to be existing alternative energy technology to power their fleets, the executives of these companies would be more open to accepting and implementing such ideas due to the severity of their situation. When these big boys implement these technologies in order to save their bottom line and it works, then it would open the way for the rest of society accepting and implementing that alternative fuel technology in every day life. When the happens, that would solve the US’s foreign oil dependence and help the environment. A win-win all around.
My question is what technologies that are in existence or soon will be in existence that requires little or low investment in installing infrastructure or implementing these alternative energy technologies for these trucking and airline fleets? What safety risks would be associated with such technologies? How can such risks be minimized?

If not low cost, how could the owners of these companies make money by investing or installing these technologies in their fleet (give them copy rights or share of the patents so every time some one uses it, they get some money in return?)

How could people gain access to such people and sell the idea to them?
Forgive the long post yet I believe I had to post that in order to lead in effectively into my questions.

How can we as a country promote alternative energy, use less foreign oil and reduce global warming?

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What can we do to convince our overlords (the oil companies) that we want alternative energy vehicles?

Did you know that we had alternative fuel vehicles before we had oil based cars?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_automobile

I learned this when I was a kid which was about 25 years ago. So its not like this is new to anyone out there. I’m tired of fighting wars so some rich guy can make loads of cash for himself. While charging and hitting me with taxes so that he can destroy the environment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPiLgBeiZ2M
I thought that we the people of the United States of America were in charge of this country. Looks like the only thing we are in charge of is cleaning the mess that some overlords cause and push on us through taxes.

I want to discover/work with alternative energy sources. What is the best major to go for in college?

Other colleges would be helpful…I was wondering if Chemical Engineering would be best, or Environmental Engineering. If there isnt a specific major, what can I combine to give me the best edge on producing alternative energy sources that are specifically geared towards environmentally sound policies. After that, I also want to open up my own consulting firm for companies who want to make their factories more environmentally friendly. I am just wondering what’s the best tract to go for.

Which company is most recommended for Alternative Energy investment?

Many alternative energy projects are emerging. Any recommendations?

Would you support a law that required the government to let the people vote on issues?

immigration, abortion, stem cell research, major environmental issues, tax issues, whether or not to pull out of the war, etc. they could have 2-4 votes per year on major issues and let the people decide…i really think the power needs to come back to the people not left entirely up to the government (no matter who is in power). too long have we had to sit back and watch the politicians make decisions that affect our lives without us having any say at all. it seems only the special interests groups with the most money have their say. this nation is supposes to be a government for the people and by the people, when did we lose that right? how do we get it back and when? personally i want my say back now !
i think something like this would also encourage ppl to vote more, its sad the turnout we have in this nation. hell i iraq they dodged bullets and car bombers to vote…we only have to dodge political signs.

Can someone help me research the intertidal zone aquatic ecosystem in the US?

I’ve been asked do to a biome project on the intertidal zone in the US and I’ve been having trouble finding sufficient research for it. What I ask is that you give me some information on the following: seasonal attractions of the intertidal zone, features of the intertidal zone, climate, a food web, symbiotic relationships, tourism activities, and/or an environmental issue. The project is due on Wednesday. Please provide sources if you can. Best answer gets 10 points and my sincerest thanks.

Should I Take These Courses or Not?

Currently I’m a Junior and I’m selecting subjects for next year.
This year I took
Digital Film and Video
Environmental Science
Honors Functions (Advanced Honors PreCalc)
Current Issues
US History
AP Biology

and next year I plan to completely change.

AP Physics
AP Calc BC (gonna take AB over the summer)
Anatomy and Physiology
Forensics
Digital Film 2
AP Environmental Science
AP Statistics
English 12

and I will do AP Chemistry and AP Psychology with self study as the max number of subjects i can take in class i have mentioned. My school does not offer these classes so thats why i decided to self study….my math and science teachers highly recommended me for AP’s but not my english teacher……do should I go for an AP English or should I not. Plus does this schedule look too tough or should i change it a bit…I want to hear your suggestions.

Japan big on environmental issues …..Kyoto treaty???

Japan wants us to buy their clean cars , but what about their nasty behavior in the antarctic! HOW TWO FACED IS THAT COUNTRY – if they dont move that ship out of the arctic circle a huge catastropy is the end result! How can the government and whaling fleets of Japan be so insulting towards the rest of the world! THE GREENPEACE SHIP IS THERE TO HELP , SO WHY NOT STOP BEHAVING LIKE SOME SPOILED LITTLE DHILD ,PUT ANGER ASIDE , AND TOW THAT NASTY TIN CAN OUT OF THE ONLY PRESTINE PLACE LEFT , BEFORE 1000 TONS OF FUEL RECK EVERYTHING?

HEY JAPAN !!!! – WHY DONT YOU PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH TO THE REST OF THE WORLD DURING YOUR KYOTO MEETINGS????

So many environmental issues are related to consumption, how should we deal with equal rights?

We have all heard the First Nations speak of consumption in terms of “take only what you need and leave the rest”. Yes, this was a concept before private ownership and profit stole what belongs to us all. Should it still apply today as a simple moral principle? How much is enough? What is a fair share?

If there is such a thing as equal rights, do we not all have a right to our fair share of consumption?

But if we choose not to consume all of our share, isn’t it still ours?

And if someone wants more than their share, shouldn’t they pay for that consumption based on the concept of private ownership and profit that drive our current economic system?

If you want what I have saved, I should be able to sell it to you for a profit, because you used up your “fair share”, right?

Ben Franklin would say in his time, “A penny saved is a penny earned”. Today shouldn’t we say, “A resource conserved by one and then used by another should be paid for”?

Which is the “Greenest” Country in the World?

Which country is the “greenest” in terms of energy policies and practices?

I am looking for renewable energy integration, energy policies, practices et cetera. And China, although it leads the world in renewable energy, is not the answer I am looking for.

How many oil spills would it take for the world to fully start using a renewable source of energy for a change?

Honestly, it wouldn’t take us that long when we’ll be paying up to $10 (or even more) for a gallon/litre (remember when the market price went up so high last year, +$200 for a barrel?), not just because oil isn’t going to last forever (because in reality, that doesn’t play a big role in oil price change), nor is it just because the population will continue to exponentially increase, or whatever it is.

Because when it comes to de-beautifying and stripping the Earth of its resources, we’re really good at it.

All of the following are non-renewable energy resources except?

A. Coal
B. Oil
C. Water
D. Uranium

#2: A benefit of a hydrogen fuel cell is that its byproduct is:
A. Carbon dioxide
B. Oxygen
C. Water
D. Uranium

#3: Fossil fuels currently account for the majority of the world‘s energy use because they are:
A. Distributed evenly throughout the world
B. Nonpolluting
C. Relatively inexpensive and readily available
D. Renewable energy sources

#3: An object’s gravitational potential energy is directly related to all of the following EXCEPT:
A. Its height relative to a reference level
B. Its mass
C. Its speed
D. The acceleration due to gravity

Anyone suspect global warming is the energy crisis in disguise?

It seems to me that if I was a politician and couldn’t damage my constituencies by saying we’re running out of cheap oil, I would be inclined to jump on the global warming bandwagon instead in an effort to get the world more interested in renewable energy.

renewable energy science help?

4 school we have 2 choose a remote village in the world and invent (but not buikd) a device/machine using renewable energy sources in some way to help the village. any ideas on a village and what i could do? thanx! btw i cant do savann tabak, haiti, as my friends doing it. im really dumb at science! thanx!

what are the disadvantages of buying sustainable foods?

the harvesting of food in a protected area is an example of sustainable use.?

true / false

I want to stop buying commercial products and start growing my own food…?

Hi, does anyone out there have experience in returning to a sustainable life style, i.e.: removing yourself from being dependent upon other people for your food, cleaning products, ect? Are there any one stop websites that would provide me with the info I’m looking for? Any books you have read that would help me gain knowledge in this area? Thank u!

What is the different between environment and nature?

I want to write an essay about sustainable food and my thesis statement is sustainable food protect environment and nature. I’m a bit confuse right now, so I hope somebody could find a way to distinguish them.Thanks

How can we encourage organic and sustainable food practices when Republicans support big food industries?

Organic food at the local level is scientifically proven to help the environment, save resources and is healthy. How can we encourage such practices in spite of Republicans who have no regard for the environment, strains on resources, and who support big and fast food industries and try to get past the nutritional guidelines by classifying pizza as a vegetable so kids can eat junk food at school?

business studies: create eco-friendly product (mine is recycled clothing) creative way to present my plan?

basically we have to create a product that is eco–friendly and i decided that my product be recycled clothing! we have to make a business plan (which i already made) but i want to show examples of my store that sells recycled clothing. the atmosphere is cute and quirky and my target consumers are teenagers/young females. I can’t design an outfit but is there any other way to creatively present my idea (like create a business card to show that is one way of marketing my product)

sorry if this makes no sense.

What is “Eco-friendly” clothing?

I’ve seen it on TV when designers are referring to a model’s outfit….they may say something like, “…and it is “Eco–friendly” also”. What do they mean? Are they going to bury their outfit in the ground, and it will dissolve or something?…..What is up with this?

How much would you pay for eco-friendly pet clothing?

hey guys – any and all feed back will be appreciated … although if you think dogs wearing clothes is ridiculous, you might not be able to provide the exact TYPE of feedback i’m looking for 🙂

So the question is, how much would you pay for a dog jacket like the one in my “yahoo people” profile picture? Keep in mind the products are eco–friendly and therefore slightly more expensive. The fabric is made in the US, and organic. Everything will be manufactured in the US so keep that in mind.

this is organic, fair trade, sweat-shop free!

thanks so much!

What’s the best eco friendly way to get stains off of baby clothing?

Hi everyone, my little girl is 13 months old and it seems that whenever I put her clothes in the washing machine they come out with more stains on them than when they went in! Any suggestions? A lot of her clothes have brown spotting on them and i have no idea what it is.

Can anyone recommend some good websites where I can buy eco-friendly clothes or hippie-style clothes?

What are some specific environmental issues that I could write a paper on?

I need to write an environmental issues brief on a specific topic. Does anyone know of some topics that have a lot of research done on and on the web that could be used as sources?

environmental Issues.?

Society is not aware of what he does, and is destroying the planet, little by little, but what are the main environmental problems??

I would like to hear different opinions, thank you very much.

How is the chemical industry becoming more aware of environmental issues?

Give examples of how the chemical industry is becoming more aware of the environmental issues.

Is there a volunteer program to help with environmental issues in foreign countries?

I was wondering if anyone knew of a summer volunteer program for college students, adults, etc. to help bring clean water to poor communities in third world countries, or help with environmental issues. I’m really interested in environmental issues and want to help people out..during the summer..in any foreign country!

What are some environmental issues faced by Woodbridge, New Jersey?

What are some environmental issues faced by Woodbridge, New Jersey?

Is the list of demands from the OWS protesters one of the reasons it has a hard time succeeding?

Besides the violence that is.

Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending “Freetrade” by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.

Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.

Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.

Demand four: Free college education.

Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.

Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.

Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America’s nuclear power plants.

Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.

Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.

Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.

Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the “Books.” World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the “Books.” And I don’t mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.

Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.

Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.
These demands came from one of several of the original OWS websites. After being critiqued on Reuters, Fox, AP, CNN and several other news outlets the website added a disclaimer complaining about Fox news presentation of the demands (over a month after the demands were originally posted)

Has anyone seen the list of proposed demands from the Occupy Wall Street protest?

The “Occupy Wall Street” protesters have listed 13 proposed demands from their website.

Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending “Freetrade” by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.

Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.

Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.

Demand four: Free college education.

Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.

Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.

Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America’s nuclear power plants.

Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.

Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.

Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.

Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the “Books.” World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the “Books.” And I don’t mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.

Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.

Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.

Seems extremely ridiculous to me.

http://occupywallst.org/forum/proposed-list-of-demands-for-occupy-wall-st-moveme/
@Daniel:
Keyword is proposed, I said it twice.
It would help if you read all of MY post, because I read all of theirs.

How many YA liberals want this list of demands of some of the protesters to happen in real life?

Cmon admit it.

Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending “Freetrade” by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.

Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.

Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.

Demand four: Free college education.

Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.

Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.

Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America’s nuclear power plants.

Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.

Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.

Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.

Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the “Books.” World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the “Books.” And I don’t mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.

Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.

Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.

Why are taxes needed?

Certainly there are the obvious reasons why taxes are necessary: police, firefighters, military, Social Security, Medicare, etc.

While capitalism is generally a good distributor of services and goods it is by no means perfect. The profit motive is flawed on certain issues.

Nobody likes to work for free even with the promise that eventually that free work will pay off.

People don’t work for free or for just promises, generally. In fact, some might call that slavery.

Here is an example of what I’m talking about: generally corporations don’t like to spend too much money on research and development. Research and development is a promise that may not result in any profit.

Hence, the government and the taxpayers have to step in, like with the National Institute of Health which funds research for the drug companies. Also, money spent directly by the drug companies for research is tax deductible.

This has been money well spent by the government. Doctors and hospitals rely more on drug therapy now than any other form of treatment, I hear. This is because these drugs work very well with little risk. And these drugs have certainly worked for the drug companies who have a relatively high profit margin.

Here is another example:

Infrastructure is essential to capitalism. To see what I mean, go to Africa where they have very poor infrastructure for the most part. Many Non-Governmental Organizations say the biggest obstacle to getting aid to the needy in Africa is the poor infrastructure.

But for some reason corporations do not want to pay for infrastructure development. I would imagine that the short term cost-benefit ratio on infrastructure is not good enough for capitalists to get involved without some sort of public assistance, also known as corporate welfare.

Perhaps it would be cost-effective for a collective of all corporations to build the infrastructure they would all benefit from eventually. But how do you organize such a collective and how would you run it? Who would run it?

Apparently Eisenhower answered that question in the 1950s by having the Federal government build America’s interstate highway system. And this decade, the answer is provided by the Chinese central government in their massive spending on all kinds of up-to-date infrastructure, including about $150 billion invested in alternative energy.

But I suspect that the key word is organize. Organization. The government is essentially an attempt to organize the resources of society for publicly desirable goals. And the government cannot operate without taxes. Just like many private organizations charge dues that their members pay with the intent of achieving the goals of those members.

For this reason, I contend, humankind has advanced by forming bigger and bigger organizations. We started with tribes. Then city-states. Then countries. Now the Europeans have formed a continental organization mostly for economic purposes. North America has tried to copy this approach with NAFTA.

While some nutjobs may see this as a fatal conspiracy at work, the reasons for this centralization of organizations and resources is motivated by a rational drive toward economic advancement. In fact, the best way to explain this motivation can be found in capitalism itself. The capitalists refer to it as economies of scale.

The larger a company becomes the more bargaining power it has. For example, Walmart is able to sell goods very cheaply because it is able to buy very cheaply on the wholesale level. Walmart can say to a wholesaler, “We need ten million of your widgets. But we want a discounted rate.”

The wholesaler will be so excited at selling a million widgets that they will discount the rate as low as they possibly can to please the giant Walmart. This is how Walmart is able to put many smaller businesses out of business.

One can find economies of scale in the public sector as well.

The CBO has determined that the Ryan plan to privatize Medicare will actually wind up increasing health care costs for the United States. Basically, Ryan wants to let private health insurers do what Medicare now does. This will increase health care costs because Medicare is much bigger and centralized than the private insurers and HMOs. Therefore Medicare can operate much more cost effectively than private insurance.

Medicare represents essentially all people over 65 in America. Therefore, doctors and hospitals generally want or accept Medicare patients even though they often complain about how little Medicare pays them. Indeed, Medicare pays them much less than private insurance does. So why then do the doctors continue to put up with those low Medicare rates?

Because if a doctor turns away almost all people over age 65, that doctor will be out of business. The biggest consumers of health care are people over 65 and they are almost all organized within the centralized confines of Medicare.
Another example of economies of scale is the Veterans Administration. The VA is able to purchase drugs at a very low rate because it is a large, centralized institution which makes it very attractive to drug makers and distributors.

Likewise, Canada with it’s nationalized health care is able sell drugs to the public at much cheaper rates than can be found in the USA. I suspect the entire nation of Canada has a lot of bargaining power, rather than each hospital in Canada dealing with drug companies and wholesalers on their own.

Indeed, I suspect the drug companies themselves see the advantage of centralizing into one lobbying organization to persuade the US government to make it illegal for Americans to purchase their drugs from Canada.

Here is another way to look at it:

Republicans like Michele Bachmann suggest that we can spend our money a lot better than the government can. So she maintains we should be able to keep all of our money, I hear. And indeed, we will all do different
Republicans like Michele Bachmann suggest that we can spend our money a lot better than the government can. So she maintains we should be able to keep all of our money, I hear. And indeed, we will all do different things with that money if we are allowed to keep it all. Some will spend it all. Some will save it. We will spend it on different things and save it in different ways. The effects of this spending or saving will be scattered like a shotgun blast. It will be unorganized and chaotic.

But when we send all that money to the government, the government will usually spend all of that money for targeted purposes such as defense or Social Security or Medicare. Instead of a scattered shot like a shotgun you have a very powerful laser beam that can cut through anything. The more centralized the government, the larger the economies of scale, the more powerful the laser.

This may be why the state governments were not powerful or rich enough or willing to institute programs like Social S
This may be why the state governments were not powerful or rich enough or willing to institute programs like Social Security and Medicare. It took the Federal government to do that. And as I pointed out before, Medicare is actually more cost-effective than letting seniors take their vouchers around to various private insurance companies.

To see the advantages of Social Security and it’s associated COLA, cost of living adjustments, one need only go back in history to see the conditions of seniors before those programs existed. I recall hearing of many seniors who were forced to eat dog food.

Certainly, centralization of resources through taxes is not always a desired benefit, just as disadvantages of economies of scale can also be demonstrated by the negative aspects of Walmart. Negative aspects which are many. For example, the way Walmart destroys small businesses which create most of the new jobs in America.

I merely wish to point out why we pay taxes to a giant organization like t
I merely wish to point out why we pay taxes to a giant organization like the Federal government which is a necessary aspect of a civilized, advanced society. I still must contend that capitalism is the best way to distribute goods and services in a society. The fall of communism around the world is certainly a testament to that fact.

Indeed, we must accept the fact that there is corruption and waste in the Federal government and in all organizations, and in all individuals for that matter, and certainly in all corporations.

But I suspect that organizations that have been founded to fight corruption in government have learned over time that they are better able to fight that corruption with a larger, more centralized approach…along with a larger organization budget.

How can any of you say that GWB left a huge debt for Obama to clean up when BO outspent that in 4 months?

GWB fought 2 wars and had disasters like Katrina.

BO IS SPENDING FOOLISHLY…
http://www.lookingfit.com/hotnews/house-rep-list-wasteful-stimulus-provisions.html
$2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois. (The Department of Energy took its funding away last year, calling the project was inefficient.)
$246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy film.
$650 million converter-box coupon program for the digital conversion.
$88 million for a new polar icebreaker (arctic ship) for the Coast Guard.
$600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees.
$400 million for the Centers for Disease Control to screen and prevent STD’s.
$1.4 billion for rural waste disposal programs.
$125 million for the Washington sewer system.
$150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities.
$1 billion for the 2010 Census, which has a projected cost overrun of $3 billion.
$75 million for “smoking cessation activities.”
$200 million for public computer centers at community colleges.
$75 million for salaries of employees at the FBI.
$25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse reduction.
$500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River.
$10 million to inspect canals in urban areas.
$6 billion to turn federal buildings into “green” buildings.
$500 million for state and local fire stations.
$650 million for wildland fire management on forest service lands.
$1.2 billion for “youth activities,” including youth summer job programs.
$88 million for renovating the headquarters of the Public Health Service.
$412 million for CDC buildings and property.
$500 million for building and repairing National Institutes of Health facilities in Bethesda, Maryland.
$160 million for “paid volunteers” at the Corporation for National and Community Service.
$5.5 million for “energy efficiency initiatives” at the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration.
$850 million for Amtrak.
$100 million for reducing the hazard of lead-based paint.
$75 million to construct a “security training” facility for State Department Security officers when they can be trained at existing facilities of other agencies.
$110 million to the Farm Service Agency to upgrade computer systems.
$200 million in funding for the lease of alternative energy vehicles for use on military installations

University of Colorado is hosting an ENERGY AWARENESS DAY! We need ideas!?

We need to know what other universities have done to raise awareness about energy consumption and its connection to climate change. Everything from renewable energy to green jobs to eco friendly freebies!

What education would i need to get a job in solar energy or wind energy after graduating high school?

Im fresh out of high school and am not sure what education i should be seeking next. I have heard that renewable energy is a fast growing field and would like to know what education a good job in that field would require. By a good job i mean anything from installing solar panels or repairing wind turbines. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

How are Government Jobs a “Stimulus”?

I heard Obama on the TV the other day talking about his stimulus plan, he said he wants to immediately create 500,000 jobs working to develop renewable energy.

Someone please explain to me how 500,000 new Government jobs is a stimulus for America or any other economy? How much more are we going to now be taxed to pay for these jobs and how does stimulate th the economy?

what are the majority of jobs in the renewable energy sector? (UK)?

Im hoping to study a degree in renewable energy.

What will the jobs in the sector be? mainly trades such as plumbing? construction etc?

After visiting Brazil could John Boehner learn something about renewable energy and how many jobs it produces?

Or does he just like natural sunlight instead of tanning booths?
America wants Brazil and every other country to develop their oil resources because America is hopelessly addicted to oil.

what is a sustainable development in africa i can research?

i am doing a report on a development programme that is sustainable in africa.

What is sustainable development? Is it possible in today’s world of rapid development and huge energy demand?

How can we protect our environment and still develop? Can solar energy replace existing power plants, or is it only environment or development?

What is a sustainable Development in biology terms?

I have this biology project and don’t know what it means because I missed the module because I changed schools late. Can anybody help me?

How does sustainable development work in our society?

May you give me an example?

How can we have both forest exploitation and sustainable development in our forests?

Please give links, if you have any, to where you got your information.

How do eco-friendly products help the environment?

I’m writing a paper on how eco–friendly products such as household cleaners are beneficial for the environment, but I’m running out of good resourses, as well as good explanations to back up my thesis. Can someone help? Thank you

Eco friendly lighting causing a buzzing noise from the dimmer switch in the wall?

I have 50watt flood lights in my bathroom and when one of them went out I decided to try out eco friendly lighting – only after I replaced them I heard a buzzing coming from the dimmer switch when the lights were dimmed. It goes away when they’re all the way up.

What’s the problem?

Who can give ideas on environmentally friendly ticket options for an eco-dance?

My club at school is hosting an eco–friendly dance to raise funds. Does anyone have any ideas on what kind of ticket system is environmentally friendly?

Which is better buying a house then turn it to eco friendly or have a house build eco friendly?

We are looking for the better way to have a eco friendly house. We want to be off the grid, refers to living in a self-sufficient manner without reliance on one or more public utilities. Which state is the best to live off the grid?

What are some good eco friendly websites?

I have been doing what I can to “go green” and was wondering what places I could sho at for Eco friendly products. I am looking for household items, toys, kid products, etc. Thanks!