What is Sustainability?
Websites:
This website gives a nice overview of what the EPA is currently doing to try and get people to be sustainable and lots of information on different sources of alternative energy. In addition it gives insight on what people can do to lead a sustainable lifestyle.
This website provides lots of new breakthrough news and technology about sustainability, that we may be able to use in the future for alternative resources. It contains lots of studies with current technology to get optimum efficiency.
This site gives an in depth look on how we can use tidal energy to spin a turbine and create electricity. It provides mathematical figures to show how effective tidal energy is. There are also studies that show the potential of tidal energy because it is one of the most reliable ways to spin a turbine, due to the constant tidal motion.
This is an interesting site that provides information on eating sustainable products, to help the environment and your health. It encourages people to eat a minimum amount of processed food and instead to eat farm fresh vegetables and meats. Additionally there is a guide on where to shop for sustainable products.
The site is a useful resource that gives up to date upgrades in the sustainable mobility field. There is in depth information on how these new technologies work and what they are expected to yield. It would be a good site if you were trying to purchase a sustainable automobile.
Articles:
Top Ten Myths about Sustainability By: Michael D. Lemonick
This article is a great introduction to the idea of sustainability. It offers insight on the ten biggest myths of sustainability according to the author such as it being too expensive or thinking that it is all about the environment. It also makes the correlation that being sustainable is not necessarily mean to “go green”.
Kerr, Richard A. "Do We Have the Energy for the Next Transition." Science (2010).
This article gives a very realistic view of how much time and effort it is going to actually takes for the entire world to switch over to cleaner more sustainable energy sources. It is a very negative article for someone to read if they want fast results in a sustainable society. The author thinks that solar energy is the best energy source of the future due to its limitless supply, and strays away from wind power and hydroelectric because they would not be able to generate enough energy.
Figures
A figure that represents what needs to be done to have a sustainable society. www.epa.gov/sustainability/
The gross world consumption rates of fossil fuel in 2005. (http://climateprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/cumulative.jpg).
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