Week 2 Semester 2

Wising Up to the Smart Grid

http://hermosabeach.patch.com/articles/wising-up-to-the-smart-grid

Galliani writes about how there needs to be a dramatic change in effiency in the world on how we aquire our energy. He writes about very specific ways to increase efficiency by using alternative  sources of energy and by using things that are specifically designed to be beneficial to the environment. He writes about many different organizations that advocate, support, and create these different resources to make all of us more available to use things that are better for the world. We are meant to turn on to the renewable resources in order to ultimately create more wealth for the worlds' economies as an ultimate goal.

Week 1 Semester 2

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2104040,00.html


The Year That Winter Forgot: Is It Climate Change?
Walsh wrote this and was commenting on the way that weather has been changing over time. The first section of his column talked about how he was experiencing something new when the first colds of the new year started very recently. He talked about how people were growing so accustomed to the warmer weather that once the cold hit they were not as angry because it was a change from what they were used to. Walsh also talks about the effects that the cold is having on tourism. He talks about how the dramatic change in weather is making it harder for ski bussiness to stay becasue there isnt enough snow and people are resorting to warmer destinations. Walsh also talks about how because the cold has been coming on slowly it was hard for us to notice but now looking back on the climate we can see how the steady changes have been pointing to a future of warmer weather for a long time. These points that Walsh was making are connected to my life because he mentions how people are being affected socially and how they are to expect changed weather and my future is that future of much warmer weather comparitively.