...argued that our nation is dependent upon oil from terrorists and that the money is even used to fund Iran’s nuclear program (Freeman 3). Becoming a nation that is energy independent could help de-fund terrorist organizations and significantly bring down the cost of gasoline. David Freeman writes, “The good news is that the technology is commercially available today to convert the superabundance of renewable energy into electricity and other usable forms to power our high-energy lives” (103). Oil is the major fuel source in the United States and a large amount of oil is hidden under the ocean floors (Woodside 5). Many energy experts and environmentalists question whether it is cost effective to drill miles beneath the ocean floor as well as the effects it might have on the atmosphere (5-6). Another option for America’s transition to oil independence is reverting back to the original diesel engine, invented in 1900 (62). Woodside writes, “Peanut oil and any vegetable oil can be refined to run automobile engines or furnaces” (62). With so many other alternatives to traditional oil, it’s a wonder why America isn’t working harder to become energy independent in regards to oil and to lower the cost of gasoline in such a poor economy. Statement of Problem Oil is needed for the everyday needs of nearly every American as well as important missions carried out by our armed services (Hakes 2). If the claims are true that money spent on foreign oil does support terrorism and nuclear...
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...studying the effect of greenhouse gases and suspended particulate material on the climate for NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies for his post doctorate research. His article, “Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Aerosols: Effects of Large Increases on Global Climate”, was featured in the New York Times because of the consequences he listed in his paper, drawing national attention to the subject. However, despite the evidence compiled in his findings and those of various scientific research institutes such as the National Academy of Sciences of the United States and the Royal Society of Britain, global warming remains an issue that continues to be debated. In this paper, I will examine H.R. 1380: New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions Act of 2011, a bill in the House of Representatives, to determine the fundamental issues it hopes to solve, its origins, and the chances of enactment. H.R. 1380 is a bill that faces considerable hardships due to the fact that it faces a pluralist society, a majoritarian Congress, and is highly controversial. H.R. 1380: New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions Act of 2011 seeks to decrease the effects of human pollution on the environment by amending the internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage investment and job creation in the alternative energy industry. H.R. 1380 would...
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...The Importance of Research and Development (R&D) for U.S. Competitiveness and a Clean Energy Future Michael Greenstone June 2011 CEEPR WP 2011-010 A Joint Center of the Department of Economics, MIT Energy Initiative and MIT Sloan School of Management. The Importance of Research and Development (R&D) for U.S. Competitiveness and a Clean Energy Future Michael Greenstone 3M Professor of Economics, MIT Director, The Hamilton Project Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution Thank you Chair Maloney, Ranking Member Brownback and members of the Committee for inviting me to testify today. I believe it is critically important that we give greater priority to new and better research and development (R&D) investments, to help ensure our country’s future competitiveness and to pave the wave for clean energy innovation. I am grateful for the opportunity to speak today about two interrelated challenges that our country faces. The first is the stagnation in economic opportunity for many families that dates back at least three decades. The second is the economic, national security, and environmental risks posed by our continued reliance on fossil fuels. The key purpose of my testimony is to discuss how R&D can enable us to begin confronting these dual challenges by creating new jobs for American workers, and fundamentally altering the way we produce and consume energy. I. CHALLENGE 1: UNITED STATES COMPETITIVENESS Even before the Great Recession’s arrival, there were legitimate concerns about...
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...solutions that the United States could implement in the short run, and especially in the long run as well. The idea of domestic drilling, along with natural gas, and plug-in hybrids are definitely worthwhile options to look at for an alternate solution to the dilemma of oil consumption. While some may argue that these other sources are not consistent enough or wouldn’t be efficient resources for alternative energy, there is enough evidence supporting claims to the contrary In financing research projects exploring alternative energy, the U.S. would easily be able to use all of those resources of energy to remove our dependence on foreign oil consumption. On average, the U.S. spends about one billion dollars per day on foreign oil. That adds up to be thirty billion on average per month, and over three hundred and sixty billion annually. This is a gross and unnecessary expense for the United States. This problem could begin to be solved by use of a nation’s own natural resources which would decrease our dependence on foreign oil, and use the savings for more imperative energy resources which would be better for the U.S. economy and better for the environment. An Alternative to Foreign Oil Introduction Issue Statement The purpose of this report...
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...of EIR Volume 4, Number 19, May 10, 1977 ENERGY Watergate In A New Persp-ective Richard Nixon/s Energy Policy To convince especially Republicans to rally behind the tion spokesmen and press conduits are claiming that Car ter's program is really "a more developed version" of Nixon's energy policies. The key difference now, goes the Carter Administration's anti-energy policy, Administra Nixon officially ended the method of market demand pro rating of the federal off-shore leases, which immediately opened up the offshore areas for massive exploration and production. The independents had publicly been demand ing this action; Atlantic Richfield and Phillips Petroleum had just testified to the Senate Interior Committee on the dependents with new oil reserves. Nixon backed up his action with an Interior Department report which estima. ted potential offshore reserves of oil at 200 billion barrels and 850 trillion cubic feet of gas. Such a large amount of oil in the hands of the indepen dents threatened Rockefeller control over oil supplies, as immediately after Nixon's action, well as threatening to bring down world prices. Almost environmentalist necessity of expanding offshore drilling to provide the in I line, is that Carter, an able strong leader, will be able to implement the program that the incompetent, crooked Nixion could not. James Schlesinger's assistants are leaking to reporters that "President Carter's energy pro gram is the product of intense secretive...
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...American International Journal of Contemporary Research Vol. 4 No. 1; January 2014 Kenya’s Social Development Proposals and Challenges: Review of Kenya Vision 2030 First Medium-Term Plan, 2008-2012 Ezekiel Mbitha Mwenzwa Department of Social Sciences Karatina University P. O. Box 1951, Karatina, Kenya. Joseph Akuma Misati Department of Sociology Maasai Mara University P. O. Box 861 20500, Narok, Kenya. Abstract Kenya faces several development challenges including poverty, disease, unemployment, negative civic engagement among others. The development bottlenecks worsened following the introduction of the IMF/World Bank-propelled Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) of the late 1970s and early 1980s. While the SAPs had envisaged benefits, they largely became part of the problem rather than the solution to development in Kenya. Accompanying these were negative civic engagements, particularly, ethnic conflict and political maladministration especially after the re-introduction of multiparty politics in the early 1990s. These drawbacks notwithstanding, development planning went on culminating in the Economic Recovery Strategy for Wealth and Employment Creation (ERSWEC) 2003-2007 in 2002 and its successor, the Kenya Vision 2030 in 2007. While the former was implemented, the latter is on course with the First Five Year Medium-Term Plan running from 2008 to 2012 recently concluded. The blueprint is driven by three pillars, namely; The economic, social and...
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...America and the world’s 10thlargest economy. * The country is open to and encourages foreign investment by implementing investor-friendly policies. The country is one of the world’s leading destinations for foreign direct investment. * Brazil is the fourth biggest producer of gold in the world. It has abundant reserves of natural resources and many regions are still unexplored which make the country an attractive location for mine development. * Brazil has an established Civil Law system and a modern mining legislation. * The country is a green energy leader, renewable energy supplying nearly 45% of the country’s energy needs. * Expanding into Brazil will allow Newmont to reinforce its presence in South America where its competitors are already well established. PESTEL Analysis Political Type: Federative republic (with 26 states and a federal district) Independence: September 7, 1822. Constitution: Promulgated October 5, 1988. Branches: Executive–president (chief of state and head of government popularly elected to no more than two 4-year terms). Legislative–Senate (81 members popularly elected to staggered 8-year terms), Chamber of Deputies (513 members popularly elected to 4-year terms). Judicial–Supreme Federal Tribunal (11 lifetime positions appointed by the president). Political parties: Workers’ Party (PT-center-left), Democrats (DEM-center-right), Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB-center) , Brazilian Social Democratic...
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...environment and leaders in the struggle to eradicate poverty. The history of green washing begins with research of environmentalist Jay Westerveld in 1986, in an essay regarding the hotel industry’s practice of placing green placards in each room, promoting reuse of guest-towels, ostensibly to “save the environment. Energy sector represents “biomass, coal, electricity, geothermal energy, hydrogen, hydropower, natural gas, nuclear power, petroleum, solar power, and power wind”, companies involved in generating energy. In this research paper, main focus is analyzing major energy industry components such as Petroleum industry, Nuclear power industry and Coal power industry, in order to explore the related Green Washing phenomenon. As an example for green washing, “Australian Federal Government’s Green Washing Campaign of nuclear power as a “clean” energy source and as the primary solution to reduce Australia’s green house emissions”, analyzed in this research. As an example in coal industry “ the clean coal” campaign recognized and analyzed as an green washing propaganda done by both government and private corporations. In petroleum industry, green washing occurs in two ways such as marketing campaign and research contributions. BP’s Beyond petroleum, and Chevrons “people do” advertising campaigns recognized as a green washing attempts and analyzed. Also ten chosen research agreements between corporations and universities is...
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...Research suggests that solar energy is the best option for sustainable energy in this country because it generates clean, reliable electricity, it helps the economy, and it contributes to reducing the environmental impact generated by other energy sources Ricardo Araujo Westerns Governors University Energy production and usage continue to pose significant environmental challenges. Various administrative organizations have established various mechanisms through which environmental protection can get achieved (Growing Significance of Renewable Energy (Presentation), 2007). The threat emerges from the continuous usage of fossil fuels such as petrol and diesel that produce large amounts of emissions. Factories, households, transportation and offices continue to depend on fossil fuels as their primary source of energy for heating, lighting and other uses. The practice carries on despite the fact that they individual have the knowledge of the effects of the emissions that come from the fossil fuels. On the contrary, Craddock (2008) points out that individual choose to ignore the campaigns carried out by environmental safeguard activists across the world. As a result, the mitigation processes have had a slow but progressive response in the adoption of clean energy by various institutions across the globe. One of the focuses of the source of clean energy is solar power. The adoption of source of energy would significantly decrease the levels of global warming and ultimately,...
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...FAR EASTERN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF TOURISM AND HOTEL MANAGEMENT “Tourism Development Plan: National Library of the Philippines” – Nation’s Literature’s Shelter Beautification A Thesis Proposal Presented to the Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management (ITHM) Far Eastern University (FEU) – Manila In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements for Tourism Planning and Development (TPAD) __________ By Baladad, Arlou Belle P. Celestial, Danisse Ann P. Fabros, Jeric Neil V. Huang, Ya-Hui E. Opinaldo, Cathleen Karla L. Platino, Shane Marienette M. “Tourism Development Plan: National Library of the Philippines” – Nation’s Literature’s Shelter Beautification 1 FAR EASTERN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF TOURISM AND HOTEL MANAGEMENT October 2014 Vision and Mission The modernity of National Library of the Philippines tends to adapt to rapid global technological advances and catch up with other modernized libraries elsewhere, and its American style of architecture which upholds the sophistication makes visitors feel like passing through the history since it was established in American colonial period. National Library of the Philippines aims to provide a comfortable learning ambiance for visitors, upgrade most of the facilities to look more authentic, and enhance the creativity of facility design that can seem somehow distinct from other libraries while upholding the historical spirit within its structural design at the same time. “Tourism Development...
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...Date: 10:00 a.m. central time, April 24, 2013 Location: ernest N. Morial convention center, 900 convention center Blvd., New orleans, lA 70130 March 13, 2013 Dear Shareowners: You are invited to attend General Electric Company’s 2013 Annual Meeting of Shareowners to be held at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, 900 Convention Center Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70130, on April 24, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. Central Time. Following a report on GE’s business operations, shareowners will vote: • to elect the directors named in the proxy statement for the coming year; • to approve our named executives’ compensation in an advisory vote; • to ratify the selection of our independent registered public accounting firm for 2013; and • on the shareowner proposals set forth on pages 44 through 49, if properly presented at the meeting. Shareowners also will transact any other business that may properly come before the meeting. You are eligible to vote if you were a shareowner of record at the close of business on February 25, 2013. Please ensure that your shares are represented at the meeting by promptly voting and submitting your proxy by telephone or the Internet, or by completing, signing, dating and returning your proxy form in the enclosed envelope. If you plan to attend the meeting, please follow the advance registration instructions under “Information about Attending the 2013 Annual Meeting and Advance Registration” on page 51 and watch for an admission card in the mail. You will need this...
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...Globalization ,Education and Japan Ikuo ISOZAKI(Dr. & Prof.) Chiba University,JAPAN Introduction The word “globalization” is the buzzword of the moment. Similar to the word “democracy”, it could be one of those words that become more ambiguous in meaning as they are more widely used. Globalization, however, is not too difficult a word to understand when we interpret it as a phenomenon where goods, people, information and services are now more easily coming together over national boundaries. Behind globalization, no doubt, is rapid technological innovation. The idea is that globalization is dramatically making our globe smaller, our spectrum wider and our various networks larger. Some people argue that there are downfalls however, including flooding information and heightening psychological insecurity from various types of inequality. We are required to face globalization while fully understanding the positives and negatives of globalization. Globalization is likely impacting not only on how economies work, but also on what a state actually is. For example, some experts maintain that the function of a state is diminished by globalization and forced to focus efforts on localization and regionalization. I would like to examine from various aspects how globalization influences states,and public policies, especially on the educational policy by taking Japan as an example...
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...The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) was signed into law on 17 February, 2009. The Recovery Act was a never seen before effort to stimulate our economy and alleviate the effects of the recession. The Act was an enormous response to an economic crisis/condition not experienced by this country since the Great Depression and included efforts to modernize the nation’s infrastructure, improve energy independence, and stimulate economic growth. The Recovery Act in itself is an admirable effort, however, the ultra dependence on the government procurement/contracting community to implement large chucks of the legislation and has brought tremendous challenges (through new rules and laws) into the area of contract administration. The burdens of the Recovery Act have been enormous for the contract community because of the enormous oversight required of the funds and contracts associated with the Recovery Act itself. Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) should never have been burdened with these extensive responsibilities The purpose of the Recovery Act as stated earlier was and is to stimulate the economy through the creation and retention of jobs at the local, state, and national levels. However, instead of the monies being allocated to the states or to responsible agencies to allocate, the federal government (executive office) chose to use the federal contracting process to utilize and expend the funds. On the surface it would appear the federal...
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...Argument for Animal Rights Ever since the society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in England in 1824 was formed, there have been long running debates on the topic of animal rights. The first societies were formed to protect and maintain humane treatment of work animals, such as horses, cattle, and house hold pets. Towards the end of the nineteenth century more organizations were formed, this time to protest the use of animals in scientific experimentation. Today groups such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have continued these traditional fights as well as adding new agendas. "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; The Declaration of Independence holds these rights to be self evident and unalienable. In the eighteenth century when these words were written they were called natural rights, today we call them human rights" (McShea, 34). The issue of whether or not to grant animals rights such as those humans retain, is a greatly disputed issue. Animal right is an extremely intricate issue that involves the question of animal farming, animal experimentation, and animal activists. There are not many happy farmers milking their cows on the farm anymore; this is the food industry; it is dirty; it is unsafe, and it is a massacre of innocent animals. Cows, chickens, pigs, and other animals processed into food are not kept on a farm; they are crowded into pens and cages that are too small to even allow the animal to turn around (Krizmanic,...
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...years, Congress introduces a multi-billion dollar bill that affects all Americans. This legislation has come to be known as the Farm bill, and this year’s is quite possibly the most scrutinized, criticized, and important farm bill that has ever been introduced. So, the question arises: “Why is the farm bill such a controversial issue?” Dan Imhoff answers, “If you eat, pay taxes, care about the nutritional values of school lunches, worry about the plight of biodiversity or the loss of farmland and shrinking open space, you have a personal stake in the tens of billions of dollars annually committed to agricultural and food policies” (18). Now the controversy and social problems—as seen by each side—are introduced. The Farm bill is responsible for funding numerous food related programs, such as subsidies, the food stamp program, and also the farmer’s safety net, to name just a few. Where this money goes and how it is spent reflects what the United States values, and what it is defining as a social problem. Some supporters of this bill maintain that this bill provides financial security not only to agriculturalists but also to consumers as well. They believe that this bill promotes an increased emphasis on of conservation, and that it also encourages efforts to explore the merits of bioenergy. The value placed on conservation, cleaner, more efficient energy sources, and the financial protection of American citizens is paramount to most supporters of the 2007 Farm Bill. Proponents...
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