Could you do me a big favour?

Obsessedwski

Obsessedwski

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I entered an essay contest with a proposing for a practical plan to act on sustainability in BC. You have to sign up, but I'd appreciate it if you could take a bit of time out of your day and help me out. Half of the $2000 I could win is going towards my school, to support our Student Sustainability Committee. The other half will go towards paying for my education.

You can read and vote for my essay here: http://www.inventthefuture.ca/essays.php

Mine is the one by Daichi Ishikawa, "The Next Steps in our Society's Journey to a Sustainable Future".

Thanks guys, I really appreciate it.
 
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grassroots initiatives are always kind of depressing though, as it seems like every baby step you could feasibly make in the right direction society takes two big steps back. centralization of energy within a community via solar and geothermal sources is awesome, but at the same time our government exports the majority of our energy (specifically hydro) to california and imports it back due to resulting deficits (and proposition 23 stands to make it even worse). what i mean to say is, if we manage to get our energy locally from more green sources our government will (and did) respond by producing the same amount of energy from our current sources and profit greatly from the increased exports which could arguably have an even worse environmental toll. actually not even arguably its way worse

if there is energy abound there is money to be made and if there is money to be made someone is going to take advantage of it, we gotta form some kind of all powerful student sustainability committee that can revamp capitalism to reflect environmental costs :(

 
Albatross, that's a really interesting point that I hadn't thought of before. I think what it really comes down to now, is that we have the awareness and the will to act, and so we need to start thinking about how we're going to build an economy around it.

The oil and automotive indstry did this extremely well, and now we have to appy the same concept to grassroots initiatives. There are ways to profit off improving the world, it just tends to involve more thought and creativity. Thanks for the insight, I'll definitely consider incorporating that somehow in the future. Might be cool to do a project for it in University, perhaps a thesis for an economics major?

Thanks for all the votes guys, I'm in the top 5 now!

 
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