Midterm Report Clarification

The few posts below contain the information required for the midterm report. The few last posts refer to the beginning stages of research in our project of hybrid cars. I cover the sociological aspects of hybrid cars by focusing on societies around the world with the introduction of hybrid cars and their reaction to such a dramatic change. I will examine why our society has not become more open to the possibility of hybrid cars and how they could be advertised effectively to cause families to actually go through with buying energy efficient vehicles. 

I finished examining my carbon footprint a few posts down, under the post titled "Carbon Footprint Investigation" because it was easier to just re-edit the post under the websites that I had previously posted. 

An interesting side note: This weekend I went to NYU to visit a few of my friends, and on Friday night I had the opportunity to accompany my boyfriend on a tour around the city about Freeganism for his sociology class. We dug through trash bags and found so much packaged food that was perfectly fine. Many stores are required to throw away their extra food, even if the food is fresh or just made that day. We found a bunch of plastic containers of packaged sushi. The woman leading us on the tour, who was a freegan, pointed out to us that not only is a considerable amount of food wasted, but a considerable amount of plastic is wasted in the process as well. Its interesting because this is something that many people don't even realize. I feel like this is a huge hidden/unacknowledged problem relating to the environmental issues of our day.