Various Articles from Class

article website: 

http://blackboard.gwu.edu:80/courses/1/55612_200803/db/_1418992_1/SciAmSept2005.pdf?bsession=31202156&bsession_str=session_id=31202156,user_id_pk1=232976,user_id_sos_id_pk2=1,one_time_token=More 

Profit with Less Carbon: (p.74)

Tawaiin-heating more eco-friendly

-long term investment

-will need to overcome conventional ideas in order to create more of an eco-friendly atmosphere

-suggests that it can appeal to the consumer...can offset the costs in other areas

-ex-Pentagon-green windows-energy efficient-saves a lot of money

-BUT, need to invest money to redesign energy system

-graph on page 82-proves that its possible to be free of oil energy

-"clean coal?" many argue that this is the way to go, but page 77 refutes, shows diagram of coal power plant, shows it to be inefficient, and only yields 9.5 percent of energy in the end

-article tries to argue that being eco-friendly is beneficial to companies for fiscal reason

-needs to be a combo of energy sources to become more eco-friendly and more efficient, can make a huge difference

-group feels that this seems like a good market to exploit, surprised that more companies haven't taken advantage of this. It makes you wonder...companies in some kind of conspiracy against us? Why have the miles per gallon standards not changed...it makes you wonder whether Exxon and Ford, for example, are not in some sort of an alliance.

Can Extreme Poverty be Eliminated? (p. 56)

-debunks myths about poverty

-attempts to convince readers that elimination of poverty is not naive, ex; America not doing as much as you would think. First world countries use only about 7 percent of GNP.

-average of 110 dollars per person needed to eliminate poverty

-poor people sometimes don't have a way to get out of poverty, born into it or just way too poor to ever climb up of the hole that their in. Many lack the education which would allow them to compete for jobs that would help their plight. 

-with poverty comes issues with sanitation, lack of clean water which breeds disease

-uses example of China-some of poverty alleviated with the "green revolution" which brought new techniques to irrigation

-this technique hasn't been used in Africa...

Kiva website: http://www.kiva.org/?gclid=CP7Em7j2qZYCFQOjFQodZwn6xw

-suggestion by James, ways to make a difference when it comes to poverty

-people not using globalization as mindset of one human race, 

I have really enjoyed the use of the articles thus far and plan to read further.