unsustainable course with technology team 1
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Life
u Graduate college and get a job
u Family/Friends Social Life: 3rd of 6 kids. Make new friends
u Occupation: become a nuclear engineer
u Recreation: Enjoy playing soccer
u Political Life: none
Electronic Waste (E Waste)
u E waste are electronics near the end of their “use Life”
u 80 to 85 percent of electronic products were discarded in landfills or incinerators
u Only 12.5 percent of e-waste is currently recycled
u Americans dump phones containing over $60 million in gold/silver every year.
u Recycling 1 million laptops saves the energy equivalent to the electricity used by 3,657 U.S. homes in a year.
Life
u Personal: Always wish to be remembered as a kind person. Do good and good will be done to you. I love helping people, I think it is the most fulfilling thing someone can do.
u Social: My family is my inspiration. They encourage me to do whatever it is I want to do. They believe in me. My friends are what keep me going.
u Work: I hope to get a job designing orthotics and prosthetics and to think of new, innovative ways to improve them.
u Recreation: I love sports. I love being active and exercise relaxes me more than anything. It is important to me to keep activity in my life always.
Lack of Natural Resources
u •People are only concerned with what happens in the present
u •We are not looking at the bigger picture
u •Demand continues to rise year after year, but the supply is constrained
u •Water is declining in availability, especially in places in India and African nations
u •Due to continued growth of the global population and economy, the demand for natural resources provided by Planet Earth is rapidly increasing
Lack of Natural Resources Continued
u They are being exploited without any bounds
u Extraction process itself is damaging, but the transportation of these resources is just as harmful
u Long distance transportation
u Processing
life
u 1. To be a good person and make as many other people’s lives better as possible
u 2. To have a long lasting relationship with the people who are willing to stick around
u 3. To have a shack on the beach or a cabin in the woods
u 4. Become an industrial engineer
u 5. Skiing, pottery, drawing
u 6. Don’t care much for politics
Automobiles
u 1. Air Pollution
u - December 1970 US reported 89.9 billion miles traveled by vehicle in 2011 US reported 246.3 trillion miles traveled by car
u -more than half of the air pollution is caused by cars
u -greenhouse gases destroying the ozone layer
u -acid rain from particles in air that car emissions give off
u 2. Fluid pollution
u -when fluids leak out of cars they can be damaging to the environment when they soak into the soil or find their ways to our sources of water
sources
u http://homeguides.sfgate.com/car-pollution-affect-environment-ozone-layer-79358.html
u http://www.adeq.state.ar.us/air/ozone/cars.htm
Life Ebrahim Almazrouei u Personl: I’d like to be healthy, successful and do whatever comes to my mind
and achieve my dreams
u Social : I’m very close to my friends and family
u Work / occupation :
u ATIC (Advanced Technology Investment Company)
u Recreation: Enjoying my life, soccer, camping, etc
u Political: to be active
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