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Energy and Growth

The economic success stories in the developing world—China, India, and Brazil among them—are raising living standards for hundreds of millions of people across the globe. But with this progress has come a voracious appetite for energy that is rapidly re-shaping the worldwide debate over energy production, consumption, and global warming. Closer to home for most Americans are questions of urban sprawl, intelligent metropolitan development and improved quality of life in our nation’s biggest cities.

How do we encourage growth without doing further damage to the atmosphere and our immediate surroundings?
Where are the most innovative ideas being put into practice?
Will U.S. energy reform do any good without significant participation from China, India, and the rest of the developing world?
Where is true “sustainable development” actually happening? Is it happening at all?
How active is your community in promoting sustainable development, and efficient energy usage?

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While there are many economic advantages to a global economy, shipping goods worldwide is not sustainable in the long-run. Moving back to producing things locally is the way to go.

Posted by Marty | September 29, 2008 10:43 AM

The idea of sustainable cities begins with the traditional idea of having everything I need in front of me. If I need something from China or India, I don't actually have to go there and buy it myself, now we have internet that can do it for me. But only those things that I can't do in my country, I should buy it in another country, that's logical. So if we change our way of seen poverty, lack of work, and big companies getting bigger and bigger, and the people getting poor, is because we don't think that all that people can do the same jobs, and we will avoid the idea of keep buying products from other countries, because the workers are cheaper than other countries. Let's think a little bit about the products we buy, that have to travel a very long distance, using lots of different transportations, when we can have those products in our garden.
Is very important to see that transportation became the fastest way of evolution and commerce around the world. But we can control our pollution just thinking what products I can have in front of me, and others that for sure I can't get it in my country.
About using new technologies, is very simple, small cars without oil, sun energy panels in our roofs, transform excrement to gas, recycling rain water for toilets and car washes, designing places where we can use more sun light than electricity, planting more trees for clean the air, stop using paper and use more digital media for education and books, etc, we have lots of ideas to start working NOW. Is our job, and we will make the impossible to achieve those goals.
Thank you.
Sun

Posted by Edward Lee Jones Sun | November 25, 2008 4:23 AM

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