Reading about Blue Planet Hawaii, I learned a lot of stuff that can benefit the state of Hawaii in the future. Blue Planet Hawaii is starting up a foundation to help save good energy and supplies as much as they can. In this website I see that they show many different types of energy technology that could be used towards the better of our future. I learned how to measure energy, and exactly what the numbers in this signify. "Rigorous definitions of power and energy can be somewhat difficult to present and understand, but a very simple automotive metaphor actually describes these concepts quite clearly in a way that is sufficient for our purposes here: power is the size of your engine and energy is the size of your gas tank." This is very interesting to me because it is very easy to understand.
Another thing that I learned was that the basic unit of electrical power is the watt and virtually all electrical products such as computer and light bulbs. and these are all clearly labeled to how much electrical power they require for operation. In this website there is a lot of useful information that I could take towards my life and bring it to the environment that I live in. And living in Hawaii for about two years, I see the diversity of alternative energy. “I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait ‘til oil and coal run out before we tackle that.” --Thomas Edison (1847–1931) this is a very important quote that I read and I thought this is a good way to spend money. We need to save our energy for the future because one day we might just run out.
Overall, reading about the Blue Planet Hawaii got me thinking about not only my future but the future to where we live. It is good to care about the environment and where we live and save the resources that we have to live better. We have to be cautious in the way we live our lives and not waist what we have in bad ways. After looking at this website I will try my best to help out any way I can, and for a start, I decided to make a donation to the Blue Planet Hawaii.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Monday, September 13, 2010
Bryan Ngo "After the Crash"
After seeing this crash course this really changes my view to modify my intended behavior change by being more aware about what is happening in our world today and being more cautious on things I can do to help in any way possible because I feel in our future something drastic will happen if there isn't a change and I find it interesting that we have the technology to better our future but we don't apply them fast enough to do so. In that case changing for the better of our futures is a definite start to solving this problem. Since massive change is upon us, I think all of us need change in our lives such as saving as much resources as we can such as the economy, energy, and environment. And when I think about this, first thing that comes to mind is "recycle" that is one of the most important things to me and it is something I do everyday and try to help as much as I can. If you think about it, it is not hard at all to recycle, all you have to do after you are done with something that you know is something you can be useful, just recycle it, also, you can make some extra cash by doing so. Another big thing about this is saving our energy, in our society, it seems like energy is not being used wisely, and I feel people who have a lot of money and are very wealthy they do not care about saving for the future and just because they have lots of it, they just use it as they please, and with me I try to save as much energy as possible because you never know when that time will come when we are going to need materials after seeing all these drastic times happening all over the world such as New Orleans, Haiti, and even the 911 incident. I just feel people have to be more aware of certain situations and something I learned by taking this crash course.
With the population growing over time, it is beginning to be more important on how we live our lives to better our future. The way I look at it is that there is just so much this earth we live on can take, and there are just so much material that have that could last us forever, and to me, I feel one day no matter what that there will be no more materials left for mankind, but I feel it is up to us as human beings to figure out how long we want our earth to live, I am not saying that this is going to happen soon, I am just saying being prepared for whatever happens is better, especially for generations to come, so our future families can live as good as all of us did. With having to do deal with money, I thought fractional reverse banking was very interesting in how the way it works. With the whole depositing money and having it loaned out to make more money, this really made me learn something, I thought it was weird that if everyone wanted to take out there own money at the same time, it could not be possible because the bank wouldn't have the money because they are allowed to loan out 90% of what you put in. Knowing that, that brings me to believe that, Is my money really safe in the bank? As of right now, yes it is but one day this could be a problem.
This brings up the whole society not saving money towards our future and leading to bankruptcy. With dept, savings, assets, demographics, peak oil, and climate change any one of these can prove economically challenging. I thought it was interesting on the percentage of savings people save all over the world, and in the United States, I thought it was pretty low with less than 10% was saved and in China about 30% was saved and not spent. I believe saving whatever you have, whether it is money, energy, reused materials is always a good idea because you will never know when you will need more of it. I remember when I was 17 years old for a whole year until I was 18 I saved up spare change and put it in this big water jug and then cracked it open because I needed the money for something very important and what came out of it was over 1000 dollars of basically change that I could gather up everyday, I really thought that was amazing. Although after I saved, I never ended up saving like that again, but after taking this crash course I remembered the importance of saving and I want to start doing this again.
After taking this crash course I feel what we should do is entirely up to us. Anyone can talk about what as individuals we can do to help ourselves and our futures as human beings, but it is better to take action for the better. taking this course made me realize a lot of things, and makes me want to better myself as a person to be successful and be more aware about different things, and also help as much as I can and find others that will also do the same.
With the population growing over time, it is beginning to be more important on how we live our lives to better our future. The way I look at it is that there is just so much this earth we live on can take, and there are just so much material that have that could last us forever, and to me, I feel one day no matter what that there will be no more materials left for mankind, but I feel it is up to us as human beings to figure out how long we want our earth to live, I am not saying that this is going to happen soon, I am just saying being prepared for whatever happens is better, especially for generations to come, so our future families can live as good as all of us did. With having to do deal with money, I thought fractional reverse banking was very interesting in how the way it works. With the whole depositing money and having it loaned out to make more money, this really made me learn something, I thought it was weird that if everyone wanted to take out there own money at the same time, it could not be possible because the bank wouldn't have the money because they are allowed to loan out 90% of what you put in. Knowing that, that brings me to believe that, Is my money really safe in the bank? As of right now, yes it is but one day this could be a problem.
This brings up the whole society not saving money towards our future and leading to bankruptcy. With dept, savings, assets, demographics, peak oil, and climate change any one of these can prove economically challenging. I thought it was interesting on the percentage of savings people save all over the world, and in the United States, I thought it was pretty low with less than 10% was saved and in China about 30% was saved and not spent. I believe saving whatever you have, whether it is money, energy, reused materials is always a good idea because you will never know when you will need more of it. I remember when I was 17 years old for a whole year until I was 18 I saved up spare change and put it in this big water jug and then cracked it open because I needed the money for something very important and what came out of it was over 1000 dollars of basically change that I could gather up everyday, I really thought that was amazing. Although after I saved, I never ended up saving like that again, but after taking this crash course I remembered the importance of saving and I want to start doing this again.
After taking this crash course I feel what we should do is entirely up to us. Anyone can talk about what as individuals we can do to help ourselves and our futures as human beings, but it is better to take action for the better. taking this course made me realize a lot of things, and makes me want to better myself as a person to be successful and be more aware about different things, and also help as much as I can and find others that will also do the same.
Bryan Ngo's "About Me"
Hi, my name is Bryan Ngo and I am a 22 year senior and this is my final semester at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. I am from San Jose California and my first year at Hilo was in 2008 and the reason why I went here because I was offered a full scholarship to play basketball for this school, so it was an opportunity I just could not refuse. Before UH Hilo I was at a Junior in San Bruno California, which is about an hour away from my home so to go to the school I had to move out to make it easier on myself to play basketball and do as good as I could do in school. So straight out of high school I had to move out and to be honest I was really nervous about this whole situation but it was something I just had to do. But after going through this I can say it was the best thing for me at the time and I would not have changed anything. Throughout high school I was never really a good student in the classroom, I would always just do what it takes just to get by, I can't say I did not try throughout high school, but I think it was just difficult for me even though I could have done better. And when I got to this junior college I did not know what to expect, but I knew it was going to be harder then high school. So my first semester I ended up getting all C's which I was not proud of at all because I felt I did way better then that and after my coach saw how I did he told me that was not going to cut it, he said I'm going to need to try harder and I really felt the same. So the next semester I tried harder in everything I did and the following semester I made the Dean's list which I was so proud of because I've never done that before. And so following that semester I kept that up the next year and I graduated with a 3.4 gpa and ended up getting my Associates Degree which I was so proud of.
So after a very successful year at Skyline junior college, I transferred here at the University of Hawaii at Hilo where I earned a full scholarship to play basketball. And right now I am trying to finish up and earn my degree in communications. But I can say my overall experience was unforgettable because of the fact I got to go to school for free in Hawaii and do what I love to do most is play basketball. During my time here I got to see the most beautiful places, places I thought I would never see by this age. I have been to Kona, Hilo, Honolulu, and I have been to Maui and each place is beautiful in its own way. And I also got to see other states because of traveling with basketball, I've been to Oregon, Washington, Denver, Utah, and all over California because of basketball. I truly can say I enjoyed myself during my two years out there, and I also the people in Hilo treated me very good, I will always remember that. So since this is my final semester of school and I get my degree, and to be honest, I do not know where to go from there, I am at a point in my life where before this, I've been playing basketball and going to school full time and really taking it serious for the past 10 years of my life, and it is going to finally be over. Yes, I am looking forward to what the future has in stored for me, but I am really not ready for that. I really miss those days hanging with my teammates and friends, traveling on airplanes and vans to go to places I have never been before. I am going to miss everything, but one day I am going to look back at it when I get older and say I got to go to school in Hawaii and got to have the time of my life.
My relationship with sustainability is pretty good because I have always been aware of the environment and always cared about what was going on earth. So I try to do what little I can to save our materials so people many years from now can have the same. So recycling is something I do to help, and anything else I could I am very open and would like to help in any way necessary.
From this class I hope to learn a lot more of Sustainability and other ways I can be more apart of this movement and help in other ways. I think this is very important for futures and families and will need the learning ability to know what is going on.
So after a very successful year at Skyline junior college, I transferred here at the University of Hawaii at Hilo where I earned a full scholarship to play basketball. And right now I am trying to finish up and earn my degree in communications. But I can say my overall experience was unforgettable because of the fact I got to go to school for free in Hawaii and do what I love to do most is play basketball. During my time here I got to see the most beautiful places, places I thought I would never see by this age. I have been to Kona, Hilo, Honolulu, and I have been to Maui and each place is beautiful in its own way. And I also got to see other states because of traveling with basketball, I've been to Oregon, Washington, Denver, Utah, and all over California because of basketball. I truly can say I enjoyed myself during my two years out there, and I also the people in Hilo treated me very good, I will always remember that. So since this is my final semester of school and I get my degree, and to be honest, I do not know where to go from there, I am at a point in my life where before this, I've been playing basketball and going to school full time and really taking it serious for the past 10 years of my life, and it is going to finally be over. Yes, I am looking forward to what the future has in stored for me, but I am really not ready for that. I really miss those days hanging with my teammates and friends, traveling on airplanes and vans to go to places I have never been before. I am going to miss everything, but one day I am going to look back at it when I get older and say I got to go to school in Hawaii and got to have the time of my life.
My relationship with sustainability is pretty good because I have always been aware of the environment and always cared about what was going on earth. So I try to do what little I can to save our materials so people many years from now can have the same. So recycling is something I do to help, and anything else I could I am very open and would like to help in any way necessary.
From this class I hope to learn a lot more of Sustainability and other ways I can be more apart of this movement and help in other ways. I think this is very important for futures and families and will need the learning ability to know what is going on.
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