Sustainability In The Community

1. Sustainability is one's ability to maintain a certain state of being without the assistance from outside sources.

2. To the people in the movie that we watched, sustainability means living in the highest of their standards, in that they strive to conserve the earth's resources and consume as little energy and oil as they can to make their lives in the future more stable ones to live.

3. Because the demand for energy has increased dramatically and continues to grow as we speak, this has a detrimental affect on living a sustainable life. The price that we must pay for all the energy that has been wasted away, is that we must conserve, and use less energy than need. There have to be significant, effective changes made if we want to have a stronger, supportable amount of energy left in fifty years from now.

4. Some things these people can do to make their current lives more sustainable is use a different form of transportation, as in carpool, ride a bike, take the bus, or walk. Turning off lights as you leave a room is very helpful as well as unplugging things that are not in use, even if they are used often on a daily basis.

850 Kilowatt Hydroelectric Plant in Manitou

In order to meet state requirements, by the year of 2015, 10 percent of Colorado's power must be from renewable energy sources. On February 17, 2009, Colorado Springs Utilities began building a brand-new 850 kilowatt hydroelectric plant in Manitou Springs, costing up to 4.5 million dollars. Water from a pipeline from Crystal Creek Reservoir on Pikes Peak will be used. There are three other hydroelectric plants in the city, and the newest addition will produce enough electricity to power up to 530 homes. The construction of the building will be completed in the next six months, and Colorado officials are also planning on buying additional wind power to help meet the new standards.

Top Ten and Bottom Ten Green Companies

Top Ten:
1. DuPont
2. BP
3. Bayer
4. BT
5. Alcoa
6. IBM
7. Catalyst Paper
8. STMicroelectronics
9. 3M
10. Iberdrola

Worst Ten:
1. AIG
2. Cargill
3. Cheveron
4. CNPC
5. Constellation Energy Group
6. Dole
7. GE
8. Imperial Sugar
9. Philip Morris International
10. Roche

Top Ten Greenest Cities

1. Portland, Oregon
2. San Francisco, California
3. Boston, Massachusetts
4. Oakland, California
5. Eugene, Oregon
6. Cambridge, Massachusetts
7. Berkeley, California
8. Seattle, Washington
9. Chicago, Illinois
10. Austin, Texas

Do Global Attitudes and Behaviors Support Sustainable Development?

Sustainable development is effected by global attitudes and behavior. Human development causes civilization to have a better opportunity to become sustainable by providing people jobs that benefit its economy. Human development can also, however, increase the spread of disease when a city's people are packed together in any specific area. When asked whether environmental protection is preffered to economic growth, 52% of respondents worldwide agreed that protecting the environment should be top priority, and 74% prefer economic growth. The development of civilization has evolved over thousands of years, and our future will be effected by the development of human nature.