Wednesday, January 10, 2007
something about me
It wasn't long into my college education when I decided to major in sustainable development. Ready to fight Sly Sludge and Duke Nukem, I was hoping this major would hand me the costume of Captain Planet. Such idealistic aspirations were fortunately abandoned after discovering that the policies of the Captain himself were actually quite ineffecient. With slightly lower standards, my new goal became spreading the implementation of rooftop gardens in American cities. I have discovered this interest after taking classes like Environmental Studies, Agroecology, Sustainable Transportation, S.D. in MWS, Politics Tech and the Enviro., and hope to gain a lot more information from Sustainable Building Design and Construction which I am currently enrolled in. For my senior project, I am considering constructing a tank to grow algae that will be used to produce biodiesel. we'll see how that goes.
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one day, dude. one day. it sounds like your work with a specific cause with the rooftop gardens will merit the title of capt. planet. good luck with that.
Neat work Ian. I had thought that you were once going to be a psychology major. Am I wrong in that guess? Either way, city planning is easily one of the most important jobs in the world, particularly in rapidly developing societies like China, India, and super-cities like Cairo, Lagos, and others. All these places are growing exponentially and have severe planning problems; poor sewage, rickety housing (concrete buildings and fault-lines DO NOT mix, think Pakistan), terrible traffic, unfinished housing projects, and a host of other urban maladies. So you are embarking on one ambitious and necessary adventure. Good luck.
Isn't biodiesel made with a strong base of yeast?
You should talk to the chemistry department: they are doing a research project on the separation process of creating biodiesel and how they can make it more efficient and cheap. You see our powers are uniting.
-Fire
Thats a pretty great idea man, even if it didn't end up working I think it shows that you really tried to create something new and useful.
don't give up on the Captain Planet aspirations, dreams do come true with the right amount of effort(yes this is heavy on the cheese factor but hey its inspirational right?). Rooftop gardens is a great focus. Gardens simply rock and i would love to have one on my roof one day, ill holler at you!
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