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Me4netFor three years now TheEnergyLadyUK has been blogging about energy issues.
Now, let’s look at a different form of wasted energy.  That is the tremendous amount of energy that teenagers have to expend without upsetting the older generation or giving a bad example to younger children.  Just as their hormones are raging and their brains tend to sink below their belts we shut them in schools.  Well meaning teachers try to convince teenagers that you need to pass exams to get anywhere in life.  Few positive effects there.  It’s often not until the teens reach their mid to late twenties that they realise they could have missed their chances and could be heading for the scrap heap.

Many teens have and always will have unenviable and often ‘nuisance’ life styles.
Lets look at what teenagers like to do.

 Belong to a tribe or team eg. Join a gang, support a sports team, follow a particular music group.

 Try new things eg. The way they dress, dallying with substance abuse.

 Try to shock their elders eg. Dress, alcohol use, smoke, think they invented sex.

 Teens get bored – very easily e.g Hang out on street corners,  use childrens’ play areas that are too small for them. Also heard to say
“I’m bored”

 “They don’t give us anything to do”.  Who are they?  – blank look.

Many teenagers lack confidence, lack imagination, don’t know what goal setting means, have had to grow up with inadequate role models from a young age.

So, What to do?  Throwing money at problems rarely works – the Country is broke anyway.  If it’s not the bankers it’s a war somewhere that drains our cash away.

We need to find something that will –

  Give them an established team to belong to for support and loyalty.

 Allow them to “Be themselves”  during leisure time. Dress as they please and behave as they please within the law.

 Provide social facilities where possible.

 Provide any teaching that may be needed and teach them a trade.

 Feed them a balanced diet.

This seems like paradise.  But, while there is a war somewhere and politicians know they could run that country better, paradise it is not.

I should add here that I am not and never have been a member of a Political Party. I was a secondary school teacher. I have seen substance abuse, poverty, deprivation, violence, homelessness – Mother let his room while he was at school, trauma – child coming into school because there was nowhere else to go after she had seen her father strangle her mother to death. The child blamed herself because she couldn’t remember the number to call.  All this was in the affluent S.E. of the UK in the 1980’s.

Then we wonder why many of our teenagers are a mess!

You will have guessed my answer by now – CONSCRIPTION

Conscription provides the five needs set out above.  So where will the money come from when the Territorials are having their training budget slashed?

Lets make a list of the savings.
 Reduced law and order problems at night due to alchol and   accompanying violence.
 Reduced Social Security Payments
 Reduced National Health time and resources.
 Less damage to others’ property
 Less Local Council costs
 Reduced obesity – comfort eating and lack of cooking skills.
 Reduced pregnancy – The need to be loved without reserve

This my personal opinion and mine only.  It is built from a life time of involvement with and observation of teenagers and their needs in our society.

You are welcome to comment , but any inappropriate posts will be removed.

This is a thought provoking video that you may not have seen.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

You will see that some people do not spare others comments with their opinions.

ecoanne

Carbon trading has been a way for rich countries to buy the right to pollute from the poor countries.  The G8 governments would not agree with this but this is the essence in a nutshell.

Not happy with this, we are likely to have to face this in our own neighbourhoods.  I can envisage  ’Shower Police’ knock ing at my door instead of Mormons.  Shower Police would inspect home to check if the bath had been used when you have traded X Litres of water. Well now, before the police knock on my door,  I’m signing off -  for good.

When I started this blog people  didn’t believe that Climate Change was happening.  That has changed so I shall find a happy topic to blog about.  So it’s good bye and good luck to the thousands of you who have visited my blog.

This is the heading given by EDF to their latest article on their New Look Site.  If you are young and an idealist or know somebody who is,  please continue to read about the Climate Corps.

 

 Dear Friend,

Pledge to green your place of work.
16 green office tips to get you started.
Meet the 2009 Climate Corps team.
I have the best job in the world placing young and idealistic business students with companies who are looking for new ways to make their operations more efficient and save energy.

We call it Climate Corps. Each student undergoes intensive training and then spends 10 weeks analyzing efficiency investments for their corporate host companies.

Everybody wins. The students gain valuable knowledge that could never come from a textbook, and the companies get money-saving investment plans for greening their operations.

This is the second of three profiles from among this year’s Climate Corps success stories:

 Meet Carin Giga

MEET CARIN GIGA

AGE: 28

HOMETOWN: Northern Virginia

PERSONAL HEROES: “I have had a number of mentors that have really encouraged me along the way to think about what I really want to do and pursue exactly that…[without them] I don’t t think I would have ended up where I am today.”

SCHOOL: Rice University

INTERNSHIP: Houston Rockets and their home in the Toyota Center of Houston, Texas

CAREER AMBITION: “I am not entirely sure where my path will lead from here. I am sincerely interested in corporate social responsibility and finding ways to support sustainable growth”

 

The Powerful Combo of Experience and Passion
Carin Giga, an MBA student with a passion for architecture and the environment, found a way to blend her MBA experience and her passions in her role as Climate Corps intern for the Houston Rockets and the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas.

Giga: “I have been really interested in the concept of green building design and the new technologies that are coming to the market place regarding alternative energy and energy efficiency…I really needed to get some real world, hands-on experience in green building or energy efficiency or sustainability, and the Climate Corps program really is unrivalled in the way that they put MBA students, most of us having no prior engineering or architectural background, in those real world situations that companies have – with real obstacles, real problems they are trying to solve, and real dollars to spend on projects that they have to allocate wisely.”

With the full support and enthusiasm of the Toyota Center staff and management, Giga set out to help the building in its LEED certification application process by identifying low cost, no cost, and capital investment opportunities for greater energy efficiency.

Giga: “HVAC…Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning…that was my primary target because that was the greatest consumer of electricity. I also focused my efforts on the exterior windows of the building and the opportunity to reduce solar heat gain, lighting systems throughout the building, the use of office equipment – particularly in the corporate administration…so in diving into those few areas we came up with six project opportunities that were fully analyzed both in terms of financial impact and climate impact.”

One of Giga’s major successes was the continuation of a project to install occupancy sensors in all offices, restrooms, conference rooms and stairwells in order to minimize unnecessary lighting.

Giga: “Together, all of these occupancy sensor projects will save 54,637 kWh annually. At Toyota Center’s current electricity rate, that equates to $4,025 in cost savings each year.”

Giga has also proposed a retrofitting of the air handling system in the Toyota Center’s arena bowl that, when completed, will save nearly $30,000 and 428,000 kWh annually. But, it wasn’t just the Toyota Center that benefited this summer.

Giga: “This experience is better than any classroom case study we could have ever worked on…this internship gives me the ability to think about energy efficiency in whatever I am doing, and the ability to work with colleagues and clients while perhaps feeling confident in talking to them about these issues. This is definitely something I will be able to apply for many years.”

What’s more, Giga found her fellow Climate Corps interns to be invaluable resources and a whole lot of fun to interact with.

Giga: “I can’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve collaborated and sought advice from other interns over the course of my internship. We have all been so committed to knowledge sharing and collaboration that we will walk away with a really close network of other people who are interested in the same ideas.”

Now it’s your turn.

Every year through its Climate Corps Program, EDF sends eager students to work inside corporate America to help find practical and workable ways to bring about a clean energy revolution.

We hope you’ll be inspired by their stories, and we hope you’ll turn your inspiration into action.

We ask you to take a simple pledge, to explore ways to green up your own workplace.

And we’ll help with 16 concrete practical tips.

Through your actions, you’ll join the 2009 Climate Corps interns in transforming our economy and saving the planet one practical step at a time.

Sincerely,
Millie Chu Baird
Project Manager
 
 Environmental Defense Fund
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Washington, DC 20009
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ScienceDaily () — Mechanical and electrical engineers at DaimlerChrysler, General Motors and BMW have jointly developed a hybrid-vehicle technology that shuts the internal combustion engine off when the vehicle stops. Meanwhile, engineers are working to replace the platinum in fuel cells with cheaper materials, which could lead to viable hydrogen cars.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2006/1004-cars_of_tomorrow.htm#

 
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Thanks to President Obama and Prince Charles the World now acknowledges climate change. So, I’m changing direction from ‘evidence’ to ‘action’. Watch this space!!

It’s raining, it’s pouring, the old man’s snoring……..

I’m in the East Riding of Yorkshire.  Untill this afternoon

 our soil was parched and rain butt nearly empty.  I seem

 to remember a warning of a hot summer this year.  As we

 sit here shivering we must remember this is Global Warming!

Now that our US friends have had a change of president and

 people are allowed to acknowledge climate change, I’m going

 to try to lighten up this blog .  Anyone who would like to be a

 guest blogger,  please get in touch.  Also, if there are any topics

environmental that you would like explained or maybe

 investigated,  I will do my best for you my friends.

Hello there,

If anyone is tech savy, can they please leave me advice on how to retrive 5 months of blog posts lost/mislaid during a hosting change.

Thanks in Advance

Ecoanne


	
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