Try to minimize energy consumption

On Friday afternoon, I drove home very efficiently with the technique I used in called “Eco-driving”.  After I went back to my apartment, I made sure that all the unused power bricks/strips are turned off.  Also, have changed all the lighting to LED bulb brought from IKEA that make my apartment more energy efficient, and all my electronics are energy efficient models except the central AC unit at my apartment.  I have set the AC temperature around 75-80 F^o (24-26C^o) which is the most efficient temperature for AC systems.  It is not very hard to change most electronics but it need thoroughly think and planning to make my apartment become more energy efficient.  As a college student, it is very hard to give-up internet, printer, and laptop (more energy efficient after I modified it) because my college work are heavily based on internet or on-line work and study.  I really do not know what things I still need to cut back because I have started cutting back my energy consumption practice since 2005.  Therefore, it have become much harder to decide what need to cut back because I have reach a point that I do not know what to cut back on possible I will try to switch on as little lighting as I can in the next year.

When I looked around my apartment, I already found the changes I make since four years ago.  For example, I can swipe out non-efficient parts for my laptop as I mention on the previous paragraph such as DDR3L and SSD, I had already swiped out all the traditional light bulb to LED and I have left some of light bulb out of its sockets to save some utility bills since I moved into my apartment.  After I changed out all the traditional light bulbs, I saw at least 20-50 watts drop in my utility bill just light bulbs alone.  I think I will keep finding new ways to cut back on my energy usage.

Amy's Farm

This weekend is went to Amy’s Farm.  It is an organic farm not an organic certify farm near Chino, California.  It is a nice little family own farm that you can buy fresh organic produces at their produces store.  The farm needs volunteers to keep the farm running.  Amy’s Farm also raise a few livestock but you have to buy a share of that animal to get the produce or meat from the animals, and they try very hard to feed the animal with their natural food like weed and grass.  They use natural composed for fertilizes at the vegetable and herbal plants, and they rotate the yield like every half-a-year to a year to put back nutrients back to the soil.  They also use a method called urban pot farming, which is farm a row of plant is a very small space and to utilized as much land as they could.  I learned that using that method of growth crop and increase food production in a small piece of land.
 http://www.amysfarm.com/ for more information about Amy's Farm.

climate changed

In this week blog, I was assigned to see climate change is really happening or not.  According to EPA, the climate is changing right now such as sea leveling rising, temperate rinses more than the natural rate, and ice surface are melting at a rapid rate than the natural rate.  The CO² level indicator shows that since the industry revolution CO² level start to raise rapidly that is totally human-made by burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas.  Climate changed likely to affect our society and our world are: it will affect the coastal area and low-land area like Florida, USA would be underwater if the sea level continues to rinse, food production shift, massive global climate shift, and possible huge number of climatic immigrate.  The skepticism center about climate change are the recent temperate rinses is a part of a natural cycle not man-made, which is based on the debate on Natural vs. Man-made causes global warming lead to global climate changed.  In addition, some scientist believes that global climate change is a part of a natural climatically cycle.  I think skepticism exists on climate change is Oil companies and government not want to attempt about global climate change because of their millions of dollars of the economy, and they afraid if they attempt there is global climate changed, they will lose millions of dollars.  I think this is the reason that the U.S. is a part of the Kyoto Protocol because of economical interest of the U.S. government.  I think the world will be like in 50 years if we continue with our current path and do nothing to slow the rise of CO2 levels in the atmosphere are have more extreme weather and climatically pattern, sea level will continue to raise, will have a lot of climatically immigrate, world production might have to move towards the pole, and the polar region possible will be the new tropical area on Earth.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/indicators/

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/basics/#responsible

http://heartland.org/ideas/global-warming-not-crisis