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In 2017 levels of Carbon Dioxide equivalent(CO2e) emissions globally total 45,261.2516 Megatons(Mt). Out of this total, China produced 27.51%, the United States produced 14.75%, and the European Union(EU28) produced 9.33%. These three economic blocks represent 51.59% of the world’s total emissions, while having only 29.68% of the world’s population. The US in particular gets 62.7%Continue reading “100 Word Challenge (part 3)”

Current, cutting edge nuclear power plant designs have the possibility to greatly reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and alleviate the unreliable consistency of other low emissions sources such as solar and wind. Older nuclear reactor designs are very inefficient both in terms of fuel usage and waste products that need long term storage whileContinue reading “Nuclear Power and a Cleaner Future”

The Aloha+ Challenge Dashboard is a website setup to track the progress of the state towards various renewable resource and sustainability goals. Some of these goals include moving away from fossil fuel energy sources and towards low to no emission sources, increasing local food production and decreasing reliance on imported food, diversifying the local economyContinue reading “State of Hawaii’s Aloha+ Goals”

For most of my time in the military, my actions in the field were critical to getting the ammunition and explosives that my unit needed for training to them on time and safely. One time we had a  training operation out in the desert close to Yuma, AZ but due to a lack of spaceContinue reading “Page 2 100 Word Challenge”

Without a doubt the community that has had the most profound impact on my values and actions would be my family. From the strict rules that forced me to develop my ability to lie and my love for school, to the experiments in the kitchen that gave me the ideas to mess with recipes andContinue reading “Community That Shaped Me”