Unsustainable Course With Technology

Team 1

Life

Graduate college and get a job Family/Friends Social Life: 3rd of 6 kids. Make new friends Occupation: become a nuclear engineer Recreation: Enjoy playing soccer Political Life: none

Electronic Waste (E Waste)

E waste are electronics near the end of their “use Life” 80 to 85 percent of electronic products were discarded in landfills or

incinerators Only 12.5 percent of e-waste is currently recycled Americans dump phones containing over $60 million in gold/silver

every year. Recycling 1 million laptops saves the energy equivalent to the

electricity used by 3,657 U.S. homes in a year.

Life

Personal: Always wish to be remembered as a kind person. Do good and good will be done to you. I love helping people, I think it is the most fulfilling thing someone can do.

Social: My family is my inspiration. They encourage me to do whatever it is I want to do. They believe in me. My friends are what keep me going.

Work: I hope to get a job designing orthotics and prosthetics and to think of new, innovative ways to improve them.

Recreation: I love sports. I love being active and exercise relaxes me more than anything. It is important to me to keep activity in my life always.

Lack of Natural Resources

•People are only concerned with what happens in the present •We are not looking at the bigger picture •Demand continues to rise year after year, but the supply is

constrained •Water is declining in availability, especially in places in India and

African nations •Due to continued growth of the global population and economy, the

demand for natural resources provided by Planet Earth is rapidly increasing

Lack of Natural Resources Continued

They are being exploited without any bounds Extraction process itself is damaging, but the transportation of these

resources is just as harmful Long distance transportation Processing

life

1. To be a good person and make as many other people’s lives better as possible

2. To have a long lasting relationship with the people who are willing to stick around

3. To have a shack on the beach or a cabin in the woods 4. Become an industrial engineer 5. Skiing, pottery, drawing 6. Don’t care much for politics

Automobiles

1. Air Pollution - December 1970 US reported 89.9 billion miles traveled by vehicle in

2011 US reported 246.3 trillion miles traveled by car -more than half of the air pollution is caused by cars -greenhouse gases destroying the ozone layer -acid rain from particles in air that car emissions give off 2. Fluid pollution -when fluids leak out of cars they can be damaging to the

environment when they soak into the soil or find their ways to our sources of water

sources

http://homeguides.sfgate.com/car-pollution-affect-environment-ozone-layer-79358.html

http://www.adeq.state.ar.us/air/ozone/cars.htm

Life

Ebrahim Almazrouei

Personl: I’d like to be healthy, successful and do whatever comes to my mind and achieve my dreams

Social : I’m very close to my friends and family Work / occupation : ATIC (Advanced Technology Investment Company) Recreation: Enjoying my life, soccer, camping, etc Political: to be active

Pollution

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/17/health/geneva-air-pollution-carcinogenic-who/

Sources

http://www.worldresourcesforum.org/issue http://ideas.time.com/2012/06/08/the-resource-shortage-is-real/ http://

www.dosomething.org/actnow/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-e-waste http://www.facts-about-recycling.com/ewaste.html