Houston Hooker and Edd Bass

In this video,Arthur Potts in his TED TALK, goes over how he is trying to change the way restaurants are operating by making them more Eco friendly and creating less waste to go to the dumps. In one of his restaurants that he talks about, he explains how the kitchen itself is in the front of the restaurant instead of the back so people can choose how much food they want to consume there so there is not a lot of waste. Also other very important things that he has in his restaurants are reconditioned and reused items, worm farms, co0mpost bins, water tracks to make the water cleaner to reuse. Another restaurant that he owns uses the water channels temperature and current to power the entire restaurant's appliances, such as air conditioning. His vision is to encourage restaurants to create less waste and recycle all items that can be recycled. During his TED TALK, he explained how this was possible so that others can follow in his footsteps to creating a more sustainable future for restaurants.

Electric Cars

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNeEVkhTutY

The Nissan Leaf represents the future of cars. Its electric and sustainable build contributes to sparing our environment. It has no tail pipe, so its not letting out any bad fuels, it runs on an ion battery and much more. It is a 100% electric, no gas car. If we aren't releasing the burning gas into the air, we aren't polluting the air through cars anymore. So why not do this for every car? If every car was electric the amount of fossil fuels going into the air would lessen greatly. These fossil fuels are what are causing problems such as global warming (as shown in this video) and if these fossil fuels stop coming into our environment at an unnatural rate, then global warming, and other things, would be much less of a problem. The fossils fuels are releasing the CO2 very very quickly and this heavy amount of CO2 is trapping heat and polluting our world. The less were releasing these fuels, the less were contributing to the pollution and the more were sustaining this world. Electric cars needs to be the future of cars if we want to sustain our world and create a safe environment for the future generations.

Building a New Green Economy- David W. Orr

In the video, “Building: A New Green Economy” by David Orr, he discusses how before our economic downturn, we were much more wealthy than we thought, and we lost it all very quickly. As a result, Orr wants to find environmental alternatives quickly and in inexpensive ways in order to withstand any problems presented in the future. Currently 7 billion tons of carbon are released into the air each year and the amount of carbon eliminated per dollar spent will either make or break our strive to obtain alternative energy resources. The author all states how we must become more self efficient and find new technology to start a new revolution and bring us back to prosperity and fairness. The main argument that he presents in the video is the need to bring all levels of sustainability into one project containing agriculture, urban renewal, education, and climate neutrality. The way this will happen is by having a downtown be a large part of the driving economy and build a green belt surrounding it. By doing so, we will have a cheap fossil fuel economy and the town will move to carbon neutrality. Orr finally concludes his speech by convincing the audience that we need to envision a better world that is not necessarily that same world we grew up in, but one that will be sustainable for everyone in the future.

Stephanie Kerbis and Gino Inzerillo

To imagine a sustainable future for the planet and its inhabitants is not an easy task at the present moment. However, when looking to implement change the corporate structure of capitalistic society seems to be an obvious and ever more accessible solution in the current state of the economy. As corporate giants look to win over every aspect of the consumer market, the role that each company plays as a sustainable part of the community is becoming ever more important. With the goal of the corporation in mind, it is important to take notice of how effectively and genuinely a company implements sustainable ideology. Cemex, the company we chose to analyze, is making conscious and genuine efforts to remedy realistic ecological problems in society.

"Sustainability is central to our business strategy and one of the keys to our future growth. As the largest concrete producer in the world, we have both a responsibility and a great opportunity to help lead the transition to a truly sustainable construction industry. That, in turn, would be a critical element of a low carbon economy."

Lorenzo H. Zambrano
Chairman of the Board and
Chief Executive Officer

Second nature is a nonprofit organization that is working to create a sustainable future by transforming higher education. At this moment, college students make up around 2% of the country's population. However, college student are the key to creating a sustainable future. If college students are given knowledge and skills for living a sustainable life they will be able to generate ideas that are beneficial to society. Currently 673 colleges are apart of the ACUPCC and are integrating the ideas of a green society in their curriculums. Hopefully this green trend will surpass the college student population and expand worldwide.

Second Nature

American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment

Santa Clara's Sustainability Practices

Celebrities Going Green

Making Sustainability as Cool as Entourage

"Let's begin to SHFT our lifestyles

to create a sustainable future"

Alexa Signorino & Caitlynn Wentworth

Celebrity Status

Celebrities can have a major influence in our movement in creating a sustainable future. As a celebrity Adrian Grenier has influenced so many of his fans to follow in his footsteps and go green. He started SHFT, a website, that can be looked at across the globe and persuade people that "sustainability is as cool as Entourage". Peter Glatzer has the ability to rally up followers to go green due to his position within the film making industry. Both celebrities have always been interested in going green, but now have used their stardom to spread word. Like Adam and Peter, celebrities from all over are starting to go green. Celebrities can truly make an impact in our efforts to reaching sustainable living because so many people look up to them and use celebrities as role models.

What Is SHFT?

SHFT is an organization created to show people that sustainability can come in all different forms. Changing

"SHFT is a multi-media platform founded by film producer Peter Glatzer and actor-filmmaker Adrian Grenier. Our mission is to convey a more sustainable approach to the way we live through video, design, art and culture." - SHFT

What Are The Webbys?

"The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. Established in 1996 during the Web's infancy, the Webbys are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, which includes an Executive 750-member body of leading Web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities, and Associate Members who are former Webby Award Winners and Nominees and other Internet professionals." - The Webby Awards

Electric Cars: Our Future?

This advertisement basically makes fun of society's addiction to fossil fuels. It is persuading audiences to purchase electric cars because they are a greener alternative to nonrenewable resources. Electric cars are currently the new trend of the automobile industry. According to studies, they use 35% to 60% less carbon dioxide pollution compared to the pollution from the oil of a conventional car.

Myths About Electric Cars