The growth of industry in the last century has enabled societies to advance and grow without limitations or pause. With this growth have come great accomplishments and improvements to human civilization. We have fueled this production with our ability to extract and exploit raw resources and nutrients at an incredible rate and marginal price. There has been a seemingly endless supply of natural capital. Our home, the planet Earth, was seen as a perpetually regenerative resource that would continue to exist independently of human action. In the recent decades however, we have learned that these assumptions are incorrect. As a student of Renewable Energy Engineering, I have learned that we do live in a world of abundances but not without limits. It is the responsibility of this generation of students to start the new revolution, one that is part of a greater plan motivated by sustainability. We must recognize and understand that energy is our most valuable and vulnerable resource.
I will be in Washington DC for the week of July 20th, 2009 to support an increase in funding for our Renewable Energy Engineering program at the Oregon Institute of Technology.
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