Green Technology – Past, Present, Future

I chose this program as my research because it is related to my major, and I can use this knowledge to further my mastery of environmental engineering. Nowadays, many people have a responsibility to take care of the Mother Earth, and “green” activities must take action from now onwards because actions speak louder than words.

“Green and Clean” is an article written by Jennifer Weeks published on August 1, 2014. The article informs the audience about how “chemists are finding new ways to save energy, cut waste, and boost safety. In the excerpt from Chemistry: Green and Clean, the author, Jennifer Weeks, builds an argument that green chemists are working to develop a field of chemistry that can replace polluting technologies. Jennifer Weeks uses evidence, reasoning, and stylistic elements to describe how green chemists identify chemical products or processes that are toxic and wasteful, change chemical processes so they are less energy-consuming, and swap out harmful ingredients for nontoxic alternatives.

As technology increases through massive changes it becomes apparent that the individual user must also make changes that are environmentally safe. Green IT, also known as Green Computing, is the movement towards a more environmentally friendly and cost-effective use of power and production in technology. The crux of Green IT is to double or triple the bottom line investment costs by converting existing structures and systems to this more conservative mode of operation in green computing (eweek.com, 2012). The greening of information technology (IT) offers numerous ways for companies to

It cannot be denied that, in at least some areas, the invention and progression of technology has benefitted the human race. With the growing industrialization of the world in the last centuries the lives of many people have been made easier. But, this growth of technology is not without its consequences and people are not without their concerns. While industrialization has had its benefits, the environmental cost of this progress is immense, and the impact it has on nature can be hard to swallow. It may seem like talk of the environment is something to be left to scientists or activists specializing in that particular field, but they are

Designing and using sustainable products is the important topic which all human should seriously consider about. The technological development in recent decades significantly improved the average standard of living world widely while that destroyed natural environments on the earth. The speaker John P. O’Grady in TED Talk pointed out that how unsustainable products have terribly contributed to the devastation of the environment. For instance, Mr. O’Grady showed the audience that the study of marine pollution and metaphorically expressed the situation as the toilet which has not been flushed for a long time. Besides that, there are many other problems causing negative impacts. These environmental destructions harm not only nature but also the

Improvement of technology and its use has been the foundation for American economics. Although such innovation does create jobs, customs, and cultures that contribute to the American lifestyle, it can also create pollution that harms the environment and brings about environmental injustice. People focus on outcome effects of a certain project. Whether its main goal is for economic gains, to help improve the way American people live, or even if it is harming the ecosystem in any way, they will intervene. However, what people don’t pay attention to is the tool that is being used to accomplish such goals that can produce complications as it relates to the environment and injustice that comes with the utilization of technology.

Unfortunately, they are in the business of making money, not protecting Americans’ lives. However, in our houses we can make reduce, reuse, and recycle. Moreover, we could learn how to save water, decrease toxic waste, avoid land, air, and water pollution, and preserve our non-renewable resources. If, every American go green, manufacturers will eventually, will make long life products. As the project, indicate we can make our environment healthier, and safe, if we realized that nature has civil rights, just as New Zealand and Ecuador consider Rivers and other natural wonders. For them natural resources are individual with full civil rights. Finally, remember that technology (computer, cell phones, and tablets) are good resources, if we use them intelligently and dispose them adequately. Furthermore by changing ourselves environmental racism and environmental injustice will

Technology is making distribution, processing, production, development, and exploration of natural resources and alternative resources more cost effective, and protective in regard to the environment. The Technology that we have today has given humans a way of reducing negative effects on the environment that we have caused; such as the depletion of natural resources, the burning of fossil fuels, and other behaviors which have caused negative environmental effects. One effective way for technology to have a positive impact on our environment is

In the awakening of the Industrial Revolution around the 1800s, technology, and science rapidly advanced, leaving the human race unable to resist the manufacturing age that aggressively expanded in the 21st century. With all these changes, the launch of the industrial era witnessed a revolutionary transition from the small-scale and fewer pollutant factories to the full-scale industries that became mass producers and manufacture units through the centuries. However, the lack of policies to control pollution, the unplanned industrial growth, and the industries’ inefficiency to dispose of the waste are a couple of examples that have lead– particularly the U.S., to face major environmental disasters due to the excessive and continuous industrial pollution that arose as a result of industrialization. In response to these changes, it is necessary that our nation as a world power invest in better technology for the disposal of waste and recycling since at this point technological regression is somewhat unreal. In addition, similarly to what Rachel Carson and Jared Diamond implicitly advocated in their essays, we must aim to push policies into place to prevent the misuse of land, promote organic methods for production, and encourage the school system to invest in environmental activities to encourage the millennial generation in every corner of the world to adopt a green mindset.

Technology in the 21st century has enhanced our lives by providing easy access to information, quick ways to communicate, and has allowed people to connect with others all over the world. In this case, technology is viewed in a positive light. However, when it comes to technology and it’s ability to solve environmental problems, is it reliable? Before technological solutions are implemented in the environment, they must be thoroughly tested and reliable. These technological solutions should have positive short-term and long-term effects. If the benefits are only good in the short-term, but not in the long-term, and the environmental problem reoccurs or reincarnates into another problem, we end up in the same place we started at. This would

As this year’s presidential election came to an end, the people got to see first-hand what it’s like to have a president who acknowledges that pollutions issues and one that blatantly disagrees with pollution and suggests that the Chinese are responsible, as they are the “ones who created the theory”. While everyone is entitled to their own opinion, people must understand that there is still a problem regardless of whether they choose to see it or not. The world has changed since the era of the industrial revolution; where everything was made fast in order to grow as a nation faster than others nations. Now, we have been immersed into this technologically driven world that is controlled by the next big thing that is going to come out; no one is worrying about those landfills that are at capacity and have no room for our old, yet still working, devices.

As nature deteriorates on several fronts, ranging from ozone depletion to water contamination, scientists and politicians grow more desperate to stall and ultimately reverse the damage to the environment. Technology quickly comes to mind as the most viable solution, having been responsible for great strides in fields such as computer science and medicine. Humanity is fascinated by the question, “if technology can cure disease, why not use it to regulate the environment?” Questions like this gave way to “techno-optimism,” the belief that technology can solve all the problems of today and tomorrow. However, techno-optimism is a flawed philosophy that mistakes technology for an environmental cure-all. While the pursuit of ecological sustainability requires the use technology, techno-optimism grossly exaggerates the power of this relationship. It is imperative that techno-optimism be dispelled and replaced with a new, more realistic ideology. Far superior is the notion of techno-realism, which seeks to find the most efficient, most realistic solutions possible while considering all limiting factors of a particular context. However, at this time, it is more important to promote techno-realism as a philosophy than to describe specific techno-realistic solutions to environmental and social concerns. Embracing techno-realism is the first step in understanding that technology, while necessary to protect the environment, is not a panacea in its own right.

In this essay, initially, we have a quick look on nature and evolution of green revolution. Secondly, pros and cons of this phenomenon would be discussed and then more holistic solutions for improving this process would be introduced as a real green revolution. Finally, whole materials would be concluded.

Many scientist and environmentalist around the world have been trying to discover ways to help stop and reduce pollution. Some have turned towards renewable energy in order to try and cut back on pollution and waste. Some industries such as the pharmaceutical industry cannot use renewable energy such as solar or nuclear energy. Pharmaceutical companies have to do experiments in laboratories to try and create new drugs. This process takes a lot of time and energy to do and if the drug that the pharmaceutical companies is trying to make does not work then they have wasted a lot of energy in trying to do an experiment and now have to start over again. Car industries have been trying for years to create a total electric car instead of a car that runs on fossil fuel. Tesla car company have created cars and trucks that are totally electric and do not run on fossil fuel, most car companies are building hybrid cars that operate with gas and electricity (batteries). None of this would be possible without green chemistry and the scientist that do their research in order to improve the everyday objects that have a great impact on our economy.

Like you have noticed, our habitat is being polluted everyday because of us. Can you imagine how much smoke that is released into our air from the factories, vehicles,…. We think that kind of smoke doesn’t affect much for our health, but you are wrong. That smoke eats our ozone layer, then it creates holes for the ultraviolet ray to go through and cause a lot of deadly disease related to skin and our organisms like: allergy, skin cancer, lung cancer, heart attack... Now the ball is in your court, this is the right time for us to fix our mistakes. That’s why we need a solution for this complicated problem, and of course it is the green technology. All the countries in the world has cooperated in order to work on more things about ecotechnology. Green technology helps to improve economic performance while decreasing harm to the environment by choosing wise in the selection of using materials and energy sources. Our natural sources are running out quicker because people’s needs are increasing rapidly, and in the future there will be nothing because of our wasted; however, this problem doesn’t need to be worried so much anymore thanks to the invention of the ecotechnology because it can help us to