eia.doe bydesign/fossilfuels

The perceived need for comfort is unsustainable. It is a behavioral and cultural problem that we have put ourselves in.

- $140 average spend on AC per year in US- 72% of US households use AC- 70% of electricity supplying AC units is

generated from fossil fuels- AC units output both hot air and cold air, but due

to inefficiencies, will always heat more than they cool, leading to global warming

- Disposal of the waist of old AC units is costly and hazardous. R-134a is supposedly better than R-12, but studies have proven that it can be detrimental to the environment- Sweating cools the body naturally, while

excreting toxins and improving complexion - 90% of the world deals without AC and that extra

10 degrees won't kill you!

http://www.eia.doe.govwww.bydesign.com/fossilfuels “Future U.S. Energy Use for 2000-2025 as Computed with Temperatures from a Global Climate Prediction - Model and Energy Demand Model”Stanton W. Hadley, David J. Erickson III and Jose Luis Hernandez; S. L. Thompson Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2006-08-06-air-conditioning-warming_x.htm “A Rhetoric of Fitness: Persuasion and Perspiration”Journal article by Susanna Rich; ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, Vol. 53, 1996“Environmental implications of hydrocarbon refrigerants applied to the hermetic compressor” Sustainable Product Engineering Research Centre, Bournemouth University, UK

Sex is unsustainable. It ties into nearly every overarching sustainability problem including the areas of Politics, Economics, Media, Human Behaviors, and Culture.

Issues- Population growth (Sex makes babies) - Advertising (Sex Sells)- Compromised Morals (Spitzer) - Gender neutrality (Workplace inequalities)- Transportation (How far would you go to get some?)-Waste (Throw away society)

Solutions- Self control

“World Population prospects: The 2008 Revision” US department of Economic and Social Afairs“Ethics in Avertiing: Sex Sells, but Should It?” Jessica Blair, Jason Stephenson, Kathy Hill, John Greenhttp://creativebits.org/inspiration/does_sex_advertising_sellshttp://ezinearticles.com/?Throwing-Away-the-Throw-Away-Culture&id=69046