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American Greenism:
An Unsung Song of the History of Today’s Prominent Movement


   America is the land of the free, the land of change, and the land of opportunity. Since the 19th Century, the United States has grown into a superpower position as fast as the country has reformed. Changing beliefs make the U.S. a land of morality, and political warfare. One movement however, has grown into an international society through American ideals and technology. This movement is referred to today as Environmentalism.
   Global Warming, Acid Rain, The Greenhouse Effect, Holes in the Ozone Layer; these are headlines we see nearly every day. These problems are large global concerns that individuals cannot conquer. Individuals, however, started the movement and set down a foundation for organizations, which have gained support from the public. Even though we see large headlines concerning abatement of pollution in today’s papers, pollution reduction is nothing new. The 1970’s...

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It has been too long since my last blog post. The world is changing and it is time to look even farther into the future. Where is the world going?

Approaching the end of the first decade in this new millennium, we have seen technology turn into a moral issue and many global crises. Should we clone humans? Is it moral to genetically alter living beings? In America we have found ourselves in another economic recession with a President who wants to spend almost 3.5 trillion dollars on a new stimulus. Advanced nations are helping third world countries to improve their social standards and ways of life. The race for Nuclear supremacy in Iran and the Middle East scares the shit out of me. The US finds itself to be the world super power and accepts responsibility for the rest of the world even when it is not under its scrutiny. We have gotten ourselves into a real mess. 

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Testimony before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming

10 September 2008

Thank you, Chairman Markey, Congressman Sensenbrenner and Members of the Committee. On behalf of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, I am grateful for this chance to highlight the overwhelming importance of funding basic energy research.

As you know, since before World War II, MIT has served the nation as an honest broker on complex technical issues, and as a source of breakthrough research.

In the past few years, as part of a major MIT initiative on energy, we have delivered landmark reports on coal, nuclear and geothermal energy, which have helped inform recent Congressional action. Our faculty is now preparing similar reports on cap-and-trade policy, solar energy, nuclear infrastructure and waste disposal, and overall energy technology policy, as well as pioneering the technologies that will help make these options real.
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