Charlotte Elizabeth Brown's Blog – April 2011 Archive (9)

Today my sophmore highschool class at oak grove school went out into the school grounds garden. There was a lisy left by the farmer named "Mr. Clumpy" which had many chores for us to do for him. We started out renewing a garden bed used for lettuce. First we pulled up the weeds in the bed. Then we dug up about two inches off the top soil and replaced it with wheelbarrels of new mulch soil. This richens the earth there in the box so we can plant neww lettuce. Next we pulled weeds over around the… Continue

I think that a new way to charge a cell phone would be very useful and energy saving. Because almost everyone uses cell phones everyday. Maybe if someone could figure out hom to create an energy source other than the wall outlet to charge cell phones like solar power or compost burning or water flowing; something. This would save sooo much power because cell phones are constantly having to be chrged because we use them everyday. For work, friends, and family.

It is the 2020 and its Christmas morning. Instead of having the fire burning stove cooking our pancakes, we have a solor powered electric stove and they presents we open are wrapped with recycled paper and bags from last year. So we save the trees. Also, the lights lighting the room are powered flowinng water from our river in the backyard. these lights are also LED so it uses less of that power and lastslonger. We have saved so much energy and trees just from excersizing our normal practice on… Continue

http://www.energyinnovations.com/

the sunflower project is a solar project where they have created new devices to consume more energy using less money. They have harnessed the power of 1,200 suns to achieve an astounding 29% module efficiency. But they didn't stop at that; they also created the world's simplest and lowest-cost HCPV solution to install.

It is the year of 2020. We are in the backyard of a suburban home in northern California. It is a nice summer day and we are having lunch with the neighbors. They are a quiet innovative family with an all solar-powered home. They brought over some potato salad made from the potatoes they grew in their backyard. We made some fruit salad from the bananas, apples, strawberries, grapes, and watermelon that we grew in our backyard. Although it is blazing hot we have a solar powered fan blowing on… Continue

According to the data from the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS 2001), over 2.24 million low-income adults are suffering from hunger everyday. Working people with families and children are starving because of low-income. Even retired elderly people are hungry. Those living in households with incomes below

200% of the federal poverty level are starving from hunger. This doesn't seem right, does it? These people need food to live, just like us. When people are hungry, without food,… Continue

In twenty years i see myself living in carlsbad, CA with a husband and two children. Well, this is my dream atleast. My interest for a job is in the field of interpratation for Amrican Sign Language. I would love to be a translator for a school, a church, or even just for a company who assigns me to deaf people's events who need a translator. This is my passion because I have a friend whos brother is deaf and he was the prson who first inspired me to take the coarse in highschool. I hope that… Continue

My hero is a good friend, Austin Gutwein.When he was 9 years old he came up with the idea of hoops of hope. This idea had an avalanche effect. He presented his idea to the company, world vision, and they worked with him to help make his simple idea of helping others, a lagitament organization. Today he is 17 years old and has been raising millions of dollars for freshh water, schools, hospitals, etc. for kids in Africa who are orphaned by aids.Many families in the povertous parts of africa have… Continue

I read through the innovations and ideas from the Africa page on LEARN 1, and came to the conclusion that we should not fight culture. when we reach out and help those in other cultures, they do not necessarily new innovations and tools. all they need is better quality of what they have. the example that the people used in LEARN 1 was if they make their stew by stirring the pot, then don't buy them a microwave, just help them build a better stove. "don't fight culture" was the quote they used.… Continue