Innovators change the future

  Everytime we breathe in and out, oxygen comes back out as carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide causes the climate changes occuring on the planet, making it difficult for things to maintain its form. The amount of carbon dioxide produced by human breathing is not so fataly damaging for the environment. What does the most damage is the industrial business consisting of machines. Would you be interested if I told you that there is a innovator that came up with a way to use carbon dioxide as something useful?

  Emily Cole, a grad student visited a lab in Princeton University. There, she met a scientist named Andrew Bocarsly. He came up with the idea of convertin carbon dioxide into something useful in 1994; however, he could not get the funding for it. Therefore, the idea sat in the shelf for a long time.

  Emily found this idea fascinating and decided to find a way to make it come to reality. She decided to join the lab and assist him along the way of making it come true. She started a startup funding for the project and found out a way to convert the substance into something practical without much expense.

  The company says that currently the conversion of carbon dioxide has a variety of ranges: from carbon dioxide to sunstances like isopropanol, acetone, and more than 30 chemicals. They also found out that they can use light as a tool to drive out the reaction needed for the conversion. They are hoping to be able to convert carbon dioxide into liquid lightethylene glycol which is the ingredient for plastic.

  Their idea of changing something harmful into rather something useful has opened a whole new door for the world and many industries are looking forward to the outcome.

*This post is based on the MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW(https://www.technologyreview.com/lists/innovators-under-35/2014/inventor/emily-cole/)

One Way to Make a More Sustainable Future

Everyday items are taken granted by many people. Our lives are full of convenientness thanks to the ant-like workers on the other side of the earth. The only problem caused by our actions does not lie only on the violation of people's rights; but it also effects the environment. By paying the right price for labor and consuming less of specific items such as jeans, we can solve both problems: human rights violation and damaged nature. This will take us a step closer to a sustainable future.

You as a consumer go to a store and pick up a pair of jeans for a "reasonable" price. Meanwhile, children in India are working day and night earning thirty six cents per hour. Does the price still look "reasonable"?

Not only this, but massive amount of water is used to make your pretty denim. In the process of making the textile to dying the item takes around 1800 gallons of water. It the water reusable? As a matter of fact it is not reausable due to all the chemicals that have dissolved in the water. This means that the water remains at the place where the item was finished. It is not only one pair of jeans. As you have seen at the store, there are at least couple hundred pairs of jeans located in one store. Large clothing companies have stores located in at least dozen places. The amount of water polluted goes beyond immagination.

As a person living in the twenty first century, I understand the popularity of the item itself and why it is a must have. IF is an item of trend. However, is it a neccecity for one to consume so many pairs of jeans? Would you still buy so many even that you know the price of it?

By paying the workers right wages, people will choose more carefully of what items to wear because naturally the item's price will go up. Less consumption will lead to less pollution. As a result, we will eventually get a step closer to sistainable future.