UWW310 Technology & Sustainability

Skitch is a simple interface tool that you can download and use for Free. It acts as a screen capture tool that pops up like a window. But there's more! You can paint, add text, draw shapes and save the file type from everything from a TIFF to a GIF. Really useful for creating site plans, where I need an overhead photo of the site and can add in the locations of all the electrical points of interest for the utility to review. Get your point across with fewer words using annotation, shapes and sketches, so that your ideas become reality faster.

I utilized this program in my design work at Northeast Solar. What I really like about this application is 1. It's free and 2. You can share you Templates with the world. Oh, and 3. You have access to all the Free Templates from the World! Some great person shared a template (Template = a design package including tools, data, configurations, that you can utilize in the sketch up world) that I can use in unison with Google Earth, to design, plan, measure, size, and then show, what Solar electric (PV) opportunity they have for their building. It was really useful. SketchUp is 3D modeling software that's easy to learn and incredibly fun to use. Download SketchUp today for free and get started drawing in 3D.

Clean fuels to help stop global warming

A cool look into how wind power works - a snap shot

Some of the renewable energy resources available

Climate change and Green Cars - Electric cars

The discovery of a way to extract hydrogen from food waste - Wow!

Oil enhancer - lower emission lower cost

Great site if you are into energy saving homes

Important in the context of power generation and technology i.e. Smart Cities

To further understand Sustainability layers