Notes from Meeting on January 22nd

Notes taken by Abigail Morrow

Your mission in this assignment is to research and analyze the significance of

your assigned EGC and construct a critical argument with compelling

evidence about why this topic is or is not one of the “game-changing goals for

improving life on the planet.”

What is our stance?

• Appropriate goal but consequences
• Short term major consequences but long terms should achieve goal
  • Not easy to get there
  • Time consuming and expensive

WHY SHOULD WE ACHIEVE THIS GOAL?

• Current scientific stands
• Not necessarily solar solutions

WHY SOLAR ABOVE OTHER POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS?

• Not an ultimatum
• Solar energy is more consistent
  • Factual backing
• Should the answer be no instead making more forms of renewable energy more economical?
• How do we make this a viable alternative
  • This being forms of renewable energy

You will write a paper, deliver an oral presentation, and reflect on the experience of completing the project in a team.

The purpose of this assignment is to research, understand, and synthesize the

information related to your assigned EGC and develop your own conclusion

while giving evidence to support your response.

• Create a graphical tether diagram that links your EGC to an array of

contexts (social, cultural, technical, scientific, geological, ecological,

environmental, political, economic, etc.)

●Identify tradeoffs between the contexts listed above.

●Define sustainability in relation to your EGC and use it as a criterion

for analysis.

●Analyze the rhetoric that is used by the NAE to identify and validate its

choices of EGCs.

●Reference relevant ethical theories necessary for defining and solving

problems within your EGC.

Discussed goals and checkmarks(things we need to do)

Time line

Everyone gets at least one source per specific subtopic and then sends via GroupMe or Email a specific subtopic that really interests them (pick subtopic(s) by end of day Thursday)

• *Trying to ovoid overlap and cover our broad topic*

“Solar is very important and would be life changing if it was made more economical but don’t forget about any of the others.” Hannah

Balance between all forms of energy

Put links to all sources in one doc on google doc

IEEE type citations

 Plan to meet next Tuesday