Tough Questions, Real Answers

1. How do you introduce energy issues into curriculum?
2. How do you take a holistic view of energy and integrate it into your life?
3. How do we develop a new paradigm for policy planning on a societal level?
4. Electric cars, bicycles, or both?

1. Perform a Campus Energy Assessment (physical plant, energy service companies)
2. Develop a list of IQPs and MQPs on topic to share with other students (energy assessment, developing alternative fuel engines, developing and teaching high school curriculum on energy and the environment)
3. Educating others - it starts with you!
4. Realize that there are choices/alternatives to your lifestyle: where you live, transportation, what you buy.

1. Where should we live?
2. Is urban sprawl (suburban development), good or bad, and why?
3. How do we balance food production and land consumption?
4. What are alternatives to existing urban structures, policies, and living environments?
5. Who has access to the resources of the land?
6. How do we educate people about the value of water?
7. Should we privatize/deregulate water?
8. How do we encourage people and corporations to adopt better water consumption practices?
9. How do we identify polluters and fix pollution?

1. Learn about land and water issues.
2. Educate homeowners about the impact of their homes, make a "checklist" for them on saving and improving the use of water.
3. Establish guidelines for water use.
4. Learn about conservation and management.

1. How do you (or can you), standardize and implement global regulations?
2. How can the global community define environmental priorities?
3. Can technology provide a long-term solution?

1. Form a network of conference participants to continue the discussions.
2. Integrate global environmental issues and social responsibility into our work and school.
3. Be politically active.

1. Is a global regulatory body desirable? Feasible? What are the alternatives?
2. Are multinational corporations (MNCs) part of the problem, or the solution?
3. What do MNCs do right, and what do they do wrong?
4. If MNCs are amoral actors in a system that does not reward moral action, does that make them easier to manipulate by 'value' motivated interest groups?

1. Find a company with a sensitive spot open to criticism and criticize them.
2. Coopt, convert, or convince people.
3. Carry on discussions about these issues.
4. Institutionalize social agendas.
5. Work internally - find a "bad" company and get a job there to work on making it better from the inside.
6. Ally yourself with labor unions.