Adirondack High Peaks

Ever since I can remember, I’ve loved the Adirondacks. My family has a house up there, right next to our grandparents, where we spend a number of weeks every summer. For the last five years we have stayed in our house, before that up the hill in the larger one. The houses are right outside of Keene Valley, a town of less than a thousand people, nestled in the heart of the High Peaks, the region so named because it is home to all of the tallest mountains in the park. The mountains are incredibly beautiful, the views from their tops exceedingly spectacular. They are just waiting to be climbed. Indeed, in the last decade hiking in the High Peaks has doubled, leading to issues with some of the more popular, accessible mountains being over-crowded. Many of the people who climb in the park aspire to be 46ers, a term for someone who has climbed the 46 mountains in the Adirondacks that are over 4,000 feet. For a…

A small town called Westford, in New York State, that’s where I resided in for eighteen years of my life. Westford is about two hours of the city. The closest grocery store is thirty minutes away, and the nearest hospital is twenty three miles. Westford is all country in every way. Animals ran wild everywhere. Some of the animals you would see are squirrels, quails, chipmunks, deer, and even bear. They were not afraid of anything, until hunting season. The trees are so tall with many colors,…

legislated that logging would be banned on all state-owned land. In 1892, a bill establishing the Adirondack Forest Preserve as a state park passed the legislature, indicated by a blue line that encompassed the parts of the region where state acquisition of private in-holdings was to be concentrated. A new covenant to protect the Forest Preserve was included in the new Constitution in 1895. The Adirondack Forest Preserve would henceforth be protected as ‘forever wild’. Early in the 20th century,…

Whirlpool has taken an innovative approach to bring the “smart” home appliances to the forefront. In 2011, the company began its push to start selling smart refrigerators, washers, dryers, and dishwashers with a technology that permits them to connect to a households Wi-Fi network; which is then displayed on the buyers tablet, PC, and smart phone. These appliances will contain functions that are energy saving and cost effective, for example, being able to turn off during peak time and…

United Nations and the International Energy Agency. The fact that all targets are measured differently makes the overall conclusions drawn from them more complete. Although these measurements include most of the world’s data, it still lacks data on undeclared countries or territories as well as economically-challenged towns. In order to include these in the data collection, UN should find a way to link them to a specific country that has a similar situation. Another example are shantytowns in…

Nowadays, having reliable and affordable modern energy resources is crucial since it plays a significant role in building a sustainable and stable environment system. Targets that the goal aims to are measurable Most of the targets can be easily measured by analysing data or observing the social influence.. Firstly, building universally accessed modern energy services will be workable. Since the measuring system "CWEEDS" can easily collected the data of energy distribution in Ontario,…

Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) is one power technology of those attractive new energy storage technologies. It aggregated those vehicles with battery (Hybrid electric vehicles, battery electric vehicles, and plug- in hybrid electric vehicles) into the grid as a distributed resource of energy load, storage and generation device. It is not only adding the ability to deliver power from vehicle to the grid, but also can apply the power flow (Lund & Kempton, 2008). V2G technology provides potential solutions…

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plenty of room to grow, and stable energy will bring about jobs, and economic expansion. On the other hand, an eco-friendly world comes at a price. In order to double Africa’s energy capacity through “low-carbon” sources, over 150 billion dollars must be invested to build the 3,200 proposed projects (Africa). For comparison, the gross domestic product in Djibouti is below three billion dollars, meaning that if all the nation’s money was to be spent on energy, <2% of the project would be…

All four of these things can measure the distribution of energy and determine if in fact by 2030 there will be “universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy services” (7.1) 7.2 Eco footprint and eco system can help measure due to the fact that by monitoring the eco footprint it can be seen what is being wasted and where improvements can be made in order to “share of renewable energy in the global energy mix” (7.2). And the Ecosystem services in turn can be regulated… 7.3 For the…