It’s 38 degrees in April and I could use some global warming!

by blogrdoc

In honor of ‘Earth Day’, I’ll give a brief glimpse of my interest in ‘the environment’.

In high school, senior year - I opted for an ‘experimental’ social sciences class which was geared toward what we now call ’sustainability issues’. What I loved about the class is that it was taught by a left-wing, Canadian, chain-smoking liberal. Despite her left-leaning political views, she managed to get the point across to think for yourself. The class was balanced by teacher who had a PhD in Biology.

We learned about overpopulation, the effects of pollution, etc… Long story short, one of the extremely refreshing things I learned from the class was the perspective that you gain when you ‘zoom out’ and (try to) think objectively. It’s a message that has stuck with me to this day.

Fast forward to the present day. My first job after getting my PhD was to either work for Exxon (to look for more oil) or [huge tech company] to work on fuel cells. I’m choosing to not name the company since I don’t think it’s publicly announced that they ever had a fuel cell program.

To my financial dismay, I erroneously chose the latter (working on fuel cells - which went nowhere) and I’ve regretted that decision ever since! Happy Earth Day!

That decision to not work for Exxon may very well go into the DoHE

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  1. 2 Responses to “It’s 38 degrees in April and I could use some global warming!”

  2. By Adrian on May 9, 2008 | Reply

    Hey! Thanks for the insight into your environmental interests.

    I was browsing through a bunch of green websites and blogs and I came across yours and found it very interesting. There are a bunch of others I like too, like the daily green, ecorazzi and earthlab.com. I especially like EarthLab.com’s carbon calculator (http://www.earthlab.com/signupprofile/). I find it really easy to use (it doesn’t make me feel guilty after I take it).

    Are there any others you would recommend? Can you drop me a link to your favorites (let me know if they are the same as mine).

  3. By blogrdoc on May 10, 2008 | Reply

    I actually don’t subscribe to too many feeds. I used to… but then I realized it wasn’t sustainable. :) The problem is that there are too many and they are all good.

    http://Tinychoices.com and http://blog.jollygreengirl.com/ are my fave as far as green blogs go.

    I’m really into personal development as well, and for the that I read http://practicethis.com and http://zenhabits.net

    My other faves (not listed in blogrdoc faves on the right) are http://thislife.org (I *gotta* have my TAL) , http://7million7years.com (entrepreneurship) , bikeportland.org (bike life) and http://d40-photog.blogspot.com/ (photography, especially for nikon d40)

    this gives a thumbnail sketch of my interests

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