Election Season in Full Swing

Election season is heating up.  This fall Democrats are launching a full throttled campaign to win the office seats up for grabs and maintain their majority share of the political landscape.  With a lot of projects underway that have been initiated by the Obama Administration, it is especially vital that Democrats not lose their hold on office so that these projects can be seen through.

  

Niranjan Shah happens to be a big part of the political scene and voices his support for a handful of democrats throughout the election process year after year. With all of the green architecture projects he and his company Globetrotters Engineering Corporation (GEC - an architectural and engineering corporation he founded out of Chicago) are involved in, having candidates in office that support the green movement can only help his cause. Just like any business owner looking to protect their assets, Niranjan Shah would be smart to continually stay active in campaign and political functions to get his opinion voiced in Washington and get the people elected that support his mission.

In the past, Niranjan Shah has been a contributor to such campaigns as Hillary Clinton for President, Obama For America, Madia for U.S. Congress, Quigley for Congress, and Melissa Bean For Congress. He was also an instrumental part of helping John Kerry run for President back into 2004 and through GEC he donated over $27,000 to the Democratic White House Victory Fund.

With the direction that President Obama wants to take the United States in conjunction with his plan to push green initiatives, it can only be assumed that Niranjan Shah will continue to support President Obama and fellow Democratic candidates who support the same cause.

New Climate Policy Could Help Create More than 2 Million Jobs

With the economy still struggling to get it's footing, the country is looking to green jobs and technologies to help find the way out of the recession and into a fruitful and profitable America once more. This is great opportunity because it works to kill two birds with one stone by creating green jobs that will obviously help the economy but will also help to curb global warming and climate change before the effects change our world completely.

The Federal Government is doing their part to help these two needed causes by having a vital change in federal climate policy. According to the Center for Climate Strategies and John Hopkins University, Impacts of Comprehensive Climate and Energy Policy Options On The U.S. Economy goes on to state that new policy regarding the environment, energy efficiency, and climate change could create 2.5 million job opportunities. This would be a great help to the almost 10% of Americans who are currently unemployed.

The way researchers came up with this conclusion was by examining climate policies in 16 states and recommending 23 different climate policy changes for these states that helped to show job growth. These policy changes could help to reduce pollution cost-effectively, create new employment, and of course protect the environment and future of this country. It was also shown that by 2020, a net profit of $159.6 billion could be obtained along with the almost 3 million jobs for the country and the struggling economy.

The economy and the environment are two issues that America must deal with in order to help bring the country into the future, but it looks like that one may just help to fix the other.

UV Light Helping With Gulf Clean-Up Effort

Lately, the biggest problem solving effort undergone anywhere in the world has taken place in the Gulf attempting to stop the oil leak. BP, scientists, government officials, and even average citizens have come up with everything from stuffing the leak with gulf balls to using hay to soak up the oil. However, what many aren't focusing on are solutions to how to cleanup the oil that is already spilled. Most solutions involve skimming, control burning, and chemical dispersants. Most of these have had their impact on cleaning the gulf, but a new way is not only a great way to clean up the oil, but is actually a quite beautiful one too.

UV light, which is used to spot blood at crime scenes among other instances, are now being used to help clean up oil that has washed up the Gulf Coast's beaches. UV will help scientists and clean-up crews find hard to locate oil on the beach. Under the UV light, the minerals in the oil show up and glow purple and blue which makes it easier to spot in the sand and near perfectly during the nighttime. What the UV light also does (as seen in the picture above) is give some amazing pictures from this horribly tragedy.  By using UV light, people who want to save the Gulf are being given another tool to do so.

Fuel Efficient Car Eco-Friendly and Stylish

When it comes to automobiles, style can be everything. Cars have always been at the forefront of having different looks and being completely stylish and trendy to coincide with the times they are apart of. This is why dozens of books, movies, and songs have been about this very subject. However, the tide is beginning to turn when it comes to car culture with more people than ever focusing on substance rather than style.

Most are looking into buying cars that are friendly towards the environment and get great gas mileage rather than one that is sleek or looks great on the road. This can be a problem for a lot of people though because the majority of the public believe that they must sacrifice some style and power in exchange for fuel efficiency. Even the green cars that are at the top of the line when it comes to style come off as too futuristic and just don't have what it takes to hit the road in many people's mind. Yet, just because a car is eco-friendly doesn't mean it can't have amazing style. Actually the style of a new eco-friendly vehicle is hot!

Take for example, the Fisker Karma (seen above), which looks like an amazing gas fueled sports car.  In actuality, it is a top of the line electric automobile. The Karma gets an electric range of 50 miles after which the gasoline engine kicks in for an added ride. It may be a little too pricey for most, but it's a beautiful car that you wouldn't assume has fuel efficient features. This hybrid vehicle thus proves that you can have style on the road and help preserve natural resources.

Solar Power Struggles To Find A Market In The United States

With the disaster in the Gulf coast getting worse daily, the United States seems primed to embrace green technologies as an alternative to the risky and environmentally damaging oil dependency that the country currently uses as it's energy answer. There are plenty avenues for the United States to take when it comes to renewable energy technologies. Things like wind power and wave power are renewable, clean, and some will say the future of energy consumption in the country. However, one renewable technology (that has actually been around for decades) has had a tough time as of late finding a marketplace in the United States.

Solar power, an unlimited energy that comes from the sun, accounts for less than 1 percent of energy in the United States. This is crazy to think considering the benefits of the technology and this may be why the U.S. ranks behind Germany, Japan, and Italy in the solar market. Resources have been put into solar power in order to make it a sustainable force in the energy market place and give it a chance with consumers. However, solar power's presence is dimming in the U.S. and many experts are saying that it has to do with a lack of planning and lack of technological advancement around the country.

The United States suffers from a lack of strategy that will get them off coal and oil as powerful energy usage and move them towards green and clean technologies. Why solar power suffers more than any other in the United States is because of stiff competition from other countries. Places like Japan are coming up with new ways to use the technology and are implementing those technologies presently.

Solar power in the U.S. needs to find a marketplace in order to not just change the way energy is used in the country, but to give the environment a chance to survive.