Blog Action Day 2007: Can we help you Get Involved?

What will you be learning this weekend? You can start getting involved there!

As Monk At Work Adam Kayce had coached us during our recent Make A Difference forum, learning increases our contribution:

I believe learning has a strong tie to contribution. We are like hoses — put a little in, get a little out. But crank up the input, and you start blasting out the other end.

When you’re absorbing knowledge, cultivating wisdom, and conscious of the growth in your life, you can’t help but shower the fruits of your learning on the world around you, sharing what's inside you to make a difference in other's lives. And that’s the essence of contribution.

~ Adam Kayce, contributing to our JJL Forum

I just did some research to help me put the finishing touches on the post I have queued up on Managing with Aloha Coaching for Blog Action Day this coming Monday. In the process, I learned quite a bit from a local website called Hawaii’s Energy Future. Surrounded by a vastness of sea as we are in the islands, I was fascinated with the innovations they call our future, like Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion, Wave Energy, Sea Water Air Conditioning, and Hydrogen Power, as hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe ... so much to learn!

So much we can still do. For instance, according to Hawaiian Electric (the company which provides electricity to 95% of the state's 1.2 million residents) “Hawai‘i has the potential to achieve 500 megawatts of added electricity from renewable sources in the next 5 to 10 years. That’s more than triple the amount we have now.”

So I started thinking about all of our readers here at Joyful Jubilant Learning (for learning is what you do too!) who may not have a blog of their own, and would like to participate with an essay about the environment this Monday:
Let us help you publish it!

Do some research.
Learn more about what you can do for the environment.

If you decide to write something up, email it to the JJL Community mailbox, and we will publish it here for you on Monday (please include your full name, for we do not publish anonymous articles here).

Be a part of Blog Action Day.

Make it personal, like Joanna has been coaching us.

Here is a video clip (less than a minute long) on what is happening:

Read more on the events surrounding Blog Action Day at The Action Blog.
~ Post author: Rosa Say

Comments

[Patrick Serfass]

We'd like to commend everyone who helped make the first Blog Action Day such a success. At the National Hydrogen Association, it's so encouraging to see the eagerness to learn more about the different forms of alternative energy. One of the most promising forms comes from understanding how to harness the benefits of hydrogen. Hydrogen can be made from a variety of domestic resources and used to provide clean power for many uses. In fact, hydrogen can be used to power portable electronics, power vehicles, and as an emergency power source. Organizations such as BP, General Motors, Ballard Power Systems, University of South Carolina and Purdue University – just to name a few -- are researching and developing solutions to establish a hydrogen-based infrastructure.

One great benefit from using hydrogen is that it is clean, affordable and sustainable. When its produced, the use of some technologies produce some emissions, however, with the super clean use of hydrogen, overall the emissions are often much lower than using fossil fuels directly. When you use renewables to produce hydrogen, you have an energy stream that is reliable, domestically produced and totally emission free! This variety of options will cut carbon emissions and help the US rely less on foreign energy imports through the use of hydrogen.

Fortunately, in some ways we are on our way to developing a hydrogen-based economy. Some hydrogen technologies are already being utilized to power cell phone towers and in specialty transportation such as forklifts. As these near-term uses become more popular, the automobile and energy industry is working diligently to find solutions that will allow everyone to harness hydrogen technology for cars, buses and trucks.

For more information about hydrogen technologies, please visit the National Hydrogen Association, the premier source for information on hydrogen and hydrogen technologies.
www.HydrogenAssociation.org