"...and the monumental achievement award for the year 2016 goes to...?!"

...LAVA! For the impressive achievement of creating the world's first sustainable city in the United Arab Emerites. The 100% zero-carbon, zero-emission city is in Madar, seventeen kilometers from Abu Dhabi. http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/7394/lava-wins-first-prize-for-masdar-worlds-first-sustainable-city-in-uae.html

Good news!!

Over the past few blogs I have been ranting and raving about how I wish more people would wake up and see the inevitable future, whether we are ready for it or not, we will need to invent or perfect a source of energy that does not involve non-renewable resources. There is a finite amount of resources that we have at our disposal. They will eventually run out.

But most importantly, we will have to create this energy source BEFORE these finite resources run out. Because we will destroy our planet and our race in the meantime by polluting the air, the ground, the water, the plants, the animals, and everything on this planet. I was using the polling the nations database, which is extremely useful for our research paper by the way, when I found results of a poll that people encourage the use of renewable energy resources in business, http://poll.orspub.com.proxy.lib.ilstu.edu/document.php?id=quest10.out_2972&type=hitlist&num=0 . This study shows that 87% of people favor including requirements that utilities produce more energy from wind, solar, or other renewable sources in a comprehensive energy bill being proposed by congress. 9% opposed this and 4% refused or didn't know.

I'm happy about this because I believe it shows that most people think it would be a good idea to try and incorporate renewable energy sources in our society and that it could not be a bad thing. I hope to see more of this!