This week I've been reading a bunch of articles. They were more related to sustainability, alturnate energy, and "Green" ideas in general than my SLA project, but good background information. One I found particularly interesting was Slate Magazine's article on the greenest tree you could plant. I found it interesting that even if you do plant a so called "green" tree that it wouldn't matter if you just let it die and rot as it would just spill all the CO2 back in the air. They suggested that no matter what tree you plant or have in your yard if you make it into furniture or building lumbar it would help greatly. So now that made me start thinking what trees are outside SLA and are they considered green?
Also this week I found a potential partner. My classmate Robert Yemola is working with a company call Smart power for his ILP. He has said that his mentor has showed interest in doing some type of program with SLA. So i'm hopping to get them on board with my project.
Last thing that happened this week was I got to talk to Peter through skype for the first time. That was a very cool experience. I haven't used skype hardly so it was my first time really getting to work with the program. I think it will probably become a bigger part of the way we communicate at some point. We talked more about what our plan was for the Educon 2.0 conference though.
looking ahead a little bit; I really want to try and get a few more resources read and added to the wiki. I really want to start posting on here more as I really want this to become my journal for this project and a nice way to keep a record of what we are doing. I also would really like to start doing some tests on SLA to try and figure out what our carbon foot print is now so i can start getting an idea of which parts of the school i should be focusing on first.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
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