Death Penalty in Texas Blog6

“I do not think that people need to be on death row for ten plus years. That is ridiculous. People should not have to sit around that long knowing that they are going to be put to death." I disagree with this statement. If people do such a horrific crime that they are going to be put to death, I believe that they need to sit in jail and think about what they have done. I mean, what an easy way out it would be if we were to shorten the appeals process and execute the guilty ones right away. The perpetrator of the crime would have very little time to ponder over his guilt. Also, the prosecution would not have the time to reconsider the case in the off-chance that they made a mistake, and an innocent person might be executed wrongly. I do agree on the Willingham case there have been too many cases in the news lately that are showing that an innocent person has been executed here in Texas such as Willingham. Texas needs find a way to not let it again and kill innocent people.

The government offers very little opportunity to those that abuse the justice system. If you do not have the money to buy your freedom you are left to suffer the consequences. They are tainted for the rest of their lives as criminals. To be regarded as unequal seems to be more of a repercussion than death. We need to change a system and process to better provide a solution to people that could possibly be placed on death row. For example there are countless ways to die naturally; these types of destructive actions are easy ways to label humanity as arrogant.

"Texas think green" Blog 8

This is a great idea that they are passed the grant and it” will give Texas $5.8 million for attic insulation, weather stripping, high efficiency appliances, and other improvements to low-income households over the next two years. The building of a solar panel and having "energy districts" might be seen by 2015 and by doing this will keep electricity demand low, so that Austin can avoid a power plant built by 2020” (Toohey, Marty). This people must be able to accommodate enough solar panels to generate more electricity than the household uses, should a homeowner choose to add panels. We just need to watch and see if this really effective the use of solar panel to help to prevent the pollution and lower the use of power plants as Hector said in his blog. Austin is starting to change its view on the environment, as we can tell, passes and its increasing rapidly on the pollution as every year.
The city established its first conservation programs in the early 1980s. In 1999, the City Council ordered Austin Energy to make energy efficiency its top priority. The city now spends about $25 million a year on such programs. Both business and environmental advocates clashed over many points of the plan. Also both camps quickly agreed that Austin should emphasize energy efficiency. How Wood and Reed are ambitious about cutting the energy demand of megawatts by 2020, and not satisfied by the Austin Energy goal of 800megawatts and striving for 1,000mw goal, it will put one foot ahead of the other states by keeping the planet cleaner.

Blog 7: Fry: Wind farms reap a grim harvest

The wind power development adds another threat to birds will not breed near tall structures for fear and springtime booming sage grouse is being replaced with the eerier whoosh of whirring turbines. Global warming threatens ecosystems, and act to reduce carbon emissions to maintain the planet’s biodiversity. But one potential solution carries threats of its own to be mitigated. “Wind power is the fastest-growing form of alternative energy, with projections that it will grow twelvefold over the next 20 years. This will mean about 175,000 turbines installed on more than 30,000 square miles of land — more land than in New Hampshire, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode Island combined”. Wind is the only sector in the USA that is free from the federal regulation and each month new wind installations springing up like daisies, too little for environment review.

The wind development is far less destructive than many types of energy production, such as mountaintop-removal coal mining, wind power's threats to wildlife are not inconsequential. The high winds frequently overlap with the bird habitat. The habitat issues, bird collisions with wind turbines are mounting. It may look like those blades spin lazily in the breeze, but their tips can reach speeds of 200 mph. If the bird strikes this blade then it will kill the birds and every year as many as 11 bird killed by each turbine. The environmental and wind industry is discussing how to save the birds and wildlife habitats.

The wind industry has asserted that wind projects allowed anywhere where there is good wind power potential, and protected areas. Wind Advisory Committee has agreed to recommend large "no go" buffer zones around sage grouse and prairie chicken breeding grounds. Wind developers also have agreed to consult early with the Fish and Wildlife Service on new wind farm proposals. “The difficult issue of how to protect flocks of migrating birds from collisions with the turbine rotors but the American Bird Conservancy and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology has organized a team of experts to develop recommendations and a research agenda to tackle these problems and knowledge gaps”.