Enviornment and Engineering

In Earth in the Balance, Vice President Al Gore said “the rescue of the environment the central organizing principle for civilization.” In the past 150 years, earth’s resources have been abused and people do not know how to deal with the effects of not treating the earth right. In Educating for the Environment: Higher Education’s Challenge of the Next Century, David W. Orr states that people now being educated must learn how to take …

…To save money and the earth’s resources. We are approaching the year 2000 and earth is getting worse. But we can change that if people are educated on how to stop the deterioration of resources. But Colleges and Universities are have done a very small amount to help educate the young. The year 2000 is a chance to change everybody, a chance to redesign buildings to reduce cost, help the environment, and help stabilize the economy.