Blog Post #4 Green Week

Smart Grid

We had taught about revitalizing the waterways and waterfronts.

The lecture from Con Edison team said that they have many ways to save money and helps protect the environment. For example, Smart Grid- catch all term, improved monitoring, Architectural changes(3G),Better Algorithms, Pistributed Generation. They also have "Green Friday" the electric system and early electric system. Electric demand and power plant efficiency. Mid 1990 - on set of deregulation; 1G - 2G - 3G. Migration to Smart Grid; SCADA(Supervisory Control and Data Acgusition)

I think Smart Grid is the most convenient system for making power included save energy, money. It is helpful our environment.

http://www.coned.com/publicissues/images/flash/Smartgrid/index.html

Urban Chicken Farming

Urban Chicken farming is keeping chickens in an urban or suburban setting.

In NYC, there are around 30 communities are farming eggs.

The one of local effort is that disturb neighbors because they are annoyed and loud. On the other hands,  the benefits of Urban Chicken Farming are the eggs are made by high quality protein and no chemicals.

http://www.carnivoresdilemma.net/weblog/backyard-chicken-farming.html

I think people should focus on local farming to save the money and be healthier. We can raise chickens own  backyard coops even though.