Current event 8: The 2010 LA Concept car Design Challenge!!

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Meera Dolasia 

12/04/2010

http://www.dogonews.com/2010/12/4/the-2010-la-concept-car-design-challenge

For some odd years the Los Angeles car shop has made a car challenge, where you make a dedign of a car that you would like to have in the future or a car that you want built. So the car that you design shouldent have so many of earths materials so that you are helping the earth as well. So people had to make cars that were energy used and they had to be light weight no more then 1,000lbs and it had to be able to hold 4 passenger or more. 7 people went into the challenge and there are some pics below about the car a pic with the car. 

So the first car is a Honda Air, It is a electric car that had the inspired by the skydiving wing suits. The glass of the car is able to recycle and the cars metal and others are from a junk yard that were spray painted and the car is only 800lbs. The car has a vegetable based polymer panel.

The next car is made by Mercedes in Japan. The car is called Mayback DRS, the car is fully electric and the car is controlled by a computer that is plugged into a big city transport instructed. The cool thing about the car is that it can be pedaled by the man/ woman so that will driving it is giving you exercise. 

   The next car is a Mazda MX-0, the Mazda is also electric, the people who made this car had three things in there mind to make the car perfect zero weight, zero carbon emission and zero mass. To make the car they  had to use lightweight materials and the car has a super suspensor in the back. 

 

Design

So as you an see the car shops are trying to stop pollution and the destruction of our earth, so they are trying to make environmentally friendly cars that look super cool and that people will enjoy and will keep for the rest of there lives. I think that this paper of these cars is a great idea and if i had my license i would absolutely  get one of these cars.  

Green Plastic Reflection!

The plastics are being developed so that they can be recycled and so that we don't have to use that much in order to rap or to make something. 

A plastic is green if it can be recyclable or if it can be burned and then it can be put into another product or something. 


Some of the problems are that plastic is being used to much and in packages or on packages they are usiong plastic on parts where they don't need plastic or that much, another thing is that plastic that can not be recycled is thrown into a dump and then left there until it decomposes. 


It might become more popular and people will buy it more or it could become totally unpopular and no body will buy it and then the company will become broke.

Food inc reflection!!!

After watching the movie i thought how could people do this. Why would you do that to the animals, and i wondered how the people would feel if they were being treated like the animals. But the thing i found most disgusting is that they made the cows so heavy that they couldn't walk and they used the things to lift boxes to lift the cow.   

They said that with technology it gave the industries more power which made them kill more and they can do it a lot faster then before, because before they didn't have enough people so they couldn't go fast so they didn't kill that many animals and with technology they are feeding the animals out of machines unlike in the past they would feed the cows grass and they cows would be healthy and they wouldn't be any side effect/ killing in the process to people. 

Us humans control what happens to the earth and by doing all this killing and fattening it is affecting the earth a lot and we are the ones cosing it.  

I think that we should say NO now and stop using all this technology and go back to hard work but it makes the earth and the people a lot better and healthier.   

Natural farming is a lot better then technology farming because natural is not harming the animals like technology farming is and natural is a lot healthy and natural keeps bad battery and other thing away like if we were using natural instead of technology farming that little two year old wouldn't have died and he would have lived and have a happy life eating hamburgers and having fun.  

Technology farming is really bad and it doesn't matter how big the chicken is all that matters is that you have a chicken, and even thought its a small chicken you must think what will happen to the animals/ you if they use technology farming. 

I think that the film was really good and if everyone watches it then they will know and then the whole world will help go back to normal farming and then the world will be healthier, you  will be healthier and the animals will be healthier. 

The packaging project reflection!

The packaging project made me think and it taught me a lot about plastic and about paper and all the others. I also thin that this project taught the whole class about the environment and about garbage and what we do with it after we throw it away. My project taught me a lot and if i become a package builder i would make the packages worthy and us full and even if it has these two components it will still help the earth and it will save plastic and paper. Unlike in my package it wasted so much plastic that you could of taken off some and made a plastic container for lunch.
But now after the whole class presented, i think we will all be more environmentally friendly and we will watch what we buy and use.

Nintendo Ds!!!!!

Nintendo DS companies are doing a lot for people and the environment. For peoples heath the company has a work sheet that tells the instructions and then theres another sheet that tells you what might happen if you play to much or anything else. 

Nintendo DS is travailing around the world and helping teach people about our earth and what we are doing to it. Nintendo DS is working together with PlayStation company and these two industries are working to teach and make the world better. 

Some people and getting surges from playing video games and from watching tv, and there for companies are getting blamed for it when it it is not there fault.