Energy

Creating ways to collect sustainability is a growing field in capitalist markets around the world. I think in this chapter Robertson does a good job of giving us a run down about the different kinds of energy and the pros and cons of most. She is right to say,"We live in a high energy society based on fossil fuels" (Robertson, 2014). Examine your own life, all we use is gas and coal to power our homes, our cars, and even many of the devices we think to be sustainable. But how do we change that? How do we incentivize other forms of energy? Again, I think Robertson does a good job of explaining action plans that could be applied to our own lives as well as those of city and town planners. "Effective plans take an integrated approach, considering building as a whole system whose components influence each other" (Robertson, 2014). This type ofplan and some of the other solutions she proposes reminds of a former player of one of my favorite soccer teams, Matheiu Flamini. Over the last couple years, Flamini has taken what he has earned from being a professional soccer player and invested it into a company called GF Biofuels, where he and other advocates of sustainable energy have been testing the capacity of Levulinic Acid to fuel our cars and homes. According to his company, LA can be safely used in food packaging (and is biodegradable) and in our homes cook our foods and clean our kitchen. Hence, Flamini believes the chemical might allow offer a sustainable and holistic chemical that can be used to stop carbon emissions and protect the health of our planet and our own lives. Since revealing that he was one of the CEOs of the company, his investment has risen in value as share projections suggest he could be worth well over a billion after developing a plan to make Levulinic Acid on a commercial scale. I think this ties into Roberston's book when Robertson says,"Making the transition to a post-carbon  world is a mutli-faceted undertaking. (Roberston, 2014). She later gets into the three strategies we can employ to reduce our use of fossil fuels -- this is exactly what Flamini has aimed to do.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/football/741763/mathieu-flaminis-no-fuel/