November 14

This week I finished Green Gone Wrong.  I thought the connections that the author made between agriculture and energy were extremely interesting. I read some articles discussing Japan and it's energy. Apparently radioactive xenon has been found near one of the "deactivated" plants, which could be problematic (xenon has a half-life of less than a week). Japan seems to be veering on a course that leads them back to nuclear power and less-sustainable energy sources, but Germany is making an attempt to phase out nuclear power altogether, which I thought was very interesting! I also met with Dr. Bozanic and gave him my reflection paper and some new titles for this month!