What is the most interesting thing that you learned from this week’s readings and viewings?

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Living on the Past, Looking to the Future!
For the majority of human existence, we have relied on biomass from wood, timber, and waste products as their sole source of energy. It has only been relatively recently that we have become dependent on fossil fuels, like coal, oil, and natural gas for our energy needs. Thanks in part to technological advances our global demand for energy derived from fossil fuel permeates almost every aspect of our lives. While this use of these forms of energy has helped to fuel development, it has also come at a cost.
This week, we explore our relationship with fossil fuels and associate environmental impacts as well as explore alternatives to our global and regional consumption and will begin to move toward our own personal and community use of energy.
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Module Objectives:
1. Participants will gain a historical energy perspective and will be able to describe their connection to various forms of energy and how it has shaped human life.
2. Participants will be able to identify personal, regional, national, and global energy uses to be able to become more energy conscious.
3. Participants will identify potential energy issues in their community and begin to develop potential resolutions to that issue.
4. Participants will document and describe their personal electrical use and will begin to see collectively how it is affecting their environment.
5. Participants will identify potential energy issues in their community and begin to develop potential resolutions to that issue.

Assignment for this order is listed below please answer the 5 questions listed.
Roundtable Prompts:
What is the most interesting thing that you learned from this week’s readings and viewings?
In what ways is the history of human civilization linked to the development of various sources of energy?
How might our dependence on oil have social equity consequences?
Energy can take the form of electric energy, energy from food, or fuel for transportation, to name a few. How might your electrical consumption change through the process of this week’s assignments?
How might you calculate your overall daily energy needs outside or your home?

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