As an environmental engineer, I always had an idea on resources, sustainability and such. However, we are not thaught these issues at school. They are briefly mentioned at one class or another but they are never the focus or emphasized enough to scare you so that you can take an action in real life after class. That is why I started taking these classes on global warming, climate change and sustainability.
So there is not one but two main points of this post.
1. Don't be an arse and stop buying bottled water. Yes, it is convenient at times but owning an activated filtered water bottle such as Bobble or Brita is really the responsible thing to do. It can transform your regular tap water to filtered clean water in an instant. It is also cheaper than bottled water at the end. Tap water is also better regulated than bottle water which is audited by FDA! Tap water is regulated and audited by EPA. Which one would you trust? I thought so too.
2. Take some free online classes. Open your eyes to what is going on. On issues like earth, science, other countries, history... Heck, take the rock and roll class for all I care. Just keep improving. There are amazing free MOOC websites that would give you access to hundreds of amazing classes such as Coursera or EDX. They offer classes from Harvard and MIT. It is a shame not to take them. Free education. There is no more excuses left. Currently, I am learning programming from Codecademy and it is going amazing. This is coming from a person who could not even get the "Hello, World!" jokes, let alone code it!
Anyway, life is beautiful! So is earth, so is programming! Get some filtered water bottles and enroll to a class!
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