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Memo 4: Wishlist, 2053 Taylor Prince 2 September 2013


 * Research Wish List **
 * 1) Understanding the connection between asthma and air pollution in East Tennessee
 * 2) Developing a publically-available and real-time G.I.S. energy visualization system
 * 3) Quantifying and visualizing the energy used from internet and communication
 * 4) Alternative survey methods for Gulf fisheries
 * 5) Creating a clean energy utopia with resilient communities (as a case study)
 * 6) Developing an “ideal” clean coal plant as a reference for dirtier ones
 * 7) Creating a fuel efficient service truck with innovative tools and functions
 * 8) Also, reviving the small truck market and studying the reason for decline in popularity
 * 9) Indirect consequences of poverty in coal mining regions
 * 10) What benefits would come from transitioning back to a distinct urban/rural/natural lands?
 * 11) What is the overall feasibility of the “slacker movement” and the “Four Hour Work Week”
 * 12) Evaluating different qualities and interviewing people identified as environmentalists.
 * 13) Finding fallacies and inaccuracies in environmental organizations
 * 14) Studying the direct and indirect environmental damages from global militarization
 * 15) Environmental damages (or benefits) of international trade agreements
 * 16) Studying (or designing) post-industrial systems that do not need electricity
 * 17) Research breeder plants for renewable energy
 * 18) Visualizing locations of energy production and subsequent consumption, local
 * 19) Determine feasibility of fuel synthesis from the air and solar energy
 * 20) Quantify benefits of building restoration and living in historic dwellings
 * 21) Study on the personal health effects of different types of lighting
 * 22) What role does religion play in environmental thought?