Anderson+Memo+9


 * Structuring a Project**

Legal and legislative:
 * Energy Policy Act of 2005 (exemptions for hydrofracking)
 * Keystone Pipeline

Technological:
 * Renewable energy developments

Economic:
 * Increase in fossil fuel prices
 * Decrease in prices for renewable energy
 * Cost of shifting to renewable energy
 * Fears of "carbon bubble"

Social:
 * Rise of political activism, especially in young people
 * Formation of AASHE, Power Shift, etc.

Political:
 * Two party system
 * Cold War/Space Race (led to development and improvement of solar panels)

Cultural:
 * Western culture focuses on the economy
 * Short term thinking
 * (College students) worried about future

Natural:
 * Climate change
 * Finite resources