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sustainability is on my mind. i have been mulling this over for a little while now. as you can see from the lack of my posting for about a month now. i have also been very busy with my paying job, and there just aren't enough hours in the day. i mention my workload because, the project that i am working on (somewhat confidential) has a lot to do with my thoughts thus far on sustainability. my project is an overseas development of residential condominium towers, built on man made landfill on the coast of, well, on the coast of some country that is not too US friendly right now. that narrows it down doesn't it, not really i suppose. but the location is only part of the story, the client is the key here. i cant say the clients name, but i can say that my project is only one of their many developments in this rapidly developing portion of the world. while some of the clients other projects are more technologically advanced, we are struggling to get some basic amenities that Americans take for granted, such as hmm, electricity.

for my project i have given up all hope for installing any sort of material or mechanism for renewable energy. heck we don't even have a recycling project in the entire development, which by the way, is basically building an small city out of what wa previously sand and water, i just cannot fathom building a brand new development without learning from the mistakes of the western world, or any other major metropolis. i am not just saying that infrastructure is the key. how can it be the key when the client is not even considering the impacts 10, 50, 100 years from now, that this project will create. infrastructure such as roads, sewer, utilities, etc. are basically there, and i mean basically, if you are OK with living in a place where the power goes out four to 8 hours each day!

if we are going to be developing portions of the world that should probably not be developed in the first place, please, at least make it impact itself negatively. don't drag the rest of the world into your black hole of carbon emissions. i, unfortunately am not totally in control of my destiny as far as this project is concerned. my boss needs the manpower to get the work done, but trust me the next time, if there is even a next time, i will surely refuse to be a part of a project that is so blatantly disregarding of making this world a better place.