Assignment

Watch the tedtalk: John Doerr: Salvation (and profit) in greentech

1. What are the four lessons that John Doeer says he and his partners learned in their travels? Which of these four does he say matters the most?

2. What are Walmart's three biggest uses of energy at its stores? What innovations did it use to save money (and energy) on each of these?

3. How many jobs did Brazil's flex-fuel government mandate create in Brazil between 1975 and 2007? How many tons of CO2 did it stop from being produced in that time?

4. What source of energy, if suitable technology were invented to utilize it, does Doerr point out could potentially meet the United States' energy needs for 1000 years? What was the US budget allocation for research into this type of energy in 2007?