Consider one alternative energy technology. The point is to gain a more in depth understanding of the technology considering its challenges, opportunities, scalability, applicability, and any other relevant nuanced considerations for your specific technology.

Requirements

• 700-1000 words long (excluding sources, citations, and quotes)
• have at least 5 sources
• use in text citations
• Go beyond course material presented

You will need to submit a document containing 5 annotated sources that you will use in your final paper
in addition to a one paragraph summary on what your paper will be about. For each source you will
need to include:
• Source citation
• One paragraph summary about the source (see below for example)
• A brief description of how you plan to utilize the source
After you have found five good sources you will need to write one paragraph describing what your paper
will be about.
Some good places to find sources include:
1. Global Issues in Context
2. Academic Search Complete
3. Subject database in your subject area.
4. ICC’s library
5. I-Shares library system
6. Your local library
7. CQ Researcher
8. Opposing Viewpoints
9. SIRS Researcher.
10. Newspapers: Access World News (Newsbank), Chicago Sun Times, and Peoria Journal Star.
The Access World News source should be an international newspaper source.
11. Advocacy websites: An advocacy website argues a specific opinion about an issue. For
example, www.naral.org argues for the pro-choice abortion position and www.nrlc.org
argues against abortion. Find two advocacy websites which are polar opposites on your
issue to include in your bibliography. CQ Researcher really helps with this category.
Example:
1. Berry, Wendell. “Faustian Economics: Hell hath no limits.” Harper’s Magazine. May, 2008.
https://harpers.org/archive/2008/05/faustian-economics/. Accessed 9 October 2017.
In Wendell Berry’s article “Faustian Economics: Hell hath no limits,” he believes human greed and
wastefulness are sustaining the illusion that we have no limits. Berry argues, however, that we must
begin thinking of ourselves, our place in this world as humans, as limited. He compares Faust making a
deal with the devil with our making a deal with nature. We exploit finite, limited resources such as oil,
coal, and forests to satiate our immediate desires, but fail to consider the lasting impact our decisions
have on future resources. In short, the oil is gone forever once it is used. Berry’s answer to being
limited but acting unlimited is to look to the arts, not the sciences and technology, for our pathway
toward limits in this world. He believes these limits actually open up our world, not “confine” it. Once
we learn our limits, we as humans will be much better off.
I plan to use this source to illustrate how the current economic models used generally ignore the idea
that the world contains a finite amount of materials.