Current event from Sunday

On the 16th, Secretary of State John Kerry gave a speech in Jakarta, Indonesia in which he covered global warming and the recent agreement between China and the US to work on climate change. China and America are the top two greenhouse gas emitters, so this agreement to work together on curbing their emissions is a big step. It seems that there is a plan to substantially reduce emissions by 2020. Next year, there will be an international meeting in Paris to try to develop a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which was issued in 1997 (even though America never ratified the deal).

I think that it will be critical for America to get on board with a new deal designed similarly to the Kyoto Protocol, which was aimed at a global commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The recent agreement between the US and China concerning their greenhouse gas emissions gives me confidence though that we'll be more open to ratifying such a document now.


Goals update:
-I finally got a shower down to 6 minutes, so pretty proud of that. I got a small clock that I keep in the bathroom, and that's how I time myself
-We got our power bill, and it came to $245, so a little more expensive than last time, meaning we used a bit more. My one consideration though is that the last billing cycle came to $235, but it covered winter break, when there wasn't really anyone around in the house. Now that everyone's been back for a month, our energy usage was just barely more than what was used over a period of time most of us were gone. So, in my mind that's a victory that we were able to at least keep the per cost down