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*************It's our ingenuity that makes the difference between a bleak future and a bright one --- Bill Gate************* Clean Technology is about taking a firm stand in innovation to lower environmental impact starting with design thinking, to manufacturing production, to the usage and disposal of electronic products. The mission is to change both products and users to become more sustainable, and develop a new set of attitudes and thinking in all phases of innovation that will lower our environmental impact. I am requesting this grant to launch a new project for 2018 Earth day--Clean Technology Initiatives: Ewastes Collection Canavassing Week. The purpose is to encourage local communities to join efforts in minimizing energy consumption, water pollution, and electronic wastes. My goal is to address the importance on moving innovation forward, without placing further harm to our environment through creative community projects, advocacy, and youth leadership development---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The highlight of this project is a week-long Clean Tech and Electronic Waste Awareness week, where we will go door-to-door in Las Vegas to help seniors and people with disability with e-wastes collection. There will be a GreenUp Home Innovation Assessments, where we will evaluate the overall household innovation, waste consumption, and energy efficiency. We will visit 300 homes in Las Vegas during a week-long campaign targeting senior citizens and people with disability. Our goal is to conduct 150 GreenUP Home Innovation Assessments and recruit 50 volunteers for this community wide event. My aspiration comes from understanding that human activity is contributing to carbon emission that is affecting the health of children growing up in toxic and careless cultures. It is estimated that 20 million children in the world will have a higher chance in getting lung cancer living in an environment exposed to pollution. Another growing problem is the speed of innovation taking a toll on our environment, creating an overwhelming of electronic wastes that is crowding our landfill. These landfills are toxic with contaminants leaking into groundwater that causes health problems to both children and adults.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Currently, there are less than 5 organizations in Southern Nevada that collects electronic wastes. Las Vegas hosts a one-day community-wide recycling event where residents can dispose all of their wastes such as paper, appliances, old electronics, plastic and furniture for free. However, not everyone understands the importance of recyling, and it is difficult for senior citizens and the disabled to participate.-------------------------------------- I personally cannot live without my technologies, and I’m exhilarated when new innovation is discovered. Our world will only be moving faster, and our technologies will only create more wastes if we don’t act now. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As the sustainability model describes that we must start locally within our own community, before we can tackle bigger challenges globally, I decided to do something about this problem. I’ve been studying International Business, and was constantly reaching out for more sustainability work during my undergraduate studies. I have been inspired by the work of Nobel Laurate Vice President Al Gore and Dr. Muhammad Yunnus in fighting climate change and global poverty. I saw their power in getting people to change, and I’m finally seeing our society and policies taking off. I’m also inspired by global citizenship, that each and every one of us cannot do everything but can definitely do something. My goal with this project is to raise awareness, to bring people together and put into action on Clean Technology Initiatives. I am hoping this project can eventually turn into a full-scale non profit organization in the near future.