TEC Internship Summary
2024

This internship was hosted by TEC or The Energy Coalition. It focused on energy conservation, environmental justice, and more. Along this journey, we were able to learn how to use valuable tools such as ARC GIS, a map making and story telling tool, as well as google docs and sheets etc.
One of the most important takeaways was the value of our planet. It is our responsibility to be ethical and moral about the resources that are available to our society. Resources must be conserved in order to:
- Preserve the environment, and keep the earth healthy for future generations.
- Ensure that resources can be shared equally, to even out the inevitable imbalances that are ever present in our growing society.
- Over use of certain resources, such as CO2 leads to harmful effects in the environment.
The effects of resource mismanagement are very evident in the below maps.
Great Salt Lake 2019
Great Salt Lake 2019
As evident here, the effects of climate change as a result of the human overuse of resources has caused an important water source to decrease drastically.
As evident in this graph, the temperatures will only continue to grow, meaning that lake shrinkage will only increase as time goes on.
Trubel Co. introduced this to us students, showing us how climate change can effect all of us, just in different ways.
Not only did this internship introduce students to the dangers of these drastic changes in the world, but showed us what we can do about it! These include things such as learning as much as possible about our environment and the people around us. Doing this research will allow us to know what kinds of dangers people face, and allow us to create better solutions for all. Below is a chart for how to think about potential problems in a linear system to resolve or mitigate them efficiently.
Final Project: Action Plan
To solve an issue that effects many different people is never easy, and requires much effort from all parties in order to change for the better. The workshops that this internship gave us showed us examples of how people in energy jobs are an example of how people are working to solve issues for the future.
In conclusion, this workshop has allowed us a students to realize our importance and the implications of future actions in concern to global issues such as climate change and justice. These workshops gave us tools to use to reveal these stories to others, a valuable asset in the future.