Maria Wang

  Name and mission of organization  Sustainable Energy Foundation (SEF)’s mission is to help transfer energy consumption of human activities into a sustainable mode. SEF would achieve this mission through steps that bring innovation and alternation to daily energy consumption, and bring good to the human society. Why am I passionate Growing up in a family where my parents always ask me to pay attention to the usage of water, light, and electricity, I am sensitive to the consumption of resources around me. I was told at a young age that the longer I keep the air conditioner in the summer, the more harm it is causing to the environment. After growing up, the climate changes have worsened, and I had the feeling that awareness of energy consumption among people could, and need to be further improved. What we are going to do SEF aims to build an ecosystem where users could generate, exchange, and preserve sustainable energy while bringing value to themselves. Daily activity optimiz...

Growing up in a family where my parents always ask me to pay attention to the usage of water, light, and electricity, I am sensitive to the consumption of resources around me. I was told at a young age that the longer I keep the air conditioner in the summer, the more harm it is causing to the environment. After growing up, the climate changes have worsened, and I had the feeling that awareness of energy consumption among people could, and need to be further improved. I wish to develop a platform to effectively decrease non-sustainable consumptions in the society, and to promote sustainable energy uses. I may break this down into two main functions: Encourage the efficient use of resources from a daily perspective. Here are some potential functions I have in mind now: Energy recycling: if a user used less than a certain amount of electricity per month, the user is able to “resell” the unused portion for credit. The credit could be used toward other platform resources. Plastic bag credi...

Having a healthy body is important, and sometimes more important than I realize. As a graduating senior, I've been struggling to balance all the preparations for life after graduation, while also maintaining a healthy state of my body. After trying multiple ways of stress management and health management, I found useful tools to make my life easier. Here are some tips I found to help maintain a good feeling, both physically and mentally, under the time where changes happen. It starts from managing the mind. Mental health is far more influential to physical feelings than I thought it would be. I have constantly experienced morning headache last month, and I realized it was because that I kept my brain working (to think about my to-do list, and refine any imperfection in my plans) before bed, and even throughout the night. The constant mental activity kept my body on high alert. Therefore, I started downgrade the priority of the tasks, and intentionally leave my mind empty at least 3...