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    Engineers play a key role in several millennium development goals (MDGs), especially environmental sustainability. They develop infrastructure and technology to protect natural resources, harvest resources sustainably, find alternatives to non-renewable resources, and make transportation more efficient to reduce pollution. Both traditional and emerging roles exist, such as creating sustainable methods and innovative solutions to modern problems. Engineers can also help developing countries through partnerships that leverage existing technologies. One example of a disruptive innovation that positively impacted sustainability is biofuels, which are alternative fuels created from biomass. While biofuels can reduce emissions and use less fossil fuels, full implementation may have trade-offs like requiring large-scale cultivation that could harm the environment, increase fuel

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    Engineers play a key role in several millennium development goals (MDGs), especially environmental sustainability. They develop infrastructure and technology to protect natural resources, harvest resources sustainably, find alternatives to non-renewable resources, and make transportation more efficient to reduce pollution. Both traditional and emerging roles exist, such as creating sustainable methods and innovative solutions to modern problems. Engineers can also help developing countries through partnerships that leverage existing technologies. One example of a disruptive innovation that positively impacted sustainability is biofuels, which are alternative fuels created from biomass. While biofuels can reduce emissions and use less fossil fuels, full implementation may have trade-offs like requiring large-scale cultivation that could harm the environment, increase fuel

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    Engineers play a key role in several millennium development goals (MDGs), especially environmental sustainability. They develop infrastructure and technology to protect natural resources, harvest resources sustainably, find alternatives to non-renewable resources, and make transportation more efficient to reduce pollution. Both traditional and emerging roles exist, such as creating sustainable methods and innovative solutions to modern problems. Engineers can also help developing countries through partnerships that leverage existing technologies. One example of a disruptive innovation that positively impacted sustainability is biofuels, which are alternative fuels created from biomass. While biofuels can reduce emissions and use less fossil fuels, full implementation may have trade-offs like requiring large-scale cultivation that could harm the environment, increase fuel

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    In which of the MDGs (millennium development goals) do engineers have a

    role to play? Are these traditional or emerging roles for engineers to play in
    society and practice?

    Ensuring environmental sustainability would be the one MDG that engineers play the
    biggest role in. an engineer’s job is to create, improve and protect the environment by
    providing ideal and lasting infrastructure to ensure sustainability and to create new ways
    of sustaining.
    For example, engineers are needed to come up with ways to protect natural resources
    by coming up with infrastructure or technology that would reduce the amount of waste
    produced when using these resources so that we get maximum produce. Also finding
    ways to harvest natural/renewable resources, such as water, so that it will be available
    for the future generations, as well as reducing our use of non-renewable resources by
    finding alternatives to these, for example, fuels that work equally as efficiently or even
    better so by creating or finding an alternative that would cause less harm to the
    environment. Another example would be the transportation of goods. This causes a lot
    of pollution to our environment. In order to prevent this, engineers build more efficient
    roads, pipelines, railways, ships, etc., to reduce the amount of pollution given off and
    sustain a healthy environment. The development/creation of environmental policies,
    sustainable development guidelines and codes of ethics by engineers are crucial in
    ensuring environmental sustainability. These polices, guidelines and codes are
    developed and created by engineers who have found the problems and solutions to a
    sustainable environment. The involvement of engineers in politics can help sustain
    important infrastructure as well as attract new infrastructural development projects. In
    other words, engineers in politics help protect the methods already created to sustain
    our environment as well as it attracts new ideas for environmental sustainability.
    These are a mix of both traditional and emerging roles as an engineer’s job is to create
    and improve. It is traditional for engineers to be developing sustainable methods to
    reduce the impact of the ever changing world and the challenges that come with it that
    engineers have to fix. That’s where the “emerging roles” part of it comes into play.
    Engineers are constantly creating solutions to modern problems.
    Another millennium development goal that engineers play a role in would be developing
    a global partnership for development. This is because engineers can leverage existing
    technologies to provide developing countries with new technology and information. This
    can help developing countries create partnerships with developed countries which can
    benefit them even more so in the long run.
    What is an example of leapfrog or disruptive innovation that had a positive
    impact towards sustainability? What are the possible trade-offs of full-scale
    implementation of this innovation?

    An example of disruptive innovation that positively impacted sustainability would be the


    development and creation of biofuels. Biofuels is an alternative to fossil fuels by using
    biomass/organic waste to produce fuel. This innovation leads to less use of fossil fuels
    which can help by sustaining them for future generations to use as well as biofuels are
    less harmful to the environment. The most prominent biofuel that has been taking over
    the fuel industry is biodiesel. Biodiesel is an alternative for diesel, made from plants or
    animals consisting of long-chained fatty acid esters. Biodiesel also has the potential to
    significantly reduce worldwide vehicle emissions. Pure biodiesel can reduce CO2
    emissions by 75% and mixed biodiesel by 15%. Biofuels are and can be made from
    almost any and all organic matter/waste. This means that organic waste from big
    factories and companies can be converted into something useful and reduces the
    amount of waste that is just thrown out and left to ruin our environment from incorrect
    disposal.

    The trade-offs would be that, yes, it can reduce the worldwide vehicle emissions but
    mass production of these plants and animals would be needed to produce enough
    biodiesel, this would harm the environment (over cultivation.) As well as the fact that
    biofuel is usually mixed with regular fuel in order to be usable. Yes, it is still using less of
    the non-renewable fossil fuels but producing biofuels can lead to overusing or
    destroying of land/natural resources as well. As well as, the production of biofuels is
    costly, meaning it would cost more than regular fuel which would lead to less people
    being able to afford fuel. However, displacing fuel with biofuel would mean countries
    would rely less on the importation of oil. The mass production needed for biofuels
    would also lead to less land for forests and food production which can raise food prices.
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    Environmental Effects of U.S. Biofuel Policy | The National Academies Press (nap.edu) (accessed 18
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    Mihelcic, J and Zimmerman, B. Environmental Engineering: Fundamentals, Sustainability, Design. 2nd


    ed. Available: Environmental Engineering: Fundamentals, Sustainability, Design - James R. Mihelcic,
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