Energy Department Mission Statement

1A) The Energy Department mission is “ to ensure America’s security and prosperity by addressing its energy, environmental and nuclear challenges through transformative science and technology solutions”. They address the America’s energy by constantly looking to have the latest in clean energy technology and constantly looking the improve America's energy system. They also are involved in nuclear defense and security, and nuclear clean up. The Office of Environmental Management deals with the environmental impact of the organization. They provide services to the public by involving themselves in waste management, which main purpose is to properly dispose of nuclear energy, spent or not, They also deal with site and facility restoration, which

The human population produces an extreme amount of waste. The amount of waste and the way that we dispose of waste in endangering our entire planet and it’s future. This issue has been discussed and people are beginning to try to solve the issue. One group that deals with trash in America is a group called Pick Up America. Pick Up America is an organization that is traveling across America’s roadsides picking up trash. There mission statement says that they are picking up trash, educating and transitioning to zero waste. The group communicates its views on trash by using methods like, cooperative programming and demonstrations. The group goes across America with a core volunteer crew and with the help of the local people of the communities they travel through they pick up trash and host events. Their website,www.pickupamerica.org, passed the CRAAP-Test because the information that they are sharing on how much trash they pick up and their location and what events are happening, is current and up to date. Also the information on the site was relevant. I was able to understand their mission, purpose, and what they were doing to take action in the fight on waste. Finally I found that the information on the site had a purpose, they wanted to share with people that there is a trash problem in the country and what they are doing to solve the issue. Another environmental group that is in the fight against trash is the

The reason that this was able to pass the CRAAP test was because the website had up to date information making it current. The information on the website was both appropriate and was coming from an author who is apart of their cause which made the information both relevant and the information is coming from a place of authority. The information and statistics on the website were both accurate and written for a purpose. The purpose being that Clean Up America is out there picking up trash across the country. A site that I used that did not pass the CRAAP Test was http://www.agriinfo.in/. The reason that this website did not pass the CRAAP test was because it first there was no real way of telling when the information was posted. Their is no other for the site it is a wikipedia design with anyone being able to submit information. This lack of author really changed is what passed the CRAAP test for this site. Without an author know there is question of truthfulness in the site, also ending in .in did not make me trust the site