Comments on: What Was Your “Aha Moment?” http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2011/03/what-was-your-%e2%80%9caha-moment%e2%80%9d/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-was-your-%25e2%2580%259caha-moment%25e2%2580%259d EPA's Blog About Our World Wed, 22 May 2013 15:08:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Lina-EPA http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2011/03/what-was-your-%e2%80%9caha-moment%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-39063 Lina-EPA Mon, 07 Mar 2011 02:02:00 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=6324#comment-39063 Michael,
It’s interesting to see what has been everyone’s “aha moment.” Thanks for sharing and staying commited to environmental stewardship over the years.

]]> By: Michael E. Bailey http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2011/03/what-was-your-%e2%80%9caha-moment%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-39059 Michael E. Bailey Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:28:42 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=6324#comment-39059 I got interested in environmental concerns first when the Santa Barbara oil blow out happened in 1969 and then had them reinforced when the Orange Freeway was built without concern for its impact onthe environment as a stream flowing about 2 blocks from where we lived was completely concreted over and wiped out. Best wishes, Michael E. Bailey.

]]> By: Lina-EPA http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2011/03/what-was-your-%e2%80%9caha-moment%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-39024 Lina-EPA Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:56:19 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=6324#comment-39024 Joyce,
That’s great. Thanks for sharing.

]]> By: Joyce Worth http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2011/03/what-was-your-%e2%80%9caha-moment%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-39023 Joyce Worth Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:28:27 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=6324#comment-39023 My “AWA” monent is when I saw the bass jumping up in the water to try and get the insects flying around alread, an to see all the different birds that come to by bird feeders.

]]> By: Lina-EPA http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2011/03/what-was-your-%e2%80%9caha-moment%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-39022 Lina-EPA Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:06:26 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=6324#comment-39022 Go green! Thanks, Anthony, for your comment. Glad to see how one person can make a difference. Thaks for sharing your “aha moment.”

]]> By: Anthony Leteri http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2011/03/what-was-your-%e2%80%9caha-moment%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-39021 Anthony Leteri Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:46:36 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=6324#comment-39021 My ‘aha’ moment came while I was working my way through college picking up garbage at business locations. One day I looked at the pile of garbage I dumped at a landfill and thought ……what a waste of our natural resources. That was forty three years ago. Today we own a waste recycling facility and bottle & can redemption center licensed by NY State DEC. We have recycled million of pounds of material over the years.

]]> By: Lina-EPA http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2011/03/what-was-your-%e2%80%9caha-moment%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-39020 Lina-EPA Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:09:46 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=6324#comment-39020 Janet Irma,
What a wonderful story! I hope you pursue your dream of becoming an electrial engineer. Who says we every stop learning! You are right, so much depends on finding a role model and many minority children might not even think of pursuing certain careers because they simply don’t see anyone that either looks like them or they feel that they can relate to. Look at it this way, you already are a role model for many young Latinas who may aspiring to become an attorney one day. Think of it, now our young Latinas can see someone like them on the Supreme Court!

]]> By: Janet Irma Monteros http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2011/03/what-was-your-%e2%80%9caha-moment%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-39016 Janet Irma Monteros Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:40:09 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=6324#comment-39016 Hello Lina, I am an attorney and my aha moment came in highschool.

I am fairly long in the tooth, so to speak, so back in my day women were relegated to teaching or nurses. I came from a very traditinal Mexican American background where the women were expected to go to college to find a good husband, it never entered my mind to aspire to be an attorney…until one day in highschool where I had attended a planning meeting for a Future Teachers of American chapter in my highschool. I was trying to start one up…then into the room came a lady, who was very, very pregnant. She proceeded to convene an unrelated meeting and identifed herself as an attorney. I was awed and excited about the concept…I had never envisioned myself as an attorney, because I had never met a woman attorney. That is my aha moment.

The story does not end there, I have always loved engineering, electrical concepts, etc (I am a Tesla devotee) My next aha moment is thinking about going BACK to school for an electrical engineering degree…so I can tinker away with those concepts and, most importantly, in my 60′s start teaching children, encouraging children to go into the sciences and engineering…after all, we are so blessed in this country those of us in their 50′s and 60′s should not even think about retiring, the word is “re-tooling” we need to hoist our grandchildren on our shoulders with the science education that they will need to compete in this global economy…it’s a new world and those in my age group need to take it by the horns and use their gifts and talents to trailblaze the way for our grandchildren!!

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