Starting from scratch

After having my initial proposal denied, I've had to start thinking of a new project from scratch. What I came up with is something relating to important (in the sense that they effect all of our lives) global issues, and college student's perceptions of them. So far I've narrowed the list of issues down to: globalization, resource scarcity, energy policy, environmental issues, and security issues. I believe this project will be both practical (from an information gathering standpoint), as well as informative (in the sense that I should be able to attain good qualitative information rather easily).