Environmental Summit
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These five slides were presented as my five research topics to pursue in S&T's environmental portfolio.
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Environmental Summit
- 1. Eric FarrowEnvironmental Engineering Undergraduateefarrow24@gmail.com Sustainable (re)development Energy with morals Solid waste management Sustainable agriculture Obesity epidemic
- 2. Sustainable (re)development Cities crumbling from the inside out 450,000 brownfields in the U.S. (EPA) Over 4,300 acres vacant in St. Louis (stlouis.missouri.org) Research: How do we reuse existing structures? http://goo.gl/t0mP7
- 3. Energy with morals“Using energy without abusing the planet” "[T]he time has come to aggressively accelerate [the transition from fossil fuels.]” – Bill Mckibben “The direction we are headed is sobering” – Eric Farrow Research: (all of the above) engineering http://goo.gl/VyBpj http://goo.gl/je1HM http://goo.gl/kyAd4 http://goo.gl/Avkkj
- 4. Solid Waste Management Fact: There will be waste Average American generates 1600lbs/yr Goal: Zero waste 2020, San Francisco Research: Economics and LCA’s. http://goo.gl/QZYld http://goo.gl/SL8wf http://goo.gl/susuF http://goo.gl/8y4gC
- 5. Sustainable food & agriculture 1.9B lbs pesticides applied per year (USDA) Animals intake 70% antibiotics used (UCS) Research: True costs of cheap food (i.e. LCA); Environmental impacts (i.e. nutrient loadings) http://goo.gl/6m5c4 http://goo.gl/LoML
- 6. Obesity on the rise Ingredients and recipes, not factories and conveyors Farms not factories Research: How do we get “good food to good people”? http://goo.gl/viSlE http://goo.gl/RnRVE http://goo.gl/4zzUn http://goo.gl/IS59L
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- Chena's two 200-kilowatt modules provide more than enough power for the entire resort and have reduced the cost of electricity from 30 cents a kwh to only 5 cents. With a capital cost of $2.2 million, including exploration and drilling, the project is expected to pay for itself in four to five years. Solar: trough can focus the sun at 30 to 100 times its normal intensity;lift two 65 ton boilers 160 feet up to two towers and suspend them above 24,000 mirrors Cape Wind project, Nantucket sound: 75 percent of Cape Cod’s electricity Rhode Island: A renewable energy company has proposed what it says would be the largest offshore wind farm in the United States: a 200-turbine, 1,000-megawatt project off the coast of Rhode Island that would provide power to multiple states along the East Coast (http://goo.gl/sj9Fo) Team Germany: Produces twice as much energy as is used
- The hogs, chickens, egg-laying hens, beef cattle and dairy cows on MO factory farms produce as much untreated manure as 73 million people — 12 times the population of Missouri (Food & Watch Watch) Antibiotics(UCS): http://goo.gl/HfbAb "You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit." - JS “When we subsidize the food system to create the mystique of cheap food, when actually it’s very expensive food. When you add up the environmental costs, societal costs, health costs.” -JS