L. Hunter Lovins delivered the keynote address at the Iowa Environmental Council's annual conference, "Finding Iowa's Way: Economic Solutions for a Healthier Environment," held October 4, 2012, in Des Moines.
In this keynote speech to the Global Green Leaders Summit I explore the need for a robust conversation on how the growing global population and the rise of the middle class in developing countries will have a huge impact on climate change. It is little discussed in terms of what is happening on the ground from an increase in consumer demand, the connection with energy and, dare i say it, food supply. In the speech i call for a more innovative approach to supporting business and industry to innovate, invest, invent and create
Engaging presentation on global warming based upon a Frontline episode called Heat. Presented by Learn, Share Act.
Visit: http://learnshareact.com See how you can make a difference.
In this keynote speech to the Global Green Leaders Summit I explore the need for a robust conversation on how the growing global population and the rise of the middle class in developing countries will have a huge impact on climate change. It is little discussed in terms of what is happening on the ground from an increase in consumer demand, the connection with energy and, dare i say it, food supply. In the speech i call for a more innovative approach to supporting business and industry to innovate, invest, invent and create
Engaging presentation on global warming based upon a Frontline episode called Heat. Presented by Learn, Share Act.
Visit: http://learnshareact.com See how you can make a difference.
Gretzky and the Carbon Puck: fighting carbon and climate changeSteve Aplin
In the early days of 2008, the "smart" money in big time investing was on mortgage-baked derivatives. In small-time investing, the "smart" money was in Bernie Madoff's funds. When both those markets blew up later that year, people wondered how the smart money was so dumb -- especially given that there was plenty of prior warning about mortgage-backed derivatives and Madoff.
Today, the "smart" money in environmental investing is on renewable energy -- wind and solar. This though there is plenty of proof that wind and solar cannot reduce carbon pollution.
In this provocative presentation, energy and environment expert Steve Aplin explains why the "smart" environment money today is as dumb as the "smart" money in 2008.
I grew up in Highland Park, the heart of Detroit, when the car industry was booming and times were good. My dad was an accountant at Plymouth, and a Marine. My mom and I sat on our couch watching President Roosevelt rally us to war with tanks and jeeps made in Detroit.
By analyzing macro-economic themes that are representative of energy and resource production and consumption, this report provides an overview of the near-term themes in cleantech as we see it.
Alliance President Kateri Callahan at the World Energy Engineering ConferenceAlliance To Save Energy
On October 1st Alliance President Kateri Callahan had the honor of delivering the keynote address at the World Energy Engineering Conference (WEEC) in Washington, DC. With the theme, “Visions for Sustainability and Climate Change”, the conference was attended by over 500 international energy industry professionals keen to learn more about carbon reduction and sustainable business practices. In my presentation, Callahan highlighted opportunities – many of them falling within the provisions of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 – open to both the building and industrial sectors to lower carbon emissions in a cost-effective manner. Energy efficiency is integral to this process, and she shared with audience the myriad of ways that this – our quickest, cleanest and cheapest source of energy – can fuel the industrial and building sectors as they forge that path toward sustainability.
This 4/25/13 NYT' article identified me as "an energy economist who specializes in climate change mitigation". To set up an appointment go to: http://twitthis.com/2xkq3c
Manhattan Institute Reality Check on Fracking, Renewables, and CO2 ReductionMarcellus Drilling News
For all of the attention and federal funds given to renewable energy, it remains a blip on America’s energy radar: solar power represents less than 1 percent of U.S. electricity generation. Wind and solar power together generated less electricity in the first half of 2015 than in the first half of 2014, and investment in the industry has been flat for almost five years, domestically and globally.
Lisa Schulte Moore at the Iowa Environmental Council's annual conferenceiaenvironment
Lisa Schulte Moore, an ecologist from Iowa State University, was the featured afternoon speaker at the Iowa Environmental Council's annual conference, "Finding Iowa's Way: Economic Solutions for a Healthier Environment," held October 4, 2012, in Des Moines.
Gretzky and the Carbon Puck: fighting carbon and climate changeSteve Aplin
In the early days of 2008, the "smart" money in big time investing was on mortgage-baked derivatives. In small-time investing, the "smart" money was in Bernie Madoff's funds. When both those markets blew up later that year, people wondered how the smart money was so dumb -- especially given that there was plenty of prior warning about mortgage-backed derivatives and Madoff.
Today, the "smart" money in environmental investing is on renewable energy -- wind and solar. This though there is plenty of proof that wind and solar cannot reduce carbon pollution.
In this provocative presentation, energy and environment expert Steve Aplin explains why the "smart" environment money today is as dumb as the "smart" money in 2008.
I grew up in Highland Park, the heart of Detroit, when the car industry was booming and times were good. My dad was an accountant at Plymouth, and a Marine. My mom and I sat on our couch watching President Roosevelt rally us to war with tanks and jeeps made in Detroit.
By analyzing macro-economic themes that are representative of energy and resource production and consumption, this report provides an overview of the near-term themes in cleantech as we see it.
Alliance President Kateri Callahan at the World Energy Engineering ConferenceAlliance To Save Energy
On October 1st Alliance President Kateri Callahan had the honor of delivering the keynote address at the World Energy Engineering Conference (WEEC) in Washington, DC. With the theme, “Visions for Sustainability and Climate Change”, the conference was attended by over 500 international energy industry professionals keen to learn more about carbon reduction and sustainable business practices. In my presentation, Callahan highlighted opportunities – many of them falling within the provisions of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 – open to both the building and industrial sectors to lower carbon emissions in a cost-effective manner. Energy efficiency is integral to this process, and she shared with audience the myriad of ways that this – our quickest, cleanest and cheapest source of energy – can fuel the industrial and building sectors as they forge that path toward sustainability.
This 4/25/13 NYT' article identified me as "an energy economist who specializes in climate change mitigation". To set up an appointment go to: http://twitthis.com/2xkq3c
Manhattan Institute Reality Check on Fracking, Renewables, and CO2 ReductionMarcellus Drilling News
For all of the attention and federal funds given to renewable energy, it remains a blip on America’s energy radar: solar power represents less than 1 percent of U.S. electricity generation. Wind and solar power together generated less electricity in the first half of 2015 than in the first half of 2014, and investment in the industry has been flat for almost five years, domestically and globally.
Lisa Schulte Moore at the Iowa Environmental Council's annual conferenceiaenvironment
Lisa Schulte Moore, an ecologist from Iowa State University, was the featured afternoon speaker at the Iowa Environmental Council's annual conference, "Finding Iowa's Way: Economic Solutions for a Healthier Environment," held October 4, 2012, in Des Moines.
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Renewable Energy Sources Can Satisfy Energy Demands
Renewable Energy
,
2012
"A fully sustainable renewable power supply is the only way we can secure energy for all and avoid environmental catastrophe."
The following viewpoint is an extract from a report undertaken by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Ecofys (a consulting firm for sustainable energy projects), and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture. The viewpoint summarizes the findings of an Ecofys study that predicted the world can switch from
fossil fuels
to a fully
renewable energy
future by 2050. According to the study, most energy will be electricity-based, and that energy will be supplied chiefly by solar power.
Wind power
, geothermal heat, and water power will also serve to create electricity and heat homes. Finally the Ecofys scenario argues that biofuels will be needed to power some transport systems and industrial processes that require liquid fuels. According to the WWF and Ecofys, the renewables-driven future will save money, stall
climate change
, and create a sustainable energy system.
As you read, consider the following questions:
According to the WWF, by what percent does the International Energy Agency predict oil and gas reserves will fall by 2030?
What percent of the world's energy needs does Ecofys claim can be satisfied by renewables in 2050?
Why does Ecofys's scenario only provide for a small increase in hydropower by 2050?
The way we produce and use energy today is not sustainable. Our main fossil fuel sources—oil,
coal
and gas—are finite natural resources, and we are depleting them at a rapid rate. Furthermore they are the main contributors to climate change, and the race to the last 'cheap' fossil resources evokes disasters for the natural environment as seen recently in the case of the [2010] BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In the developing world, regional and local desertification is caused by depletion of fuelwood and other biomass sources that are often used very inefficiently, causing substantive indoor
pollution
and millions of deaths annually. A fully sustainable renewable power supply is the only way we can secure energy for all and avoid environmental catastrophe.
Risks and Harms of Fossil Fuels
While most of us take energy for granted as a basic right, a fifth of the world's population still has no access to reliable electricity—drastically reducing their chances of getting an education and earning a living. As energy prices increase, the world's poor will continue to be excluded.
At the same time, more than 2.7 billion people are dependent on traditional bioenergy (mainly from wood, crop residues and animal dung) as their main source of cooking and heating fuel. This is often harvested unsustainably, causing soil erosion and increasing the risk of flooding, as well as threatening biodiversity and adding to greenhouse gas
emissions
. Traditional.
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Risks and Harms of Fossil Fuels
While most of us take energy for granted as a basic right, a fifth of the world's population still has no access to reliable electricity—drastically reducing their chances of getting an education and earning a living. As energy prices increase, the world's poor will continue to be excluded.
At the same time, more than 2.7 billion people are dependent on traditional bioenergy (mainly from wood, crop residues and animal dung) as their main source of cooking and heating fuel. This is often harvested unsustainably, causing soil erosion and increasing the risk of flooding, as well as threatening biodiversity and adding to greenhouse gas
emissions
. Traditional stoves are also a significant health problem: the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 2.5 million women and young children die prematurely each year from inhaling their fumes. With many developing societies becoming increasingly urban, air quality in cities will decline further.
Finite and increasingly expensive fossil fuels are not the answer for developing countries. But renewable energy sources offer the potential to transform the quality of life and improve the economic prospects of billions.
Vanishing Oil and Gas
Supplies of cheap, conventional oil and gas are declining while our energy demands continue to increase. It is clear that our reliance on fossil fuels cannot continue indefinitely. With the world's population projected to increase to over nine billion over the next 40 years, "business-as-usual" is not an option.
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), production from known oil and gas reserves will fall by around 40-60 per cent by 2030. Yet the developed world's thirst for energy is unabated, while demand is rocketing in emerging economies, such as China, India and Brazil. If everyone in the world used oil at the same rate as the average Saudi, Singaporean or U.S. resident, the world's proven oil reserves would be used up in less than 10 years. Competition for fossil fuel resources is a source of international tension, and potentially conflict.
Energy companies are increasingly looking to fill the gap with unconventional sources of oil and gas, such as shale gas, oil from deep water platforms like BP's Deepwater Horizon, or the Canadian tar sands. But these come at an unprecedented cost—and not just in economic terms. Many reserves are located in some of the world's most pristine places—such as tropical rainforests and the Arctic—that are vital for biodiversity and the ecosystem services that we all depend on, from freshwater to a healthy atmosphere. Extracting them is difficult and dangerous, and costly to businesses, communities and economies when things go wrong.
Processing and using unconventional fossil sources produces large quantities of greenhouse gasses and chemical pollution, and puts unsustainable demands on our freshwater resources, with severe impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services....
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A lecture by Professor Norman Myers to Newcastle University alumni as part of Convocation on 20 June 2009, entitled: 'The citizen is willing but governments won't deliver: the problem of institutional roadblocks'.
Technology and Policies are Available to Save Our Environment.Paul H. Carr
OUTLINE: POLICY INFLUENCERS
1. Wall Street Journal - Is climate science settled?
2. Peer-reviewed Climate Science Articles- 99% settled.
3. Forbes – Is carbon-free energy available?
4. Nashua Telegraph – What about China’s coal burning?
5. Risky Business Report - Economics of Global Warming. by Bloomberg, Paulsen, & Steyer
6. Pope Francis’ Moral Responsibility to bequeath a habitable planet to future generations
Sustainable Computing and Telecom Can Contribute to Limiting Global Climatic ...Larry Smarr
10.07.28
Invited Seminar
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Title: Sustainable Computing and Telecom Can Contribute to Limiting Global Climatic Disruption
Florham Park, NJ
OverviewIntroduction to WeatherizationPeople are using more en.docxalfred4lewis58146
Overview
Introduction to Weatherization
People are using more energy in their homes today than ever before. Unfortunately, much of this energy is wasted.
The Department of Energy began the Weatherization Assistance Program in 1976 to aid low-income families by weatherizing their homes. These families, in turn, conserve energy, save money on energy bills, and invest in their local communities.
There are many agencies and organizations that can help homeowners make their homes more energy efficient.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this module, you should be able to:
1A
identify how buildings can consume large amounts of energy.
1B
explain the purpose of the Weatherization Assistance Program.
1C
recall the names different organizations involved in the green building industry.
Module 1 Reading Assignment
Krigger, J., & Dorsi, C. (2012). Residential Energy: Cost Savings and Comfort for Existing Buildings (6th ed.). Helena: Saturn Resource Management, Inc. Introduction.
Supplemental Reading Assignments (Required):
Bradshaw, J. L. (2010). Cost-effectiveness of weatherization in low-income urban housing stock. Unpublished master's thesis, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, (pp. 1-105).
Millhone, J. P. (2010). The "longest running and perhaps most successful" U.S. energy efficiency program. Federation of American Scientists, (pp.1-17).
Lecture Notes
Introduction to Weatherization
Buildings consume 40 percent of the world’s total energy. Buildings use 25 percent of the planet’s wood harvest and 16 percent of its water resources. Building use represents 70 percent of total human resource consumption, including energy, water, and materials combined. Energy is defined as the ability to produce tasks such as:light
heat
motion
sound
growth
technology
Appetite for Energy
The world population is increasing exponentially. No one knows exactly how many human beings there are on the face of the Earth, but a healthy estimate by the University of North Carolina places it at just under 7 billion people and increasing at a rate of 3-4 people per second.
In 1800, the worldwide population estimate was about 978 million people. In 1850, the estimate was 1.262 billion people. In 1900, at the beginning of the 20th century, an estimated 1.650 billion people populated the Earth. The world’s population is greater than ever before and, because of this growth, the global energy appetite is unprecedented.
In the 1800s, when people were scattered over the face of the Earth and the congregated masses formed clusters of mere thousands, energy consumption was not a critical issue. When they burned wood or straw for heat and cooking, they had little impact on the environment. However, as the population grew and more people moved into cities, the demand for energy began to increase.
A Period of Change
The global energy appetite is beginning to experience a period of change that will affect everyone. Eventually, petroleum products will become scarce an.
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Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
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2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
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A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
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2. Global Drivers of Change
• Loss of ecosystem services
• Carbon constrained world
• Economic instability
• Volatile energy prices
• Vulnerabilities
• Chindia
• The sustainability imperative
• Water
• Food
4. New Rule
If we insist on ruining the planet,
we have to stop claiming we’re
a “superior species”.
5. Nov 2011 study from IEA
April 2012 study from OECD
“Unless world leaders take immediate
and coordinated action, modern industry
will lock the world into a calamitous
temperature rise of up to six degrees C.
In such a world, demand for energy, food,
and water will overwhelm the planet”
6. Last year, a new record: 14 weather related
disasters with damages over $1 billion.
7. Hot enough for you? Iowa is experiencing first hand
why America’s decade of ignoring climate science is a
mistake.
Unless Iowa acts to capture the green economy, it
faces a grim prospect, both from the weather and from
an economy strangled by its fossil fuel past.
8. Iowa Ground Central
60% of the state is in
extreme drought.
80% of soil is
moisture-deficient.
Bushel of corn has
risen from $5.50 to $8.
9. Climate Change Impacts
U.S. corn production is
down 13%.
USDA predicts 3-10 %
increase in all food
prices.
Will cost $600 more for
the same food purchased
this year, for a family of
four.
10.
11. Commodity price increases
Credit Suisse estimates that commodity
prices will increase 5% - 20% in the second
half of 2012
Every 1¢ rise in the price of gasoline =
$1billion lost in household purchasing power
What will this do to your business?
12. Food and Water Scarcity
1/3 of the world's cropland is losing its productivity
because it is losing its topsoil
More than
33 countries
face social
unrest due
to record
high food
prices.
14. Iowa Ground Central
Severe precipitation
events have increased
32% since 1960’s.
A 20% increase in
precipitation increases
soil erosion by 40%, if
not properly managed.
15. Iowa Ground Central
2008 flood, the City of
Cedar Rapids had to
pump raw sewage into
Cedar River.
Cedar Rapids was not
the only city forced to
close wastewater
operations.
16. Agriculture = Water Intensive
Agriculture
uses 70% of
world water
withdrawals
Competition
for water
resources is
increasing
17. Agriculture = Polluting
• According to the EPA,
agricultural practices are
responsible for 70% of
all pollution in U.S. rivers
and streams.
• In the US, 40% of rivers,
lakes, and coastal
waters are so
contaminated that they
are unfit for humans to
fish in, swim in, or drink.
18. Agriculture = Energy Intensive
In 1940 we produced 2.3
calories of food energy
for every calorie of fossil
fuel energy we used.
Now it takes 10 calories
of fossil-fuel energy to
produce a single calorie
of modern supermarket
food
19. 2012 had over 2,000 record-
shattering heat events
Every state in the nation experienced a record warm
daily temperature
20. Feb 2012 the UN released Resilient People,
Resilient Planet: A future worth choosing
The 22-member panel said a new blueprint for
growth and low-carbon prosperity must be
"mainstreamed" into economic policy as
quickly as possible
By 2030 the planet will need at least
50% more food,
45% more energy and
30% more water.
25. The science does not matter
Let’s assume that the climate sceptics
are right
Don’t go to the casino on those odds
If all that you care about is maximizing
profit, you will do exactly what you
would do if you were scared to death
about climate
28. The Carbon Disclosure Project
Institutional investors -
$78 trillion assets
Pushing FTSE top 500
companies to
disclose “investment-related”
GHG emissions
6% of leading companies deselect
suppliers who fail to manage carbon,
56% commit to do so in the future
29. 6,300 computers and monitors in sleep or standby mode
when not in use (24/7).
Leave machines on one evening a week for updates and
turn them off at the end of the work day: $700,000.
US companies waste $2.8 billion a year on 108 million
unused PCs. In 2009, these unused PCs will emit 20
million tons of carbon dioxide emissions – the impact of
4 million cars.
PC power costs are the largest single factor of IT energy
costs and can account for a quarter of the costs in a
modern office building.
30. “Ford Saves One Million Dollars...
By Shutting Off Computers”
Fast Company, 23 March 2010
Turning off one computer every night for a year saves $34
If 20 computers are left on in the evening and over the weekend,
the savings grow to $526 a year
31. 7M square feet DC with 500 Watt roof lights
evenly spaced every 10 feet. Half the floor
space was racks with boxes.
Most of this lighting was
either unnecessary or
redundant. Work areas
had task lighting at the
employee level.
Annual savings for
shutting off the lights...
$650,000.
33. Green buildings improve labor
productivity and worker health
Improving indoor air quality could save U.S.
businesses:
• $58 billion in avoided sick time each year,
• Another $200 billion earned in increased worker
performance.
34. Comparative Costs
in Large Office Buildings
Data from Building Owners and Managers Association: Electric Power
research Institute, Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1991
35. Carbon War Room
Partnership between Lockheed Martin, Energi,
Barclays, and Ygrene to retrofit commercial real estate.
Will return $4 million in tax revenues for every $1 million
$10 million in economic activity generated and 60 jobs
created.
The $650 million program will bring its first two cities:
Sacramento and Miami 40,000 jobs created, $1 billion in
tax benefits, and at least $10 billion in increased
economic output
Will scale across US, as well as China.
36. Renewable Generation
Environment Iowa has shown how the state, now 85%
dependent on coal energy imported from out of town
could provide 100% of its needs from renewable Iowa
power, keeping jobs and money here.
37. Solar deployment – policy matters
California receives
70% more sunlight
for producing solar
energy than
Germany.
But Germany
installs 28 times
more solar electric
capacity every year
Will be 100%
renewable by 2050
38. The Economics of Feed-in Tariffs
Deutsche Bank Study: FiTs gave Germany the
lead in renewable energy production.
In first 4 years FiTs created 300,000 new jobs
FITs cut the unit cost of solar panels 30 percent in
2009 enough that they could pay for themselves
within five to seven years, and reach grid parity
(costing the same as grid electricity) by 2013.
39. FiTs drove German economic regeneration, enabling
Germany to pay its own citizens to produce, install
and maintain their own renewable energy systems,
instead of buying imported fossil fuels. The program
cost of €2 - 3 per month ($50 to customers’ electricity
bills each year) to electricity bills in Germany (a total
of €8.6 billion.)
Deutsche Bank: The savings created by FiTs exceeded
total cost of payments made by households.
Had customers bought electricity from conventional
generation and paid the costs of fossil fuel generation
Germans would have paid over €9.4 billion.
40. Iowa Leading the Way
Iowa is a National Leader
in Renewable Energy
• 20% of energy from sun, wind, and biofuels
• 200 wind companies with 7,000 full-time jobs
The Green Economy Unleashed
• By 2020:
• Create 20,000 new jobs
• Save consumers $1 billion annually
41. Renewable Benefits
+ Jobs
+
+$
Iowa’s renewable resources could provide 17 times
more energy than the state needs
It would help the average Iowa family save $400
It would create at least 3,000 new jobs each year!
42. Jobs Growth
Since 2006 jobs in renewables and environment
have grown 56.8% vs Internet: 29.8%
California's “green economy" grew 3X as fast as
traditional economy between 2008 and 2009 –
174,000 employed in green economy – 26% are
manufacturing jobs vs 9% in total economy.
In US green jobs grew 9.1% 1998 – 2007, 2 ½ X
faster than all job growth.
43. Early stage companies are the
economic future of the US.
Kauffman research shows that startups
are responsible for:
• Almost all net job growth in the U.S.
economy for all but 7 years – from 1977
to now
• The top 1% of highest growth startups
generate almost 10% of all new jobs
44. Sonoma County Energy
Independence Program
8.4% increase in construction-related jobs in
Sonoma County between January, 2009 and
September, 2009
3.0% job decline in Napa County
July-August 2009:
$5.6 million in SCEIP projects
500 new construction jobs reported
45. Dardesheim, Germany - 100% renewable
Wildpoldsried produces
321% more energy than it
uses; makes $5.7 million
each year
46. 1 MW/ week = 15.6 GW
In 2010 – 21 GW 2011
SCE: 250 MW plant on roofs around So California
$875 million to complete (comparable coal plant ~$800 million)
49. Wind is the 2nd fastest growing
energy supply technology in the
world:
37 GW in 2009, 32 GW 2010
Now 237 GW, 40 GW new 2011
Costs less than coal in good sites
And check
out China
50. China has replaced • If China’s economy
the United States as grows at its prior rate
the world's leading • If it uses resources as
consumer of most inefficiently as the U.S.
basic commodities,
• By 2030 China will need
like oil, grain, coal,
99 million barrels of oil a
and steel.
day.
The world currently
produces 80+ million
barrels per day and may
never produce more.
51. China Renewable Investments
• China’s State Administration of
Energy (SAE), is creating a new
energy blueprint
• Total investments for renewable
energy by 2020
– $911 billion for efficiency and
renewables
– 10.6b million new jobs
– Generate several trillion
dollars in new GDP
52. Rise of Solar in China
China accounted for China’s efforts to
half of the worlds dominate renewable
production in solar energy technologies
raise the prospect that
energy.
the West may someday
trade its dependence
Producing panels as on oil from the Mideast
low as $1.04 a watt. for a reliance on solar
panels, wind turbines
and other gear
manufactured in China.
54. Rizhao, China
City of 3 million
– 99% use
solar hot water
5,000
manufacturers
of simple solar
water heaters
Now looking at
export
55. Baoding, China Mayor Yu Quin:
“Polluting first
and cleaning up
later is very
expensive. So we
chose renewable
energy to replace
traditional
industry.”
200 renewable
energy
companies
replace cars and
textiles
56. R. James Woolsey’s solar
powered plug-in-hybrid
has a bumper sticker
reading:
“Osama bin Ladin hates
my car.”
57. Fragile supply lines – for every 24 convoys a
marine comes home in a body bag
Military uses
10.6 million
gallons/day
Largest fuel user in the world
59. Great Green Fleet
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus: "We simply have to
figure out a way to get American-made, home-grown
fuel that is stably priced, that is competitive with oil,"
Deploy a biofuel-burning carrier
MH-60 chopper flying group by 2016 and require the
on 50-50 algae/ grease Department of the Navy to get half
biofuel and petroleum of its energy from alternative
fuel sources by 2020.
60. USS Ford frigate used 25,000 gallons to sail 12,000 miles from
Everett Wash to San Diego – no difference in performance
Solyazyme and Dynamic Fuels
61. F-18 Green Hornet flying on Sustainable Fuels’ oil seed fuel/ jet
fuel mix – 60 – 75 million barrels of jet fuel/ year
62.
63. European/Middle East Smartgrid
Power equal to the total
present usage of the
EUMENA region power
could be generated
covering less than 0.3% of
the Sahara Desert with
CSP plants. DESERTEC
Foundation proposes a
supergrid from Iceland to
Arabian peninsula, from
Baltic to west coast of
Africa, in which offshore
wind and wave farms, photovoltaic sites, tidal stream
generators, biomass, geothermal and hydroelectric stations
would unite with desert CSP arrays to meet the region's actual
daily and hourly demands over an HVDC network
65. “By the way, in 2011, GE's wind turbines achieved RE
less than C for the first time. It really happened. Now
we're designing super efficient and flexible combined
cycle gas turbines that will compliment renewable
intermittency, while we work on energy storage
technologies. Solar is next...”
67. Ray Anderson
What is the business
case for ending life
on earth?
68. Interface "Mission Zero"Metrics
-Net GHG emissions down 82% in absolute tonage-
Fossil fuel usage is down 60%-
Water usage is down 75%-
Renewables and recycled materials up 25%-
Renewable energy is up 27%-
Diverted 74,000 tons of used carpet from landfills-
Goal: 0 impact, 0 footprint - ½ way to goal today.
Anticipate will make goal in 2020.
Best thing for business: Costs down $4.5M
Sales increased by 2/3 Profits up 2X-
Paid for all costs for transformation of Interface.
69.
70. Harvard Business Review
“Sustainability isn’t the burden on bottom lines
that many executives believe it to be. It can
lower your costs and increase your revenues.
That’s why sustainability should be a
touchstone for all innovation.
In the future, only companies that make
sustainability a goal will achieve competitive
advantage. That means rethinking business
models as well as products, technologies and
processes.”
Why Sustainability is Now the Key Driver of Innovation
71. Sustainability pays
Companies in the Dow Jones sustainability Index
outperform the general market
Goldman Sachs report July 2007: Companies
that are leaders in environmental, social and
governance (ESG) policies outperform
competitors in stock performance—by an
average of 25%.
72% of the companies on the DJSI outperformed
industry peers
72. Refusal to report quarterly
The ultimate cost of short-termism was the
financial crisis of 2008-9. 'Too many
investors have become short-term gamblers:
the more fluctuations in share price they can
engineer, the better it is for them. It is not
good for the companies or for society, but it
is influencing the way firms are being run, all
the same.... To drag the world back to sanity,
we need to know why we are here. The
answer is: for consumers, not shareholders.
If we are in synch with consumer needs and
the environment in which we operate, and
take responsibility for society as well as for
our employees, then the shareholder will
Paul Polman
also be rewarded'
73. Unilever’s
Sustainable Living Plan:
Cut environmental impacts in
half by 2020,
Source 100% of agricultural
materials sustainably, and
Help more than 1billion people
improve their health and well-
being.
74. Sustainable Agriculture
• Build healthy topsoil
• Minimize use of fossil fuels
• Plant crops suitable to
local climate
• Use a whole systems
approach to farm
management
75. Top Menu Trends of 2012
Survey by The National Restaurant Association
#1 Locally sourced meats and seafood
#2 Locally grown produce
#4 Hyper-local sourcing
#5 Sustainability
#8 Locally produced wine and beer
#12 Farm/estate-branded ingredients
76. Carbon Innovators Lead
Companies that lead in climate-related innovation give
higher financial performance (five-year return on equity)
Three indexes identified the most resilient, most
innovative and best positioned companies to gain
competitive advantage in the new low-carbon economy
Ranking the top 350 US companies, with a combined
market cap of $350 trillion, on their climate innovation
and carbon management programmes, shows a positive
correlation between the financial performance of
companies and their ability to successfully implement
disruptive market innovations related to climate change.
78. Calera
Calera is piloting
making cement in the
same way that coral
reefs make limestone:
CO2 and seawater.
Carbon negative
process.
Vinod Khosla is a lead
investor
80. Method is making its bottles out of recycled
plastic –
25% of it harvested from the oceans
81. Synthetic biology could create buildings that inhale carbon
dioxide, and control temperature without air conditioning –
Dr Rachel Armstrong, senior TED Fellow, Director of Avatar
82. I am a professor of a discipline
that did not exist when I went to
college
84. The best way to predict the
future is to invent it
85. His goal:
To make the world work
for 100% of humanity, in
the shortest possible time,
through spontaneous
cooperation without
ecological offense or
disadvantage of anyone.”
87. The rule of no realm is mine but all worthy things that are in
peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And for my
part I shall not wholly fail if anything passes through this night
that can still grow fair and bear fruit and flower again in the
days to come. For I too am a steward, did you not know?
88. In the end, it was two rather ordinary, playful,
unassuming hobbits who undertook to save the world.
Despite their fears, they took the future of the world on
their shoulders, and all the wizards and kings and
warriors could only play a supportive role.
93. DONG energy and Better Place
$12,000 for a family-sized all-
electric sedan: Renault Fluence
EV. Drive as much as you want.
Pay $300/ month (less if you
drive fewer miles). Emit no CO2
or other pollutants. And help the
world break its addiction to oil
Better Place has ordered 100,000 cars from Renault. Agassi
plans to order another 100,000 cars in the first half of 2012.
Agassi has agreements with governments to roll out Better
Place in northern California, in the urban regions of Australia
and in Hawaii. France, too, has made a major commitment to
electric vehicles, one reason why Renault says it will launch four
electric car models in the next several years.
95. Math is the low hanging fruit
of online education
Advanced
Linear chains of
Food
Chain
of
Topics
knowledge
Constant over time
Basic
96.
97. Hundreds of Topics for ‘Micro-Lesson’ Nodes – 12-15 min
advanced / research / just plain
core principles / foundations interesting case studies
98. Online Sustainability Education is a Different Beast
(interdisciplinary, dynamic, ecology of knowledge)
Sustainable
Ci8es
Advanced
Sustainable
Well
Being
Human
microbiome
and
virome
Buildiing
Design
and
Human
Health
Carbon
Nega8ve
Blgs
and
Houses
Made
of
Food
Web
of
Topics
Meat
RooBop
Farming
RooBop
Biodiversity
Systems
Theory
Principles
Scaling
Theory
of
Sustainable
Ci8es
Climate
Capitalism
Principles
Natural
Capitalism
Principles
Efficiency
Principles
Redesigning
Manufacturing
Principles
Complexity
Theory
Principles
Network
Theory
Principles
Art
and
Innova8on
Emergence
in
Complex
Systems
Economic
Complexity
and
Sustainable
Growth
Biomimicry
Principles
Math
Lessons
for
Locavores
What
is
Sustainability
Sustainable
Building
Design
Principles
Global
Homogeniza8on
Jevons
Efficiency
Paradox
Art
and
Urban
Renewal
the
Crea8ve
Class
New
Metrics
for
Sustainable
Economies
Basic
Mul8Family
Housing
Crea8ve
Green
Mobility
Crowd
Sharing
99. Oceans
2
degrees
from
coral
reefs
Other
Tracks
Calera
–
cement
from
CO2
Coral
reefs
Climate
Change
bleaching
Network Structure of Classes Stimulates Large
Node
=
Many
Links
Cross-disciplinary Thinking
100. Join the conversation online:
facebook.com/madroneproject
Twitter.com/madroneproject
What do you want to know?
What do you want to study?
101. Sustainable Agriculture
In 1940 we produced 2.3
calories of food energy
for every calorie of fossil
fuel energy we used.
Now it takes 10 calories
of fossil-fuel energy to
produce a single calorie
of modern supermarket
food
103. Sustainable Agriculture
The overall resource
efficiency of our
farming operations has
decreased even while
we have produced
more food.
What would a
sustainable agriculture
system look like?
104. Sustainable Agriculture
• Build healthy topsoil
• Minimize use of fossil fuels
• Plant crops suitable to
local climate
• Use a whole systems
approach to farm
management
105. Economic Recovery
"Agriculture is the foundation on
which recovery from the global recession
and financial and food price crisis will be
built, especially for developing countries,
which derive much of their income from
agricultural production,”
– Tom Vilsack, United States Secretary of
Agriculture
106. In Pursuit of Wealth
"Agriculture ... is our wisest
pursuit, because it will in the
end contribute most to real wealth … and
happiness.”
-Thomas Jefferson to George Washington
107. “To plant a garden is to believe
in Tomorrow”