Inspiring introduction into sustainable lifestyle. The material is targeted for students above 15 years.
What is sustainable lifestyle? Why is it needed and what can I do for it?
Exercise and various links for further reading are also included.
To feed the populations of our expanding cities sustainably and increase in urban argriculture and vertical farming is vital. As an industry this is just beginning to take off. Many models and systems are emerging, but financing and commerciality remains problematic.
This webinar will explore some of the issues, such as:
1. What is vertical farming?
2. What about traditional community models for urban growing?
3. Are industrial, automated plants in large warehouses the future?
4. What about rooftop agriculture?
5. Is aquaponics a viable model?
6. Can we ever grow staple foods?
7. What are the legal and planning hurdles?
8. What are the financial hurdles and how can they be overcome?
9. What can these models learn from existing markets such as mushroom growing?
Panelists:
Henry Gordon-Smith, Association for Vertical Farming
Oscar Rodriguez, Director | Architect
Milan Kluko, President Green Spirit Farms
David Thorpe, Special Consultant on Sustainable Cities Collective and author of The One Planet Life (Routledge)
Modular deployment of waste to energy, water reclamation, energy recovery and renewable power generation systems allow for the incremental roll-out of systems that generate results quickly and enable communities to rapidly respond to climate change.
Inspiring introduction into sustainable lifestyle. The material is targeted for students above 15 years.
What is sustainable lifestyle? Why is it needed and what can I do for it?
Exercise and various links for further reading are also included.
To feed the populations of our expanding cities sustainably and increase in urban argriculture and vertical farming is vital. As an industry this is just beginning to take off. Many models and systems are emerging, but financing and commerciality remains problematic.
This webinar will explore some of the issues, such as:
1. What is vertical farming?
2. What about traditional community models for urban growing?
3. Are industrial, automated plants in large warehouses the future?
4. What about rooftop agriculture?
5. Is aquaponics a viable model?
6. Can we ever grow staple foods?
7. What are the legal and planning hurdles?
8. What are the financial hurdles and how can they be overcome?
9. What can these models learn from existing markets such as mushroom growing?
Panelists:
Henry Gordon-Smith, Association for Vertical Farming
Oscar Rodriguez, Director | Architect
Milan Kluko, President Green Spirit Farms
David Thorpe, Special Consultant on Sustainable Cities Collective and author of The One Planet Life (Routledge)
Modular deployment of waste to energy, water reclamation, energy recovery and renewable power generation systems allow for the incremental roll-out of systems that generate results quickly and enable communities to rapidly respond to climate change.
Team Profile:
Team E.P.A.T comprises of 4 individuals with their own distinct ideologies and creative spasms. Every
Individual here is an Undergraduate student of BSMRMU, Dhaka with one among us from a different
educational major. Each of us carry our own set of ethics and skills; but all were united in the Front to
establish this concept into the basis of a reality project. We divided our workspaces and worked in each
of our assigned tasks with personal strengths. Through dedication & research and the aggravated use of
the Internet as both source and communication, we were able to construct a project that started from
nothing to now something; the combined ideology that coincides with our personal goals
Abstract:
In order to preserve our way of life, it is high time we shifted focus towards better initiatives at
necessary costs. Harnessing our environment by enterprising nature’s fortification will provide a strong
starting platform and bring Blessings in the long term.
The diesel engine is the most efficient prime mover commonly available today. These magnificent
machines help move a large portion of the world's goods, power much of the world's equipment, and
generate electricity more economically than any other device in their size range. But even with so many
positives, its source of power (Diesel) is at the center of many of our world’s environmental problems.
Being one of the largest contributors to environmental pollution problems worldwide, it also boasts the
malefic distinguishment of being a prime cause for Human Cancer, global warming and directly involved
with spoilage of land fertility & Marine-life.
As a Counter-measure, Bio-diesel allows us to successfully minimize these negative effects and provide
sustainability. It proves to be the best replacement because of its unique properties like significant
reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, non-sulphur emissions, non-particulate matter pollutants, low
toxicity and biodegradability. Cost is reduced using waste cooking oil as feedstock whose rather
detrimental effects on our environment and human bodies are reversed into proper sources of diverse
energy. If implemented properly, a Bio-diesel station could revolutionize the fuel market with the added
bonus of being opportunistic, environment- friendly and source of employment. This could be an
initiative profitable for both the environment and livelihoods.
Unit 9: Comparing the Costs of Renewable and Conventional Energy SourcesBig History Project
You can’t get too far in a discussion about the nation’s electric power sector without running into the question of costs.
Register to explore the whole course here: https://school.bighistoryproject.com/bhplive?WT.mc_id=Slideshare12202017
A home that is inSTEAD of homelessness, takes stress off the municipality infrastructure by implementing RESTs (renewable energy systems technologies), atmospheric water generators, and eco-sanitary/thermophilic compost dry toilet systems to support hyper-intense urban farms, and urban agriculture. This provides a STEADfast alternative to the streets, giving people someplace STEADy in the middle of disaster, or Everyday Brilliance for Disaster Resilience. PREPARE. RESPOND. ADAPT.
Big Green Challenge Presentation White BackgroundGreenvalleys
The Big Green Challenge is a climate change competition from NESTA (National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts). This powerpoint was part of a presentation done by Grenville Ham to about 30 different community groups mustering up support for The Green Valleys community project in the Brecon Beacons National Park
Team Profile:
Team E.P.A.T comprises of 4 individuals with their own distinct ideologies and creative spasms. Every
Individual here is an Undergraduate student of BSMRMU, Dhaka with one among us from a different
educational major. Each of us carry our own set of ethics and skills; but all were united in the Front to
establish this concept into the basis of a reality project. We divided our workspaces and worked in each
of our assigned tasks with personal strengths. Through dedication & research and the aggravated use of
the Internet as both source and communication, we were able to construct a project that started from
nothing to now something; the combined ideology that coincides with our personal goals
Abstract:
In order to preserve our way of life, it is high time we shifted focus towards better initiatives at
necessary costs. Harnessing our environment by enterprising nature’s fortification will provide a strong
starting platform and bring Blessings in the long term.
The diesel engine is the most efficient prime mover commonly available today. These magnificent
machines help move a large portion of the world's goods, power much of the world's equipment, and
generate electricity more economically than any other device in their size range. But even with so many
positives, its source of power (Diesel) is at the center of many of our world’s environmental problems.
Being one of the largest contributors to environmental pollution problems worldwide, it also boasts the
malefic distinguishment of being a prime cause for Human Cancer, global warming and directly involved
with spoilage of land fertility & Marine-life.
As a Counter-measure, Bio-diesel allows us to successfully minimize these negative effects and provide
sustainability. It proves to be the best replacement because of its unique properties like significant
reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, non-sulphur emissions, non-particulate matter pollutants, low
toxicity and biodegradability. Cost is reduced using waste cooking oil as feedstock whose rather
detrimental effects on our environment and human bodies are reversed into proper sources of diverse
energy. If implemented properly, a Bio-diesel station could revolutionize the fuel market with the added
bonus of being opportunistic, environment- friendly and source of employment. This could be an
initiative profitable for both the environment and livelihoods.
Unit 9: Comparing the Costs of Renewable and Conventional Energy SourcesBig History Project
You can’t get too far in a discussion about the nation’s electric power sector without running into the question of costs.
Register to explore the whole course here: https://school.bighistoryproject.com/bhplive?WT.mc_id=Slideshare12202017
A home that is inSTEAD of homelessness, takes stress off the municipality infrastructure by implementing RESTs (renewable energy systems technologies), atmospheric water generators, and eco-sanitary/thermophilic compost dry toilet systems to support hyper-intense urban farms, and urban agriculture. This provides a STEADfast alternative to the streets, giving people someplace STEADy in the middle of disaster, or Everyday Brilliance for Disaster Resilience. PREPARE. RESPOND. ADAPT.
Big Green Challenge Presentation White BackgroundGreenvalleys
The Big Green Challenge is a climate change competition from NESTA (National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts). This powerpoint was part of a presentation done by Grenville Ham to about 30 different community groups mustering up support for The Green Valleys community project in the Brecon Beacons National Park
Serge has a simple and clear goal: help build an attractive, fossil-free future. In 2017 he launched FutureproofedCities — a cloud-based app to helping municipalities to drive climate plans and actions. Serge shows how innovative technology helps addressing climate change impact and how climate change is a driver for innovation.
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Environmental Impact:
The Big Picture
The planet’s population is now approaching 7 billion—an increase ofabout 5 billion people in just the past five decades—and the total pop-ulation is likely to increase by another 1 billion people in the next
decade. Analysts now expect that the ranks of the middle class (people who
may want your products!) will swell by as many as 1.8 billion in the next 12
years.1
You’ve probably seen similar projections, and even though you know
intellectually that an extra couple of billion people represents a sustainabil-
ity challenge, it can be hard to relate those huge numbers to your job. So, to
make the scale more real, let’s work through what it would mean to give the
next 1 billion middle-class citizens of the world a single 60-watt incandes-
cent light bulb.
Each bulb weighs about 0.7 ounce, including the packaging, so a billion of
them weigh around 20,000 metric tons, or about the same as 15,000 Toyota
Prius cars. As an engineer, you know that multiplying anything by 109 makes
a big number, but even from this simple case you start to get a feel for how
dramatic the scale is in real-world terms.
Next, let’s turn on those light bulbs. If they’re all on at the same time, they
would consume 60,000 megawatts of electricity—and that would require 120
new 500-megawatt power plants to keep them burning. Luckily, our imagi-
nary middle-class consumers will use their light bulbs only four hours per
day, so we’re down to 10,000 megawatts at any given moment. However, that
means we’ll still need 20 new 500-megawatt power plants. If coal-fired, each
of those plants burns 1.43 million tons of coal per year.2
That doesn’t sound like a good idea from an eco perspective, so let’s try
solar power for our light bulbs. If we use current commercially available solar
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technology, we’ll need roughly 50 square kilometers of solar panels, or more
than one-third the land area of either San Francisco or Boston. Hmmm. So,
let’s try wind power instead… We’ll still need one-tenth of all the wind power
produced in the world in 2007, just to keep those new light bulbs on for a few
hours a day.
This is the scale we’re dealing with when we’re talking about a billion con-
sumers of any product or service. Thousands or millions of tons of material.
Thousands or millions of megawatts. And it keeps going. Think about the raw
materials consumed to make those light bulbs, the energy consumed by com-
muting factory workers, the packaging materials, the ships and trucks used
for distribution, and ultimately, the waste that is involved when we have a
billion light bulbs. And if we’re having trouble delivering a single light bulb
to a billion people sustainably, what happens when these billion people want
stoves, refrigerators, TVs, computers, cell phones, radios, and cars? What hap-
pens when they want street lights, low-cost air travel, hotels, and restaurants?
You get the idea.
As engineers, we are already challenged by the environmen.
This presentation was delivered at the EnergyCarta Asian Youth Energy Summit 2010. It covers global issues shaping our future, cleantech and how it is defined, design and ethical considerations for industry and policymakers.
Design principles for intelligent research investmentriel-presents
A content-rich celebration of an important knowledge legacy
An opportunity to reflect, and to distil key lessons and insights:
- about important knowledge gaps that remain
- about how best to fill such knowledge gaps
A ‘message in a bottle’ for future research investment
Public lecture to the Australian Academy of Science in the wonderful Shine Dome in Canberra on 4 November 2009. A big picture look at the policy and science integration challenges across water, energy, carbon, food and health against a background of climate chaos and a looming oil crunch.
Innovate uk Horizons Sustainable Economy Framework,Innovate UK
Horizons is a practical tool that helps you to work out just that. It defines the environmental limits and social conditions necessary for a sustainable economy.
Use it to develop and test your strategy, inform commercial decisions, and drive new innovation.
Risks and Harms of Fossil FuelsWhile most of us take energy for .docxpotmanandrea
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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2. INTRODUCTION
There are many discussions on going over the usage of fossil
fuels and the influence on climate change. All these discussions
are very concerned about our future. Many people are getting
the impression that the problem is getting so big that we cannot
solve it anymore and that a big disaster is coming over us.
I wonder if we should be so skeptical. There are many positive
developments on going in many different fields, as well social,
agriculture, technological etc. . Due to these developments there
will be a strong decrease in our CO2 emission and subsequently
in the CO2-concentration in the atmosphere. Moreover there will
be many other benefits as well.
Even if we cannot manage to keep the temperature
increase below 2 C we have learned a lot that will help us to
keep the temperature-increase below 4 C.
3. Examples of positive development
In the next slides examples of positive developments will be
given. There will be many more examples. However the idea is to
show that we know that we are on a wrong track but that we are
improving constantly.Many new and interesting developments
will be realized in the coming decades in order “to stop the
heat”.
A few of them will be given in this presentation.
4. Social Innovation
• The way countries will work together will become much
better and more succesful.This will also be helpfull for many
other challenges.
• Awareness that we have only one globe and that we have to
share the resources in such a way that it will be benifical for
all of us. We are all responsible for this globe and the people.
• Solving the poverty problem in the world.
• Many other innovations will be necessary to manage mankind
in such a way that we all and also other species will survive
the strong increase of the number of people on the planet.
5. Stopping and reversing desertification
Ecologist Allan Savory explained how we currently can stop
desertification and how to reverse it, by dramatically increasing
the number of grazing livestock. Millions of square km’s have
already been turned from desert into green valleys. These valleys
will be helpful to absorb CO2, grow vegetables and livestock’s.
This extra food production will be helpful to support the
increasing world-population in a ‘natural’ way. See his impressive
presentation on TED talks.
• http://www.ted.com/talks/
allan_savory_how_to_green_the_world_s_deserts_and_rever
se_climate_change
6. Improve our agriculture on a global scale
• There is constantly research going on how to improve the
productivity of our agriculture activities. A good example is
given by The university of Wageningen (The Netherlands). They
started the project Cascape to support farmers in Ethiopia to
improve the productivity of their land.
• http://www.wageningenur.nl/en/show/CASCAPE-1.htm
• World wide many of this kind of initiatives have started. As a
result food production in ‘difficult’ areas will become possible.
A good example is the development of the salty water potato.
• http://phys.org/news/2015-04-dutch-saltwater-potatoes-
world-hungry.html
7. New awareness of agri-culture in our
society
• International Assessment of Agricultural Science and
Technology for Development (IAASTD) focuses on agriculture
as the provider of food, nutrition, health, environmental
services, and economic growth that is both sustainable and
socially equitable. This assessment recognizes the diversity of
agricultural ecosystems and of local social and cultural
conditions.
• http://www.greenfacts.org/en/agriculture-iaastd/index.htm
8. Decentralized power production
• The western infra structure for electricity distribution is far
too expensive. Local power stations based on solar cells or
wind are much more effective and produce much less CO2.
• New battery systems are developed that can help to maintain
a constant voltage over the local grid and to cover period of
low electricty production.
• Commercial systems are already available. However in the
coming decade the performance of batteries will improve a
lot (higher efficiency, higher capacity etc).
9. Improving the mileage of petrol
• The effective usage of petrol in our combustion engines is low. On
average about 4% in city traffic and about 7% on the high way.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Energy_flows_in_car.svg
• Students have proven that it is possible to drive more than 2900
km with one liter of petrol.
• http://energyblog.nationalgeographic.com/2012/07/07/thai-
students-beat-own-record-achieve-highest-mileage-at-shell-eco-
marathon-asia/
• The difference between the current performance, about 10 km/l,
vs the performance of the students is so big that it is clear
that a significant improvement should be possible.
10. Developing better houses and
residential facilities.
• During the last 20 years many improvement on energy
handling have been achieved. However at the moment there
is even research going on to develop houses that can produce
their own energy.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSzu83fyQaQ&list=PLA3F
A81425568E9F9
• In case this research will be successful this will result in a
significant reduction of greenhouse gas.
11. Development of new technical
materials is constantly on going
• Very promising is the development of Grafene. This material is
made out of graphite and there is no shortage of this on earth.
This material has an electrical conductivity that is 300 times
better than copper. This will be a new material for developing
supercomputers, electrical transport system with almost no
losses and many other applications. The expectations of this
material are so high that the EU started a sponsorship of 1
billion Euro.
• http://graphene-flagship.eu
• http://mrsec.gatech.edu/page/2013-highlights-georgia-institute-
technology-nsf-mrsec
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp9OKouxd4s
12. Discussion
As described there are many very positive
developments going on. Only a few examples
are given. However the net benefit of these
developements will depend on how the global
society will be dealing with this. If everything
works out very well it will end up in a very
positive way instead of a big disaster