Sustainability solutions for a city that creates integrated community value. Integrated projects are mutually beneficial sustainable solutions created in and with the community to provide dynamic social, economic, and environmental holistic improvements in the local community. Outcome driven for measurable results project development that provides general community assessment of areas in the community for initial low cost projects implementation, with collaboration development to initiate positive change in quality of life in a community.

2. "Opportunities for Common and
Balanced Sustainability"
 Sustainability
 Water Energy Nexus
 Third National Climate Assessment Draft
 Heat
 Bioremediation
 Fossil with Renewable
 Collaboration

3. Signal Hill
Green City Report
The Sustainable City Committee
Land use in Signal Hill is broken
down into the following
categories:
Commercial - 21%
Industrial - 39%
Open space - 2%
Public / institutional - 3%
Residential - 35%

4. SCC
The City of Signal Hill Sustainability Committee is committed to striking a
balance between economic growth, social responsibility, and
environmental well being by partnering with our neighbors, business, and
the community to provide a healthy and enduring environment for future
generations.
The purpose of the committee is to develop and recommend a sustainable
framework to the City of Signal Hill City Council that promotes
environmentally friendly practical objectives

5. Pragmatic sustainable value

6. Sustainability factors
http://biomass.ucdavis.edu/files/events/2010-cbc-forum/mckinney.pdf

7. Water Energy Nexus

8. Draft Third National Climate Assessment
Regional Demo Graphics
http://ncadac.globalchange.gov/download/NCAJan11-2013-publicreviewdraft-fulldraft.pdf

9. 1,445,400 kWh impact

10. Heat
Description of a “vicious spiral” of warming
in Southwest cities that could lead 7 to
serious increases in illness and death due
to heat stress. This spiral shows how more
8 heat waves can lead to increased
occurrence of electric power brownouts
and outages, 9 which in turn reduce the
availability of life-saving air conditioning.
Shown in green 10 above are various
response options, such as increased use of
more efficient architectural 11 practices,
more reflective building and paving
materials, low water-use landscaping for 12
shading, alternative energy, smart electric
grid technologies, and improved public 13
awareness, which can reduce vulnerability.
http://ncadac.globalchange.gov/download/NCAJan11-2013-publicreviewdraft-chap20-southwest.pdf

11. Islands in the Sky

12. Urban Heat Islands- Hot Cities
An urban heat island (UHI) is a metropolitan area
that is significantly warmer than its surrounding
rural areas due to human activities. The
temperature difference usually is larger at night
than during the day, and is most apparent when
winds are weak. Seasonally, UHI is seen during
both summer and winter. The main cause of the
urban heat island is modification of the land
surface by urban development which uses
materials which effectively retain heat. Waste heat
generated by energy usage is a secondary
contributor. As a population center grows, it tends
to expand its area, and increase in its average
temperature. The less-used term heat island
refers to any area, populated or not, which is
consistently hotter than the surrounding area.
http://ncadac.globalchange.gov/download/NCAJan11-2013-publicreviewdraft-chap28-adaptation.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_islands

13. Reflective surfaces (geoengineering)
If all urban, flat roofs in warm climates were whitened, the resulting 10% increase in
global reflectivity would offset the warming effect of 24 Gigatonnes of greenhouse
gas emissions, or equivalent to taking 300 million cars off the road for 20 years. This
is based on the fact that a 1,000-square-foot (93 m2) white roof will offset 10 tons of
carbon dioxide over its 20 year lifetime.
Reflective surfaces are artificially-altered surfaces that can
deliver high solar reflectance (the ability to reflect the
visible, infrared and ultraviolet wavelengths of the sun,
reducing heat transfer to the surface) and high thermal
emittance (the ability to radiate absorbed, or non-reflected
solar energy Reflective surfaces are a form of
geoengineering.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roof-albedo.gif
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_roof

14. Biomass-Bio Remediation
Brown to Green
http://www.thefuelfilm.com/learn.php
http://curriculumhub.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/Members

15. Brown into Green

16. Value Integration of Biomass
http://www.biomassconnections.com/resources.asp

17. Fossil Fuel with
Renewable Adaptation
http://www.epa.gov/renewableenergyland/

18. Balanced economic value moving towards
Neutral CO2 value on oil land
http://www.epa.gov/renewableenergyland/docs/repowering_trackingmatrix_oct12.pdf

19. Collaborations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Signal_Hill_California_1923.jpg

20. "Opportunities for Common and
Balanced Sustainability"
 Sustainability
 Water Energy Nexus
 Third National Climate Assessment Draft
 Heat
 Bioremediation
 Fossil with Renewable
 Collaboration
Sustainable
communities occur
when individuals adopt
a mindset of
stewardship and
collaboration in the
pursuit to move beyond
what is and transform
what is into what it
should be.
The City of Signal Hill Sustainability Committee is committed to striking a
balance between economic growth, social responsibility, and environmental
well being by partnering with our neighbors, business, and the community