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AddSustainability as Flourishing
Energy Descent, Plenitude as intro to making list of objectives of the course
Video of Danish 100%Compost heat video
Arduino video Drawing of Iowa 100% Renewables
Pope FrancisSubstiutabily
Flow vs stock
• Wind and Solar hockey stick graphs
The New Hockey Sticks
Growth in World Solar CapacityNew Hockey Sticks
2005: 468 QGrowing Demand for Energy
A Golden Thread2500 years of solar architecture and technology
1939 MIT solar house
MIT House - Boston, 1939 Sun Alone Keeps Winter Temp Steady 72
Financed by wealthy Bostonian Godfrey Lowell Cabot, described by Time Magazine as a man of 77 who in his old age “broods much about
The vast stores of energy in sunlight that man does not utilize”
Betz limit for wind energy
Thermal Energy In
Maximum fraction of incoming wind energy that can be converted into useful wind generator energy is 0.59. Range is .2-.4 for practical wind turbines.
Regardless of Materials or Technology!
Total energy in moving air entering turbine
Converted to useful wind turbine energy
Energy in air leaving turbine
Energy Flow in Human History
• Low energy societies – Hunter-gatherer – first leisure society – great gains in energy
• Energy gains for hunter gathers:– 30-40 for energy dense roots– 10-20 for all gathering zero to net loss for small
mammals– Net energy return for Alaska Inuit baleen whale:
2000
Lovins on Opportunity Cost
Fine Homebuilding, Spring 1991
Will you have a dead-end job because someone bought the wrong light bulbs?
Energy
Lovins on Opportunity Cost
Fine Homebuilding, Spring 1991
Will you have a dead-end job because someone bought the wrong light bulbs?
Energy
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How Much Oil is There Anyway…
2 Trillion barrels is the equivalent to 1.4% of the volume of the great lakes.
Less than the size of Green Bay.
16
How much is a gallon of ‘liquid carbon’ fuel really worth?
One Truck + 1 gal. of Diesel Fuel 80,000 lb. truck 5 miles (up a shallow grade)
By Hand 1 person with 1 garden cart
= 250 lbs/load/trip 1 person could manage 20 miles/day
or 4 loads/day (1,000 lbs.)
Conclusion: 5 Minutes by truck80 Days by foot & cart
Powerful Oil – ‘Black Gold’
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18
2005Worldwide, there were
439 in operation.
35 under construction.
7-12 years to build 1.
“The stone age didn’t end because we ran out of stones….” - Saudi Oil Minister
Economy of Scarcity Economy of Abundance
Nature’s Economy: Ecosystem Services
Man’s Economy
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life.Mary Oliver
How the Sustainability Revolution Changes Everything
Sustainability Challenges
2 Degrees Safe Global Temp rise
It’s wrong to profit from wrecking the planetIt’s time to divest from fossil fuels
5 times more coal, oil, and gas in proven reserves than is safe to burn. We need to leave 80% of it in the ground.
The fossil fuel industry wakes up every day determined to burn it all.
575 Gigatons of carbon can safely be added to the atmosphere
2795 Gigatons of carbon in proven reserves
“We need a persuasive and visionary yes rather than a ongoing no”
- Naomi Klein, UH Manoa Feb 2015
“Although the problems are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple”
- Bill Mollison developer of Permaculture Design Methodology
“We are charged with designing the future,
not being victims of it”- R Buckminster Fuller
If we get the design right, we get cascading side benefitsIf we get the design wrong, we get cascading side effects
Sustainable Living: A New and Better Design for Living
Solving for Pattern
"There are all kinds of solutions to any problem. Some solutions actually make the initial problem worse, and some solutions actually create new problems. What you really want to look for are solutions that by their very nature wind up having cascading benefits.”Wendell Berry, 2005
SustainabilityMeet the needs of the present without diminishing
opportunities for the future
A world view with a set of supporting infrastructure, technologies, institutions, ways of relating to each
other and to nature
John Ehrenfeld – Flourishing
Sustainability is the possibility that humans and other life will flourish on Earth forever
Reducing unsustainability, although critical, will not create sustainability.
Being less bad vs moving in the right direction SUSTAINABILITY AS FLOURISHING
Being vs Having
Shallow Vs Deep Sustainability
Shallow Sustainability - Using efficiency and substitution to ameliorate the effects of the existing system with doing much to change the worldview the system is based on. Motivated primarily by economic value.
Deep Sustainability
Efficiency and substitution are in service to radical redesign based on a worldview that uses ecology as a metaphor rather than the machine, holism rather than reductionism, compliments science with many ways of knowing, and is grounded in an experiential and intellectual understanding of the unity that underlies the surface diversity of life.
Deep Sust Cont’d
• This worldview leads to a society that has an ethic of regeneration and renewal of human society and nature. Deep sustainability gives priority to ethical and social values while recognizing the necessity of economic viability.
Sustainable Economics
Perennial Philosophy: Transcendentalist, Huxley, Houston Smith
World’s Wisdom Traditions
These is a unity that underlies the surface diversity of life
In addition to intellectually exploring this idea, people can directly experience this unity
This experience is common across cultures and time
To reconnect with this unity is the ultimate purpose of life
Names: Being, Source, Pure Consciousness,
Higher states of consciousness
Perennial Philosphy
The first peace, which is most important, is that which comes from within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the great spirit, and that this center is really everywhere — it is within each of us.” Black Elk
““It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied together into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. We are made to live together because of the interrelated structure of reality . . . Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you’ve depended on more than half the world. This is the way our universe is structured, this is its interrelated quality. We aren’t going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.” Martin Luther King
“Everything is so intimately connected with every other thing in creation that it is not possible to distinguish completely the existence of one from the other. And the influence of one thing on every other thing is so universal that nothing could be considered in isolation. We have already mentioned that the universe reacts to an individual action…Therefore, the great responsibility of right and wrong lies in the individual him[or her]self on the level of his[or her] consciousness.”—Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - Science of Being and Art of Living p. 219-223
Hydrological cycle
Pope Francis and Deep Sustainability
On Care For Our Common Home – Pope Francis’ Encyclical Laudato SiA year in the making and informed by a large team of mostly secular scientists, philosophers, and theologians, the encyclical
offers a blueprint for an entirely new way of living in the world. The Pope applies a comprehensive and sophisticated systems analysis to explore the root causes of environmental degradation, linking it with corrupt social structures, human failures, injustice, and inequality. He calls for a new paradigm to address these intertwined challenges.
"Because all creatures are connected, each must be cherished with love and respect, for all of us as living creatures are dependent on one another.”
Each creature has its own purpose. None is superfluous. ...The ultimate purpose of other creatures is not to be found in us. Rather, all creatures are moving forward with us and through us towards a common point of arrival, which is God.”
The notion of the common good also extends to future generations... We can no longer speak of sustainable development apart from intergenerational solidarity. We can no longer view reality in a purely utilitarian way, in which efficiency and productivity are entirely geared to our individual benefit. Intergenerational solidarity is not optional, but rather a basic question of justice, since the world we have received also belongs to those who will follow us” (para. 159).
“Rivers, polluted for decades, have been cleaned up; native woodlands have been restored; landscapes have been beautified… advances have been made in the production of non-polluting energy and in the improvement of public transportation” (para. 58). “At the same time we can note the rise of a false or superficial ecology which bolsters complacency and a cheerful recklessness.” These superficial ecologists argue that “apart from a few obvious signs of pollution and deterioration, things do not look that serious, and the planet could continue as it is for some time. Such evasiveness serves as a license to carrying on with our present lifestyles and models of production and consumption” (Sec 59) .
Nobel Laureate Richard Smalley’s top ten priority problems in the world’s quest for sustainability:
10. Population
Democracy
Education
Disease
Terrorism and War Poverty
Environment
Food Water
Energy
Nobel Laureate Richard Smalley’s top ten priority problems in the world’s quest for sustainability:
10. Population 9. Democracy
Disease
Terrorism and War Poverty
Environment
Water
Education
Nobel Laureate Richard Smalley’s top ten priority problems in the world’s quest for sustainability:
10. Population 9. Democracy 8. Education
Democracy
Disease
Terrorism and War Poverty
Environment
Water
Nobel Laureate Richard Smalley’s top ten priority problems in the world’s quest for sustainability:
10. Population 9. Democracy 8. Education 7. Disease Democracy
Poverty Environment
Water
Nobel Laureate Richard Smalley’s top ten priority problems in the world’s quest for sustainability:
10. Population 9. Democracy 8. Education 7. Disease 6. Terrorism and War 5. Poverty 4. Environment 3. Food 2. Water 1. Energy
Why is Energy #1?• Abundant, available, affordable, clean, efficient and secure energy
would enable the resolution of all of the other problems. • We need energy for sustainability.• We need energy to maintain order in the world’s systems because of
the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics: – While energy is conserved, as it is transformed, it loses it’s usefulness, a concept
called Entropy. It takes energy from outside the system to overcome the effects of entropy and continually recreate order and structure.
– Only through a flow of high quality energy into the system (and a corresponding flow of less quality energy out) can order and structure be created. A constant flow of energy is required to maintain complex structure.
– Nature and society on Earth are able to produce order and structure only through their ability to acquire energy. Solar energy is the only place we can get this outside source of high quality energy in the long term. • Nature uses the plant photosynthesis to acquire energy for all living things. • Society uses energy systems - mostly the stored fossil energy from those plants
millions of years ago to acquire energy for civilization.
Sustainability, Entropy, Energy
Energy is Essential for Sustainability
• 1st law – energy is neither created nor destroyed – it is eternally cycled from one form to another
• 2nd law – energy loses useful each time it is transformed – same quantity of energy but it can no longer do the same kinds of work.
Energy is Essential for Sustainability
• Examples– Coffee– Car Engine– Leaky tire
• Materials Cycle • Energy flows from source to sink
Energy is Essential for Sustainability
• For Sustainability: We need a continuous source of high quality energy to offset the effects of entropy, we need solar energy
Sustainability: Regeneration and Renewal
The human body and spirit are subject to their own laws of entropy and are in need of renewal and regeneration
Parabola Video
The Economy of Nature
Economy of Abundance Within Limits vs Economy of Scarcity
This
Can power this
The Renewable Energy Revolution is Here
Add stunning progressShow ad on stealing grease from
Notes
Obama Solar Quote
GermanyOn Saturday, May 26, 2012 Germany got 40% of it’s energy from solar.On Sunday, May 11, 2014, Germany got 75% of it’s energy from renewables.
Energiewende, the innovative public policy around renewables has created 400,000 jobs in Germany
“More people work in the solar industry in the US than work for Google, Facebook, Twitter and Apple combined” Vice President Joe Biden, Sept 2015
Solar Potential Germany vs Iowa
Germany (Berlin): 883 kwh per kwTotal Solar Installed in Germany: 38,359 mw
Des Moines Iowa : 1300 kwh per kwTotal capacity Iowa Electric grid in Iowa: 10,000 mw
Hilo, Hawaii 1300 kwh/kwKauai 1469 kwh/kw
Kauai
On August 31, 2014, during daytime hours, 57% of power on Kauai was from renewable sources. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Hawaii)
Once Anahola goes on-line, solar will approach 80% of the energy demand on some days. At some times solar output may exceed demand. Kauai is a laboratory for the world on 100% renewable energy.
2004The Next Generation
2004Photo of my house
2008Prairiewoods 10 KW
2012Sky Factory 54 kw, 79,000 kwh
Sky Factory Solar
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WSWr3GiFKhA
2014 FEC 800 kw 1,000,000 kwh
2015 – 900 KW addition We’ll see it on our field trip
Cost of energy from the latest array at Farmers Electric Coop:
7 cents for 10 years 0 for next 10 years
Ave cost for 20 years: 3.5 cents kwh (ignores time value of money) Wind Power cost: 4 cents per kwhWhat we pay retail: 15 cents
Ave cost of new coal plant electricity: 9.5 – 14 centsFrom: http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/electricity_generation.cfm
Iowa
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 20120%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
From 5% to 25% in Just 6 Years! Predictions call for 40% by 2020
% Iowa Electrical Energy from Wind
5 Times Increase in Wind Energy Production in 6 years
Distributed EnergyVS
Centralized Energy
Richard Perez IRENEW video
Portugal at 58% Renewable Energy for 2013(First half of 2013 was 75%)
Pop 10.4 million
By 2020, Renewables will account for 35,000 jobs
CostaCostaCosta
Costa Rica 100% Powered by Renewable Energy for the 1st 75 days of 2015
Pop: 4.8 Million Annual % Renewables: 88%
Renewables allowed a 12% reduction in energy prices
“We are declaring peace with nature,” Costa Rican ambassador Mario Fernández Silva
Denmark – 100% Renewables (!)
The most progressive utility in the US:Farmers Electric Coop, Kalona Iowa?
• Students at Kalona Solar Garden with manger Warren Mckenna
Community Solar
VW XL-1261 Miles Per Gallon - Tank is only 2 gallons
Electric Transportation: Nissan Leaf
• Nissan Leaf Example
Assume 12,000 miles per yearLeaf gets 5.4 miles per kwh, 2300 kwh per yearCost for electricity at 12 cents (40 cents on Kauai) /kwh:$271Equivalent cost for gas @$3/gallon: $1200Cost of PV panels to produce this much annual energy: $1600Cost of system: $4600
Like having 70 cent per gallon gasoline
But Consider Design Again:The better car makes the worse city
The surprising sustainability of city livingGoing beyond individual initiative
Richard Register Sustainable Living Department Distinguished Scholar
Ecocity Design
Strategies for transitioning to ecocities
The Need to Change(aka the obligatory hockey stick graph)
The new hockey sticks
Ideal Energy Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoEi7wggkLs
Ideal Energy Installing Solar Panels on the Public Library
Mark Jacobson’s 100% Renewable Energy Plan
Source Diversity
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Storage in electric cars
Each Leaf has a 24 kwh battery and electronics capable of producing a 80 kw.
20% of passenger vehicles were like the Leaf:Capacity of those vehicles:25,700 MWEquivalent to 42 big coal plants Iowa has 5 large coal plants and 15 smaller ones
Compressed air energy storage270 MW project studied by
Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities
Would be used 5-6 hours per day, 5 days per week
Original site wasn’t suitable
Compost Heat
Can we do this?What is the level of response needed?
• WW II PREP STATISTCS• 4 days after Pearl Harbor, auto industry ordered to stop
production of civilian vehicles– Fuel rationed at 4 gallons per week per car, dropping to 2 gallons in
1944– 35 mph speed limit, break it and loose your fuel and tire rations– Backed by marketing campaign
• Military spending– 1940: 1.9 % of GDP– 1943: 32% of GDP– GDP increased by 75%
• Campaigns to reduce meat consumption, for recycling, gardening• Dramatic increases in the level of taxation• England transition to feeding itself from backyard gardens in 1
year
Poster exercise
News from the SL Department
• Building Update Systems operational this fall:Net Zero energy for all energy
use (10 kw wind, 11 kw solar)Passive SolarSolar thermal (750 sq feet, 5,000 gallon tank)Geothermal heating/coolingEarth PlastersRain GardenRainwater harvestingOn site sewage treatmentGreenhouse plantingsStepped Pyramids on Corners
(MSV) Show meter
Certifications applied for: LEED: platinum (gold) Living Building Challenge: 6 or 7 out of 8 petalsMaharishi Sthapatya VedBau BiologyNone obtained yet
Grid Tie Solar
Off-Grid Design (future)
Still to Come
Off grid energy More aesthetic features (Veranda screens)Edible landscaping/perennials plantingFinishing certificate process
Second Energy Course Next Block Coming
– SL E-201 Energy Technology – Solar, Wind, Flowing Water, Biomass, geothermal etc
Go deep into the details of the energy resource and the technology
Learn System Design Visit Boulder
National Renewable Energy LabNational Wind Power Test Facility
Masters Program Launched This Fall 2015!
Focus on sustainable community development
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Hawaii 2015
University of Sustainable Living
Jerry Konanui The Hawaiian Vandana Shiva
MUM SL Alumni Ben Katz and Robbie Fox
Ben katz
Plentitude FundamentalsJuliet Schor
1. A New Allocation of Time – less industrial work, more time for working outside of the BAU economy and for social relations.
2. Self-provision - or make, grow, or do things for oneself. Includes new forms of hi-tech making.
3. True Materialism – it is only when we take the materiality of the world seriously that we can appreciate and preserve the resources on which spending depends.
4. restore investments in one another and our communities. While social bonds are not typically thought of in economic terms, these connections, which scholars call social capital, are a form of wealth that is every bit as important as money or material goods.
Work and spend less, create and connect more.
SL Department Makerspace
Makerspace orientation
Arduino
Course Objectives1. Argue for widespread adoption of renewables2. Evaluate the viability of proposed energy technologies and programs3. Describe the range of renewable energy technology4. Describe the characteristics of the major renewable energy resources (sun,
wind, flowing water, biomass, geothermal)5. Evaluate feasibility of meeting energy needs with renewable energy 6. Calculate quantities of energy available from renewable sources 7. Evaluate energy requirements 8. Evaluate suitability of renewable energy technology to meet energy
demands9. Understand the the importance of policy in the adoption of renewable
energy.10. Understand the fundamental role that energy plays in the sustainability
revolution
Guest Speakers
Ethan Hughes, Possibility AllianceTroy Van Beek/Brian RobbinsNorm Olson Rich DanaJohn Ikerd
Field Trip
Friday, November 13 Iowa City Area
Yoderville Biodiesel CoopFarmers Electric Coop
Coal/Biomass boiler at UI Huge wind turbine and training program at
Kirkwood Community CollegeMeet with David Osterberg Iowa City Coop
Daily Schedule
• FLIP Classroom – review lecture in the evening, projects and exercises in the classroom
• Classroom– projects, labs, guest speakers, calculation exercises
• Basic Electricity Lab
• Real projects in the community
• Saturday – Team work, review
We’ll be going on a field trip to the Iowa City/Cedar Rapids area (Friday November 13)
Lateness Policy
• We are allocating a lot of time to hands on projects, so classroom time is especially valuable. Everyone’s contribution is important.
• Unexcused absences, lateness– 1 point from your final grade for each 20 cumulative
minutes late for class. Maximum of 2 points per session, 3 points per day.
– Be sure Molly logs your attendance every day. • Arrange your appointments etc after or before
class
Four Season Harvest"I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait till oil and coal run out before we tackle that.”- Thomas Edison (1931 in a letter to Henry Ford)
This presentation prepared on solar powered computers
Fossil Fuel Spill - Disaster
Solar Energy Spill Just Another Nice Day in Iowa
Live by the sun love by the moon
“Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tide and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.” - Teilhard de Chardin
Snyder quote
A New Story
The changes we need to make for sustainability – stronger, more vibrant communities, rich social connections, a sense of purpose and meaning, less industrial work, renewable energy, ecocities, coproducing and making, organic local foods, connection to nature and to our own inner being - are also the changes we need to create a better world, the world of our best dreams and aspirations.
Valerie and Eliot
1956 Beverly, MassachusettsPassive Solar House
South
North
West
• Uncle Elmer• Dad’s Boat
1957 – The Uncle Elmer
Hampden, Maine 1982-1997Elements Power Company/Maine Energy Partner
Souadabsacook Stream Hydro PlantGenerated 700,000 - 1,000,000 kwh per year
Passive Solar/Superinsulated * Composting Toilet * Rainwater harvesting * solar hot water * Interior constructed wetland to treat waste water * Local Lumber * Captured waste heat from generator
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Hampden, Maine Superinsulated house, 1986
R-40 double stud walls, R-60 roof
Carrizo Plains, Ca
San Diego, California 1993 - 1997
Hawaii Slides
Surya Nagar Farm HawaiiKaimu, Big Island
Surya Nagar FarmClimate responsive buildings
Rainwater Harvesting
Sustainable Living CoalitionFuture Campus:SEED CenterSustainability Education Enterprise
Sustainability Education and Enterprise Development (SEED) Center
Abundance Ecovillage
• Picture of sign
New photo with sunset
Local Economy:Water
36 in rain = 1,000,000 gallons per acre
Go Green CommissionEnergy Revolving Loan Fund
• Dr Barry Butler Photo
Dr Barry Butler, Former Head of the US Solar Thermal Program
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Ideal EnergyMUM Graduates and Students – Founded by Troy Van Beek
Design and Consulting Equipment Installation Energy Audits and Efficiency Work Construction and Project Development/ManagementMedia ProductionSuccessfully executed Sustain Angoon project in Angoon, AlaskaOver$1,000,000 in PV panels sold in last 8 months in Fairfield
Ideal Energy
Sky Factory Solar
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WSWr3GiFKhA
“There is in all things …
a hidden wholeness.”- Thomas Merton, trappist monk and mystic
Construction process slides?
• Soren with earth blocks• Ideal Energy working on building
South Africa$2 per Day Ecovillage Project
MUM Daily Load Curve
Off Campus Study 2014-15 Office of Global Development
Dec 27 – January 17$2950
Deposit Due Oct 15
July 18 – August 8 $2950
Deposit Due March 15
Off Campus Study 2014-15 Office of Global Development
Leanne’s Yurt
Iowa Wind Generation 2013Energy per month
Graph of wind installations in Iowa
Today On Saturday, May 26, 2012 Germany got 40% of it’s energy from solar.On Sunday, May 11 2014, Germany got 75% of it’s energy from
renewable.
IOWA is at 25% wind, up from 0 in 2004
In 2014, 75% of all new energy added to the grid was solar Solar in US is up 120 times since 2003
Portugal at 58% Renewables for 2013(First half of 2013 was 75%)
By 2020, Renewables will account for 35,000 jobs
Energy and SustainabilitySL E-101
Maharishi University of ManagementFall 2015
WELCOME BACK!
This presentation prepared on solar powered computers
Energy and SustainabilityEnergy and Order
“To the best of our knowledge, the sun is the only star proven to grow vegetables”
-Phillip Scherer. 1973
Energy for Regeneration and Renewal
Wholeness of the CourseNATURE AND SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES ARE POWERED BY SOLAR
ENERGY IN ALL ITS FORMS
Introduction and Overview
Add nature of paradigm shiftsStart with potato clockFuture Scenarios Exercise – people move around Dave JackeEnergy flowing everywhere
DemosThermoelectricPiezioSolar/fuel cell
It’s why anything happensNeither created or destroyed, it changes form in a particular and peculiar direction
Intimate link between the expression/development of order and intelligence and energy Entropy, anti-entropy – primacy of sunlight
Limits to efficency and perpetual motion machines – give carnot example
Energy flows in natureNature’s Economy Poster Trophic levelAtmispheric electricity
Energy flows in =the human economyEfficiencyPrimacy of design
Energy and SustainbailityPrimacy of renewable energy for sustainability
Tour of technologies and demosSolar electricSolar hot waterWindFlowing WatergeothermalEnergy storage, Fuel cellsMeasuring and monitoring energy flowsBuiiult environment and transportationBiomass
Financial anaylsis of energy projects
Energy and Policy
Energy Ethics, Equity
Technology Discussion – save detail for next day.David Orr quoteJerry Mander readingTechnology and ethicsParadim shitsAmishPrecautionary PrinciplePrincple from what technology wants
Video clips?Alaska VideoVan Jones
SHishmariff
The Need to Change(aka the obligatory hockey stick graph)
Electric Transportation: Nissan Leaf
• Nissan Leaf Example
Assume 12,000 miles per yearLeaf gets 5.4 miles per kwh, 2300 kwh per yearCost for electrictity at 12 cents/kwh:$271Equivalent cost for gas @$3/gallon: $1200
Like having 70 cent per gallon gasoline
VW XL-1261 Miles Per Gallon - Tank is only 2 gallons
September 1, 2012: $92 per Barrel
Price of Oil in the News
“We need a persuasive and visionary yes rather than a ongoing no”
- Naomi Klein, UH Manoa Feb 2015
Oberlin Lewis Center
Perennial Philosophy
• The first peace, which is most important, is that which comes from within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the great spirit, and that this center is really everywhere — it is within each of us.” Black Elk
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1981
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Price Per Watt of Solar Electric (PV) Panels August 2013 Cost: 80 cents per watt…
be careful what you wish for!
Main Points
Energy is essential for sustainabilityThere is a deep, fundamental, and somewhat mysterious
connection between energy and the development of order, structure, and intelligence. It’s how Intelligence becomes intelligent.
Solar Energy is the source of high quality energy for creating and maintaining order and structure on Earth.
Solar energy (and all its forms) is abundant and delivered wirelessly, democratically, and for free everywhere on earth.
Fresh Organic Food – Even in Winter
Off Season Gardening
DIANA IN SNOWSTORM
Consciousness
Energy and SustainabilitySL E-101
Course Overview
Course Structure
• Theory• Application• Team projects• Labs• Field trip• Guest speakers• Career Skills/ Citizenship skills– Collaborative work using the internet– Teamwork– Public speaking – Digital media– Writing
Course ObjectivesEnergy and Sustainability Fundamentals • Understand the physics of energy and power. Be able to perform simple
calculations and to convert units of energy from one measure to another - ex convert British Thermal Units (BTU) to kilowatt-hours (kwh)
• Understand the laws of thermodynamics, with emphasis on the wide ranging practical consequences of the second law.
• Get an introduction through selected readings, video, and audio to some of the leading thinkers and doers in energy and beyond-sustainable, regenerative design.
• Understand and be able to discuss ecosystem services and the flows of energy involved in the provision of ecosystem services.
• Understand the broad outlines of the flow of energy in the human economy, including typical efficiencies of conversion, transport, and end use.
• Understand and be able to discuss the role of energy in the natural world.• Understand the primary role of solar energy in the support of life and the
development of form, complexity, and intelligence on Earth
Objectives cont’dEnergy Technology• Understand the concept of energy efficiency.• Understand the concept of eco-effectiveness and contrast with
efficiency.• Understand the primacy of design in energy use.• Understand energy flow in buildings.• Understand the basic technologies for using renewable energy in the
human economy and their theoretical upper limit efficiencies.• Be able to design simple solar and wind energy systems• Get hands-on experience in a variety of renewable energy
technologies, including photovoltaics, wind power, and more.
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Objectives cont’d
Policy, Equity and Justice Issues• Be able to discuss the social, cultural, political, and
economic aspects (including justice issues) regarding the widespread implementation of renewables.• Introduction to public policy regarding renewable
energy.• Discuss the effect of patterns of human settlement
on energy use
Objectives cont’d
General Education Objectives• Get experience in digital media and open-
source collaboration through the development of wikis that document your group projects and individual work.•Writing with blogs •Working in Teams
Team Projects2-3 person teams – most afternoons
Project Mentors: Lonnie Gamble, Rich Dana
Grading and Assignments
• Readings on Sakai • Explain Sakai use• Set up a Sakai account
