Working toward climate neutrality, sustainability in both ones personal life, on campus and in institutions.

1. Climate Neutral Leadership G lobal L iving P roject

6. www.350.org http://350.org/en/take-action

7. 80% Reduction by 2050 Scientists, nations and US politicians

8. 588 Campuses Signed ON To Become Carbon Neutral The American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment

9. “… no longer than a decade , at the most…,” Dr. James Hansen Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Heads the NASA Institute for Space Studies in New York City

13. In Greenland annual icequakes: doubled in the late 1990s doubled again by 2005

18. Over 200 species go extinct every day 1000 times faster than natural rate $113 B additional to restore Earth Lester Brown Plan B 3.0

19. Experience in voting for the Environment McCain -- 0 percent in 2007 24 percent life time Obama -- 67% in 2007 86% lifetime. League of Conservation Voters

20. Radical Disparity Wealthiest Billion $70 per day Poorest Billion $0.25 per day Global Gap = 250:1 and growing Inter-human equity

22. We are alive at a unique time! Exponential Growth of Population and Consumerism IPAT

24. What will we do about it?

25. Severe addiction Swami Youdhoneedhacara

27. How are campuses taking leadership?

28. Cash Flow for implementing Carbon Neutrality at UCSB $1 Million/yr. Positive Cash Flow

29. Sorted by payback

34. Cornell Lake Source Cooling

42. Is carbon neutrality too idealistic?

44. What would a reasonable skeptic say? Drill baby drill More nuclear power Clean coal

45. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! (1854)

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47. The good news? There’s lots of low hanging fruit.

49. Getting to Carbon Neutral 30 percent over 20 years

51. What is the factor you are using in your payback formula for the rising costs of energy?

53. Quantifying Sustainability Humanity’s Consumption Compared to Biospheric Production

55. US Auto Footprint United States

57. High embodied energy materials and services Computers Food Buildings Communications Insurances Missing from the inventories

61. Ecosystem services Water purification Carbon sequestration Climate regulation Soil retention Wildlife habitat Pollination

63. Oren Lyons -- Onondaga “ What you people call your natural resources our people call our relatives.” Rewire

64. Try this at home! Playing with renewables demystifies them.

65. Quantum Reductions Making At home, can make a believer out of you.

67. Zero emission vehicle

68. #2 Impact item: Housing (sq-ft. & embodied energy) 1/5 area/person X 1/5 impact/area = Factor 25 $1,500

69. #3. Impact item: utilities One cord of wood (R45 walls)

70. Micro solar homestead – Vermont

71. Thermo-siphon solar hot water

77. #4 Impact item: Diet Localvore food Factor 25 Vegan 1/15 – 1/30 Local/organic --¼ - ½ Organic -- ¼ -½ Veganic

78. Sometimes you just have too many carrots

79. Root cellar Stores vegetables for 6 months without energy

81. Harvesting rye

82. The threshing floor

83. Winnowed winter rye

84. February’s blueberries

86. www.dartmouth.edu/~sustain Sustainability at Dartmouth College

89. Building feedback -- energy and water

90. Design new facilities to perform in the top 5% by building type 20 % of buildings use 80 % of the energy

91. Building performance

92. Enthalpy Heat Recovery

93. Wastewater heat recovery

94. Ground source heat pump Standing column Well Well Drilling

97. Dartmouth’s Garbage EF United States Context

99. Social marketing

100. Garbage from over 500 lunches

101. 12 hours of trash from Collis

102. Compost facility in action

103. Sales up 10.1% Customer transactions up 7.3%

104. in Greek houses, dorms and campus offices Training Sustainability Coordinators

106. Tending the inner fire

107. Sustainability asks us to look at the world differently.

108. Yes! We can take back some Proxies

109. Can we meet some of needs without Corporations and Oil?

110. But… How will we get around?

111. Who will feed us?

112. Who will be my friend?

113. How will we stay warm?

114. Where will the sweetness for life come from?

115. David Orr invites us to: Imagine colleges and universities with a commitment to operate so that they do not undermine the integrity, beauty and stability of the world their students will inherit.

116. Could institutions of higher education lead in the transition to a new world powered by current sunlight? Why not? The limits are no longer technological or even economic, but those of imagination and commitment.

117. The Winner? Most fun @ the smallest footprint.