Link to very good AEE seminar:  "Fundamentals of Sustainable Development"

(big file)

Link to emissions calculator

(Excel)

Green Education

• www.aeecenter.org/seminars

• www.eere.energy.gov

• www.ashrae.org/education

• www.usgbc.org

• www.ase.org

• www.energystar.org

• greeninginterior.doi.gov

• www.epa.gov/climatechange

 This page was updated on 03/17/2009

Sustainable Development (S.A.Roosa):  The ability of physical development and urban environmental impacts to sustain long term inhabitation by human and other indigenous species while providing: 1)an opportunity for environmentally safe, ecologically appropriate physical development; 2)efficient use of natural resources; 3)a framework which allows improvement of the human condition and equal opportunity for current and future generations; and 4)manageable urban growth.

Four Principles of Urban Sustainability:  Urban Management, Policy Integration, Ecosystems Thinking, Cooperation & Partnership

Components of Sustainability:  Physical Development, Natural Resources, Structural Policy Framework, Urban Growth

Wikipedia definition:  characteristic of a process or state that can be maintained at a certain level indefinitely.

Here is a list of the green /sustainability / alternative energy initiatives and/or comments that have crept up recently; recognize any of the terms? 

• Wind Energy. Essentially a marketing plan to get consumers to subsidize wind turbines bought out of bankruptcy from the likes of Enron Wind. Certainly a viable technology, but at a cost. Keep in mind that electricity cannot be practically stored. If the wind isn't blowing, you're not making power. And don't even think that the turbines in Western PA are displacing power generation in the Philly area. Check out "New Wind Energy".

• Solar. There is currently a "Solar Scholars Program" offered by the Sustainable Energy Fund of Central PA.

• Carbon-neutral initiative. Recently popularized by a Thomas Friedman column in the New York Times.

• Alternative energy initiatives.  A 5/25/06 Friedman column.

• Wind...friend or foe? A 6/6/06 NYT column.

• Another reality check on wind energy.

• Japan moving toward ethanol/gas by 2030.

• Energy from the oceans.

• Wind farm development link

• american wind energy association

• PA DEP Green Office Bldg

• Windmills as income for rural folks

• Windmills in India

• PJM and wind

• Run your bus on vegetable fuel

• Kyoto Protocol

• Wind Certificates

• Federal Energy Efficiency Tax Incentives (Energy Policy Act of 2005)

• Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007

• Algae-to-biofuel energy

• United Nations Agenda 21 (Sustainability)

• Carbon Tax (what to do with revenue?)

• Trees Block Solar Panels, and a Feud Ends in Court

• Flight Emissions Calculator (don't fly without it!)

• Oil sands...not the solution based on this article.

Carbon Footprint Factors

Fuel	US EPA factors	emission factors	normalized to MMBTU	correlation
#6 oil	495.4 kg CO2 / barrel	25000 lb / 1000 gal	167 lb / MMBTU	1.44
#2 oil	426.1 kg CO2 / barrel	22300 lb / 1000 gal	149 lb / MMBTU	1.28
natural gas	0.0546 kg CO2 / ft3	120000 lb / 1 MMcf	116 lb / MMBTU	1.0