Jim Merkel: Radical Simplicity Part 2
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Personal Planetoid
We each get 4.4 acres
Excluding the needs of the estimated 25 million other species
Footprints
Nation or group Footprint – acres
USA 24
UK 13.5
Spain 11.5
Mexico 6.25
Humans use 6
Exists 4.4
China 4
Global Living Project 3
India 2
80% wild 1
Afghanistan 0.75
We are alive at a unique time!
Exponential Growth of Population and ConsumerismIPAT
What will we do about it?
Projected Population in
2100
Footprint Goal with 80 %
Wild
One-child families
1 Billion 6 acres
Two-child families
9 Billion 0.7 acres
100 Year Plan
One New Idea
1. On average, single child families for the next 100 years.
2. Average footprints worldwide stable, but much better distributed.
3. In 100 years, 80 percent of Earth’s bioproductive space would be available for the estimated 25 million other species.
The primary factors that drive impactare in our control. (IPAT)
Impact=P x A x T
• A – Affluence. How much we consume.
• P – Population. How many children we have.
• T– Technology. How efficiently we employ tools.
• Sharing – Two in car (1/2 footprint)• Caring –Halve travel (1/4 footprint)• Conserving – 2 x the mpg (1/8 footprint)• More sharing – 4 in car (1/16) • Caring – Half travel again (1/32)
Bike Commuter
Car Commuter
Bus Commuter
#1 Impact Item: Transportation
Factor 24
Zero Emission Vehicle
#2 Impact Item: Housing (sq-ft. & embodied energy)
1/5 area/person X 1/5 impact/area = Factor 25
$1,500
Leveling foundation
First bale
Peeling rafters from the land
Alaska Mill – clear-cut free lumber
1st of 3 coats of adobe
Adobe – clay, sand, lime and a pinch of concrete
Scavenger species in action
#3. Impact Item:Utilities
One cordof Wood
(R45 Walls)
Micro solar homestead – Vermont
Thermo-siphon solar hot water
A solar cooker or a UFO?Playing with renewables demystifies them.
Wood-fired cob bread oven
Hand washing clothes
#4 Impact Item:Diet
Localvore FoodFactor 25
Vegan 1/15 – 1/30Local/Organic --¼ - ½
Organic -- ¼ -½Veganic
WINTERRoot Cellars
SproutingGrains
Canned and DriedSyrup
FALLWild Edibles
GardenRoot Cellars
Canning/DryingFermenting
SUMMERWild Edibles
GardenCanning/Drying
SPRINGWild EdiblesRoot Cellars
Purchasing (for Winter)Sprouting
Root cellar
Stores vegetables for 6 months without energy
Rutabaga wrestling
Sometimes you just have too many carrots
Sprouting – live food all winter.
PeasLentilsAlfalfaFenugreekSunflower seedsMung beansRadish
Harvesting rye
The threshing floor
Winnowed winter rye
February’s Blueberries
Gathering wild foods
Wild Sandwich
Common Edible and Medicinal plants
• Burdock - Use first year roots as a vegetable and second year roots medicinally. A powerful blood cleanser and overall tonic to the lymphatic system.
• Chickweed - Delicious and nutritious. Cooling, helps to absorb nutrients, neutralizes toxins and dissolves cysts.
• Dandelion - Helps to remove toxicants from the body through strengthening the liver. The delicious young leaves are packed with vitamins and minerals and the root is nice to eat in soup or stir-fry or roasted and used as a coffee substitute.
• Fiddlehead ferns - Formally known as the ostrich fern, this delicious spring treat. I love to sauté the young, unfurling heads with garlic and olive oil.
• Goldenrod - Fresh or dried leaves and flowers make a ice tea. Useful for dispelling flatulence and treating colds.
• Jewelweed - Best known as an antidote for poison ivy, it is generally soothing to the skin. Young shoots can be boiled in two changes of water and eaten as a spring green.
• Lambs Quarters - One of the most nutritious plants you can eat. Early, everywhere and delicious, lambs quarters will nourish you completely. Long live the weeds!
• Milkweed - Edible in all phases of its life cycle. Early shoots can be cooked like asparagus, the flowers can be steamed or stir fried, and the seed pods can be boiled. When cooking young shoots and seed pods, cycle it through a few changes of water..
• Nettle - Overall one of the most nourishing plants out there. Gentle enough for everyday use, it strengthens and fortifies kidneys, adrenal glands, lungs, intestines and arteries. Also stimulates digestion, good for urinary tract. Nettle is especially good for women during pregnancy, childbirth and lactation.
• Ox-eye Daisy - Very common, the leaves are a delicious addition to salads.• Plantain - The young leaves are tasty in an early spring salad.• Raspberry - A yummy tea can be made of the leaves - good support for women's
reproductive systems. The root is helpful for digestive issues. The berries are not only delicious, but are also mildly laxative.
• Red Clover - High in protein, the whole plant can be eaten, preferably cooked. The flowers make a lovely tea good for respiratory issues and stimulating to the liver and gall bladder.
• Rose - The hips contain a lot of vitamin C - infuse in honey for optimal nutritive value.
• Sorrels - Wood sorrel and sheep sorrel - both very common. The leaves are a nice, tangy addition to salads.
• St. John’s Wort - Useful in treating nervous conditions such as insomnia. • Violet - The leaves are nourishing (two of them contain your daily dose of vitamin C)
and are great in early spring salads. They help support digestion, the immune system, nerves, lungs and the reproductive system.
Barbequed road kill deer
Sandy
likes it!
#5 Impact Item:General Consumerism
• Refuse
• Rethink
• Reduce
• Reuse
• Recycle
The Global Living Project
Medicinal plant workshop
Making tinctures
Sustainability Must Becomethe Default Option
EasierAnd Less
Costly
Dartmouth College’s first Sustainability Coordinator
The Task:
•To embed principles of sustainability in all of Dartmouth's roles…
•To make Dartmouth a model of sustainability.
IVY Sustainability Coordinators
• Brown University – Teichert, Kurt
• Columbia – Mesa, Nilda• Cornell – Koyanagi, Dean • Dartmouth – Merkel, James• Harvard – Sharp, Leith• Penn – Riley, David• Princeton – Weber, Shana• Yale -- Newman, Julie
Dartmouth CO2 Emissions
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Recorded emissions Kyoto target by 2012 Projected emissions
Reduction per year 0.5% Reduction per year 1% Reduction per year 2%
Reduction per year 5% Chicago Climate Exchange Fuel oil contribution
2005 emissions = 164.8 106 lbs/year
Missing data1993-1994
Kyoto target = 7% below 1990 level = 101.6 106 lbs/year
Reductions could come from efficiency, behavior change, switch to renewables, carbon offsets, etc
Emissions from burning #6 heating oil and purchased electricity, accounting for 96% of emissions
Carbon neutral by 2025
Dartmouth’s CO2 Emissions
Cash Flow for implementing Carbon Neutrality at UCSB
$1 Million/yr. Positiv
e Cash Flow
Possible Solar Thermal Applications:
•Make-up water for steam plant
•Heating pools and hot water in the gym
•Leased equipment with positive cash flow in one to two years.
Learning from Nature
Tending the inner fire
Sustainability asks us to look at the
world differently.
Can we take back some Proxies?
Is it possible to meet some of our needs without Corporations and Oil?
But… How will we get around?
Who will feed us?
How will we stay warm?
Where will the sweetness for life come from?
In 1939 Gandhi concluded,
You cannot build non-violence on a factory civilization,
but it can be built on self-contained villages.
The Winner?