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Lopez Sustainability Collaborative Potluck/Pizza Fest
Thurs Mar 225:30 pm
LCCA
Come share an evening of good food, cheer and
discussion about sustainable future of Lopez Island. The event
will be casual, interactive & family-friendly and will feature
research work focusing on transportation, energy, food,
water, agriculture and waste on Lopez Island by a group of
graduate students from Monterey Institute of
International Studies (MIIS) in California.
Please bring a dish to share and your own table setting. We will
provide Donna's famous cob-oven pizzas.
Brought to you by Islands Energy Coalition and MIIS’s “Islands and Sustainability” ClassContact Chris/Chom Greacen for more info: 468-3189
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Electricity use in kWh/month:Average Lopez home: 1,000Avg Common Ground home: 400
Recycled glass is of very little market value and is currently trucked to fill gravel pits on the
mainland
Power usage in near-identical houses can differ 10 fold:
a case study of Common Ground
All electricity that powers SJ islands comes through this spot on Lopez
Lopez and the rest of San Juan islands rely on two submarine cables to bring electricity from the mainland
Meeting with Lopez high school students helped generate ideas
for building a sustainable future.
Each year 333 dump truck loads of yard clippings are burnt at the
Lopez Sand and Gravel pit.
Lopez brings in approximately 30,ooo yards of crushed rocks
per year
“‘Waste’ is actually a ‘resource’.Tree clippings are chipped and
used around the farm.”- Henning Sehmsdorf
Lopez has 6000 acres of forests (~3 acres/person)
“If sustainably managed, we have enough biomass to meet all Lopez
space and water heating needs and more.”
- Arborist Zach Blomberg
“Don’t give up.” - Rick Strachan
It took 1,460 days (longer than World War II) and $15,000 to get this wind turbine permitted.
Due to lack of composting infrastructure,
bio-solids (from human & food waste)
from Lopez Island are trucked 2-4 times/ month to the mainland to
be incinerated.
In summertime, >500,000 gallons per month of treated water (suitable for irrigation of all but root crops) from the Fisherman Bay Sewer District is released into the sea.
Median income on the island: $46,000Median House price : $507,000
Approximately 70% of Horse Drawn Farms revenue is from their
farm stand.
Lopez ships 400 tons of recycling off the island every
year.
The school gardens provide 90% of the produce served in school
lunches.