Schools in Texas spend over $450 Million every year to light, heat, and

cool buildings.

~25% is wasted

Source: State Energy Conservation Office

World Energy Use

For the past century, global energy growth marched in lockstep with the economic growth. Energy use increased 400% to accommodate a doubling of world population and quadrupling of Gross World Product.

The world now consumes the equivalent of 175 Million barrels of oil each day - - equal to

85,000 gallons of gasoline each second!

Source: Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology

Fresh Kills Landfill

"One statistic makes clear the demand placed on the earth by oureconomic system: every day the worldwide economy burns an amount of

energy the planet required 10,000 days to create. Or, put another way,27 years worth of stored solar energy is burned and released by

utilities, cars, houses, factories, and farms every 24 hours." -Paul Hawken, THE ECOLOGY OF COMMERCE

Energy = Pollution

• Producing and using energy is the leading cause of most forms of pollution, including smog, acid rain, greenhouse gas, and nuclear waste.

Von Weizsacker

“We are entering the century of the environment, whether we want to or not. In this century everyone who considers himself a realist will be forced to justify his behavior in light of the contribution it made toward the preservation of the environment.” Ernst von Weizsacker

“If we are serious about conservation, then we are going to have to quit thinking about our work as a sequence of specialized and temporary responses to a sequence of specialized and temporary emergencies. We will have to recognize that our work is

economic. We are going to have to come up with competent, practical at-home answers to the humblest human questions: How should we live? How should we keep house? How should we provide ourselves with food, clothing, shelter, heat, light, learning, amusement, rest. How, in short, ought we to use the world?” Wendell Berry

“Creativity is the sudden cessation

of stupidity.”

Edwin Land

“What is the use of a house if you

haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?”

Henry David Thoreau

“In industrialized countries, the current resource productivity must be increased by an average of a FACTOR of 10 during the next 30 to 50 years. This is technically feasible if we mobilize our know-how to generate new products, services, as well as new methods of manufacturing. "

Chief Seattle, 1855

“Will you teach your children what we have taught our children?

That the Earth is our Mother? What befalls the Earth befalls all the sons of the Earth. This we know: The Earth does not belong to Man, Man belongs to the Earth.

All things are connected like the blood which unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”

“We do not inherit the earth

from our ancestors.

We borrow it from our children.”

Car CrazyCar Crazy35% of all the cars in the world are in the United States. In the U.S. there are 750 vehicles per 1000 persons. There are 8 vehicles

per 1000 persons in China, 7 in India.

If everyone got into a car right now -- no one would have to sit in the back seat.

Your mileage drops by 30% with a speed increase from 55 mph to 70 mph.

Mileage standards (CAFÉ) have not changed in years. SUVs, trucks and vans are exempt.

Car Crazy

Stuck in Traffic

This photo is probably a better depiction of your transportation future.

Delay grew 650% from 1982 to 2001 in large and medium urban areas in the U.S.

Stuck in TrafficStuck in Traffic

Survey Says----

Decreasing our dependence on foreign oil and gas is important to our national security

Strongly Agree 49% Somewhat agree 37% Somewhat Disagree 7% Strongly Disagree 5% No Opinion 2%

Why hotter?Why is it hotter

in the summer…

…than it is in the winter?

“… if we don't understand how things are connected, quite often the cause of problems is solutions.” Amory Lovins

Operation Cat Drop

The Polluter Pays? Right?The Polluter Pays? Right?

Honda Insight Toyota Prius Honda Civic Hybrid

VW Deisel

Honda Civic

Toyota Echo

Toyota Scion XA

Toyota Corolla Toyota Scion XB Toyota Celica

Cheapest Available Technology

Narrowly Avoiding Prosecution

E2 = P2

Can You ‘Solve’ This Equation?

Surface Subway - Curitiba, BrazilJet