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Schools in Texas spend over 450 Million every
year to light, heat, and cool buildings. 25 is
wasted Source State Energy Conservation Office
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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
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"One statistic makes clear the demand placed on
the earth by oureconomic system every day the
worldwide economy burns an amount ofenergy the
planet required 10,000 days to create. Or, put
another way,27 years worth of stored solar
energy is burned and released byutilities, cars,
houses, factories, and farms every 24 hours."
-Paul Hawken, THE ECOLOGY OF COMMERCE
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Energy Pollution

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

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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
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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
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Creativity is the sudden cessation of
stupidity. Edwin Land
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What is the use of a house if you haven't got a
tolerable planet to put it on? Henry David
Thoreau
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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. "
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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.

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• We do not inherit
• the earth
• from our ancestors.
• We borrow it from
• our children.

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Car Crazy
Car Crazy ?35 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.
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Stuck in Traffic
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.
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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
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Why hotter?
Why is it hotter in the summer
than it is in the winter?
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if we don't understand how things are
connected, quite often the cause of problems is
solutions. Amory Lovins
Operation Cat Drop
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The Polluter Pays? Right?
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Honda Insight
Honda Civic Hybrid
Toyota Prius
Toyota Scion XA
Honda Civic
Toyota Echo
VW Deisel
Toyota Celica
Toyota Corolla
Toyota Scion XB
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CATNAP
Cheapest Available Technology Narrowly Avoiding
Prosecution
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E2 P2
Can You Solve This Equation?
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Surface Subway - Curitiba, BrazilJet