Living Green

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Living Green
Thanks to Michael McPeaks, Photographer
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Questions

• Where does one begin?
• Where does one find answers?
• What are the wise things to do?
• Is it more than DOING?
• How will I know when Im green?
• Why are you asking all these questions?

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• www.earthday.net/footprint/index.asp

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Carbon Footprint

• http//www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.html
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_footprint

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Benefits of Green

• Environmental benefits
• Reduce the impacts of natural resource
  consumption
• Economic benefits
• Improve the bottom line
• Health and safety benefits
• Enhance occupant comfort, health, and sense of
  well-being
• Community benefits
• Minimize strain on local infrastructures and
  improve quality of life
• Adapted from www.usgbc.org

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• "Over the next decade or so, sustainable
  development will constitute one of the biggest
  opportunities in the history of commerce.
• - Stuart L. Hart

www.cmsbf.org
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Environmental Impact of Buildings

• 65.2 of total U.S. electricity consumption 1
• gt 36 of total U.S. primary energy use 2
• 30 of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions 3
• 136 million tons of construction and demolition
  waste in the U.S. (approx. 2.8 lbs/person/day) 4
• 12 of potable water in the U.S. 5
• 40 (3 billion tons annually) of raw materials
  use globally 6
• Commercial and residential

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Green is in

• http//www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13768213/site/newsweek
  /

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Where to find green opportunities

• Work
• School
• Recreation
• Transportation
• Home
• Food
• Purchasing

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Urban Options

• www.urbanoptions.org

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• http//groups.yahoo.com/group/mmfn/

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• http//www.glrea.org

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www.midmeac.org
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Sustainable Beer Seminars

• Tuesday, 430pm at Harpers in E.L.

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Sustainable Community Dialogues

• www.re-news.net/process/dialogue

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http//www.glrea.org/events/solarBuildingTour2005/
lansing.html
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Other

• www.re-news.net/energy
• www.capitalcmc.org
• http//www.miwildlife.org/bwc-pd.asp
• http//grassroots.vishaliyer.com/
• www.re-news.net/update/cto
• Greenmaps
• Go Local/Green Investing
• Neighborhood Groups

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At LCC

• In your department?
• In your classroom?
• On your way to/from work?
• At lunch?

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Tip 1 Follow your bliss
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Tip 2 Allow healing, remain open to learning
and listening, follow your insights

• Stop doing things that arent fun, fulfilling,
  and or life-giving.
• Which of these ideas resonate with you?
• Which are practical?
• Whats doable?

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More questions

• What do you want?
• What do we want?
• Where do we start?
• How do we decide?
• What difference does it make?

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