Day 16 - Top 5 Options For Water Sustainability - A Grapical Synthesis

Submitted by wrscpmd on Tue, 09/28/2010 - 9:24am

Top 5 Options For Water Sustainability - A Grapical Synthesis

How are these strategies sustainable?
How are these strategies not sustainable?
What are the assumptions? Implications? Biases?
How is this a consumer pull? A government push? A producer profit-driven strategy?

Iterating your work and incorporating questions raised
Crystallizing your point of view
Documenting it all

Day 16 - Water Review - Q & A

Submitted by wrscpmd on Tue, 09/28/2010 - 9:20am

The First Exercise: "Day 16 -- Digging In Questions"
- Deliver Your Results
- Your Idea Template

Main point = Context: Water

Who are we?
What are the demographics, geography that got us to where we are today?
How much do water/energy do we use?
Where does our water/energy come from?
How we get to a water system where nearly 100% have access to clean water?

Day 16 - Introduction

Submitted by wrscpmd on Tue, 09/28/2010 - 9:19am

Arrive, Registration, and Settle In
IT Introduction -- Laptops Connected
Orientation and Tour of the Space

Day 16 - Welcome

Submitted by wrscpmd on Tue, 09/28/2010 - 9:18am

Welcome, WRSC Purpose, Intended Products
Scope of the Week
Logistics Outline

Water Use in Southwest Heads for a Day of Reckoning

Submitted by wrscpmd on Tue, 09/28/2010 - 8:57am

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Water Use in Southwest Heads for a Day of ReckoningJim Wilson/The New York Times

The Southern Nevada Water Authority is tunneling under Lake Mead to install an intake valve that could continue operating until water levels dropped below 1,000 feet.

Link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/us/28mead.html?scp=1&sq=Water%20Use%20in%20Sou...

Geographic Area:

United States

Level:

Regional

Story category:

Fresh Water

Ton of CO2

Submitted by Chris Fex on Mon, 09/27/2010 - 2:27pm

Source:

http://www.energyrace.com/images/uploads/commentary/co2cube4.jpg

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CommentaryWhat Does a Ton of CO2 Look Like?

March 10th, 2008 by jayb

Dave Ames, a science teacher at Cohasset High School in Cohasset, Massachusetts built a large cube that represents the size of 1 ton of carbon dioxide. Take a look.

OK, yes. CO2 (carbon dioxide) is invisible. But it's still interesting to see how much space a ton of CO2 would take up if it were sitting in front of you.