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Iceland – Integrating Technology, Needs, and Responsibility For Sustainable Living

Iceland – Integrating Technology, Needs, and Responsibility For Sustainable Living. Amish & Jen Dedicated to Team Daedalian And 1 car 1. Overview of Topics:. Iceland’s Identity Industries Land Development Iceland’s Resources Biota – plants, animals, and fish

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Iceland – Integrating Technology, Needs, and Responsibility For Sustainable Living

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  1. Iceland – Integrating Technology, Needs, and Responsibility For Sustainable Living Amish & Jen Dedicated to Team Daedalian And 1 car 1

  2. Overview of Topics: • Iceland’s Identity • Industries • Land Development • Iceland’s Resources • Biota – plants, animals, and fish • Image – tourism and the economy • The Government and Energy Plan • Pollution • Iceland – Today and Tomorrow

  3. Iceland’s Identity: • Energy Independence • International acceptance of venture • Money • Infrastructure • Ministry of the Environment • Tradeoffs • Power Plants

  4. Industry Fishing Natural Resources Land Encourage Business Investment

  5. Besides • Aluminum Smelting • Ferrosilicon • Renewable Energy • Software, Biotech

  6. Land Development • Birth to death ratio ~ 2+ • Alcoa and the East • Job Creation • Maintain clean image

  7. Iceland’s Resources: • Iceland is a geologically young land mass • 2 million years old. • Lacks conventional resources • Oil issues • 90% of citizens live on the coast • High monetary cost • Economic fishing zone • Abandoning oil

  8. Iceland’s Past: • Clean and Untouched • Current reputation that transcends all sectors • Dirty Past • Answered to “The Man” at one time • Willingness to change • Vulnerability

  9. Biota • Destructive past • Birch Forests • Wetlands • Red listed • 51 / 458 vascular plants types • 32 / 75 birds types

  10. Mammals • Arctic Fox • American Mink • Water Rail (mink and wetland draining)

  11. Fish • Most important resource • “For the fish” Land • Land pollution affects marine environment • Untouched to save what remains • Rewetting the “Dry lands” • National Parks , pride, and aluminum

  12. Iceland’s Image: • Tourism • Clean and unspoiled • Outnumbering • Fishing • Before geothermal there was fishing… • VALUABLE RESOURCE • 70% of exported goods • Stringent regulations • Cod, haddock, saithe, redfish, herring, and capelin.

  13. Iceland’s Image: • High Standard of Living • Decoupling of economics and environmental degradation • Virtually no poverty • Street Interviews • Government Agencies • Citizens • Willingness to pay! Can you believe it?

  14. Iceland’s Image: • The Blue Lagoon • “Hottest” tourist attraction • Geothermal power plant affluent • Compare to U.S.A. • Not in the master plan • Profits in the end.

  15. Government: • Not of U.S. tradition • Althingi – 930. • Thingvellir • Mid Atlantic Ridge • 1944 – Republic of Iceland • Dissolved relations with the Danish Monarchy

  16. Government – fishing rights: • Transitions • Trade monopolies, natural disasters, and pollution • 1952 • Extent of fishing rights were 4 miles off the coast • Today • 200 miles off the coast

  17. Government: • Still not a part of the European Union • Fishing right impingement fears • Part of the European Economic Area • Allowed to trade and sell in the European arena

  18. Energy Plan: • Government regulates the energy industry • 90% of heat • Thorsteinn Jonsson • Clean and Price Competitive • 5-6 Kronas 1 Krona= .01318 USD • Equivalent to 6.6 to 7.8 cents per kWh • U.S. pays 4 to 9.5 cents • ISO 14000

  19. Energy Plan: • Hydrogen Economy is coming! • 15, 470 barrels of oil • Time • Infrastructure • Embracing • Transition in recent memory

  20. Environmental Plans: • Reykjavik Conference on Responsible Fisheries in the Marine Ecosystem • United Nations Convention on the Law of the Seas • United Nations Global Program of Action

  21. Pollution • Marine pollution comes from the land • Sewage  Low commitment • Persistent Organic Pollutants *** • PCB, DDT, HCH • Industry, agriculture • Stockholm Convention, PCB, dioxins

  22. Pollution • Heavy Metals • Pb, Cd, Cu, Zn • Cod, mussels • Radioactive Substances • Testing • Sellafield nuclear reprocessing • Chernobyl • Medicine

  23. Pollution • Oil • Unreported • Utilize renewable Energy

  24. Hydrogen Economy • Transportation ~ 80% oil • Icelandic Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Co. • 3 buses …….. 80 • H2 generation  Electricity can supply 22% needs • Plenty of room to expand

  25. Hydrogen Economy • Cleaner image • Small population + lots of cars • Lower Greenhouse emissions 1 Hydrogen 1 1 Car 1 

  26. Iceland Today and Tomorrow: • Taking away subsidies • Kyoto Protocol • Eliminate transportation emissions • U.N. Convention on Bio-Diversity • BIOICE • OECD • Sustainable development

  27. Iceland Today and Tomorrow: • Geothermal Training Program • Leader in environmental conservation • Is Iceland ahead of its time, or is the rest of the world just really behind?

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